Beijing time on March 9, according to foreign media reports, the United States vertical Stack Overflow questions and answers website (hereinafter referred to as “ Stack”), today announced that has recently completed the second round of financing, financing of us $ 12 million.
United States quiz site Stack Overflow (Tencent technology plan)
Stack was founded in July 2008 Headquartered in New York, mainly for the computer program developer population with question and answer service. It is learnt that the Stack this round of financing major investors Index Ventures, spark capital (Spark Capital) and Union Square Ventures (Union Square Ventures), venture capital companies, including Union Square Ventures was Stack's initial investors.
after the completion of the new round of financing, Stack financing amounted to us $ 18 million. Index partner Neil · Riemer (Neil Rimer), partner at spark capital than Jean · Mounir sabet (Bijan Sabet) and others will join the Overflow the Board of Directors. In addition, to better reflect the nature of the site services, Stack also decided to include the company name changed to “ Stack Exchange”。
Stack said, with new funding, the company will expand the scale of services and expanding scope of services, such as question and answer, questions and answers about food and new business fields into photography. From last year, the United States venture capitalists optimistic about the questions and answers, such as Quora site market growth potential. Stack said, since last August, the site traffic has increased by more than 60% in February of this year nearly 20 million unique users visit it. Total operating 45 questions and answers site owned by Stack, of which two-thirds service object for the computer program developer.
profit mode
current Stack staff of 30, the company relies primarily on two main sources of income: first network advertising, and second, to those in the Stack website recruitment information of corporate users. Currently on the Stack website about column has more than 500 more jobs, if the business user wants to publish the Web site recruitment information, required to pay 5,000 dollars a year cost. Founder and CEO of
Stack Joel · siboersiji (Joel Spolsky) said, the company announced last month a “ Careers 2.0” service external developers this may create a personal profile, to clarify their computer skills and experience in program development, so as to make it easier for recruiters to find qualified programmers.
siboersiji said: “ in most cases, startups need to recruit one or two developers. What is different with traditional resume is, Stack Web site provides information, ability to better reflect the actual work of programmers. ”
