Comments on: Mozes Raises $11.5 Million for SMS-Based Communities. Wants to Move Beyond Bands To Brands.

By: Create Your Own Free SMS Campaign With Tagga

Create Your Own Free SMS Campaign With Tagga — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:50:41 +0000

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By: mike ignacio

mike ignacio — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:20:17 +0000

@15, could you provide any examples of similar businesses in europe?

thanks

By: US is lagging behind Europe like 8 years on this

US is lagging behind Europe like 8 years on this — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:43:19 +0000

Come on guys, we had stuff like this in Europe in 2000 which are now major businesses. Mozes is ancient in so many ways. It’s totally surprising that US VCs fund stuff like this. Take a look beoynd Silicon Valley every now and then, in mobile Europe and especially Asia are way ahead.

By: Marty

Marty — Wed, 14 May 2008 03:28:43 +0000

I think its funny that they raised 11 Million dollars to enter the SMS Marketing business. There are so many well established players and its extremely hard to differentiate an offering. SMS is also becoming a commodity due to all of the new self-service platforms out on the market today so margins are not as big as they used to be.

By: Larry Chiang

Larry Chiang — Wed, 14 May 2008 01:52:39 +0000

@ Simon
Recruiters make 1/3 of salary so $15k is a discount

By: Al

Al — Wed, 14 May 2008 00:16:16 +0000

They make their money by sharing message revenues with the carriers.

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 13 May 2008 23:41:09 +0000

that’s an insane incentive, venetually SV/SF sucks for finding top ppl, hope the election will unlock visas-for-talents cause actually the man Porter seeks is probably…. not on the US territory ATM

By: Revenue Is Where It's At

Revenue Is Where It's At — Tue, 13 May 2008 23:09:22 +0000

I have used their service before. They are ad-free, except that they put their brand at the end of some of your messages. So they have to be charging the labels to run their campaigns.

By: Tony Stubblebine

Tony Stubblebine — Tue, 13 May 2008 23:01:43 +0000

Congrats to Dorrian and the Mozes team. They’re good people!

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 13 May 2008 21:53:25 +0000

Mozes can suck it. They are not a good product. They were something cool in 2006, but now it is just spam on your phone. SMS SPAM!

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 13 May 2008 21:31:52 +0000

Congrats to Mozes for successfully building a trusted and reliable brand in a space crowded with many other providers of unknown and questionable intent.

By: Revenue Is Good

Revenue Is Good — Tue, 13 May 2008 21:13:56 +0000

They don’t have enough users to generate real revenue through SMS advertising alone. I’m sure they charge the labels flat fees.

By: Peter Urban

Peter Urban — Tue, 13 May 2008 21:03:52 +0000

I am looking forward to my new life in the SMS world.

Peter
follow me @ http://twitter.com/peterurban

By: Congrats!

Congrats! — Tue, 13 May 2008 20:58:40 +0000

Congrats to Mozes! Their service rocks!!

Yawn – they are a mobile marketing company, so one would assume they get paid for running… you guessed it… marketing campaigns. Yawn at a lot of companies, but it seems like Mozes is really doing some innovative stuff in the mobile marketing arena. At least the value prop for both consumers and marketers seems to be there…

By: Casey Edwinson

Casey Edwinson — Tue, 13 May 2008 20:41:39 +0000

Who picks up the SMS bill from the cell phone companies?

By: Joke Cricket

Joke Cricket — Tue, 13 May 2008 20:35:13 +0000

@1 I think they can make money by using ads in text messages. Am I right?

By: Yawn

Yawn — Tue, 13 May 2008 20:29:19 +0000

Ok. How do they make money?