Comments on: Exclusive – Zookoda Goes Up For Auction

By: Innovation feeder

Innovation feeder — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 05:00:34 +0000

[...] an Australian email marketing and services company, is next up. Full story here at Technorati :: 1 Comment so far Leave a [...]

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 23:08:01 +0000

Great to see the domain market heating up once again. Lot of high priced sales popping up dnjournal these days.

By: E-mail marketing solution for your blogs

E-mail marketing solution for your blogs — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 08:14:08 +0000

[...] Within those two weeks I have discovered that Zookoda was on sale – so there is a high probability that they will go out of business completely – one will need to search for another e-mail marketing solution. Added to that there is some risk to lose your database of subscribers stored with Zookoda. [...]

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 05:42:37 +0000

How about a followup post on this? What the heck is going on? The service is still not sold, it’s full of bugs that never get fixed or acknowledged, nobody responds to support requests. What do users have to look forward to? Months of limbo, with a sale down the line, after which more months of limbo as the new owner figures out the code and begins to catch up with maintainance?

By: For just $3,050, you too could be Web 2.0 at charisma:18

For just $3,050, you too could be Web 2.0 at charisma:18 — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 15:57:17 +0000

[...] ParkMyImage.com just sold on ebay for $3,050. The site operated as an image hosting service with revenue sharing lures and billed itself as being Web 2.0. TechCrunch posted about the sell-your-web-2.0-thing-on-ebay phenomenon a while back. Business consultants take note, it seems the Web 2.0 space could use your help. Technorati Tags: Tags: No Tags | [...]

By: Techcrunch » Blog Archive » DropSend For Sale: Flock Is Looking

Techcrunch » Blog Archive » DropSend For Sale: Flock Is Looking — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 06:12:09 +0000

[...] We will continue to track small startup sales (many on eBay, others direct). As the cost of creating web apps continues to decrease, small direct-sale liquidity events are turning into reasonably profitable exits for entrepreneurs who have invested little capital and time in a new business idea. [...]

By: Plasma Diary - An aggregation of latest updates in Gizmo World! » DropSend For Sale: Flock Is Looking

Sun, 05 Nov 2006 19:57:28 +0000

[...] We will continue to track small startup sales (many on eBay, others direct). As the cost of creating web apps continues to decrease, small direct-sale liquidity events are turning into reasonalby profitable exits for entrepreneurs who have invested little capital and time in a new business idea. [...]

By: LiveLocker Calls It Quits, Enters DeadPool » JenIT

LiveLocker Calls It Quits, Enters DeadPool » JenIT — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:45:36 +0000

[...] We’re adding LiveLocker to the list of TechCrunch DeadPool companies as well as the next service to try to sell itself on eBay (see previous list of companies selling on eBay here). [...]

By: Mapping The Web » M & A Trend: eBay

Mapping The Web » M & A Trend: eBay — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 21:26:50 +0000

[...] So why am I bringing this up a month after the sale – because another company, LiveLocker, has called it quits and listed itself on eBay. The auction is currently live and bidding will end in 10 days. Currently, the minimum bid price is $5,000 but we haven’t seen a bid yet. It will be interested to watch this story unfold and see what the company sells for – if it does at all. TechCrunch has also posted a list of other companies who have listed themselves on eBay here. [...]

By: GigaOM » VentureBoard Gives Startups Another Option

GigaOM » VentureBoard Gives Startups Another Option — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:35:17 +0000

[...] “Once you get over YouTube you’re going to realize there’s not much else there,” says Matt. What about all the other tech startups, in all stages of formalization, hoping for an exit? His concept is a classifieds site that eliminates some of the dirty-laundry-airing nature of selling a company on eBay, as Kiko and a few others have done or tried to do. There are already three companies offering themselves up on VentureBoard: Open Communications, Zookoda, and Nuvvo. [...]

By: EveryDigg » Blog Archive » Ebay is the Investment Bank of Web 2.0

EveryDigg » Blog Archive » Ebay is the Investment Bank of Web 2.0 — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 12:15:49 +0000

[...] eBay is proving to the be liquidity path of last resort for many struggling web startups, or those that simply want to sell out for a few hundred thousand dollars. We’ve tracked at least six web 2.0 companies who’ve attempted to sell themselves on eBay over the last year, and four of the six have been put up for sale in the last month.read more | digg story [...]

By: Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Perhaps Fighting Open Source Competition is…Foolish?

