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Uloop - A “student focused” marketplace for University of Indiana students

Garrett Stack did a story on Uloop in the Indiana Daily Student. A couple of Uloop employees had a few nice quotes in the story.

“The primary motivation for Uloop is for students to connect with each other on campus,” said Corey Cleek, Uloop co-founder and CEO. “We did some focus groups and there’s a lot of different areas in which students designated their campus resources were inefficient, so the categories on the Web site are designed to make up for those inefficiencies.”

And

“Uloop is a practical-needs network,” [Jessica] Smith said. “It really is a one-stop shop for college students.”

Thousands of Indiana University students are using Uloop to buy and sell textbooks, find jobs, housing and more!

Posted by scott in in the news, Indiana

Uloop mentioned in The Daily Aztec

Staff columnist Tanya Dracolakis wrote a great column today on finding a place to live this summer and into next school year. Her column is peppered with whit and humor and worth reading. In her humor she mentioned Uloop.com as a place for finding housing around San Diego State University.

Let’s also not forget the budding Web site, www.uloop.com, where you can share everything from apartments for rent to carpool opportunities. Uloop, however, doesn’t grant any payment when you plug them into your column.

Thanks for the plug as a “budding website [to find housing around your campus]” Tanya. While we can’t pay for the plug, we can help you find housing!

1 of out every 5 students using Uloop at San Diego State has used Uloop to find a house or roommate since Uloop launched at SDSU.

Posted by scott in in the news, SDSU, Housing, Roommates

Uloop in the Ohio State Lantern

The Lantern, Ohio State’s student newspaper, did a nice video piece this week on Uloop. The video featured one of our great campus reps at Ohio State Melissa R.

Currently 1 out of every 5 undergrads at OSU use Uloop to buy and sell textbooks, find housing, jobs, carpools and more.

Posted by scott in for sale, campus life, in the news, campus reps, textboooks, ohio state

A Uloop Public Service Announcement

Uloop Campus Rep, Patrick Rucker, an EE major at Georgia Tech, put together a nice PSA for us. Well done Patrick!

Check it out and let us know what you think.

Posted by Ryan in Uloop

Uloop Swag is Here!!!

We’ve had so many requests for Uloop t-shirts that we’ve decided to make your dreams a reality. We are busy working on so many cool things at Uloop.com that we decided to sell them straight from eBay!’

So get your Uloop swag on and send us pics of your Uloop love.

Uloop Tees

Posted by Dave in Uloop

Uloop in the Nashville Business Journal

Uloop was featured in a story in the Nashville Business Journal by Cynthia Yeldell this month.  The article is a good write up on what we’re doing as a company and where we’re headed.

…they believe Uloop will continue to grow and establish a presence on more campuses.

Cleek, who spent five years working for eBay, says he and the other founders - Ryan MacCarthy, Scott Lewis and Mike Ho - saw a void in the marketplace.

Nashville Business Journal - Uloop adding colleges, investors, advertising platform

Posted by scott in in the news

Uloop - helping to save the world one electronic device at a time…

City on a Hill Press gave Uloop a nice blurb in a recent article.  CHP gave some simple suggestions on how to make Earth Day everyday.  It’s a good article, check it out.  Uloop got a mention in number 9.

9. In fact, don’t throw away any electronics. Each college at UCSC has a program to recycle old cell phones and other electronics. Take advantage of ULoop and get some cash out of it.

City on a Hill Press - 15 Ways to Make Earth Day your Everyday 

Posted by scott in Uloop News, UCSC

Lost and Found

As technology progresses it seems like some of our things are getting smaller and smaller. Take for instance the iPod. When the iPod first came out it was like a foot long by 3/4 foot. Now they’re 100 x’s smaller, no wonder students lose these things in droves. Through our research we’ve found that students are losing the smallest things and seeking help from other students on Uloop. The most common items are flash drives, iPods, keys, wallets, phones, meal cards, a French passport, dogs (chihuahuas and cockapoos) and glasses.

Thus we decided to come up with a few ways to help students not lose stuff.

Solutions:

-Buy a retro phone that is 8×4x2 inches
-Camera, don’t you have one of those on your phone?
-Chain your wallet to your person
-Keys (see above)
-Carry a Walkman rather than iPod Nano
-Flash drive, ever heard of paper and pen?
-Laptop, are you kidding me, our folks would kill us if we lost a laptop
-GET A BIGGER DOG!!!

Luckily Uloop is restoring students’ faith in humanity with a lot of found items. What impressed us the most was that the number of lost iPods was almost equal to the number of found iPods on Uloop. The concerning part was there were more found dogs than lost, hmmmm.

Great job students!!! You are the future and we’re proud!

Posted by Dave in Uloop

Uloop Inspires!

We always love to hear about how Uloop helps students save money or find a new unsmelly roommate, but this was a first: a song and video singing the praises of our free resource? Justin is a student at UCSB and frequent Uloop user. We are so stoked and more overly impressed with Justin Ratowsky’s talents, what a great singer.

Thanks Justin!

Check out more from Justin on MySpace

Posted by Dave in Uloop, ucsb

Introducing “Conversations”

Let me introduce you to “Conversations”. We listened to your feedback and built a service to help you:

• share and collaborate on class problem sets
• discuss politics or campus news
• ask for advice
• and even share funny conversations you overheard on campus

You can even share videos and photos from around the web, just by pasting the link. (Check it out, there are already tons of hilarious videos)

Posted by Ryan in Uloop

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