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Recent BlockChalk Coverage
Local startup BlockChalk raises national money with AngelList
"Today we’re announcing that BlockChalk has raised money with AngelList. I think the foundation of BlockChalk’s fund-raising story is the pedigree of their team: Stephen Hood is the former head of product at del.icio.us, Dave Baggeroer is part of Stanford’s d.school faculty, and Josh Whiting is a former senior engineer at craigslist and former head of engineering for del.icio.us."
BlockChalk Shares "Lessons Learned" From Raising Seed Funding
"Company blogs are a good way to post press releases and make staff and product announcements. But they're always particularly helpful when startups use them to share "lessons learned" from various stages of the entrepreneurial process. Today BlockChalk updated its blog today with some of the lessons the founders learned from raising angel investment."
BlockChalk Draws $1 Million In Seed Financing From Schachter, Battery, And Founder Collective
"Geo-messaging startup BlockChalk raised $1 million in seed financing from an impressive group of investors, including Delicious founder Joshua Schachter, Lotus founder Mitch Kapor, the Founder Collective, Battery Ventures, Harrison Metal, Josh Stylman, Tom McInerney, and David Liu."
BlockChalk lands $1M for community-based mobile messaging
"BlockChalk, a mobile application that lets people leave messages for other community members, today announced it has secured a $1 million round of funding, the company’s first. The funding will be used to expand the company’s team as it looks for iPhone developers and server-side engineers.".
Anonymous Mobile Social Network Gets Venture Backing
"As the LBS market expands, BlockChalk stands out from many of its competitors, as it allows users to post on local message boards without having to sign up for the service or reveal their location. Instead, discussions on BlockChalk are completely anonymous, which takes away many the privacy concerns that consumers have with the current crop of location-based mobile apps."
BlockChalk: A community bulletin board app for easy mobile griping
"As one of the newest additions to the growing spate of crowd-sourced apps for mobile devices, Blockchalk puts user-friendly, location-based bulletin boards in the palm of users hands in over 13,000 neighborhoods worldwide."
BlockChalk Locates A New Co-Founder From Craigslist (Another Former Delicious Key Architect)
"Along with his title of co-founder, Whiting will be BlockChalk’s chief engineer. The location space continues to be red hot right now, and BlockChalk has a compelling, yet simple product."
The Next Challenges for Mobile phones: Find Me and Tell Me Who I Am
Use BlockChalk, FourSquare and Google's Near Me Now to "...leave location-based messages at the end of your road or in a cafe, as kind of green graffiti that doesn't despoil the streets."
BlockChalk: A Free Location-based Bulletin Board for iPhone/Palm Pre/Android
".... BlockChalk acts a lot more like a community message board for the 21st century."
BlockChalk Is Location-Based Sidewalk Chalk For Your Mobile Device
"BlockChalk works because they keep it simple."
BlockChalk Lets You Leave Geo-tagged Notes for the Neighborhood
"Fostering a sense of local community in the age of the Internet and globalization is no easy task."...BlockChalk is trying to do just that.
BlockChalk: An Anonymous Message Board for Your Neighborhood
BlockChalk "wants to enable neighbors to interact with each other while protecting everybody's privacy." "The design is simple, to the point and doesn't get in the way of the product's features."
Have You Heard of BlockChalk?
BlockChalk works great w/ hyperlocal blogging. Use it to connect with potential neighborhood readers, find blogworthy content in chalks, and promote your blog posts with a new chalk in your neighborhood.
BlockChalk Introduces Super Simple Location Based Annotation of Real World
"You're stuck in a stall with a clever response to that scribble on the wall, only problem, you're a Sharpie short. With BlockChalk, mobile users can now annotate the real world through a digital space."
BlockChalk Offers Location-based Commenting
"There's something new in the social stream worth checking out: BlockChalk. "
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