Comments on: From Best in Show to Side Project in Six Months http://gigaom.com/2006/08/25/from-best-in-show-to-side-project-in-six-months/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:19:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: MingleNow and Its Many, Many Competitors http://gigaom.com/2006/08/25/from-best-in-show-to-side-project-in-six-months/#comment-123044 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:18:07 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/25/from-best-in-show-to-side-project-in-six-months/#comment-123044 [...] have to say we’re not blown away by the brilliance of his explanation, but we still hope one of these social planning sites takes off. If it’s MingleNow, great. We recently wrote [...]

]]> By: Top 10 Web Startup Business Screwups! | Thoughtpick Blog http://gigaom.com/2006/08/25/from-best-in-show-to-side-project-in-six-months/#comment-123043 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:01:59 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/25/from-best-in-show-to-side-project-in-six-months/#comment-123043 [...] Skobee was rated as “Best in Show” and in 6 months, the company owners seem to have given up and moved along! [...]

]]> By: One to Watch: Episodic « NewTeeVee http://gigaom.com/2006/08/25/from-best-in-show-to-side-project-in-six-months/#comment-123042 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:00:36 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/25/from-best-in-show-to-side-project-in-six-months/#comment-123042 [...] now has a small team in San Francisco. We’d previously met Lovinsky when he was running the failed event-planning startup [...]

]]> By: To Evite or Not to Evite: Why Skobee was DOA | MINGER.NET http://gigaom.com/2006/08/25/from-best-in-show-to-side-project-in-six-months/#comment-123041 Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:11:47 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/25/from-best-in-show-to-side-project-in-six-months/#comment-123041 [...] What was my friend thinking when she made that invitation by email instead of using Evite? We know Skobee failed but why? What are the real challenges facing similar [...]

]]> By: A better party planner « Proud Geek http://gigaom.com/2006/08/25/from-best-in-show-to-side-project-in-six-months/#comment-123040 Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:12:53 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/25/from-best-in-show-to-side-project-in-six-months/#comment-123040 [...] to be as easy or intuitive as MyPunchBowl.  [Update 3/21/07: someone in the comments referred to a GigaOM blog post saying that Skobee’s on its way out.  Let’s wait and see what happens with this [...]

]]> By: Paul Horne http://gigaom.com/2006/08/25/from-best-in-show-to-side-project-in-six-months/#comment-123039 Wed, 03 Jan 2007 22:11:23 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/25/from-best-in-show-to-side-project-in-six-months/#comment-123039 I loved Skobee — just started using it again today when I needed to plan some stuff with friends, but realized it hadn’t been improved or updated since last year. I don’t understand why no one wants to invest in this thing and market it — if Evite can catch on the way it has, with such a non-intuitive interface and no AJAX, I would think that Skobee would ultimately do well.

]]> By: Richard White http://gigaom.com/2006/08/25/from-best-in-show-to-side-project-in-six-months/#comment-123038 Thu, 14 Sep 2006 09:57:23 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/25/from-best-in-show-to-side-project-in-six-months/#comment-123038 @Skeptic: I don’t see how giving out your funnel numbers in this situation is such a big deal. And 9% is pretty good as far as free services go (of course it’s all contigent upon how he defined an ‘active’customer, so you could argue this is relatively meaningless data).

]]> By: Michael http://gigaom.com/2006/08/25/from-best-in-show-to-side-project-in-six-months/#comment-123037 Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:34:55 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/25/from-best-in-show-to-side-project-in-six-months/#comment-123037 ChosenVIP and collegetonight look very similar. From the description I have seen from both it seems as if they’re in competition with each other. It’ll be fun to see which one of these two comes out on top.

]]> By: David W. http://gigaom.com/2006/08/25/from-best-in-show-to-side-project-in-six-months/#comment-123036 Sun, 03 Sep 2006 20:08:22 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/25/from-best-in-show-to-side-project-in-six-months/#comment-123036 “Every time we have to click through an Evite, we cringe.”

And then these discussions about making money with social planning software–what about collecting a vast number of very active e-mail addresses and hawking them to SPAMMERS? Now that is something to cringe over.

]]> By: Bob T. http://gigaom.com/2006/08/25/from-best-in-show-to-side-project-in-six-months/#comment-123035 Tue, 29 Aug 2006 21:16:07 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/25/from-best-in-show-to-side-project-in-six-months/#comment-123035 Sorry to see Skobee go away. They really had something good going about them – using emails to plan, and a shared space to accumulate responses and manage. For a similar app for business users, there seems to be http://www.timebridge.com

]]> By: Jason M. Lemkin http://gigaom.com/2006/08/25/from-best-in-show-to-side-project-in-six-months/#comment-123034 Sun, 27 Aug 2006 20:06:59 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/25/from-best-in-show-to-side-project-in-six-months/#comment-123034 This is a good piece. We can get all caught up in the insular hype of Web 2.0 apps, but its ultimate reach may be limited.

]]> By: ...? http://gigaom.com/2006/08/25/from-best-in-show-to-side-project-in-six-months/#comment-123033 Sun, 27 Aug 2006 18:37:32 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/25/from-best-in-show-to-side-project-in-six-months/#comment-123033 The Illuminati are at again! I’ve been saying it for 10 dang years! AIN’T I BEEN SAYIN’ IT MIGUEL!? IS ANYONE LSITENING!?

]]> By: G http://gigaom.com/2006/08/25/from-best-in-show-to-side-project-in-six-months/#comment-123032 Sun, 27 Aug 2006 09:25:49 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/25/from-best-in-show-to-side-project-in-six-months/#comment-123032 Any consumer website startup without a built in customer acquistion edge (Viral/SEO) etc is going to fail irrespective of how innovative the app is…

]]> By: Bruce Boston http://gigaom.com/2006/08/25/from-best-in-show-to-side-project-in-six-months/#comment-123031 Sun, 27 Aug 2006 01:35:49 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/25/from-best-in-show-to-side-project-in-six-months/#comment-123031 Looks like the auction closed above $258k.

Not bad!

-bruce

]]> By: Jonty http://gigaom.com/2006/08/25/from-best-in-show-to-side-project-in-six-months/#comment-123030 Sat, 26 Aug 2006 12:00:17 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/25/from-best-in-show-to-side-project-in-six-months/#comment-123030 The bubble is definitely back. The signs are all over. As Nick says; “I see lots of tools being developed and being confused as startups…and the business models are, surprise, surprise, ad revenue. Sounds just like the last bubble”, I can’t help but agree with him.

Besides, if it was the IPO burst last time, this time it will be the Online Ad Biosphere this time. No matter how big it might be, there are finites to everything. It can’t sustain the boom for too long.

]]> By: pwb http://gigaom.com/2006/08/25/from-best-in-show-to-side-project-in-six-months/#comment-123029 Sat, 26 Aug 2006 07:14:10 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/25/from-best-in-show-to-side-project-in-six-months/#comment-123029 Yeah, should be interesting, Ted.

Anyone who can’t see the moneymaking opportunities in event planning needs to find a different profession.

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