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OBOOK

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OBOOK is a software company based in Taipei, Taiwan in 2010.

Currently they have 2 products, OBOOK and OwlTing.

OBOOK App offered over 1 million Chinese book titles, users can easily search,preview and finish purchase on mobile phone.

OwlTing is designed to recommend and review places with your circle of trust, aiming to build the largest “recommendation engine for places” in the world.

OBOOK was selected as Apple’s newly released App in the book cateogry and ranked in top 10 in the book category.

The company was co-founded by Darren Wang, John Hsieh and Tom Cheng. All of them are alumni from National Taiwan University.

Darren used to work in Google and Cyworld at silicon valley, he’s trying to bring the momentum and entrepreneurship back to Taiwan.

Recent Milestones

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  OBOOK received $55k in Angel funding. (11/1/12)
  Posted 12/14/12 at 6:49am
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  OBOOK received $120k in Angel funding. (9/1/11)
  Posted 6/22/12 at 1:49am
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  OBOOK added Tom Cheng as CIO. (9/1/11)
  Posted 6/22/12 at 1:49am
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  OBOOK added Darren Wang as Founder, CEO . (9/1/10)
  Posted 6/22/12 at 1:49am
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  OBOOK added John Hsieh as CTO . (9/1/10)
  Posted 6/22/12 at 1:49am
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  OBOOK received $100k in Seed funding. (9/1/10)
  Posted 6/22/12 at 1:49am

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1. Personal Funding [edit]
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3. Angel [edit]