Comments on: Polling Startup SodaHead Raises $8.4 Million

By: Janet McCullen

Janet McCullen — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:09:07 +0000

Have been a member of SodaHead for almost two years. I am not an employee nor are a few others I personally know who are members.

By: Janet McCullen

Janet McCullen — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:03:35 +0000

I’ve been a member of SodaHead since shortly after it arrived on the internet. lol I am not a employee nor are a few people I personally know on SodaHead. I am preseently unemployed, perhaps you could point me to a respectful job opportunity.

By: Janet McCullen

Janet McCullen — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:59:28 +0000

The majority of the polls are presented by members of SodaHead. No money involved.

By: pumpkin

pumpkin — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:20:54 +0000

lol agreed and everyone leaving positive feedback must be an employee

By: pumpkin

pumpkin — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:18:55 +0000

because they will cleverly file for bankruptcy and keep the cash. dumb investors

By: James Blair

James Blair — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:25:26 +0000

Agree that SodaHead is very cool.

Please also check out NearlyEveryone http://www.nearlyeveryone.com/. Similar idea, though again a much simpler implementation.

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Sodahead Internships | One Day, One Internship — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:50:05 +0000

[...] little research. We got a feel for what Sodahead was all about, and then we saw that they’ve landed a total of $12.7 million in financing. Their website doesn’t offer much information about the company, but we do know that Sodahead [...]

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Internet Broadcasting Introduces New Online Opinion Tool Slantly — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:37:01 +0000

[...] sites like Polldaddy, Survey Monkey, dPolls, SodaHead (recently received new funding, covered here), and Vizu. Slantly does offer a similar service, but a bit differently. After playing around with [...]

By: Sang

Sang — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:50:55 +0000

SodaHead did an awesome job. I am really impressed. Congratulations to both Jason and Michael.

Please try PollBag at http://pollbag.com/ This site is not as fancy as SodaHead yet, but it gets the job done.

By: David Nicolosi

David Nicolosi — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:05:35 +0000

Wow… 8million eh? Poll Authority was started on a budget that’s much much less than that… about 8million less. SodaHead looks pretty good though and does a lot of things right, so congrats to them for earning a well deserved 8million to continue with their enterprise.

For those looking for another alternative to SodaHead that is going to make some waves in the polling market, give Poll Authority a try at http://www.PollAuthority.com. A lot is planned to expand on the site (which just launched last week), so keep an eye on it. Thanks!

By: Lachica...

Lachica... — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:35:23 +0000

I have been a member of sodahead since July 2007. I am so in love with this site. It goes way beyond just a polling site, it has wonderful members and you are interacting with them as you make and answer polls. I love love love this site.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:02:45 +0000

This is a huge dynamic that will only continue to add to Yahoo’s misery, a few tweaks in the operations and Sodahead will be one of the best, ive seen a few glimpses of the software and its clean, the add ons just need to be changed ever so slightly.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:02:06 +0000

Why are the quantcast numbers so far off of the comscore ones?

These guys are *quantified* which means, there is a real, 3rd party, open metric that Sodahead uses to show it’s traffic…but, comscore puts them at double what the pixel tracking service does?

Very odd…and yes, about the “bootstrapped vs VC backed” we’ve been doing “q&a” for a while now, and we’re still ahead of Sodahead, however, they’re moving fast on implementing cool stuff.

If their traffic numbers are right on quantcast, though, their users are a LOT less active than I would have guessed…our site has similar metrics to other Q&A sites, but it seems like this one is getting less real retention. I wonder why that is?

By: josh

josh — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:25:45 +0000

@17

Welcome to the supposed ‘Web 2.0′. Investors who are stupid and dont know that a 16 year old can whip out twitter in a weekend, fully scalable and all.

By: josh

josh — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:24:18 +0000

@2 (Chris):

stop telling them you have a script. its not their business. geez

By: Nosto Rodriguez

Nosto Rodriguez — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:35:02 +0000

Here’s a quick poll for you all, how many of these comments above are from Sodahead users or employees?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:33:56 +0000

As a team member on the under-funded, small (but hopefully smart) Polls Boutique, I’d like to join @Lenny in congratulating SH, and invite all of you to check out what can be done in the social polls arena with way less money, time, and west coast proximity.

By: Falafulu Fisi

Falafulu Fisi — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:22:48 +0000

Eddie said... More people = more improvements and many many more features to the website. Wrong Eddie. You mean More people = More Suckers Everywhere.

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TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » 投票サイトのSodaHeadが$8.4Mを追加調達 — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:52:56 +0000

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By: Jazzter

Jazzter — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:02:50 +0000

for SodaHead read ShitHead

By: Eddy

Eddy — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:54:36 +0000

What a great website SodaHead is, i have been a sodahead since before it launched to the public, now with this 8.4 million dollar funding it will be able to advertise more and let all those other people out there find out just how awesome this website is. More people = more improvements and many many more features to the website. Really excited about this. More people to vote on my polls and more people to discuss issues on the questions posted by SodaHeads.

By: Larry

Larry — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:06:17 +0000

Very cool….about time someone takes the social answers space and actually delivers. I checked out the site, doesn’t look like a poll site at all…other lame widget companies can take that market, the destination site is where it’s at. Looks to me like a super forum or some sort of discussion community. Good luck, god knows the Internet needs a more organized forum or whatever the hell it calls itself.

By: Curious Mind

Curious Mind — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:39:28 +0000

These LA types I guess don’t really understand how to craft a ’seeded’ comment on a techcrunch forum.

Where is Uncov when you need it. TED – we need you back in here. Fire up the domain homie, its time to come out and slay some dragons. Start with SodaHead.

By: ryan born

ryan born — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:36:11 +0000

congrats to the team at sodahead…this is well deserved and will help solidfy their position as the leading social polling a voting destination. this is easily a 500 million to 1 billion exit if executed.

By: Lloyd

Lloyd — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:57:04 +0000

That last comment is awesome … 2 person, unfunded … brilliant. Congrats to them. I wish we had the idiotic venture capitalists over here in the UK and Eire as you guys enjoy over there in the US. Who spends 8.4 million on a polling company. I actually do think their site is good… they’ll build up a fantastic social graph of the users they get and the opportunities for hyper-targeted ads will be good. But 8.4 million … couldnt spend it, unless the founders have given up most their equity.

BTW … @axel rob – please stop advertising your book on here you idiot, no one on here needs your answer(s). People on here know everything.