Ranker named in Lead411′s “2013 Hottest Southern California Companies”
LOS ANGELES, Calif., – February 05, 2013 - In order to recognize the fastest growing technology companies in Los Angeles, San Diego and Santa Barbara, Lead411 is proud to announce the release of its “Hottest Companies in the Southern California” award. See Full List
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January 23, 2013 – Recently we caught up with Clark Benson, Founder and CEO of a great startup called Ranker. During our interview, Clark Benson introduces us to Ranker while sharing advice abut fundrasing, applying to an accelerator program and creating a business plan. Ranker is a graduate of the LaunchPad LA accelerator program, and our first interview with a startup to go through the LaunchPad LA accelerator. A must read for all non-technical founders. Read full interview
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Mob rule: Crowdsourced listmaker Ranker grows by 300% in 18th months
October 19, 2012 - Los Angeles-based interest graph company Ranker is based on the theory that the best answer to any question is one drawn from “the wisdom of the crowd.” Currently, the site receives more than 5.4 million unique visitors a month – up threefold from a year ago – who view and create ranked lists over an extremely wide variety of subjects. Read full article
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Ranker included on 2012 OnHollywood Companies to Watch List
Los Angeles, October 18, 2012 – Ranker today was announced by AlwaysOn as one of the OnHollywood 100 winners. Inclusion in the OnHollywood 100 signifies leadership amongst its peers and game-changing approaches and technologies that are likely to disrupt existing and entrenched Hollywood entertainment. Ranker was specially selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and industry experts spanning the globe based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz.
Ranker and the OnHollywood 100 companies will be honored at AlwaysOn’s sixth annual OnHollywood on October 29th and 30th, 2012, at the Museum of Flying in Santa Monica, CA. See Full List of Winners
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From $1.5B to half a trillion dollars: PayPal celebrates a 10th anniversary
Ten years ago today, eBay announced an acquisition that might rank as one of the most successful Silicon Valley purchases ever. In fact, it sits third on Ranker’s list of smartest tech acquisitions. I’m talking, of course, about PayPal, the “subsidiary” that now accounts for well over a third of eBay’s total revenue — and gaining. Read the Full Article
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7 Sites You Should Be Wasting Time On
If Colbert’s new teeshirt and your new case of untreatable gonorrhea aren’t enough to keep you busy this afternoon, take a peek at these seven sites. We’ve hand picked them with the express purpose of distracting you and making you laugh. You’re welcome. As always, be sure to vote for your favorites and let us know if you come across any awesome time wasters you think we should feature. Read Full Article
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5 Sites That Could Have Made All The Difference In Protesting SOPA
It’s the day after “the big internet blackout,” as my NBC news station referred to the SOPA and PIPA antipiracy bills as this morning, and all systems appear to be back on schedule. Wikipedia is no longer blacked out, Reddit is up and running once more, and Google‘s infamous Doodle is no longer blocked by a big black box. All is well online, even to a point where sites like Ranker are already ranking the funniest online reactions of the horrors that come with being Wiki-less for 24 hours. Read Full Article.
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Should the Quality of Customer Service Factor Into Your Investing Strategy?
Having worked in the service industry for more than a decade, I’ve come to appreciate those who work on the other side of the counter. I personally know the rigors of dealing with a cornucopia of attitudes that can range from deplorable to overwhelmingly pleasant. Read Full Article.
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Ranker Names COO, Taps Jones For Board
Los Angeles-based Ranker, the online service which allows anyone to list and rank things on any topic, said today that it has named Mani Dhillon as Chief Operating Officer, and tapped former MySpace CEO Michael Jones for its board. read full article
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Interview Clark Benson: Founder & CEO of Ranker.com
Ranker is a social site/platform for ranking anything, powered by semantic technology that aggregates opinions into ‘wisdom of crowds’ rankings.” Clark Benson is the Founder and CEO of Ranker.com. Prior to Ranker, Clark founded four other successful companies, including eCrush, which he sold to the Hearst Corporation in 2007. read full article
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Creating Semantic Lists at Ranker
A recent interview with Ranker CEO and Founder Clark Benson takes a look at what how the semantic start-up is making the most of crowdsourcing. Benson stated, “My whole life, I’ve been making lists of things… I also like the power of semantic data on the web, and the idea of linked data, so that you can really extract a lot of meaningful data and value from facts or opinions in a linked way. read full article
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Interview with Clark Benson, Ranker
One of the biggest forces that has emerged in the Internet in recent years has been crowdsourcing, the way the web has empowered users to drive the creation of content and information online. For today’s interview, we spoke with Clark Benson, CEO and Founder of Ranker (www.ranker.com), on how the firm is looking to harness that same force to power its own startup, which offers up a way for users to create their own ranked lists of pretty much anything. read full article
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Ranker raises $1.3 million for endless lists
Ranker, a site for listing and ranking anything and everything, announced Monday that it has raised a $1.3 million Series A round of funding led by Tim Draper at Draper Associates. Draper is joined by Rincon Venture Partners, Newport Coast Investments, Factual founder Gil Elbaz, Pasadena Angels and previous investor Siemer Venture Capital. read full article
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Here are 10 Tips from BuzzFeed to Make Your Content Go Viral
