Cramster.com

Cramster (now Chegg Study) provides online homework and textbook help for college and high school students in areas such as math, science, engineering, humanities, business, and writing help.[2] Cramster uses a freemium model, allowing students to pay for or earn access to premium services.[3] Founded in 2002 by Aaron Hawkey, Robert Angarita and Kavé Golabi, the company is headquartered in Pasadena, CA.[4]

Cramster
Type of site
Internet Study Community
Available inEnglish
Key peopleShai Reshef, Aaron Hawkey, Robert Angarita
URLwww.cramster.com
Alexa rank 502,700 (April 2014)[1]
CommercialYes
Current statusActive

History

Cramster launched publicly in 2003.[5] A few years later, Cramster introduced its Q&A Board feature, which allowed interaction between members to solve homework problems.[6][7]

Cramster secured $3 million in Series A funding in 2008 and $6 million in Series B funding in 2010 led by Shai Reshef, who was then appointed company Chairman.[8][9] Cramster had 100,000 active users in November 2008.[10] In 2010, Cramster was acquired by Chegg, a provider of textbooks for the college market.[11]

Cramster also owns and operates the Facebook application Courses 2.0, which has more than 400,000 users and was voted 4th best application by PC Magazine.[12][13]

In April 2012, Chegg, the parent company, consolidated its Cramster operations to Chegg.com

gollark: I think he just dislikes ~90% of CC programs.
gollark: When it gets back up, I'm going to download potatOS from it and start hosting it off osmarks.tk or something.
gollark: Pastebin is seemingly down or not really working now, so ~90% of CC programs are now inaccessible.
gollark: At least 3 strings, even.
gollark: `debug`, sometimes.

References
  1. "Cramster.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
  2. Toman, Will 2008-05-30. "Web site offers online help Archived 2009-02-15 at the Wayback Machine" The Lantern. Retrieved on 2009-01-20.
  3. "About Cramster", About Cramster. Cramster, Inc. Retrieved on 2009-01-20.
  4. "Interview with Cramster" SoCal Tech News (2008-10-08). Retrieved on 2009-01-20.
  5. "Website Helps Students Master Math and Science Archived 2010-05-01 at the Wayback Machine", Technology news. K-12 High Speed Network (2008-11-12). Retrieved on 2009-01-19.
  6. "Q&A Board Archived 2009-01-30 at the Wayback Machine", Q&A Board: Your 24/7 Study Community. Cramster, Inc. Retrieved on 2009-01-18.
  7. "", Lessons Learned: The founders of online study site Cramster added more college subjects to reach a wider user base.
  8. Nicole, Kristen (2008-09-25). "Online homework helper", Venture Beat. Retrieved on 2009-01-20.
  9. Reisinger, Don (2008-09-25). "Cramster Raises $3 Million" TechCrunch. Retrieved on 2009-01-19.
  10. Smith, Kevin (2008-11-13). "Cramster Inc. offers online study community Archived 2009-02-16 at the Wayback Machine" 'Economic Alert'. Retrieved on 2009-01-18.
  11. Swisher, Kara (2010-08-12). "Chegg Buys Cramster" All Things D Retrieved on 2011-09-22.
  12. Peterson, Brittany (2008-07-17). "The 9 Best Facebook Apps" PC Magazine. Retrieved on 2009-01-18.
  13. "Courses 2.0 Application Archived 2012-07-23 at Archive.today" App Data Retrieved on 2009-01-20.
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