Comments on: Goodbye, Tello. Welcome to the DeadPool.

By: Impotence

Impotence — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:17:42 +0000

I have never heard of this product

By: oldtimerock

oldtimerock — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:52:18 +0000

many companies are goign down, thats a pity honestly oldtimerock from celsius to fahrenheit conversion

By: mabella

mabella — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:53:44 +0000

lets say goodbye to another one dotcom company. * mabella, experienced designer from natural pain killer

By: Dennis Gorelik

Dennis Gorelik — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:23:26 +0000

I agree, that story about the reasons of why this start up died would be really useful to know.

Spending $700K/month producing nothing is very impressive, and probably is the major reason for Tello.com failure

By: CVOS

CVOS — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:58:37 +0000

Wow – this company was founded by some business rockstars. McCaw started Cellular 1 the first real cellphone company, later bought by AT&T for over 10 billion.

Ive never heard of this product. Perhaps if the company was started by young, enthusiastic inventors with limitless energy, no fear and fanatical obsession with product quality Tello may have succeeded.

By: Shakir Razak

Shakir Razak — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:28:59 +0000

2 Questions:

What happens to all the technology created in the last almost 2 years?

How is this different from the earlier in the food-chain examples of Spinvox, GrandCentral or more similarly to the develpment path re: recent aquisitions of Microsoft’s telme and Cisco’s Webex & social networking platforms?

Ubiquity and Unified communications are the future.

Yours kindly,

Shakir Razak

By: Neil

Neil — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:13:56 +0000

to no.13

they have an IM aggregator.

at least I think they do, I just read their web site and have very little clue as to what they do……

By: Steven

Steven — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 06:25:32 +0000

The word “bespoke” does not mean what you think it does.http://www.audiocdburner.net

By: Alejandro

Alejandro — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 05:40:09 +0000

These guys raised $15.5M and lasted all of 22 months. That’s a burn rate of $700K per month. What a disaster!
What the hell where they building, a rocket ship?
WOW!!!!!

By: MistOne

MistOne — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 03:49:38 +0000

ouch, it must be so painful to pull up TC and see this kind of post about your company, I would not wish it on anyone, but I guess the exec team and investors are well away of there company crumbling by the time it hits TC.

we all know the start up game is a risky one – but it is always amazing to see such a well funded company bite the dust.

Maybe a small eye opener for investors and entrepreneurs- a team rich in execs from brand name companies, flush with cash from top VC’s needs revenue + profits + growth like all the rest of us.

By: www.youtubesearcher.com

www.youtubesearcher.com — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 01:05:45 +0000

by the way peter, your domain does not even dns resolve

By: www.youtubesearcher.com

www.youtubesearcher.com — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 01:04:08 +0000

legit commenter…but like many…I put one of my urls in the website box…ok…no?

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 00:23:28 +0000

I like the idea of presence management, it just seems like too much work.

By: peter

peter — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 22:54:06 +0000

is utubsearchass a spammer? or a legit commenter? . . . too bad akismet cant figure it out

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 22:33:31 +0000

I like the idea several others have voiced–more coverage on the WHY startups fail. Simply hearing that they’ve failed is fine…but doesn’t really add any value to the blog.

By: How to start a clothing line from scratch

How to start a clothing line from scratch — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 20:44:02 +0000

may they rest in peace….:(

By: www.youtubesearcher.com

www.youtubesearcher.com — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 20:29:38 +0000

to #8, my wife recently discovered youtube when a friend sent her some video with kittens, the amount of junk on the screen has always annoyed me, just show me more videos and less junk is what I want, so thats what youtubesearcher tries to do.

on the flip side, are you suggesting another dictionary site, I actually like the new wiki like social dictionary, although I cannot remember the name.

By: Alejandro

Alejandro — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 20:17:14 +0000

Considering I never really understood what their offering was it is no surprise. Can anybody tell me what they offered in less than two sentences?

By: Berlin

Berlin — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 20:09:33 +0000

More companies going down. Expect social shopping search sites to go next.

By: Nathan Kaiser

Nathan Kaiser — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:18:27 +0000

Vic – you are right on the money. Although, I do think there will be a combination of vc / angel / bootstrapped firms that are able to move forward. Based upon the cost of starting a new company I believe there will be significantly more angel / bootstrapped companies. However, many, many more of them will fail as they won’t have the capital / mktg expertise to succeed. We are currently bootstrapping our own firm, and it is definitely interesting, and I can see how $$MM would come in handy!

By: AdvertiseSpace

AdvertiseSpace — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 18:05:43 +0000

re: #6

Yes, I agree. It’s great how spot on Michael is when it comes to predicting the future dead.

By: buster

buster — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 16:44:10 +0000

at least make the title something like au revoir, tello…i like to see a little variance in my tech blog headlines (http://gigaom.com/)

By: Mr. Drano

Mr. Drano — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 15:50:15 +0000

youtubesearcher.com may want to try becoming merriam-webstersearcher.com. More books, less video? Just a thought.

By: www.youtubesearcher.com

www.youtubesearcher.com — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 14:28:19 +0000

$10M in series B ! so probably $15M all told, hope they had some left in the coffers after that brilliant 14 month run. They sure saved a bunch on there website.

A lot of the text on there website is in future tense !

Like…

“Tello will be introducing new offers and extending its existing offers continually throughout the year. First will be an offer targeted at small-to-medium businesses (SMBs). Tello will then deliver vertical market solutions for specific targeted industries. These solutions will combine the best of communications with context-appropriate content to allow users to resolve exceptions to critical business processes promptly and effectively.”

and the wonderful …

“In a future release, Tello will offer the first instant communication service that enables business users to locate and collaborate with key contacts beyond their enterprise boundaries and across multiple platforms – including phones, mobile devices and PCs. Tello’s service will be available via an OnDemand hosted model which will feature rapid activation and require no hardware, software or IT support.”

By: Adrian Keys

Adrian Keys — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 13:12:37 +0000

Not only are they in the dreaded DeadPool but it’s eerie how you chastised them for not embracing bloggers and boldly predicted their diminished chance of success for not doing so.

I love TC but when it goes a little too close to calling the fate of a startup it makes me uneasy. My only consolation comes thinking that no great idea properly executed can fail just because TC put a spell on them. Yeah right!!