My question is, since Yelp already has their DBs filled and a little social network, how hard would it be for them to implement the forms to create events. And one thing that this company does (center’d) and probably Yelp and the business below is create the event at a location and then what? Pizza, snow cones, birthday party, coffee? – What all online event businesses are missing is a higher level of passion or value to a person. The experience.

Here is a company who kind of does what these guys do: http://www.socializr.com/ – They have that ugly tacky 12 year old FB design, but they do a good job , so I’ve heard.

Their points idea to populate their DB is nice, I am waiting to see what people get for those points.

Hikey has a good point, even though I think FB is so blah, but they have the numbers.

My final take on this site is it might be ahead of its time for what it is and needs more value added to their services for their customers. And what I mean by ahead of its time is, and I haven’t seen their research, but it seems like people don’t mind planning events, like they used in their examples, on the phone (in general). And how about offering 10 points for those who vblog a location, instead of the 5 for filling out the text for the db? This site needs more 2.0.

And wow that was a lot of money. All I need is 10% of that and my idea is so much better with a model that doesn’t rely on friends telling friends and four different real streams of revenue. But I have to jump through the hoops and don’t have 99% of the connections she did. GL Ms. Dulski – can’t wait to see phase 2.

They need to do a much better job of distinguishing themselves from the myriad of other listings sites out there if they are going to survive. Of course that $5.5M in VC should hopefully last at least a little while, right?

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