Comments on: Tumblr Pulls In $4.5 Million In Funding, Puts Out Premium Services

By: David Karp, fundador de Tumblr, en EBE09

David Karp, fundador de Tumblr, en EBE09 — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:12:10 +0000

[...] cult following among artists and new-media influencers, Tumblr took on funding in October 2007 from a number of investors including Spark Capital and Union Square [...]

By: QuantVC » Blog Archive » tumblr – series b

QuantVC » Blog Archive » tumblr – series b — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:19:53 +0000

[...] techcrunch.com Tumblr has kept their own and competed well with Twitter and Pownce and a few others. I have always [...]

By: tumblr - series b — QUANTITATIVC

tumblr - series b — QUANTITATIVC — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 12:33:20 +0000

[...] techcrunch.com Tumblr has kept their own and competed well with Twitter and Pownce and a few others. I have always [...]

By: OneDollarGeek.com - » Blog Archive » Tumblr’s lead dev: “Scoble doesn’t know what he’s talking about”

Sat, 27 Dec 2008 17:35:55 +0000

[...] 1. That Tumblr is doing the most innovative stuff out there in the world of blogging. 2. That I expect that in 2009 Tumblr will come out on top of the growth curve for services like Twitter, FriendFeed, etc. 3. That Marco is brilliant. 4. That Tumblr is well positioned to make a ton of money over next couple of years, even with the bad economy factored in because they were going to charge their users, something that SmugMug has done and done quite well with. (Of course, that’s probably why they picked up $4.5 million in venture last week). [...]

By: Blogy

Blogy — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:59:02 +0000

[...] že se rakouský tumblelogovací startup Soup.io chystá vypustit českou verzi a už tady máme další novinky na poli tumblelogování. Tumblr, který je pro Soup.io konkurencí a dost možná také [...]

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:14:44 +0000

Tumblr is great. Big props to those guys. Love their powerful simplicity.

Can’t wait to see what else this simple, but powerful type of thinking can produce.

Dave
http://www.etegrity.tumblr.com

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Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:41:21 +0000

By: Tumblr Raises $4.5 Million, Premium Services On The Way | Microblink

Tumblr Raises $4.5 Million, Premium Services On The Way | Microblink — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:01:18 +0000

[...] Techcrunch and Mashable are both reporting that Tumblr has raised an additional $4.5 million in a Series B round with Union Square Ventures and Spark Capital. This was a surprising announcement in these troubled times however this invest will play a critical role for the platform’s future. [...]

By: Tumblr získal 4,5 milionu dolarů a spustí premium služby

Tumblr získal 4,5 milionu dolarů a spustí premium služby — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 15:59:16 +0000

By: Tumblr raises 4.5M for micro blogging platform | Viraload

Tumblr raises 4.5M for micro blogging platform | Viraload — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 03:25:23 +0000

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By: El Jose Designo

El Jose Designo — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:01:27 +0000

Tumblr is a cool site. Not a clever idea though, in that it just took the obvious evolutionary step from the Twitter interface.

I think Twitter could crush Tumblr easily just by adding the capabilities of Tumblr… the question is will Twitter and even if they wanted to…when.

Finally, I would not invest in a freemium model for micro blogging platform. Theoretically I could see corporate feature sets where they would want to pay, ala Squarespace, but the total monies received won’t amount to enough to make the VC’s happy or justify a large acq premium.

By: Santosh

Santosh — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:02:53 +0000

I just created a blog in less than 2 min. This is absolutely great and the UI is very pleasing too.

By: Tumblr recibe 4,5 millones de euros de inversión Loogic.com

Tumblr recibe 4,5 millones de euros de inversión Loogic.com — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:35:47 +0000

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By: Podcast Zeitgeist, Dec. 12 « Palafo

Podcast Zeitgeist, Dec. 12 « Palafo — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:53:28 +0000

[...] things like toast and the moon is paradolia. A couple of the hosts have apparently never heard of Tumblr (or was that a joke?). It is one of the few companies doing well in these troubled times. Howell [...]

By: Robin Wauters

Robin Wauters — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:43:36 +0000

You sound a bit bitter Ted.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:11:34 +0000

“gonna be?”
Really? C’mon, step it up a bit!

By: Ted Rheingold

Ted Rheingold — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:09:14 +0000

Wow, no one hating on a pre-revenue web2 company getting a nice round?

…Checks to see if this is still Techcrunch…

Has everyone gotten smart and realized really great business are becoming part of the social fabric of the Internet? Has everyone realized the difference between a rudderless widget company and a destination site that is making itself a sociality hub? Or is everyone taking a day off? I fear the latter.

Tumblr is great. Their subscription service will succeed (read up on LiveJounral before the SixApart acq if you don’t agree) and many more people will use it over time.

Best success to Karp, UnionSq & Spark et. al.

By: Ξ 4,5 Mio US-Dollar Finanzspritze für Tumblr Ξ UPLOAD - Magazin für digitales Publizieren Ξ

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:43:01 +0000

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By: Asshole Arrington

Asshole Arrington — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:45:53 +0000

Spam fest! Jump right in.

By: Subdomain

Subdomain — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:22:56 +0000

I don’t think ANY Tumblr blogs are accounted for. They’re all on subdomains. Those graphs only represent Dashboard traffic.

By: silicon valley dropout

silicon valley dropout — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:20:59 +0000

wow you must worked pr there.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:09:26 +0000

Global unique numbers is one thing but I think it’s more important to focus on the type of user base Tumblr has collected. The Tumblr platform and the dashboard marries the best attributes of other platforms: it’s easy to post and encourages quick hits of content like Twitter, it allows posting of a variety of content like blog platforms, and the Dashboard has many social features like reblog, “like”, group blogging, and follower counts that engages users for longer periods of time. Dare I say it, I think it even rivals Facebook for stickiness and continuous attention span.

By: GPS

GPS — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:52:06 +0000

Wow, another great example of a horrid domain name. Think how much traffic is going to tumbler.com.

By: Michael Kimsal

Michael Kimsal — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:16:50 +0000

Joe, tell us how you really feel about comscore.