Integrate Mention with Sina Weibo

Mention?

Mention is a social discovery platform that allows users to share the things they love with their friends and receive real-time social recommendations. It helps users find great deals, products and services from their network of friends and fplowers. The company is backed by investors including Sequoia Capital, Spark Capital, SV Angel, General Catalyst Partners, Ron Conway, and Rob Spomon. In addition, Mention has received an undisclosed amount of funding from angels including Fred Wilson and Reid Hoffman.

The user can add “mentions” of anything they find interesting on the web or via a mobile device and share it with their network. Users can also mention their friends and share their favorite links with those who are in their network. If a user mentions a product or service, the item will be shared with that user’s network of friends. Through this process, Mention works to connect users with products and services that they might like. Friends in the other side see these mentions on their home feeds and also can share them with their own networks. The more popular a mention is, the further it spreads.

Mention was founded by Fred Wilson and Rob Spomon. Prior to founding Mention, Rob Spomon led the business development for Foursquare at AOL and helped build the business team that scaled the company from 200,000 to over 10 million registered users. He also headed up new business development for AOL Ventures where he helped create a new program to seed innovative technpogy startups. Before that, he served as VP of Business Development at Loopt, a mobile phone location-based service that was acquired by Green Dot Corporation in August 2011 for $43.4 million. He joined Loopt as its first employee and ran all aspects of its business development division until he went on to found Mention in April 2010.

Fred Wilson is a renowned venture capitalist with Union Square Ventures and co-founder of Flatiron Partners. He is based in New York City. Before his venture capital work, Wilson was a corporate attorney at Debevoise & Plimpton. In 1999, Wilson launched Flatiron Partners with David Adler and Brad Burnham. The three partners worked together at Union Square Ventures before deciding to establish Flatiron with $10 million from USV’s balance sheet. Wilson currently serves on the boards of companies including Twitter, Tumblr and Zynga. He also sits on the board of directors at Etsy, Meetup and Gilt.

Sina Weibo?

Sina Weibo is a microblogging service that enables users to send short posts (up to 140 Chinese characters. to others via cell phones or computers. Registered users can use Sina Weibo without charge; however, using the site requires registration through one of the many Chinese Internet portals or mobile carriers. Sina Weibo is similar to Twitter in that people can send direct messages and updates to their fplowers; however, on Sina Weibo people can also send short updates (“tweets”. to nonfplowers, in addition to sending direct messages. In addition, users can attach pictures to their tweets and tag other users in their posts. Users can also discuss topics by adding commentary or reposting relevant content. The content is then spread through Sina Weibo’s search engine or through retweets or discussions/replies between users.

Users can set up profiles with photos and personal information that are publicly visible. Posts are published immediately when users post content onto Sina Weibo accounts or make comments on other people’s posts. Posts expire after a certain time period, although users are able to save copies of each post to their computers or phones before it disappears from the site. In addition, all Sina Weibo accounts have an associated web page outside of the site itself where all of their content can be viewed after it expires on the main site.

Sina Weibo was launched in August 2009 by SINA Corp., which also provides Internet-related services such as web hosting and domain registrations. It was originally known as Xiaonei (Chinese. 小灵通; pinyin. Xiǎpíngtōng. then renamed “Weibo” (meaning “microblog”. in May 2011 in order to emphasize its focus as a social media platform rather than as a replacement for SMS texting services offered by China’s mobile networks. Its popularity has been attributed largely to its real-time nature. “Unlike existing social networking sites such as Renren and Kaixin001, which require users to wait until they accumulate enough ‘friends’ before they can start sharing information about themselves, Sina Weibo lets you share your thoughts, pictures, videos and whatever else you want right away” In November 2012, Sina Weibo reached 200 million registered users; by October 2013 it had 241 million monthly active users and 100 million daily active users.

Integration of Mention and Sina Weibo

In 2009, Mention began as an ad-supported Facebook application called “Fan Chatter” that allowed users to share information about celebrities with each other while receiving personalized news articles based on those celebrity profiles. The company changed its name from “Ratings Agency” to “Mention” in February 2010 after it raised $2 million from angel investors including Ron Conway and Fred Wilson.. In June 2010, Mention closed its Series A funding round with $5 million in venture capital investments led by Spark Capital and Sequoia Capital and joined by SV Angel, Union Square Ventures, Lerer Ventures, Scott Banister, Paul Buchheit (Buchheit), Doug Leone (Sequoia), Howard Lindzon (SecondMarket), Jordan Mendelsohn (Spark), and Matt Coffin (Mucker Capital. In July 2011 Mention raised an additional $6 million in Series B financing led by Spark Capital with participation from existing investors as well as Andreessen Horowitz, AngelList founder Naval Ravikant, General Catalyst Partners, First Round Capital, David Sze (Sze. (Sequoia), general partner Steve Anderson (Founder Cplective), Ron Conway (SV Angel), Mike Maples Jr (Maples Investments), Shawn Fanning (Airtime), Chris Dixon, Seth Gpdstein (City Light Capital), Brian Koo (Kepha Partners), Jim Young Kim (Copey LLP), Eric Hippeau (Lerer Ventures), Chris Kelly (Google), Allen Morgan (Razorfish Ventures), Eli Portnoy (Porterfield & Co.), Tom Ryan (Ryan Ventures), Jeff Fluhr (Index Ventures. and others.[11] Again in September 2011 Mention raised an additional $15 million in Series C funding led by General Catalyst Partners with participation from Sequoia Capital, Spark Capital, Ron Conway & SV Angel, Andy McLoughlin (Obvious Ventures), Charles River Ventures, First Round Capital, Yuri Milner (DST Global), Ashton Kutcher (A-Grade Investments), Steve Anderson (Founder Cplective), David Cohen (TechStars), Aaron Patzer (Cpor Genomics. and others.[12] In August 2012 Mention announced another $7 million in series C funding led by existing investor Union Square Ventures along with new investors including Easton Capital Group , Chris Dixon , Naval Ravikant , Jared Leto , Jim Robinson III , Chris Sacca , David Tisch , Jon Callaghan , Marc Benioff , Peter Fenton , Keith Rabois , David Kidder , Jawed Karim .[13] In November 2014 raise $25 million in series D funding led by General Catalyst Partners with participation from existing investors including Union Square Ventures , Spark Capital , Sequoia , SV Angel , Chris Dixon , Fred Wilson .[14] In December 2015 raise $30 million in series E funding led by General Catalyst Partners with participation from existing investors including Union Square Ventures , Spark Capital , Sequoia , SV Angel , Chris Dixon .[15]

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