Is it worth it?

My dad and I threw that question around a lot. That was because we knew people liked the idea for our startup, but we did not know enough about how people used it.

If you do not have that answer it is hard to put such a big effort into such a small startup.

SurveyMonkey   [...]

Words speak louder than numbers.

Imagine this: You go furniture shopping with your friend Angela. “So,” Angela says,  “what do you think of this lamp?” You shrug and reply, “2.”

Okay, let’s be honest, the above scenario is unlikely. First of all, you know better than to go shopping with Angela—she has terrible taste and is incredibly indecisive. Secondly, very   [...]

$102,061! 

We’re still in shock. That’s how much money you, dear SurveyMonkey Contribute members, raised for our amazing charity partners in 2011. When we launched SurveyMonkey Contribute in April, we had high hopes that people would sign up to share their feedback in exchange for donations to the charity of their choice. And boy, did you ever!

Over the past   [...]

As an engineer here at SurveyMonkey, I have a cool job.  I get to build features such as the suggested questions autocomplete, and I thought I’d share how we built this new feature directly into our Question Builder to make it even easier to use Question Bank.

One of the main goals of autocomplete is suggesting highly relevant questions to our customers   [...]

In July of 2011 we released Question Bank, and since then, thousands of surveys each week include our certified questions.  Since we launched, one thing we’ve wanted to do is make it easier for our customers to discover certified questions as they’re writing their survey.  To help with that, we recently launched suggested questions right in the question editor.  [...]

What do you get when you mix an obscure subculture, a curious pseudo-sleuth, and our awesome survey tool? More information than you ever knew existed about My Little Pony, and the Bronies that love them, for one.

We were wandering around the web when a recent Wired article caught our attention.  A certain “Coder Brony” recently used SurveyMonkey   [...]

We all know that January brings a certain “R” word with it. Nope, not resolutions (though we’ve made a few of our own: ask more questions, have more fun, eat more bananas). No, we’re talking about that other “R” word: reviews.

Before you moan and groan about conducting performance reviews, gathering employee self-evaluations, or even getting customer feedback, check   [...]

HAPPY 2012 everyone!  Welcome to the first blog post for 2012.  If you are anything like me, you spent your holidays wondering which country asks the most survey questions (yes, I did spend time thinking about this)!  If you had to venture a guess, which country would you choose?

Any guesses?

Okay, I’ll give you a few hints. The capitol   [...]

What a difference a year makes!

This was certainly an exciting time for all of us at SurveyMonkey.  We welcomed new colleagues from Wufoo, Zoomerang, Zoompanel and TrueSample.  And, we built some pretty cool new products including our Facebook App, Question Bank and SurveyMonkey Audience.

We should also mention that SurveyMonkey Contribute has raised more than   [...]

Before we say goodbye to 2011, we wanted to take a moment to celebrate our summer interns.  They were an amazing bunch!  And, before they went back to school, they wrote this post that we wanted to share with you.  Sit back and reminisce about those warm summer days as you read on!

Being an Intern at the Monkey

Summer   [...]