Comments on: Skype Co-founders Invest In European Pet Community Network

By: Underground dog fence

Underground dog fence — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:13:03 +0000

I agree and I must admit i am one of them, i treat my doggy like a family member, i try to fulfill all of his needs!

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Aburjubur.com » Armorize Lands More Funding For Web App Security Technology — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:03:57 +0000

[...] engineers. They’ve recently invested in a European community network for pet owners, which we covered last [...]

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Armorize Lands More Funding For Web App Security Technology — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:03:42 +0000

[...] engineers. They’ve recently invested in a European community network for pet owners, which we covered last [...]

By: United Dogs and Cats Receive 480k€ Funding, Spurs Discussion | ArcticStartup

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:43:16 +0000

[...] This of course is great news for a company in economic times like these, but this has also incited a big debate on TechCrunch if we’re going back to 2001 with investments into this sort of companies. While I realise [...]

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By: Social (Pet) Networking | Dancing Dog Blog

Social (Pet) Networking | Dancing Dog Blog — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:51:13 +0000

[...] With a reported 200,000 members, United Cats and United Dogs, which in based mostly in Eastern Europe has just received another huge influx of VC funding to help the social networking site continue to grow, ” UDC first launched the two pet communities internationally about two years ago, and the nicely designed social networking services have quickly gained traction with cat and dog owners throughout Europe, in large part thanks to its localized nature with support for 16 languages.” READ MORE – Dog and Cat Social Networking [...]

By: marco

marco — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:20:26 +0000

why not ask them on their weblog?

By: Skype Co-founders Invest In European Pet Community Network | Estonian Free Press

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:16:31 +0000

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By: Hans

Hans — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:39:27 +0000

Nice design…

Martin, can you answer how much respectively is owned by the creators and VC funds of the company?

By: Courtney

Courtney — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:52:46 +0000

Another awesome site is http://www.dailypuppy.com

By: David O

David O — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:47:59 +0000

Robert – there is.

http://www.zootoo.com/

By: Social Networking Watch

Social Networking Watch — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:06:11 +0000

Skype Co-founders Invest In European Pet Community Network…

TECH CRUNCH — June 11 — Estonia-based United Dogs and Cats, which operates two pet-specific community websites UnitedDogs.com and UnitedCats.com, has raised €480,000 in VC funding. The money comes from individual investor Raivo Hein, the state-owne…

By: marco

marco — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:24:11 +0000

btw: http://www.edicy.com/en

and there are plenty of other things in the oven over there

By: Joe Medina

Joe Medina — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:27:30 +0000

There’s MyDogSpace.com too.

By: Vadym

Vadym — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:13:43 +0000

http://www.tech...ction-listings/ — not enough?

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:30:07 +0000

We still need to grow. But surely we have a clear roadmap in place with some additional important paid services that will help us reach break even.

By: KManS

KManS — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:24:58 +0000

Just checked out UnitedDogs. Thanks TC for informing about this wonderful site. It’s waaaay better looking than Dogster or any other pet community.

By: geekevaluation

geekevaluation — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:58:59 +0000

can you break even with the revenue currently earned ?
I am not questioning your business plan, just being curious

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:56:08 +0000

Ads and premium services for the users are the main sources of income today.

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:51:19 +0000

This 40k must be an outdated information we might have forgotten to update. Where did you see that?

By: geekevaluation

geekevaluation — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:44:25 +0000

any other source of revenue other than ads ?

By: RahulC

RahulC — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:41:29 +0000

Everybody has the right to ride the social wave, dogs, cats, bats why not?

I heard somewhere dogster went to deadpool, is it true? Interestingly here it seems they have a business plan by promoting premium plans.

By: Teicaa

Teicaa — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:39:54 +0000

No, I am moderator of Croatian Uniteddogs & Unitedcats.

By: Amir Wa

Amir Wa — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:31:43 +0000

He is a zombie….

By: Amir Wa

Amir Wa — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:27:51 +0000

Where’s the 200,000 users figure from?

Their blog clearly states: “Currently the websites have 40000 registered users and are visited 600000 times per month.”