SkillSlate or SkillSlate.com was a

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-based firm that matched individual service providers with customers via the

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. The firm raised $1.1 million in capital in October 2010 with investments from Canaan Partners and

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. SkillSlate helped small individual service providers, such as

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s, DJs, handymen,

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s and movers, market themselves on the web. According to a website description, SkillSlate helps the pages of service providers surface more prominently in search engine results. SkillSlate served the

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. Competitors included

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, Geotoko, FoundTown, Closely, Proposable,

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, Flowtown, Buzzuka, Spoke, GoBuzz, Traindom, Hooray,

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, and others, as well as

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in newspapers. According to '' Fortune Magazine'', the idea for the site was conceived by

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ist Barkek Ringwelski while working at Canaan Partners when he found he could not find a cleaning person; he raised $50,000 from family and friends in May 2009 and launched the firm. The company was acquired by TaskRabbit in early 2012.

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SkillSlate website
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