Uloop
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| Type | Private |
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| Founded | 2007 |
| Founder(s) | Corey Cleek, Scott Lewis, Ryan MacCarthy |
| Headquarters | Nashville, TN, San Mateo, CA, USA |
| No. of locations | 1500 |
| Area served | 1500 colleges and universities |
| Revenue | not published |
| Employees | 4 (2009) |
| Website | Uloop.com |
| Type of site | classifieds, forums |
| Registration | required |
| Available in | English |
| Launched | 2007 |
| Current status | active |
Uloop is a network of online marketplaces for college students, featuring classified advertisements (with textbooks, jobs, carpools, housing, for sale, travel, and events categories).[1]
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[edit] History
The Nashville, TN based company[2] first launched at University of California, Santa Barbara in January 2007.[3] As of November 2009, the resource is live on over 1500 colleges and universities across the United States, and employs 80 part-time college students,[1][3][4] who hold either a campus marketing position or a local sales position. In the fall of 2007, Gannett made an investment in Uloop.[5] Recently Uloop.com illegally fired students for unionizing.[6] After being subjected an unannounced pay cut from $10/hr to $8/hr, Cal Poly student marketing representatives Austin Garrido and Sarah Doolittle were fired by their employer, Mountain View-based Uloop.com, for attempting to organize a worker's union. The students were fired from their part-time jobs 20 minutes after posting a message in an online inter-company form announcing their intention to form a union. Doolittle and Garrido have filed charges with the National Labor Relations Board.[7]
The service is only available to students with a valid school email address.[1]
[edit] Traffic
Uloop currently reaches around 3.5 million college students, or 10% of the total college students in the United States. Their website generates around 50,000 views per month and they have over 500,000 active listings.[8]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c ULOOP.COM | Students get free storefront - Campus
- ^ Uloop adding colleges, investors, advertising platform - Nashville Business Journal:
- ^ a b Uloop offers textbook options via online sales - University
- ^ It's nice to meet Uloop - News
- ^ 10-K Watch: Gannett Takes Stake In Uloop; $70.6 Million On Acquisitions And Investments | paidContent.org
- ^ http://sfist.com/2008/04/23/silicon_valley.php
- ^ http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/04/16/18493098.php
- ^ The 1M/1M Deal Radar 2011: Uloop, Chicago, Illinois
