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July 10, 2007
Sports Soc Nets On The Rise
Suunto, the high tech sports monitor company, has been running what you could call a social network for its sporty customers, with various forums based on sport preference on SuuntoSports.com.
We don't know how much it cost them but by the looks of it they spent some money on it. Maybe it should have just waited a while and snapped up one of the growing number of sports communities of interest that have popped up in the Euro neighbourhood in the meantime.
There's Sanoodi that just raised a seed round from Swiss, US, and British investors, according to Mobile Marketing Magazine Elsewhere, an industry-specialized blog writes about it winning a repeat entrepreneur, Rhys Jones, to help build the tech team:
There's WidiWici over in France whose good-looking site is a lot more populated since the first time we looked at it about a year ago.
And over in Germany Deutsche Startups, the newsblog backed by the Samwer brothers, has briefed about 10 sport social network in a post today. The three getting the most buzz, it says, are “Champions World” which has a partnership with FC Hertha BSC and MTV ; “meinSport.de” and sportme. Follow the link below to get the links to their sites.
Wettkampf der Sportnetzwerke :: deutsche-startups.de
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