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Files under: News, Tech, Web 2.0
Posted by: Quintura @ 12:17 [27. 02. 08]
Lee Wilkins, the founder of MyKinda recently revealed on its blog that MyKinda is closing operations in Russia, Bulgaria and Ukraine. Lee will only keep blogging in Romania where MyKinda was started last summer. Apparently, Lee was trying to raise external funding after bootstrapping the business for several months but it likely was without much success.
Back in December 2007, I met with Svetlana Gladkova, the Russian editor of MyKinda. It was at Le Web 3 conference in Paris. She is a very kind person and industrious blogger.
 Svetlana is marketing manager at Profy, a social blogging platform that recently launched into private alpha testing. Profy is being developed in Novosibirsk, Russia. It is one of few web startups from Russia that strive to bring people new web experience and compete globally. I wish Svetlana and Profy every success in their business.
Tags: mykinda, profy, svetlana gladkova
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1 Svetlana Gladkova Quintura @ 12:17 [27. 02. 08]
Yakov, thank you for the mention and for your kind words about me personally, they are very much appreciated – same as the encouraging paragraph about Profy.
As for MyKinda in Russia and other countries, I guess it is exactly what was supposed to happen without funding: getting a crowd of people to work without any funding for it is simply not reasonable. But it is really sad that a project that was supposed to highlight news from around the Eastern Europe and help us all communicate with each other and the Western people as well has not worked through.