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VentureBeat: Textbook site Chegg.com raises $25M from Kleiner Perkins

  • clay · 11 months ago
    i'm a returning 30's student and I use half.com to pretty much break even on textbook purchases. it's a far better situation than when I originally attended college in the early 90's, especially for those costly math/sci/eng books although I'm sure the other disciplines are just as costly.
  • Michael Kassing · 11 months ago
    Now lets see them make a dent in Law School text books. I will be paying those things off for the rest of my life!

    Michael Kassing
    MarkTend.com
  • College Mogul · 11 months ago
    They already have a contender called Skoobit that has been around for a little time now. (Started by college students) We just covered them on http://www.collegemogul.com too. Unfortunately, they don't have any funding yet.

    http://collegemogul.com/11/16/08/Skoobit-The-Ne...

    I wouldn't necessarily consider this a web investment though. Yes, they have a web interface, but pretty much every business does now a days.

    VC investments shouldn't necessarily stop in a down economy. Risk hasn't increased, its just changed. VC firms who have cash now to invest, should. Startups will be struggling to find add on investments and those firms that can provide that cash will probably be able to command high equity stakes for less money.

    Just look at Accel Partners, they are ready to make a killing being able to "buy low, sell high later" with their recent $1 billion dollars that they just pulled in for two funds.

    http://collegemogul.com/12/15/08/Looking-for-Fu...

    I should just go join Skoobit and help them get funded.

    However, all of these guys will have trouble once Amazon is able to get textbooks on wide screen kindles.
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  • greentextbooks.org · 1 month ago
    Chegg.com is good and has some ok prices. I would also suggest using GreenTextbooks.org
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