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Are these people drinking tap water?
Ooma, a VoIP start-up in Palo Alto, California has been in stealth mode for the last 3 years. I’ve talked to them a couple of times, but they were very coy about what they were doing. Techcrunch is carrying an article on it’s release. From the limited data, they were clearly looking to offer a […]
Chris Koehncke
SunRocket: Ain’t no way to run a railroad
News coming from SunRocket inside is sketchy. What’s clear is Lisa Hook, the really great CEO (sic), resigned last Thursday and was in her office yesterday cleaning it out. Like a Ship Captain, usually the CEO stays until the lights go out. Whether the Board asked her to just leave "you’ve done enough, honey" or [...]
Chris Koehncke
SunRocket is now Pluto
It appears that SunRocket was indeed acquired and with it the vast majority of the remaining employees unceremoniously laid off sans a small group of 15-20 of the folks necessary to keep the network alive. SunRocket network suppliers were notified late Friday so they wouldn’t turn them off. With 200k subscribers and say a $40m [...]
Chris Koehncke
The sun is indeed setting
As an update, about 3 p.m. this afternoon, SunRocket ceased taking any new customer accounts, either via the call center or online. The reason for this is clearly the company now realizes it’s "no longer a going concern" and continuing to sign-up customers with a 12-month service obligation (the majority of new sales) [...]
Chris Koehncke
CallWave – yes, no, I don’t know
Bunch of blogs have all gone crazy about new services which translates a voicemail message into a text message which is then sent to your mobile phone. I commented on SpinVox earlier, their great technology innovation is to actually have people listening to your voicemails and simply transcribing them. It sure works, but likely [...]
Chris Koehncke
Grandcentral – success or no success
Old new, Google acquired GrandCentral. Word out is that the acquisition was in the $50m range. Not bad considering they only took in $6m in funding. I had long said that GrandCentral was basically a bunch of features masquerading as a company. So good for Craig Walker and team. Could someone at Google remember to […]
Chris Koehncke