Comments on: $100 Million Coming To Israeli Startup Modu

By: It’s time to modu

It’s time to modu — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:23:22 +0000

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By: Roald Cyberath

Roald Cyberath — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:43:59 +0000

Yes, this Modu play will be a challenging ride, in a tough market. I fear that cost-wise, the “skins” are going to be about as expensive as a new phone alltogether.

@sd (#17) : I agree with you that European startups deserve more coverage.
I’ve started some at “Europe 2.0″ ( http://www.europe20.com )

By: Israeli startup Modu raises $100M for mobile phone revolution « Europe 2.0

Israeli startup Modu raises $100M for mobile phone revolution « Europe 2.0 — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:09:58 +0000

[...] $100M on a report pre-money valuation of $150M. Michael Arrington at TechCrunch comments that this is a large dilution for such amounts. But then of course it is a very tough business to enter, where you can count your competitor on [...]

By: Oren T

Oren T — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:58:41 +0000

more modu news to come out today! visit http://blog.modumobile.com

By: breathtaking

breathtaking — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:14:13 +0000

nice PR

By: Or

Or — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:36:52 +0000

1. This is a very gutsy move and most of the negative criticism I have been reading here is unsubstantiated. Of course there is more work to be done and the path to success is long… but give the guys some credits. BTW the caliber of VC money that they have been getting means that some very knowledgable and serious people have been examining this idea.

2. For all you anti-semetic creeps go find something better to do than involve racism and prejudice into this company.

By: Nadav

Nadav — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:23:34 +0000

@15

fuck you, jews are awesome

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » イスラエルのスタートアップModuに$100M

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » イスラエルのスタートアップModuに$100M — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:13:37 +0000

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By: pdr tools

pdr tools — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:57:22 +0000

not enough features, price?

By: StrategCore

StrategCore — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:33:04 +0000

Similar concept has been kicked around at Casio and other Japanese consumer product manufacturers for years, without market research confirmation of success – yet. When it comes to tiny mobile devices, I’m sure the company has taken a chapter or two from Japan.

By: sd

sd — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:18:45 +0000

Michael, can you review more european start ups? a lot of us are very interested in the EMEA market as well.

regards.

By: Brick Marketing

Brick Marketing — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:46:02 +0000

Hmm, that’ll be quite interesting to see what comes out of it! Obviously other countries are the ones with the money at this time to truly invest in ventures like these.

By: Yithak

Yithak — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:38:27 +0000

Private Banks, the media, Micheal Arington, most opinion makers….all Jews dominated.

They have the brains, but no heart.

By: Alan Wilensky

Alan Wilensky — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:25:43 +0000

They are obviously going to have to go the licensing or OEM relations route, as in this day and age, there is no competing with the Giants. Even Apple barely squeaked out the iPhone, and only because they have expertise in contract manufacturing on a large scale and were able to secure a captive deal with ATT.

Remember that stupid phone box company? ovoo…what ever. How many more are struggling? Creative, Archos, they are all humping to be number 7,8,9.

The chances of this small, and probably innovative company competing as a Direct OEM are nil to slim.

But those Israelis, don’t count ‘em out. To be a direct mfg. of mobile technology takes a mezzanine of near 500M down, and 500M to sustain product and marketing.

100 mil? No way. yet……

By: Who is Billy Bragg?

Who is Billy Bragg? — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:51:47 +0000

If he’s got billions why does he need to raise money? Better to spend other people’s money?

By: Not a Bug

Not a Bug — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:33:54 +0000

Wasted money, the iPod will keep evolving and adding more features as hardware evolves, things will be wireless, including power therefore no need for stupid jackets.

Damn waste of $100MM. Maybe we should have a couple of jewish guys join our company see if we can raise a few millions.

Stupid idea, another useless gadget, wasted marketing money, nobody on my mailing lists would remember the name even after all the money they spent with their mistery marketing campaign.

If he’d put all the money he made from SanDisk, he wouldn’t have wasted the 20MM of his investors like that.

By: baah-baah-the-black-sheep

baah-baah-the-black-sheep — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:11:11 +0000

I wish they offered satellite phones as well.
My game camera is taking pictures of deer passing by in the bush. I have to come back to check what comes out and when. Wouldn’t it be nice to get the photos sent to me on the spot using a satellite phone?
That would be easy venison then!

By: Klaus

Klaus — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:30:22 +0000

This is such a stupid idea, Wildseed all over.

By: FaceySpacey

FaceySpacey — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:25:00 +0000

no me gusta

By: Michael B

Michael B — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:50:24 +0000

Cool concept.

-Michael B owner of http://mikesmon...ub.blogspot.com

By: waterman

waterman — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:47:38 +0000

is Israel becoming technology center of the world? everyday i see more and more investment news in Israel based technology companies.
those jewish are smart:)

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:47:03 +0000

@3, well it’s always better to spend other people’s money, plus it’s a way of generating other kinds of support and involvement.

Maybe I’m missing something but I don’t see the point of it. Okay, the modu is a phone, but it seems to depend on a ’sleeve’ concept for extendability, to turn it into a MP3 player for example. The ability to interact with all kinds of devices is great but why not go down the bluetooth/wireless route rather than trying to get manufacturers to create docking slots.

By: Yakov

Yakov — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:21:29 +0000

They have a very cool concept. I recall they recently made an exclusive with one the major Russian mobile telecom operators for the Russian market.

By: Easy Money

Easy Money — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:57:34 +0000

He continues to amaze me with the perception that he succeeds to build (and the sums), but until now they have done the easy part, which is the standalone cellular modem with a limited set of applications.

Now starts the hard part, which is the integration with other vendors, which require business and technical agreements, as well as lots of shoulder-to-shoulder engineering.

Will they succeed to attract many consumer electronics manufacturers to this adventure ? that’s the big question, still unanswered.
I will be less skeptic if they contract with a major camera manufacturer like Canon, Nikon or others.