Six Apart Overview
Six Apart Ltd. provides award-winning blogging software and services that change the way millions of individuals, organizations, and corporations connect and communicate across the world every day. Founded in 2002 by husband and wife team Ben Trott and Mena G. Trott, Six Apart is a global company with its headquarters in San Francisco, CA, and offices in Europe and Japan. The company continues to...More»
Six Apart Ltd. provides award-winning blogging software and services that change the way millions of individuals, organizations, and corporations connect and communicate across the world every day. Founded in 2002 by husband and wife team Ben Trott and Mena G. Trott, Six Apart is a global company with its headquarters in San Francisco, CA, and offices in Europe and Japan. The company continues to lead in the blogging and social media industry with the Movable Type Publishing Platform, the TypePad hosted blogging service, and Vox, a free blogging service for friends and families.
Acquisitions included both Apperceptive (4/08) and LiveJournal (1/05)«Less
Key People
Management
- Chris Alden, CEO and Chairman
- David Tokheim, EVP & GM, Consumer
- Andrew Anker, EVP, Corporate Development
- Aaron Emigh, EVP & GM, Core Technologies
- Tod Harmon, CFO
- Olivier Creiche, VP & GM Alliances
- Michael Sippey, VP of Product
- Christopher Alden, CEO/Chairman
- Nobuhiro Seki, EVP GM
- Michael Schwartz, VP Engineering
- Ben Trott, CTO
- Mena Trott, President
- Anil Dash, VP Business Development
Board of Directors
Funding
| Date | Type | Capital Amount | Post-Money Valuation | Investors |
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| 10/2004 | Series B | 10M | Unknown | |
| 03/2006 | Series C | 12M | Unknown |
Products
| Name: | blogs.com |
| Product URL: | http://www.blogs.com/ |
| Date Launched: | 08/2008 |
| Description: | Blogs.com is a new service from blogging company Six Apart that helps you discover the best in blogs. You can quickly and easily find blogs by category and topic or read daily blog roundups of some of the best blog content around the Web. Top 10 Lists from celebrity bloggers and influencers also help you discover new blogs, and everyone is invited to create their own Top 10 lists to share with the community. Blogs.com also produces a free weekly email newsletter so you can get the best in blogs delivered to your inbox. To get the weekly Blogs.com newsletter, use the subscription form on the right. |
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User Opinions
Bulls vs. Bears (8)
| Bullish Opinions (7) | Author/Date | Do you agree? | |
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we should buy shares!!! |
hilko 09/10/2008 |
100% 1 vote 1 0% 0 |
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Great tool for blogs for serious businesses |
green33 06/09/2008 |
100% 3 votes 3 0% 0 |
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Solid base blogging product. |
drapaport 04/28/2008 |
100% 3 votes 3 0% 0 |
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It's just like LiveJournal, except without the Harry Potter underage slash fanfic PR nightmare! |
ywong137 04/22/2008 |
100% 3 votes 3 0% 0 |
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They now offer an ad network for their blogs |
clarity00 04/21/2008 |
100% 2 votes 2 0% 0 |
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They offer many products that cater to the blogging needs for different users |
steve 04/16/2008 |
100% 4 votes 4 0% 0 |
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They just launched BlogIt, a tool for blogging on Facebook |
steve 04/16/2008 |
100% 5 votes 5 0% 0 |
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| Bearish Opinions (1) | Author/Date | Do you agree? | |
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There are lots of players in the blogging platform space |
clarity00 04/21/2008 |
100% 3 votes 3 0% 0 |
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