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Atlanta, GA | Posted: December 9, 2008
Summary Sentence:
CM's Stamatiou Gains Funding for Blog
Full Summary:
Paul Stamatiou built Skribit (skribit.com) while a student in the Computational Media joint major program of the School Literature, Communications, and Culture and the College of Computing. Stamatiou created the service a little over a year ago as a tool to help cure blogger's block (writer's block for bloggers) and today, it is used by more than 4,000 blogs and receives 4 million hits a month. Stamatiou graduates this semester and has been seeking funding to allow him (and co-founder Calvin Yu) to develop skribit.com in to a profitable business. The funding has been provided by the Georgia Tech Edison Fund so Stamatiou will remain on campus.
Paul StamatiouPaul Stamatiou built Skribit (skribit.com) while a student in the Computational Media joint major program of the School Literature, Communications, and Culture and the College of Computing. Stamatiou created the service a little over a year ago as a tool to help cure blogger's block (writer's block for bloggers) and today, it is used by more than 4,000 blogs and receives 4 million hits a month. Stamatiou graduates this semester and has been seeking funding to allow him (and co-founder Calvin Yu) to develop skribit.com in to a profitable business. The funding has been provided by the Georgia Tech Edison Fund so Stamatiou will remain on campus.
Stephen Fleming, Chief Commercialization Officer for the GT Edison Fund, said that one of the Fund's most important missions is to retain early-stage technology companies that have a close association with the Institute and who would otherwise have to leave Atlanta to secure seed capital. "At one time, I know that Paul was looking to move out to California to try to get funding for Skribit," said Fleming. "I'm glad that we were able to provide him with the initial funding to keep young talent like him here in Atlanta."
Stamatiou created Skribit (rhymes with ribbet) to help him work on his blog, www.PaulStamatiou.com. Skribit is successful, he says, is because it provides a place for bloggers to get new ideas, rather than simply writing about what people are already talking about.
