Comments on: UrbanSitter raises $6 million Series A to expand digital babysitter bookings http://gigaom.com/2012/10/15/urbansitter-raises-6-million-series-a-to-expand-digital-babysitter-bookings/ Thu, 23 May 2013 21:50:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: sb http://gigaom.com/2012/10/15/urbansitter-raises-6-million-series-a-to-expand-digital-babysitter-bookings/#comment-1083607 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:47:21 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=571840#comment-1083607 seems like the history of babysitting has been driven by word of mouth recommendations. You ask your friends and neighbors who they use and then you use them too. I’ve used this service a number of times and its great to find sitters that my friends know and trust. The ability to book and pay online is just an added convenience benefit

]]> By: 24tnt42 http://gigaom.com/2012/10/15/urbansitter-raises-6-million-series-a-to-expand-digital-babysitter-bookings/#comment-1081550 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 20:19:52 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=571840#comment-1081550 Peter, Peter, Peter. If UrbanSitter is anything like DogVacay, the petsitting network I’m active in, the moms and dads will use the online service to identify, check the rates of, and contact providers in their area. Then they’ll vet the providers carefully.

That’s what pet owners do when considering me for pet care. Owners may also go online to read the many reviews from previous clients.

Anyone with a lick of sense knows that services like UrbanSitter and PetVacay are designed to augment, not take the place of, careful hiring practices.

]]> By: Peter http://gigaom.com/2012/10/15/urbansitter-raises-6-million-series-a-to-expand-digital-babysitter-bookings/#comment-1080987 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 17:28:19 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=571840#comment-1080987 So, let’s see what we are supposed to trust complete strangers with when it were up to the college pipe dreams of some 20-something hacks and their herd-thinking million-throwing VCs:
* Our homes (AirBnB),
* Our laundry shirts and groceries (TaskRabbit),
* Our idle cars (RelayRides, just ask your insurer what he thinks)
* And now our BABIES!

There is hardly a more illusional, removed, incestuous bunch of losers together than in this Silicon Valley bubble (except maybe for the right-wingers).

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