NYC Startups to Watch

dmor 13 years ago |

Looks like it is time for me to make a data driven index of NYC startups. This is such fluff.

xo_Ox 13 years ago | |

Your indices of FB follows and twitter followers and Alexa rankings aren't "data driven." They take some numbers as inputs, sure, but that doesn't mean they're data-driven.

codewright 13 years ago | |

Is this a coping mechanism for dealing with burnout for you?

pavel_lishin 13 years ago |

I find it interesting that one of them is literally "like facebook, but for dogs".

wheaties 13 years ago | |

Yeah, I lol'd at that. We actually made this joke at a meetup once: "Hi, we're a social network for people that like to share photos of their pets." Guess the joke's on us (or their investors whomever they may be.) Good luck to them if they can make it happen.

w1ntermute 13 years ago | |

Klooff, if the pet lovers on HN want to check it out: http://www.klooff.com/

kitcar 13 years ago | | |

Interestingly, they are a Chilean company, incubated at Startup Chile ( http://startupchile.org/startups/klooff/ )

Geekette 13 years ago | | |

Not a Chilean company, although they did participate in Startup Chile.

ramayac 13 years ago |

Loosecubes is now closed: https://www.loosecubes.com/ Anyone knows what happend to them?

MattRogish 13 years ago | |

Yup. Was a big head scratcher around here. They raised $7.8M and shutdown 6 mos later. Rumors are they ever actually closed it, which would make a lot more sense than they burned over $1M/mo.

http://betabeat.com/2012/11/what-happened-to-loosecubes-new-...

danso 13 years ago | | |

The CEO gave an interview this February

http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/report/loosecubes-pioneer-ri...

> A large part of that reported $7.8 million never actually came through. McKellar says that the investor syndicate, led by New Enterprise Associates, stopped funding the company. Faced with the decision of whether to operate on a severely amputated budget or to close down, she opted for the latter

msrpotus 13 years ago | | |

That would make sense. They just disappeared all of the sudden.

mindotus 13 years ago | |

Not sure, will look into it but loved the concept and the design as well.

Kiro 13 years ago | |

What was it?

lallysingh 13 years ago |

What would Time know about this?

welder 13 years ago | |

Use Time's previous "Most Promising Startups" for their success rate:

2012 - http://www.timeinc.com/pressroom/10nycstartups2012.php

2011 - http://www.timeinc.com/pressroom/events/10nycstartups/

But then, how do you rate a startup as successful? Number of users, revenue, is being acquired a good or bad thing?

jgalt212 13 years ago |

These articles are really just signalling devices for which shops overspend on PR and/or have good looking founders.