Estately Blog » Funding http://blog.estately.com A blog of growth, strategy, development and design Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:20:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Estately Announces funding http://blog.estately.com/2008/04/estately-announces-funding/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=estately-announces-funding http://blog.estately.com/2008/04/estately-announces-funding/#comments Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:05:22 +0000 Galen http://blog.estately.com/2008/04/24/estately-announces-funding/ We announced a round of angel investment yesterday. It’s been quite a ride getting to this point and I’m very excited about the next year – we’ll have more news to share soon enough.

I’d like to thank Brier Dudley, John Cook, Bloodhound blog and everyone else for covering the news!

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ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS The blog VentureBeat has been following the venture capitalists scrounging for alternatives to technology investments as free-falling costs have drastically cut the need for outside financing. This week, Eric Eldon noted that Kleiner Perkins took part in a $50 million investment in YesPPG, a shirt factory in Shanghai (venturebeat.com).

There is no doubt that it takes money to start a company (although it doesn’t take much for a web-site!), but one has to wonder if it really takes $20 million+ to provide an outstanding experience to consumers like our massively funded competitors seem to believe.

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