Yahoo is definitely on a cutting spree: after shutting down both Y!Live and Jumpcut, as well as selling off Kelkoo, it’s now time for Yahoo Kickstart to pay a visit to the deadpool.
Kickstart was launched by the company’s Advanced Products Group in April this November last year and aimed to connect students and alumni at specific colleges and universities and also help them connect on a professional level.
When it debuted, many wondered if there was room for Kickstart, given the fact that Facebook and LinkedIn pretty much had that ground covered already and the service didn’t really bring anything new to the table. It was really job board disguised as a social network (the site now suggests visitors go to Yahoo’s Hotjobs).
The shutdown doesn’t come as much of a surprise, as the service had been dealing with downtime and a ton of error messages for several weeks now, but we guess the image below makes it official.
(Thank you Dan for the tip)
Ahh, about time.
Only 8 months too late.
Yeh, it never really got off the ground.
such a nice idea though,
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Rei
Seems like Y! is on a spree to shut all its bad/null performance services.But they don’t have an option either !
Has anyone signed up for Yahoo Grundel yet? I hear it’s Jerry’s baby.
I’m surprised that there has been very little mention of the fact that Yahoo! had hired Bain and Company, who in turn had recommended that Y! get rid of 15% (I think) of its workforce, and that the recent spate of firings at the Big Purple may be the direct by-product of that. Wow, that was long.
Um, i think that’s a given. Maybe I’m missing the insight from your post?
Yeah… http://www.jugargame.com/
this service never should have been launched in the first place
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Come on guys help!
it is a long time .
This is a great example of why people shouldn’t trust their media to Internet start-ups. That cut video of your baby that you uploaded and then deleted b accident? Sorry! When Jumpcut goes, so goes your precious memories! Same goes for the morons that think DRM on music is acceptable…
http://www.jump...7BE000423CF037A
I think Yahoo should have done some customization of Kickstart in a first place. As LinkedIn became dominant in the market to connect professionals, the objective of Kickstart got faded. I have tried connecting couple of Tech Recruiters when I was hunting for a job but never heard back anything from them. Needless to say, yahoo creates innovative ideas and develops them but never maintains them.
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Maulik
http://mauliksh...h.wordpress.com
A lot of startups that are not profitable are facing significant challenges raising additional money or staying afloat. Thanks for the good article.
Kevin
http://www.kidsdesk.net
I have not even heard of this service . I use LinkedIn pretty regularly and believe it can really deliver business value . Just because it is / was a Yahoo product offering or Google goody does not mean it will be any better .
Dow
http://www.outs...rcewebdesign.in
Kickstart actually had a great start as a hybrid version of Doostang and LinkedIn. The profiles were clean and doubled as a public resume; however, after the initial launch (which was primarily everyone at Yahoo), they rolled out no additional features or updates.
Leaves more room for other startups in the space.
“Seems like Y! is on a spree to shut all its bad/null performance services.But they don’t have an option either !”
Sadly, when big companies go on cutting sprees, good ideas get shut down. Some of Yahoo’s products just need to be owned, and run, by 3 kids who are working out of their cramped apartments. The sites would thrive, given that kind of ownership. And when the sites started making $20,000 a month, the kids would jump up and down in excitement and think of themselves as the luckiest people in the world. But, sadly, $20,000 a month is a joke to a company like Yahoo, and Yahoo has much higher costs than what 3 kids working out of an apartment have.
We’ve seen this before with IBM, Apple, Intel, AT&T (Bell Labs, Lucent, etc), Wang, Netscape and many others. When big companies need to cut, they do generally do so with chainsaws, rather than scalpels.
sloppy reporting like this is why blogs aren’t taken that seriously. kickstart didn’t launch in april- it launched in november over a year ago (even the link shows that- who mixes up november 4th for april?). also, why did kickstart not release any new features? look at the team that built it and what else they were building. think the live release didn’t affect other products built by the same team and take all the resources? connect the dots and stop assuming the teams that build the stuff are clueless- there’s decisions happening behind the scenes.
Corrected the post, I mixed up 4/11 and 11/4 in the URL. Thank you for pointing it out so politely.
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Corrected the post, I mixed up 4/11 and 11/4 in the URL. Thank you for pointing it out so politely.
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