Comments on: Babble Raises $1 Million For Hipster Parenting Site

By: Stewart Engelman - DNI Services

Stewart Engelman - DNI Services — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 04:22:45 +0000

Alot of money to spend on a web site today. I hope they are planning to have alot of great content to attract alot of visitors, and then have some way of monetizing the hits. The PPC market is decelerating due to the recession and high click costs, so hopefully the new site will either have premium (pay based) features or an online store.

By: Rahul Vyas

Thu, 21 May 2009 05:39:13 +0000

This is second testing comment on this functionality.

By: Rahul

Rahul — Thu, 21 May 2009 05:37:53 +0000

This is testing comment on this article.

By: What’s all the Babble about? « Modern Age Mom

What’s all the Babble about? « Modern Age Mom — Wed, 13 May 2009 04:54:06 +0000

[...] itself as the magazine and community for the new generation of parents. Or, according to TechCrunch, it’s a magazine and parenting community site aimed at “urban hipsters”. (Hmm, [...]

By: Paid Content : Parenting Site Babble Raises $1.25 Million

Paid Content : Parenting Site Babble Raises $1.25 Million — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:50:07 +0000

[...] Parenting site Babble has raised an additional $1.25 million from Greycroft Partners and private investors, on top of the $2 million it got from Village Ventures in December when it was spun off from Nerve Media. CEO Rufus Griscom told us that the additional funds will be used to expand the site’s features and interactive functions. Babble is in a crowded parenting category, competing with sites like Urbanbaby, BabyCenter and iVillage. The funding was first reported by TechCrunch. [...]

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:45:40 +0000

I really want to like this site. I’ve been a fan of Rufus for a while and have enjoyed seeing how he has pushed against the tide with Nerve and other ventures. And who doesn’t like the Onion, right?…..

…But, upon my first visit to the site there’s a full page interstitial ad unit. I have nothing against these – great CPMs, after all – but c’mon, on the first visit? At least give me a click, guys!

Good luck, though. New funding for original, talented content always get my vote.

By: geekevaluation

geekevaluation — Tue, 12 May 2009 15:17:40 +0000

How the hell do site get funded for contents ?
Business model = selling ads.
Come on !!!!!!

By: Babble obtiene 1M

Babble obtiene 1M — Tue, 12 May 2009 08:42:55 +0000

[...] una revista y comunidad online dirigida los padres interesados en las tendencias urbanas, ha recibido una ronda de financiación Serie A de 1 millón de dólares por parte de Greycroft [...]

By: Joe Long

Joe Long — Tue, 12 May 2009 07:31:38 +0000

Babble. Never heard of it either. How come sites like it get funding?

By: steve mobs

steve mobs — Tue, 12 May 2009 06:31:33 +0000

I hate hipsters and i hate the site.

By: JB

JB — Tue, 12 May 2009 05:52:22 +0000

Hipster parent kids are going to give Dr. Benjamin Spock raised Boomers a run for the most screwed up generation in this country’s history.

By: Asep Komara Sanjaya

Tue, 12 May 2009 05:38:33 +0000

Babble? I never heard about that before…

By: first service

first service — Tue, 12 May 2009 05:00:13 +0000

easy 2 copy, why can they got this funds, only for content? or they want to express some other things.

By: Online Parenting Website Babble Raises $1 Million

Online Parenting Website Babble Raises $1 Million — Tue, 12 May 2009 03:16:00 +0000

[...] [via TechCrunch] [...]

By: moralde

moralde — Tue, 12 May 2009 02:50:02 +0000

hmmm… if I were a hipster dad who surfs the internet, I’d be on some poker site 24/7. And it ain’t hip for hipster dads to take care of children.

By: RahulC

RahulC — Tue, 12 May 2009 02:15:21 +0000

At first sight I got confused with the language transaction service Babel … anyway I went and tried understanding what are they offering… sorry didnt quite understood.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 12 May 2009 01:15:02 +0000

Go babble!

By: dave

dave — Tue, 12 May 2009 01:04:25 +0000

yawn, i’ll look for it in the deadpool…this could have been done with drupal and a marketing budget under 150K…

By: Pan

Pan — Tue, 12 May 2009 01:00:41 +0000

I’m gonna waterboard yer asses in hell!~

By: Don

Don — Tue, 12 May 2009 00:43:28 +0000

Lena, I think it’s time to quit your blogging career and start selling Amway in China! Huh, whaddaya think?

By: anon

anon — Tue, 12 May 2009 00:31:47 +0000

Target demo == “… parents who live in cities, equally share parenting duties (or at least make an effort) and use the internet to access information.”

vs.

Non-Target demo: “…live in rural areas, with wives slaving away as husband watches NASCAR, and trade information at the local Grange.”

By: peter

peter — Tue, 12 May 2009 00:20:37 +0000

Pretty good chance they could put a “follow us on Twitter” icon somewhere on their homepage. Big leagues, baby. Big leagues.

By: Gilligan Benet-Ramsey

Gilligan Benet-Ramsey — Tue, 12 May 2009 00:15:10 +0000

Let me guess…

The founder and his VCs are in the early stages of their first kids. City slickers all, they’re sure they’re on to that new unique niche only they know about.

Follow all the Babble kids over the years…they’ll be the neurotics in middle school walking the halls with “kick me” signs taped to the back of their really hip Fred Perry crew knit shirts dad bought for them.

By: na

na — Mon, 11 May 2009 23:20:29 +0000

Totally confused, this has nothing to do with twitter

By: Justyn

Justyn — Mon, 11 May 2009 23:19:30 +0000

Funding for content. Nice to see.