Comments on: Skype Co-Founding Engineers Invest In Pet Social Network

By: grumpy

grumpy — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:49:15 +0000

check out this sweet new pet social networking site http://www.cutepetspace.com , it seems to be just starting out but has a lot of good social networking functionality such as pet groups, blogs, profiles, photo sharing and upload, all in one pet community

By: UpTo Mark » Blog Archive » Skype Co-founders Invest In European Pet Community

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:45:47 +0000

[...] and Ambient Sound Investments, the investment group led by co-founders of Skype that had previously seeded the startup with €170,000 of funding back in April [...]

By: Skype Co-founders Invest In European Pet Community Network | Estonian Free Press

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:15:29 +0000

[...] and Ambient Sound Investments, the investment group led by co-founders of Skype that had previously seeded the startup with €170,000 of funding back in April [...]

By: The Far Edge » Blog Archive » Skype Co-founders Invest In European Pet Community Network

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:35:28 +0000

[...] and Ambient Sound Investments, the investment group led by co-founders of Skype that had previously seeded the startup with €170,000 of funding back in April [...]

By: Skype Co-founders Invest In European Pet Community Network

Skype Co-founders Invest In European Pet Community Network — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:54:07 +0000

[...] and Ambient Sound Investments, the investment group led by co-founders of Skype that had previously seeded the startup with €170,000 of funding back in April [...]

By: Jessica

Jessica — Tue, 12 May 2009 20:00:45 +0000

There are so many great sites out there that I think are hilarious! I just came across datemypet.com…wow! There is no doubt, cat lovers will do anything for their pet. This video is from the Northern CA cat show, very funny!!

http://www.yout...h?v=G8WNy71L0KM

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Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:21:02 +0000

[...] which are covered quite poorly. For example pet social network market is quite saturated as some serious people made some investment. But maybe bikers’ social network still would make a nice ROI? There are always some [...]

By: Lyca

Lyca — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:21:54 +0000

Such a brilliant new social networking site for pet lovers – http://www.fuzzelove.com. Each to their own hey – if it makes other people happy to share the lives of their pets with others then let them be happy,

By: Mark Mayhew

Sat, 27 Dec 2008 02:09:45 +0000

my cat can kick your dog’s butt =)

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By: Cats rescue home

Cats rescue home — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:15:51 +0000

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By: Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » End of April '08 - blogging - #2

Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » End of April '08 - blogging - #2 — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:05:41 +0000

[...] MixWit, Vysr, MySpace apps, Grou.ps, Twitter outliner, Open Sports Network, Mnggl, MySocial 24×7, Xiha, Sound Index, United Dogs, [...]

By: Sudoku Maniac

Sudoku Maniac — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:40:15 +0000

ah.. amazing, I just came across a social network for apartments in bangalore..

By: Social network per cani e gatti dai fondatori di Skype - Appunti Digitali

Social network per cani e gatti dai fondatori di Skype - Appunti Digitali — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:30:16 +0000

[...] Sound Investments (ASI), società finanziaria che appartiene agli ingegneri fondatori di Skype, ha investito 235.000 dollari americani in United Dogs and Cats Ltd: una startup estone che ha sviluppato due social network, in [...]

By: Krugger

Krugger — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:13:24 +0000

This is a huge market with pets in general although I think
seperating pets by dog or cat is a mistake ,. like having myspace for only
blacks, whites, or asians.. For critical mass u need all pet owners

I think this one petloversnation has huge potential and
prob will grow the largest.

By: United Cats & Dogs Gets A Golden Collar From Skype’s Founders

United Cats & Dogs Gets A Golden Collar From Skype’s Founders — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:32:57 +0000

[...] [1] UDC Blog: Pet Owner’s Social Network Secures Additional Funding from ASI by Ragnar Sass [2] TechCrunch: Skype Co-Founding Engineers Invest In Pet Social Network by Duncan Riley SPHERE IT! [...]

By: links for 2008-04-22 « PK

links for 2008-04-22 « PK — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:52:50 +0000

[...] Skype Co-Founding Engineers Invest In Pet Social Network Is it me or is this sounding very 1999? Pets.com? (tags: bubble 1999 pets.com) [...]

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:28:53 +0000

The space and the potential is huge. Its one reason we are involved too. There is plenty of room for specialization – although Dogster is the ‘lead’ dog – they have only captured a small piece of a very large market.

http://www.MyDogSpace.com

By: Ted Rheingold

Ted Rheingold — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:41:43 +0000

Hi Duncan, thanks for covering the industry, and we welcome Uniteddogs and all worldwide involvement.

This will clearly come as a surprise to most commenters, but U.S. spending on pets was a $41 billion in 2007 (a 100% increase from just a decade ago). That’s more than video games, movies and music *combined*.

There are 163 million dogs and cats in the U.S. and 63% of all U.S. households have a pet (a 10% increase from 2002).

Pets are huge and explains why we have 700,000 members, are a profitable company and only getting going.

http://blog.dog...games-combined/

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Skypeの共同ファウンダーらがペットSNSに出資

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Skypeの共同ファウンダーらがペットSNSに出資 — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:46:25 +0000

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By: JeanHuguesRobert

JeanHuguesRobert — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:09:25 +0000

“On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog” — http://en.wikip...obody_knows_you‘re_a_dog

Move forward 15 years later. Nowadays, pretending to be a dog is a dating strategy!

By: Henk

Henk — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:58:52 +0000

Congrats to the founders!

By: Rushabh Choksi

Rushabh Choksi — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:44:53 +0000

I think this is a good move and it will surely generate a good revenue. As most of the social networks are busy targeting the corporates or youth, sns for pets will rock. There are millions of pet lovers who are waiting for such a platform to get connected with other pet lovers where they can also discuss and help out each other for pet related problems. But the main concern would be the services and the quality offered by such sites.

By: Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:31:44 +0000

Dallas 10
when we see them (and we don’t always) we edit them to the usable part, or delete them. See amended version above

By: Jüri

Jüri — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:27:11 +0000

Americans often think, that European web companies try to compete with US-based English-language services. Not always true. Europeans and most of the world still use local country-specific services. That also means Alexa and Comscore are almost irrelevant, at least they are very incorrect for these markets. And translation does not equal local. Success for these European companies also much more than in US is measured by local ad and SMS services revenues, break-even and profitability, not just traffic numbers.

So the competition for Dogs and Cats is what happens in each of the European countries on local level, not Dogster or PawSpot.

Hopefully Techcrunch will cover non-us and non-uk markets one day as well, with real local understanding outside those countries. Good luck with that!