Textbook Rentals Big Business - Kleiner Perkins Goes After Chegg

techcrunch.com - 11/11/2008

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Five year old textbook rental startup Chegg is really starting to ramp up sales, we’ve heard. The average college student, they say, spends $900 per year on textbooks. Chegg saves them 70-80% of that by renting them the books instead of selling them outright. Here’s how it works: ...

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Did textbook site Chegg raise $15M from Kleiner Perkins? Not exactly
VentureBeat — We’re hearing that a funding rumor going around about used textbook site Chegg isn’t quite right. It sounds like Chegg has some new venture backing, but the details of TechCrunch’s story reporting that Chegg raised $15 million from Kleiner Perkins Caulfield and Byers is wrong, multiple sources tell us — including Chegg chief executive Osman Rashid. “The TechCrunch story is not accurate and that is all I can say at this point,” Rashid says. ...

Textbook site Chegg.com raises $25M from Kleiner Perkins
VentureBeat — ... If the news sounds a bit familiar, it’s because TechCrunch reported last month that Chegg had raised $15 million from Kleiner Perkins. At the time, ...