Comments on: Vidoop Is Dead, Employees Getting Computers In Lieu Of Wages

By: Brynn Marie Evans » The failure of MyFarm: good intentions, poor execution

Brynn Marie Evans » The failure of MyFarm: good intentions, poor execution — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:13:15 +0000

[...] out of money and time pursuing shiny things, and kept their fiscal situation a secret up until they announced that they couldn’t make payroll for employees’ prior two weeks of work! To this day, there has been no public announcement, nor updates or notifications on their [...]

By: Tomasz P. Kołuda

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:33:52 +0000

I am too lazy to actually read the updates on the full corporate story, but seems the website is open for business, so, did someone throw money at the problem or what…

By: منتديات

منتديات — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:04:56 +0000

A lot of layoffs in the world. The truth is a lot of tech startups begin strong but then cannot stay differentiated with all the competition.

By: مركز تحميل

مركز تحميل — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 03:59:53 +0000

This is why I feel it is always better to use a URL that you control and then use delegation.

By: Gesucht: Plattformübergreifender Passwortmanager | bloggin' chm

Gesucht: Plattformübergreifender Passwortmanager | bloggin' chm — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:21:44 +0000

[...] Denn Vidoop steht vor dem Aus. Der Firma fehlt Kapital und sie hat den Grossteil der Angestellten entlassen. Der Service wird von [...]

By: Free Freebies

Free Freebies — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:15:10 +0000

macs rule!

By: Vidoopの元社員たちがiPhone開発をアウトソーシングできるサービスUrban Airshipを立ち上げ

Vidoopの元社員たちがiPhone開発をアウトソーシングできるサービスUrban Airshipを立ち上げ — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 08:29:09 +0000

[...] 今日（米国時間6/8）はScott Kvetonに会って話をした。彼は以前、デッドプール入りしたOpenID関連のスタートアップVidoopのデベロッパで、今日彼とそのほか3名の元Vidoop社員たちで新しいスタートアップUrban Airshipをロンチした。このサイトは、iPhoneのデベロッパの、ユーザに対する各種の通知(push notifications)やコンテンツ等を提供する“店舗”の設営(iPhone storekitの提供)といった「周辺的雑務」を代行し、デベロッパにはアプリケーションの開発のみに専念してもらう、というサービスを提供する。Urban Airshipは今後、このようなクラウドベースのサービスをiPhone以外のほかのモバイルデバイスに対しても提供する予定だ。 [...]

By: Ex-Vidoop Employees Launch iPhone Development Outsourcing Service Urban Airship

Ex-Vidoop Employees Launch iPhone Development Outsourcing Service Urban Airship — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:23:44 +0000

[...] spoke today with Scott Kveton, a former developer with deadpooled open-ID startup Vidoop, about the startup, Urban Airship, he and 3 other fellow ex-Vidoopers launched today to assist [...]

By: The Fall of Vidoop | FactoryCity

The Fall of Vidoop | FactoryCity — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:31:29 +0000

[...] This was the memo that leaked to TechCrunch. [...]

By: Tap list - June 5 at Beer and Blog Boise

Tap list - June 5 at Beer and Blog Boise — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:13:30 +0000

[...] trying to figure out how to make the VidoopCAPTCHA plug in work only to learn two days later that Vidoop is no more. This week, I’m going to take a closer look at Google Wave and get some details for Ignite [...]

By: tim

tim — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:15:23 +0000

well ryan, it’s pretty easy to be smug about being jobless in portland when you don’t have friends who were laid off by vidoop. asshole.

also, vidoop mgt deserves a lot of blame for their company’s demise for making the move to portland last year when all signs showed the economy was headed for trouble.

By: Jambone

Jambone — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:16:47 +0000

Bonehead.

By: CPU Solutions

CPU Solutions — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:42:53 +0000

What if you already own a PC, and have bills & a mortgage to pay? The economic news gets harder to read every single day.