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 07:40:50 +0000

[...] For a summary of recent small sales, many on ebay, see this post. DEADPOOL, Nuvvo [...]

By: ebay forums

ebay forums — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 04:57:34 +0000

most of those bids are fake i bet

By: Randy Charles Morin

Randy Charles Morin — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:44:44 +0000

Brian, another alternate service is Rmail [http://www.r-mail.org/], which I run.

By: Phil

Phil — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 23:37:18 +0000

Hi Brian:

Please write to support – we’ll get you going!

Phil

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 19:02:47 +0000

If you used Zookoda, like me, this isn’t a surprise. Zookoda has been broken for months. I don’t remember the last time I got an my email from Zookoda. Lot’s of others are seeing the same thing. http://www.redf...ret.net/?p=7338 I switched to FeedBlitz, but that does not work either. I know its free, so I can’t complain, but does anybody know of newsletter service that actually works? And no, Bloglet is broken too. And no, I’m not giving my feed to FeedBurner.

By: alan

alan — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 01:29:12 +0000

argh, i munged my 2nd paragraph. Undo! Undo!

By: alan

alan — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 01:27:55 +0000

A few readers may have been unduly harsh about why the founders have decided to sell their business. Stop for a moment to consider whether you’re really asking too much to sign up for free to a web startup and have that service continue unchanged and without growing pains. You want every email responded to in Should I acquire another business?Should I restructure my business?Should I sell my business?If you’re not asking yourself those three questions every time you run through your strategy, you’re not doing the right thing by your shareholders.

There are plenty of reasons to try and sell a successful business, including changes in personal circumstances, relationship issues between founders, and a lot of sound business practice – your startup may get a turbo boost by being added to a set of products onsold by the purchaser’s sales team, or plugged into a suite of products that already sells well, or taken to the next level by the purchaser’s experienced development teams.

Choosing to sell at auction isn’t always a sign of a fire sale, either. Auctions are the best way to efficiently value an asset, and auctions are used to reach a broader range of buyers than can be found through your own business network. It makes sense that a few guys working as hard as they can on the business might not have the broadest network of contacts to find potential buyers for a fairly niche business.

I use Zookoda for my own blog email feeds and I’ve experienced problems, but with patience and communication they’ve been resolved, and it’s never seemed to me that the guys at Zookoda were doing anything other than working very long hours trying to make the service better for me and other customers. I’d like to continue to use Zookoda once its in new hands, and I’d be prepared to pay a reasonable monthly subscription or include AdWords-style text ads in my feeds in order to do that.

I hope it pans out well for Zookoda and I’m grateful that I got to use such a cool service for so long, for free.

By: Startups.in/India

Startups.in/India — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 23:09:33 +0000

or probably Build2Sell – B2S

By: The Internet Entrepreneur » Selling your Web2.0 company on eBay: should I do it?

Fri, 22 Sep 2006 21:13:10 +0000

[...] Last night I read a post on Techcrunch about people who sell their companies on eBay. Now I’m considering to do the same with Preople. [...]

By: Na Kiko ook Zookoda in de etalage · BlueAce

Na Kiko ook Zookoda in de etalage · BlueAce — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 20:18:54 +0000

[...] Het aantal verkopen loopt deze maand op. Eerst verwisselden o.a. Kiko al van eigenaar (zie ook het rechterkader) en nu is Zookoda aan de beurt. Naar eigen zeggen gaat deze mailservice voor bloggers in de verkoop omdat men er een beter huis voor wil hebben. [...]

By: Guigo

Guigo — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:57:38 +0000

“Design/Develop to Sell – D2S model?” what a nice term you’ve coined

the thing is, there are many start ups who try to kick-start their project, get some decent hits and then sell it for a good money. it’s ok when you have a lot ideas and a lot work to do, so you have to decide which projects to sell, in order to concentrate your time and new-big-money on the ones you choose to keep

By: nolawi

nolawi — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:51:58 +0000

I love Zookoda, its an amazing service.. I hope it will always be free.. I have been using it, there are so many quirks and bugs, I hope will be fixed…

only the two people that work on it really understand it… so I think it would be better if the sale was postponded for a year or so…. I’m sure they would make more money that way..

By: Pete Freitag

Pete Freitag — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:36:01 +0000

Zookoda For Sale…

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By: hash

hash — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:42:56 +0000

Zookoda is an outstanding service. I hope they stay in business, doing the same things that they are today, with a new company that doesn’t change anything.