17Jan2008

Long time no posts and lots of things to update

blog_ticket.jpgWe’ve been silent for some time. A lot has happened since the last post which was four months ago. In start up time that’s an eternity. Lately we’ve been burning midnight oil as we wanted to be ready with new features for the largest travel expo in the Nordics, which started today. A short update is appropriate though.

We launched a new app we call the Vailoma widget in the above mentioned travel expo. It allows travel agencies to include parts of our service and data into their website very easily. This gives our partners the benefit of offering rich destination content without investing to site development or community building - everything comes from our service. More on this after the expo is over and we can point you to the actual application on our partner’s site.

We also secured our seed financing late in 2007. Excellent stories of this here and here. As a result we have also moved to new premises. We are now based in the old premises of Jaiku, the microblog that got bought by Google last fall. We’re not taking pressures but we of course try our best to measure up to the expectations!

We like to think that our service has developed significantly since the last post and we do think that it is nearing to be good enough for a launch. Now we also have the money to do the launch properly. :)

Date: Thursday, January 17th, 2008 at 7:31 pm | Category: Uncategorized | RSS Feed: RSS 2.0 feed.
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4 Responses to “Long time no posts and lots of things to update”

  1. January 18th, 2008 at 11:45 am Lars Ettrup Says:

    Congrats. Looking forward receiving a login :-)

  2. August 8th, 2008 at 10:34 am Andrew Says:

    How much funding was secured? Roughly?
    Thousands?
    Tens of thousands?
    Hundreds of thousands?
    Millions?

  3. August 8th, 2008 at 10:35 am Andrew Says:

    What does it cost to launch something like TripSay?

  4. August 8th, 2008 at 5:10 pm juha Says:

    I can’t unfortunately disclose the amount raised.

    Launching something like TripSay is today is by no means cheap (the costs are of course development mostly at this point). We couldn’t have done this without the seed capital, that’s for sure. It’s a full time job to our team, not a project done on the side.

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