Paris, France – June 3, 2010 – meebee.com, the site which makes meeting up with friends Fun, Fast and Friendly was awarded the Red Herring Top 100 Award for being a leading private company from Europe and excelling in the tech startup realm. Red Herring’s Top 100 Europe list has become a mark of distinction for identifying promising new companies and entrepreneurs. Past Red Herring winners include Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, Skype, Salesforce.com, YouTube and Ebay.
“Choosing the companies with the strongest potential was by no means a small feat,” said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring. “After rigorous contemplation and discussion, we narrowed our list down from hundreds of candidates from across Europe to the Top 100. We believe meebee.com embodies the vision, drive and innovation that define a successful entrepreneurial venture. meebee.com should be proud of its accomplishment, as the competition was very strong.”
Red Herring’s editorial staff evaluated the companies on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, management quality, strategy, and market penetration. This assessment of potential is complemented by a review of the track record and standing of startups relative to their sector peers, allowing Red Herring to see past the “buzz” and make the list a valuable instrument of discovery and advocacy for the most promising new business models in Europe.
JD, CEO (Creative Entrepneurial Officer) of meebee.com commented “We are really proud to win this Award from Red Herring. Coupled with our recent TV media coverage, we are rapt to be acknowedged by Red Herring as a startup with a bright future, and this is just the tip of the iceberg! We are only in Beta, and have some pretty exciting plans that we look forward to rolling out to our users throughout 2010″.
meebee.com is a startup that launched at one of the Tech industry’s most prestigious events, ‘TechCrunch 50′ and was voted as one of the event’s Top Startups in 2009. meebee is a web 2.0 startup that makes the arranging of meetups between friends, work colleagues and even dating, fun, fast and friendly. It is a robust online service that solves the problem of endless phone calls and emails to find agreeable times to meetup. meebee is your very own virtual assistant that uses all the devices and applications you already use, and brings it all into one easy to use interface. Its Fun, Fast & Friendly.
By being a Red Herring Europe Winner, meebee becomes eligible to be entered into the Red Herring Global Competition where the best of the best from Europe, Asia and North America will fight it out for the Red Herring Global Award.
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