By: Cryptblade

Cryptblade — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:39:08 +0000

This story reminds me of that site, fuckedcompany.com (sp?). In the waning days of the last recession (2000-2001) post Dotcom Bubble, lots of startups had similar stories. Shoot, there was even a documentary called Startup.com that showed the rise and fall of a startup. Man – the stories from FC.com were great. Laughable after the fact – but not that laughable in lieu of today’s recession.

By: lodgegoat

lodgegoat — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:55:55 +0000

what a jackass statement.

By: Gerald Buckley

Gerald Buckley — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:24:31 +0000

I’m chief defender of Tulsa Michael. Google SBC, Sprint, Level 3, WilTel, LDDS + Tulsa. You’re going to find we have bandwidth out the ying yang. That’s one of the many reasons Google has parked one of their Data Centers in Tulsa.

Better yet, YOU are hereby cordially invited to come stay in Tulsa, MY TREAT, and see what a hellacious nice city we have.
Vidoop got their start here. TwitPic got his start here. Ping.fm is headquartered right down the hall. I’m starting up here. Everythings three times more affordable here.

Just remember Tulsa favorably in the TechFellow rounds. We have good stuff happening here.

By: cables

cables — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:19:15 +0000

Equipment in lieu of wages? Ouch. Best of luck to the folks at vidoop bouncing back on their feet.

By: DT

DT — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:14:01 +0000

Employees’ wages come before any creditors. The BS is not that they are jilting creditors by giving away computers. The BS is that they didn’t shut down before running out of money to pay employees. No excuse for that. I’ve been in that situation and we made sure we paid wages AND vacation before shutting down.

By: Serg

Serg — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 04:02:26 +0000

poor management. honestly, i lived in portland for 8 years now and except jobdango, i never saw any startups succeed. too many fags and hippies getting stoned.

By: John Singer

John Singer — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 03:01:55 +0000

Fortunately I use Mashed Life instead of Vidoop for my password mgmt… so no migration pains

By: Vidoop breaths its last, employees get computers as memorials | Startup Meme - Technology Startup and Latest Tech News

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 01:44:29 +0000

[...] that came with a bright idea of eliminating the need of remembering multiple login credentials has run out of business. The company has run out of work and has decided that it’s time to pull down the [...]

By: Vidoop: Another One Bites The Dust…. | Portland Sucks

Vidoop: Another One Bites The Dust…. | Portland Sucks — Sun, 31 May 2009 19:35:53 +0000

[...] to deal with being flat-ass broke and unable to pay their employees their remaining wages (in fact, they’re offering to give them laptops, etc. in lieu of wages), this serves as a nasty reminder of just how fucked up the start-up world is these [...]

By: So it goes: Vidoop is no more | Oregon Startup Blog

So it goes: Vidoop is no more | Oregon Startup Blog — Sun, 31 May 2009 18:41:31 +0000

[...] it goes.” It grieves me to report that—according to TechCrunch—Portland-based Vidoop is officially dead. For many of us in the Portland startup and OpenID scene, Vidoop had the promise of doing something [...]

By: tom

tom — Sun, 31 May 2009 16:51:18 +0000

if the state hae such an ‘insurance fund’ i wouldn’t do what the poster advised… there’s this thing called fraud.. screw with the state.. and you might find yourself facing a state charge of theft/fraud….

this is right in line with people who try to rip off state unemployment insurance funds…

idiot…

By: Fellow layoff brother-in-arms

Fellow layoff brother-in-arms — Sun, 31 May 2009 16:26:43 +0000

If/when the company declares bankruptcy, the property of the company belongs to the creditors and it would be illegal for them to give away what is OPP.

As they are not currently (?) in bankruptcy, they are probably within their rights to give away computers, but I would imagine that creditors will want them to be returned as office equipment is probably the only thing of value. There’s probably some stupid law that will allow them to repo them too.

And what about their other liabilities? Are they giving their cleaning service computers too? How about the freelance copywriters/designers/etc.? Not every liability is to some faceless mega-corporation.