Sadly, 2007 wasn’t the best of years for many startups. Below you’ll find a list of the companies that took a swim in the TechCrunch DeadPool. Also see our Year in Deals, Year in TechCrunch Headlines, and Most Popular Posts.
- A Sad Milestone: AOL To Discontinue Netscape Browser Development
- Wal-Mart Shuts Movie Download Service, Offers SEM Services Instead
- Foonz, The Deadpool Is Calling
- PayPerPost Suspends Zookoda, Deadpool Looking Likely
- Oh My God! Apple Killed Think Secret! Those Bastards!
- VCs Push 3Guppies Into The Deadpool
- CNET To Shutter Newsburst RSS Reader
- AGLOCO Doesn’t Pay To Surf, Joins Deadpool
- CompUSA Goes Into The DeadPool. Good.
- Edgeio To Shut Down - In The DeadPool
- Yahoo Drops MingleNow into Deadpool
- Good News/Bad News For Startup Founder Cliff Shaw
- Divshare To DeadPool
- Brightspot.tv = DeadPool
- Yak4Ever Takes Second (and Final) Dip into Deadpool
- E*Trade Heading To The Deadpool?
- Deadpool: Teqlo Finds Out That Mashups Don’t Make Money
- Patent Monkey Joins Deadpool, Only To Rise Again as Patents.com
- Yappd Didn’t Last Long. DeadPool.
- Judy’s Book To Shut Down. Yelp Is The Last of The Local Review Sites Still Standing.
- Yang Decides to Shut Down Yahoo 360—Nobody Notices
- Snocap Drops 60% Of Staff And On The Market: Looking Good For The Deadpool
- NetBank Joins The Deadpool
- TellThem: MySpace Kills Another Startup
- Who Wants to Buy a Virtual World?
- 37Signals Drives Another Company To The DeadPool
- Time To DeadPool TailRank? You Decide.
- Yahoo Bill Pay To Shut
- Backfence Joins The Deadpool
- NBBC Joins The Deadpool
- Skinnyr Joins The TechCrunch Deadpool
- German Twitter Clone Dukudu For Sale On eBay
- Reality Bedding: “Too Visionary” and “Ahead of Its Time”
- Click.TV Player Joins the Deadpool
- Amp’d Mobile Implodes: Burns $360 million, Declares Bankruptcy
- RSSCalendar Reaches The End Of The Road
- Webjay Joins DeadPool, Yahoo Scores Hat Trick For May
- AllFreeCalls Back From DeadPool, Free Calls Are Here Again
- Yahoo Shutting Down Auctions - Second Service To DeadPool This Month
- Breaking: Yahoo To Shut Down Yahoo Photos In Favor Of Flickr
- Goodbye Froogle
- SynapseLife Taking eBay Exit
- Goodbye, Tello. Welcome to the DeadPool.
- Yahoo Mixd Says “Peace Out” and Goes to DeadPool
- Fonpods in DeadPool
- AllFreeCalls Shut Down
- FilmLoop Betrayed By Investors?
- Performancing Descends Into Chaos - Shareholders Squabble Publicly
- Performancing Heading to DeadPool
- BitPass. DeadPool.
- Findory Put On Life Support
- Judy’s Book: Avoiding the DeadPool
- Big Layoffs At Insider Pages
- Browster in DeadPool
- FilmLoop Dips Toes Into The DeadPool
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wonder why so many businesses fail even with lots of money in VC funding and backing by big corporates
Your deadpool list is especially entertaining….
http://www.whatshottoday.com
In certain categories there is too much competition. For example, there seems to be no room for so many web 2.0 websites. Probably many of them won’t be successful and will have to go down during 2008.
KR: Puhleeeeeze…..bubulah!
Can the TC staff please go back and re-tag the dead pool listings as follows:
YAVSS = Yet Another Video Sharing Site
YASN = Yet Another Social Network.
YAFTP = Yet Another Free Telephone Play.
YAYF = Yet Another Yahoo Flop
The TC dead pool list is really a subset of the the losers.
What happened to Flock?
Whoa! I just Noticed, Peformancing! Sheeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiit - that guy was such an ego maniac!
It would be great if we could also get a glimpse of who succeeded this year in a summary post.
Reading top down, I just noticed “The Year In Deals (2007 Edition)”, however chronologically it seems like you posted the success stories before the deadpool, which I think is cool.
So I take my last comment back
Nicely done.
There is more to learn from failure then success - as such, this is a treasure trove as to what NOT to do when you have a start-up. Thanks for posting this summary… lots of great info!
Jon
mike, people dont like you writing about things going to deadpool, even me, i made some comments on that.
but there is something very important in every cases of deadpool, in each of them there are lessons for everyone to learn. actually i think those posts should not be just a short post about the company shutting down, they should be longer, with your and other opinions, like analysis. posts like where things went wrong, how that happened and why. what were the mistakes, how did that happen that they did it.
yes, dead company, no one gives a shit to that, everyone forgets about them and tend to look at hot things like facebook, or last year youtube. but in the end, ok facebook is great and mark made a billion. but what is there for those who read those posts nothing, just spend time checking the app out. but reading those opinion and review posts on how companies die will teach us a lot, especially those who think of or are starting their own business or being an active part in some companies. that would give them a lot.
anyways, happy new year.
All Dead Pool, All the time, 24 hour Video sharing interviews with the founders. Or should I say, flounders.
24 hour duty free space port, outlet mall, and barbershop - woof!
You should’ve grouped them into “Yahoo-related closures” and “Everyone else”
The only thing missing ia Apple, Inc. lol!
fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com
I’m missing omnidrive.com or are they the first deadpool clients for 2008
there is a lot of rumour about some people speaking about fraudulent use of paypal
this is also a beautiful option for Michael how integer he is
because the owner is a friend of him
your irresponsible etrade deadpool article is is still in the list?
Anyone else noticing a lack of new startup coverage on TechCrunch these days? This startup craze is starting to slow down, or maybe it’s just me.
Flop2.0 Predictions 2008. The dollar has plummeted, the bubble’s are popping, the recession’s kicking in, yet we have NOTHING to fear!
analysis starts here:
http://startupcrunch.org/so_who_are_the_hobbyists
part 2
http://startupcrunch.org/the_hobbyists_part_2
you forgot weekendr.com
You can also add these guys to your TechCrunch DeadPool.
http://www.livedigital.com
you may have missed one. Yahoo also shut down Web Jay.
http://webjay.org/
You can also add 8apps.com to that list since it will be closing with the end of the year.
Anyone know why 8apps is closing?
Seems like the Omnidrive story hasn’t yet been closed.
For those interested for an alternative to 8apps, we’re launching in a few month http://www.octabox.com - it’s definitely not going into the deadpool since we’re almost 1 year into developement and now in our first step of getting funded.
How is yappd in the deadpool when they got acquired?