Comments on: Flowgram Was Cool. Now It’s Dead

By: Rita Zeinstejer

Rita Zeinstejer — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:31:15 +0000

I forgot to include I even lost the presentation I had uploaded on Flowgram, not knowing about its closure!
(any chances of getting it back, though too late now…?)

By: Rita Zeinstejer

Rita Zeinstejer — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:17:54 +0000

Very unfortunately, I did not get the email with the disgraceful piece of news…, but still more unfortunately…, we’ve been deprived of a program which is literally irreplaceable.
As an EFL teacher in Argentina I give ppt presentations, and at times need to record my voice in them… No way I can find another similar tool now
I’m trying out Slideshare, but the difference is big, since we need to use a recording program, upload the mp3, divide it in chunks for each slide and pray that it’s all ok before you have it all done…
Very bad news…

If anybody reading this happened to know about a better substitute I’d be so grateful to get the news!

By: William Evan Kasel

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:46:53 +0000

There is a reason companies are deadpooling keyboard cat, because they cant make revenue. No matter the scale, look @ facebook. They have the digital equivalent of a bad coke habit with their photos system. Its a beast, and makes them no money. B2B actually makes money! Like real tangible dollars, b2c, unless carefully planned makes little or no money. Any investor who doesn’t give b2b the time of day is unfortunately, and to their demise, a jackass.

By: homepage

homepage — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:25:39 +0000

Someone might buy it cheap and do something with it.

By: Aiden

Aiden — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:41:29 +0000

Great idea, but investment should be in $100K range – not in $1M range.

By: Kurt Baumann

Kurt Baumann — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:59:47 +0000

You get that list share it with me please. We are actively seeking and acquiring failed IP. Failed doesn’t mean bad, just that for whatever reason they didn’t get the round they needed to stay alive.

Any of you out there who are in the position drop me an email and let’s talk. If you have technology that fits the direction we are headed we may have a deal for you.

But hurry, we are moving quickly and eventually we will be in full launch mode. When that happens we will be more focused on making that happen instead of acquiring.

Kurt

By: S

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:02:51 +0000

A lot of startups out there are walking dead.

By: Keyboard Cat

Keyboard Cat — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:50:04 +0000

The issue is what investors will invest in. B2B businesses don’t scale as much as consumer ones. Investors thererfore won’t give a B2B business the time of day.

By: anon

anon — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:57:14 +0000

Why oh why is this targeted at mass consumption??

Can I acquire the code base to pursue corporate training??

Sometimes the inability to think beyond “Web 2.0″ astounds me.

By: Jahbuh

Jahbuh — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:04:23 +0000

They should make it an elearning creator and sell it to the enterprise.

By: SandyGeek

SandyGeek — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:52:58 +0000

I never heard of flowgram before, but it seems that the iMacros Firefox addon can used in a similar way (record website activity and share with others).
https://addons....efox/addon/3863

By: Jim Mason

Jim Mason — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:29:35 +0000

Mike – Unfortunate indeed, but most unfortunate is the demise of Prof. Rajeev Motwani last Friday, the investor you mentioned.

http://timesofi...how/4627659.cms

By: Keyboard Cat

Keyboard Cat — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:20:53 +0000

Bitter much? Did Caterina ban your Flickr account or something?

By: Reverse Cowgirl

Reverse Cowgirl — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:27:04 +0000

Hunch is going to join the deadpool too. You heard it here first.

By: Amir Wa

Amir Wa — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:03:27 +0000

Guess lotsa entrepreneurs fall to the temptation of raising a too big amount of money and thus setting themselves with a burn rate their company can’t cover. A shame indeed.

By: Amir Wa

Amir Wa — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:01:05 +0000

As the company was funded Jan08, it probably burnt out most its money by now and they failed to get another round. Good luck on the next one guys.

By: William Evan Kasel

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:35:41 +0000

I had a chance to interview here, and meet the team a year ago. They flew me out, and gave me my first taste of SOMA startup life. I loved it. (obviously since I moved here a few months later from Southern Illinois). Abhay was a great guy, and they had an awesome team. Its a shame to see them deadpooled, and id love to see it resurrected someday. Best of luck to everyone from this venture.

By: Sanjay

Sanjay — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:52:55 +0000

Nothing wrong with the idea. I always thought that companies would be happy to pay for what flowgram provided.

It is only a bad investment now that is has gone into deadpool. Like they say, hind-sight is 20:20!

By: Michael Wuensch

Michael Wuensch — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:09:23 +0000

It´s a pity! Flowgramm was really innovative letting people be creative.

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:37:44 +0000

They should try and keep the service running in skeleton form, can’t be difficult to maintain if the basic service is already built. I don’t understand why these companies just shut everything down.

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:34:57 +0000

There have actually been a LOT more deadpool startups these days that don’t get reported on…

I suspect most of the quieter acquisition announcements that have been made lately (ex AOL purchasing Going.com) are actually fire-sale liquidations.

I have a number of former clients that are undergoing these quiet failures (at least one lost close to $9m in investor capital)

There are a lot of amazing startups that got funded during the boom but never thought about revenue and are silently choking to death now. Be interesting to see a list of these somewhere…

By: Zee

Zee — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:27:27 +0000

Unbelievable. I have been waiting and waiting for the official launch of this bad boy after testing out the service….i honestly thought it had a hell of a future ahead of it. What a shame…

By: blah

blah — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:14:39 +0000

Why did this guy need to raise 1.3 MM given the amount of $$ he made?

By: brendan birya

brendan birya — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:12:27 +0000

I’m surprised those angels let this go out so fast