I recently had the pleasure of spending an hour with Jon Steinberg, president of Buzzfeed, a company who focuses on helping media companies make their content go viral. read full article
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Ranker Lands $1.3 Million From Tim Draper And Others, Tries To Rank *Everything*
Exclusive – Ranker has secured a $1.3 million Series A round of funding led by Tim Draper at Draper Associates. Other investors who are backing the list making service include Rincon Venture Partners, Newport Coast Investments, Factual founder Gil Elbaz, Pasadena Angels and previous investor Siemer Venture Capital. read full article
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Deals & More: Ranker gets $1.4M to let users rank any topic
Ranker raises $1.4M for user-generated rankings: The list aggregation company has raised a first round of funding led by Tim Draper at Draper Associates/DFJ with participation from Rincon Venture Partners, Newport Coast Investments and others. Based in Los Angeles, the startup allows site visitors to vote on topics, which Ranker then combines into rankings. read full article
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Deals & More: Ranker gets $1.4M to let users rank any topic
Ranker raises $1.4M for user-generated rankings: The list aggregation company has raised a first round of funding led by Tim Draper at Draper Associates/DFJ with participation from Rincon Venture Partners, Newport Coast Investments and others. read full article
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Ranker Raises $1.3M
Los Angeles-based Ranker, the startup headed by Clark Benson which allows users to rank anything they want in a list, has raised $1.3M in a Series A funding. read full article
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Ranker Lands $1.3 Million From Tim Draper And Others, Tries To Rank *Everything*
Exclusive – Ranker has secured a $1.3 million Series A round of funding led by Tim Draper at Draper Associates. Other investors who are backing the list making service include Rincon Venture Partners, Newport Coast Investments, Factual founder Gil Elbaz, Pasadena Angels and previous investor Siemer… read full article
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Ranker Lands $1.3 Million From Tim Draper And Others, Tries To Rank *Everything*
Exclusive – Ranker has secured a $1.3 million Series A round of funding led by Tim Draper at Draper Associates. Other investors who are backing the list making service include Rincon Venture Partners, Newport Coast Investments, Factual founder Gil Elbaz, Pasadena Angels… read full article
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4 things publishers can learn from Ranker
For a simple operating system for lists — or even a well-executed instance of “connected list making” — Ranker is a lot of fun. Ranker, the two-year old, 13-person start-up that just secured $1.3 million in funding, harnesses the power of crowds to answer the eternally asked question “what is the best –?” You know: the sort of things that friends ask each other at brunch or at three in the morning. read full article
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Clark Benson: Founder of Ranker & Serial Entrepreneur
Clark Benson is the founder of Ranker, a consumer web startup that is a platform for ranking . . . anything. Ranker is Benson’s 5th startup; all prior startups were successes – real businesses, real profitability. read full article
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Ranker Leaves Beta, Launches ‘Wisdom of Crowds’ Lists
List making platform Ranker
has officially left beta after 10 months, with today’s launch of the Community Lists feature. A service for “ranking anything in the universe,” Ranker has a database of over 6 million items for list inclusion, with over 10,000 lists being created during Ranker’s beta. read full article
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The Viral Growth of eCrush, and Launch of Ranker – With Clark Benson
Today, Clark is building Ranker, a platform for ranking anything in the universe. We spent some time in the interview talking about how he’s growing it. read full article
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Ranker Gets $750K
Los Angeles-based Ranker, an online web site which allows users to create their own lists, and share them with friends, said Thursday evening that the firm has raised $750,000 in a seed investment round, part of a planned $1M funding effort. According to the firm, the round was led by Siemer Venture Capital, along with un-named angel investors. Ranker said that those angels include investors in founder Clark Benson’s former startup, eCrush, which was sold to Hearst Corporation in 2006. The new funding brings the company’s total raised to $1.75M. read full article
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Ranker Nets $750K In Seed Money
Up-and-coming list aggregator Ranker.com is announcing another $750,000 in seed financing, part of a planned $1 million second round. The first $1 million came from company founder Clark Benson, who sold eCrush to Hearst Media in 2006. The second round is led by Siemer Venture Capital and includes a group of angels affiliated with eCrush. read full article
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Ranker: List-o-mania!
There’s something about a list that the average Web surfer just can’t resist. Those numbered nuggets of snarky opinion draw us in every time. Ranker, in fact, has built a whole site around lists. You can browse lists created by other users (“Top 10 Muppet Mashups,” “Literary Classics You Should Pretend You’ve Read,” and “Most Selfish Professional Athletes” are just a few choices), or you can use Ranker’s free tools to create your own list. read full article
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Ranker – Top Lists Of Anything You Can Imagine
Ranker– Top 10 lists of virtually any possible category humanly imaginable, Ranker offers community-based lists of everything (that’s why they call it ‘rank the universe’) from facts, film, travel, universities and beers to auto models, entertainment, artwork and many, many others. read full article
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Ranker gives users a forum to share their favorite things. The site allows users to list various items that cover a wide range of categories. These items are then given a rank by the user and can be voted on by others in the Ranker community. Users can show their love of an item by voting for it on Ranker. The categories listed include sports, television, music, film, people, cars, tech, books, comics, arts, travel, places, food, drink, and world. read full article
