Sneakerplay Bailout
by Staff, March 26, 2009
Amidst banking and company bailouts galore, add Sneakerplay to the list as the sneaker-centric community recently benefited from a mystery group of investors. So far, details thanks to Tech Crunch are relatively unknown with only one notable part of the mix thus far in Brian Rothenberg, former Yahoo! Real Estate product manager. For those who aren’t familiar, upon the site’s debut, among the strongest features was the ability to “battle” sneakers against each other. Look for more details on the acquisition to appear via Sneakerplay founder Rob Jama.
glad to know those sneakerdoggz.biz bailout hearings weren’t all for naught.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njbb_DXQ4Yc
This is Rothenberg’s first ‘portfolio company’ and he probably paid a very minimal amount ($50K?) for Sneakerplay. He’s got a lot of work ahead of him because the site needs a major upgrade as a lot of the basic features don’t work. As for generating revenue, good luck! Their plan is to stick with ads and sponsorships, and well, in this declining market the ad dollar ain’t getting anyone too far. Just ask Mark Ecko, Complex Media (which basically owns most of the major sneaker blogs) is on the verge of going belly up, if they haven’t already.
http://www.luxist.com/2009/03/26/marc-ecko-facing-financial-woes/
Erm….I don’t get it!
^^^co-sign very random
but decent site tho…fallin off i would have to say tho
this is like that kitten battling website
not only is it random but uninformative.
What The Hell? This is sooooooooooooooo random.