Comments on: Instablogs Negotiating $3 Million Round

By: Broken News models | b r a n t s

Broken News models | b r a n t s — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:51:25 +0000

[...] models that doesn’t leave them to the mercy of making money out of news. Instablogs is also figuring out revenue models, at obviously lesser costs. Technology and faster news delivery platforms will appear, its [...]

By: Vivek

Vivek — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:30:26 +0000

These guys are selling links to casino and gambling sites. Check their home page of http://www.adventureblog.org/ (One of instablogs network site). What next they will sell us viagra and ciallis. Or will they sell child pornography. They call it citizen journalism. It’s a shame they are using the power of the crowd to monetize by selling casino based links on their sites.

By: My Little Blogs

My Little Blogs — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:45:42 +0000

about the typo does this mean carelessness of the author of this article.what’s the use of editors.

By: Pakshiraj

Pakshiraj — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:34:19 +0000

This sucks- reality of these guys is available on net. There is plenty of discussions about instablogs and their actual business.
Some links about them can be found here: http://www.star...dentity-crisis/

and http://elliottb...stablogs-sucks/

I think this is enough to guess what goes behind computer screens.

By: SezWho Gets Chatty With Instablogs, Releases Upgrade : VCsAndAngels - Venture Capital / VCs, Angel Investors, Startup News, Etc

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:41:41 +0000

[...] transitioning to primarily a citizen journalist site. We last covered the site in March when it was negotiating a $3 million funding round, and the site was putting up some relatively impressive [...]

By: SezWho Gets Chatty With Instablogs, Releases Upgrade

SezWho Gets Chatty With Instablogs, Releases Upgrade — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:19:30 +0000

By: Instablogs to Keyser Söze: These Are Times of Great Change : The Drama 2.0 Show

Instablogs to Keyser Söze: These Are Times of Great Change : The Drama 2.0 Show — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:48:44 +0000

[...] had never heard of Instablogs but was not surprised to read that Duncan Riley called Instablogs a “fairly well-rounded portal covering a wide variety of topic areas” and [...]

By: DigitalJournal Rev Shares With Their Citizen Journalists

DigitalJournal Rev Shares With Their Citizen Journalists — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:49:24 +0000

[...] I don’t hate it, it’s just that its yet another CitJ site. Instablogs took $3 million in March so there’s interest (and money) in this space still, so DigitalJournal may be well positioned [...]

By: Ravinder Makhaik

Ravinder Makhaik — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 06:13:44 +0000

@ Duncan Riley

Giving space on TechCrunch and taking time out to do a review of Instablogs, does indicate the Indian start up has arrived on the Global stage.

Never mind the typographical error or the speculation about the dollars, what does matters that the site has had its ups and downs and now that it is being counted alongside peers, is motivating enough to keep going

By: John Ndege.com - web / startups / new technologies

John Ndege.com - web / startups / new technologies — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:18:15 +0000

[...] some sites like Instablogs are said to be profitable using this exact model (citizen journalists + wire news services) I [...]

By: zola

zola — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:33:07 +0000

Adding to the ongoing debate, here i have managed to interview Ankit Maheshwari,, CTO and CEO, Instablogs and Nandini Maheshwari, co-founder, Instablogs.

Dive onto the excerpts to get the first-hand information:

http://www.elit...hwari-and-team/

By: Nandini Maheshwari, Born Rich, Instablogs, Blogging, Elite Blogger

Nandini Maheshwari, Born Rich, Instablogs, Blogging, Elite Blogger — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:41:56 +0000

[...] seen as a lucky mascot. And it was proved days back when TechCrunch Duncan Riley uncovered the financials and projections of Instablogs. Something that got launched as a blogging network is gradually turning into a mainstream media [...]

By: Blogs and the business of community - - mathewingram.com/work

Blogs and the business of community - - mathewingram.com/work — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:21:44 +0000

[...] will (in some cases at least) take care of itself. Oh yeah — as it turns out, Instablogs is raising money too Congratulations to founders Ankit and Nandini [...]

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sbdc» Blog Archive » links for 2008-03-20 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:10:38 +0000

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By: Patrick Bultema

Patrick Bultema — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:20:05 +0000

Editors. I’ve already commented that I’m not sure a financing is really a newsworthy event. I understand, enquiring minds want to know. And I understand the rationale for you guys covering this. But again as a recovering venture guy, now back in another CEO gig, I don’t know why companies spend time talking about rounds. I guess I’m just old fashioned in thinking that only things like customers, subscribers, revenue, results, really matter. But I digress …

However, now I think you guys digress. A company is “negotiating” a financing? What’s next, a company hopes to raise a round? Followed by, Brittney seen at Sequoia?

I very much value what you folks are doing. And there really is plenty of interesting, newsworthy stuff. So please don’t slide into the noise. I’m counting on you to provide some level of filter. Thanks and keep up the good work.

By: Atul

Atul — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:51:34 +0000

Hey Steve@27

Try interpreting the difference between a Jargon and baloney… your avowal of the same puts you in a loners pedigree which makes your quipping a baloney against those 83K visitors… u might well use the CCP Jargon to have you comprehend this now.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:44:03 +0000

I liked the interface. Must congratulate the guys behind Instablogs. Its one of the best interface I have seen for a news site in a long long time.

But if they truly want to become a global news site, they have to get good content from all of the countries. I tried digging many countries and found those sections to be updated only once in weeks. Only US, UK, India etc are regularly updated.

By: JP

JP — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:08:20 +0000

jonty, just wndering what MBA school u went to…ne idea or itz a secret? LOL..so wat special weapons and tactics (swat) u use mate?

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:05:05 +0000

Duncan,

Re: “I can remember covering Instablogs the day it launched and it was a rocky start. The site had 46 mostly empty blogs….”

1. Try digging into their archive; almost 70-80% of the articles are violating copyright norms. They follow the “Cut-Copy-Paste” jargon.

2. “75 Citizen Journalists???” No wonder they constantly spam Indian Job-Search Websites, each day, everyday.

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » ブログ＆市民ジャーナリズムの「Instablogs」が$3Mの調達交渉中

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » ブログ＆市民ジャーナリズムの「Instablogs」が$3Mの調達交渉中 — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:58:37 +0000

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Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:49:15 +0000

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By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:24:12 +0000

It seems to be that the table was done in a hurry.

1) In lossy jpg format. (PNG anyone?)
2) Inline spellcheck underline present
3) Error in figures ($25,0000?)

Not what I would expect from Tech Crunch…

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Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:02:20 +0000

[...] Instablogs Negotiating $3 Million Round Instablogs Negotiating $3 Million RoundBlog network/ citizen journalism site Instablogs is currently negotiating a $3 million round of funding, sources familiar with the deal have told TechCrunch. The India based Instablogs launched in October 2005 originally as a blog network. The site has changed over time to become predominantly a cit…Read the full post from TechCrunchTags: instablogs, newsvine, Company & Product Profiles via Blogdigger blog search for business. [...]

By: Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:42:09 +0000

Jonty
correct, and I should pay more attention to spell checks

On the revenue side I presume $25k, must have been a typo in the presentation (a did the shot directly from it without edit).

By: Jonty

Jonty — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:05:26 +0000

SWAT analysis. Is that deliberate or ignorance? As an MBA (double major) I thought I should have been SWOT that means Strength Weaknesses Opportunities Threats.

You can’t ’swat’ us. We are no flies mate.