Deadpool: Teqlo Finds Out That Mashups Don’t Make Money

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1. Mark
   

   November 8th, 2007 at 11:31 am

   Perhaps they should have worked out what the killer product is before taking funding? And the investors shouldn’t have encourage the stupidity.

   Please, bubble, hurry up and burst so these drones can be buried like the uninspired knobheads they are.

2. jblu
   

   November 8th, 2007 at 12:02 pm

   That’s just a somewhat graceful way to bow out…maybe not.

3. ml
   

   November 8th, 2007 at 12:04 pm

   Sites down, I wonder what they are going to do with the domain?

4. EM
   

   November 8th, 2007 at 12:41 pm

   Rip always invest in sh*t startups.

   As Nelson would say HA HAAAAA!

5. Natasha
   

   November 8th, 2007 at 12:57 pm

   I wonder whos going to snap up the domain?

6. TechGuy
   

   November 8th, 2007 at 1:01 pm

   Just last week, I was in the audience of a panel in silicon valley where I heard Peter Rip saying the company was launching a new product. Sad to see them go …

7. Jason Moy
   

   November 8th, 2007 at 1:03 pm

   “focussed”?

8. www.carversation.com
   

   November 8th, 2007 at 1:03 pm

   SO WHAT

9. Alan Wilensky
   

   November 8th, 2007 at 1:28 pm

   The exclamation point at the end of Peter Rip’s comment says it all.

   A real business backed by actual user surveys and a prototype application and beta site has not one chance if it serves a blue collar market. I’ve tried.

   See my short story, lightly fictionalized :

   http://bizcast.typepad.com/cli.....le-of.html

10. Dario Salvelli
    

    November 8th, 2007 at 1:29 pm

    Especially after the Google Open Social project…

11. RecruitingWire
    

    November 8th, 2007 at 1:35 pm

    Of over 3000 startups out there, how many of these startups really have a viable business model? Because the “Build to Flip” model doesn’t just cut it.

    Only very fewer startups are swallowed by bigger fish. BTW, is the domain name available?

12. RecruitingWire
    

    November 8th, 2007 at 1:37 pm

    Oh one more thing, how can I find techcrunch deadpool website?

    Thanks

13. EH
    

    November 8th, 2007 at 1:47 pm

    No, “focussed” is not a misspelling.

14. Jacoby Thwaites
    

    November 8th, 2007 at 1:49 pm

    Mmmm, I like it here in the Deadpool, it’s all dark and warm and quiet

15. The Foo
    

    November 8th, 2007 at 2:28 pm

    Wow this is the first time you have reported a company to the deadpool and it’s website is immediately inaccessible. It normally takes a while after which you report on it until it shuts down.

    Shouldn’t Microsoft’s Popfly be in the mashup list too (together with Yahoo Pipes, Dapper, and OpenKapow) or is it classed differently?

16. The Foo
    

    November 8th, 2007 at 2:32 pm

    @ RecruitingWire (#12)
    Someone correct me if I’m wrong but there isn’t a deadpool website per say but it’s just tagged posts.

17. Stu
    

    November 8th, 2007 at 2:36 pm

    You know, that’s funny. We’ve spent 5 months developing our business model and partnerships, but we don’t have the developers to implement the service yet. Anyone from teqlo got skills and need a job?

18. DC
    

    November 8th, 2007 at 3:34 pm

    Teqlo or Lo-Teq? Another awfully named company that’s DOA. Do VCs still have that kind of cash to burn? Can’t we save Africa or something?

19. Steve Ballmer
    

    November 8th, 2007 at 8:43 pm

    Thbe first of many, many “social”thingys to go belly up!

    http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

20. steve sbos
    

    November 8th, 2007 at 9:01 pm

    Although I have enjoyed your feed for a while, this post is to say I am removing my subscription because the got-dam itroom ads are slowing things down and very annoying. good bye.

21. David Mackey
    

    November 8th, 2007 at 9:08 pm

    I’ve already got one killer product.

22. Matt Robinson
    

    November 10th, 2007 at 8:55 am

    In the enterprise context mashups are features, not applications, and hence they only stand a chance of significant adoption via inclusion as part of broader SaaS platforms brought into the business for more critical reasons — i.e. Salesforce, NetSuite, Taleo. Its too bad they did not find the right context via partnership or acquisition to plug this into.

    Standalone mashup platforms, as Teqlo demonstrates, will find it hard to go it alone. I think the future of mashups in the enterprise will be delivered in the form of self-service customization tools baked into leading SaaS platforms. More here:
    http://blog.rollbase.com/2007/.....ation.html

    Matt

23. dragan
    

    November 10th, 2007 at 9:33 am

    masheye.com - beta is a mashups, Web 2.0, Ajax and development oriented social bookmarking website has included this article http://www.masheye.com/story.p.....Make_Money in their bookmarks. Explore and enjoy!

24. Andreas Krohn
    

    November 11th, 2007 at 2:27 am

    I dont agree that Teqlo were competing with either Openkapow, Pipes or Dapper. Teglo enabled you to build the frontend of a mashup pulling together data from several sources. Pipes enables you to remix feeds. Openkapow and Dapper allows you to access data from sources on the web (ie web pages). That puts all these products in quiet different places in the mashup ecosystem.

    There are several major companies trying to do the same thing as Teqlo - IBM with QEDWiki, Microsoft with Popfly, BEA with Pages etc - so I think that Teqlos problem was more that they were too early to the market and that the market at this time requires more than just a general mashup building platform.

25. koksik
    

    November 13th, 2007 at 6:24 pm

    Maybe IBM, Yahoo and MS have enough money to keep projects with uncertain bussines model alive?

26. Valley
    

    November 15th, 2007 at 6:24 am

    Lucky I convinced my boss to use standard commercial web scraping software. It runs directly on our server and we have full control over it!