Comments on: Pollsb Nabs $1.3 Million In Funding For Lousy Interactive Polling Widgets

By: eric

eric — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:48:26 +0000

lol he has no idea. Anytime someone delivers a line as cliched as ‘I’ll let you figure it out for yourself’ followed by a ‘hint:…’, it usually means they have absolutely no clue.

And that they have their head really way up their ass.

By: eric

eric — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:44:13 +0000

I agree with coldbrew. I usually check out all startups featured on techcrunch but when i see fake comments like the one that shade left, I dont visit/use just by principle.

Trust us on this – you are actually LOSING ppl with fake comments like this.

By: Crisis como las de Silicon Valley son las que necesitamos por aquí Loogic.com

Crisis como las de Silicon Valley son las que necesitamos por aquí Loogic.com — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:14:53 +0000

[...] 1,3 millones de dólares de inversión en la plataforma de aplicaciones de votación Pollsb. [...]

By: Jonno

Jonno — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:18:56 +0000

ah! the sweet smell of recognition! thank you. PS the email address is a fake and so’s the name!

By: Sunshine

Sunshine — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:01:44 +0000

True Vagabond.
I personally really like pollsb.

By: Why We Often Write About Twitter And Will Continue To Do So

Why We Often Write About Twitter And Will Continue To Do So — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:40:03 +0000

[...] expect us to write about small startups getting seed funding (most recently FrugalMechanic, Diddit, Pollsb and Tvinci) but not if it’s for a Twitter desktop application (TweetDeck)? Why would you want [...]

By: vagabond

vagabond — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:24:58 +0000

What makes a great service is the content and people who use it and not the features that can easily be copied.
I think Pollsb is better than many others.

By: boris

boris — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:07:03 +0000

Now that, sir, is a POINT!

By: Jonno

Jonno — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:55:18 +0000

…and what’s original about this BLOG? The content. Apps are easy to copy, it’s the ability to hang on to the community that does it bud, didn’t you know that?

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:54:53 +0000

Idea looks ok, how it got VC on the other hand baffles me.

By: Melvin M. Tercan

Melvin M. Tercan — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:17:40 +0000

I (unfortunately) can’t read Hebrew.

By: Melvin M. Tercan

Melvin M. Tercan — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:15:12 +0000

And obviously, you’re very biased.

By: George Bevis

George Bevis — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:52:38 +0000

After spending half a day checking out different poll services I discovered JS-kit, which is just superb. It does everything in JavaScript so almost zero setup (eg you don’t need to create an account or login, for example), and it ‘just works’ without forcing you into a look&feel you don’t want.

We used it to do a quick customer survey at http://www.speedsell.com/poll recently and I was delighted with the result. I would take a lot of convincing to use an alternative.

By: Anderson Mccutcheon

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:12:58 +0000

Yo Dawg, I see you like polls. So we put polls in your poll, so you can poll while you poll.

By: Kyl

Kyl — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:10:50 +0000

Funny you post this. I stumbled them twice this week googling sex polls and photo polls. they come up unique because they let you do polls with images.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:24:21 +0000

You forgot to put modpoll.com in your poll.

By: Leland

Leland — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:45:59 +0000

Well Henway, maybe you would be so kind as to share your insightful, million-dollar-funded company changing idea to the rest of us?

By: Pollsb cierra una Serie A de 1,3M

Pollsb cierra una Serie A de 1,3M — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:33:07 +0000

[...] un servicio de encuestas online, ha recibido una Serie A de 1,3 millones de dólares dirigida por DFJ Tamir Fishman Ventures y con la participación de los primeros inversores Zelkova [...]

By: Matt Sullivan

Matt Sullivan — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:27:42 +0000

I agree. If you don’t want to be associated with polling widgets then you probably shouldn’t have “polls” in your company name.

By: Henway

Henway — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:16:32 +0000

As with all things, this site actually has a promising idea.. problem is it’s BURIED underneath a bunch of garbage, and bad judgement. The site as it is now? will NOT succeed. How can you leverage polling to make it succeed? I’ll let you figure that out for yourself.
Hint: it does not revolve around generic polling. Think of a SPECIFIC use that could garner mass appeal.

By: Waldo

Waldo — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:06:42 +0000

huh??? How about looking inward to see who you are instead of opinion on others perceive you? Sad, sad, sad.

Give me $10 (or worse) and I’ll say you are prefect just the way you are…. until you leave.

By: metricsman

metricsman — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:59:21 +0000

The economy is crumbling, people are out of work, and yet some stupid VC’s actually think polling (or whatever they are pitching it as) is a business? Not to mention there is no technology here than a 13 year old Web hack can, and probably already has built.

sure, it’s fun to answer polls, sure people might do it… but a business??

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:49:20 +0000

You answered your own question.

By: SocialLocator.com

SocialLocator.com — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:38:03 +0000

bsocial would have made more sense

By: elvirs

elvirs — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:31:57 +0000

why dont u have Techcrunch Israel? everyday we see more startups from Israel covered here. Most of which are just alternatives to US based startups.