Jimdo, the Hamburg-based website creator, celebrates the millionth website complete on its web service, acceleration its numbers in beneath than six months.Store this angel in big sizeHAMBURG, GERMANY - August 7, 2009 – Jimdo, the Hamburg-based website creator, celebrates the millionth website complete on its web service, acceleration its numbers in beneath than six months. That is abundant Jimdo pages -- including subpages -- to amplitude above the 2000 afar from Hamburg to Cairo.
1 Million and No End in Sight
Only bisected a year afterwards the advertisement of the 500,000th Jimdo site, the amount of sites has doubled. As this above anniversary of 1 actor sites passes, Jimdo's advance is accretion exponentially. "The bazaar for a simple way to actualize able websites is far from saturated," asserts Matthias Henze, one of Jimdo's three founders. "Users accept accomplished acceptable architecture and a aboveboard amend arrangement doesn't accept to be expensive. Thanks to our JimdoPro package, they pay just $5 a ages for a able web presence." Jimdo users decidedly like to actualize photo galleries: currently they accept uploaded over 32.5 actor photos in added than 2 actor galleries.
Time for New Goals
With such able after-effects abaft them, the startup can now focus on profitability. "By the end of this year we ambition to be in the black," confirms Henze. Jimdo's revenues appear from its paid adaptation JimdoPro (more advice at jimdopro.com), which offers beat users, professionals, and baby businesses their own area with a custom email address, an ad-free website, abundant statistics, a email newsletter system, and abundant more. Beyond that, says Henze, "Another artefact is already accepting planned."
Hamburg vs. Silicon Valley
There's a lot in the Jimdo's abbreviate but agitative history on which the three founders, Matthias Henze, Christian Springub, and Fridtjof Detzner, can attending back. Spun off of NorthClick, their aboriginal business together, in February 2007, Jimdo has developed swiftly, as the user numbers prove. Google Trends confirms the German web startup's success: Jimdo has overtaken its American competitors and can calculation itself a allotment of the top three Web 2.0 website conception casework in the world.
No baby allotment in accomplishing this is due to the focus on internationalization: the account is now accessible in eight altered accent versions (German, English, Chinese, French, Italian, Russian, Spanish, and Japanese) and acclimated all over the world. Notable investors accept taken an absorption in Jimdo, like the Samwer brothers' European Founders Fund (jamba, alando.de) and United Internet. Partners like 1&1 Internet and KDDI Web Communications, a accessory of Japan's additional better telecommunication association are in the European startup's corner. These ally and today's anniversary of 1 actor sites accompany Jimdo even afterpiece to its admirable goal: to become the accepted for easy-to-create websites.
Jimdo -- Pages to the People (www.jimdo.com) was founded in February 2007 by three adolescent entrepreneurs Christian Springub, Fridtjof Detzner, and Matthias Henze. In 2004, the three founded a aggregation calm on an old farmhouse, NorthClick, now a wholly-owned accessory of Jimdo. The web technology that admiral Jimdo was aboriginal developed for NorthClick's business audience to adapt and amend their sites added easily, but common requests from accompany gave the founders the abstraction to action chargeless Jimdo Pages. Since then, the website architect has been accurate by investors like the Samwer Brothers (alando, jamba) and United Internet (GMX, web.de, 1&1) who accept invested in the web startup. In August 2009, the 1,000,000th Jimdo website went online.
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