Comments on: Mashup Startup Teqlo Shuts Down After Struggles

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:23:57 +0000

web based applications are typically targeted towards small to medium businesses. Do-it-yourself is NOT what they want. They are happy doing a little to customize the app, but to build it from scratch is a big no no

By: John

John — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:14:37 +0000

Business 101 exactly first create a beta show it can make money then the investors should invest.

By: Qrowd » Blog Archive » Looking back, looking ahead

Qrowd » Blog Archive » Looking back, looking ahead — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 08:53:43 +0000

[...] out the door initially as a private Beta hopefully sometime in January. As companies like Teqlo have demonstrated, the mashup builder space is a hard place in which to figure out what problem to solve. Yahoo! [...]

By: keith

keith — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:38:23 +0000

Have you checked out the WSO2 Mashup Server (http://wso2.org/projects/mashup) which is a server side mashup platform where you can write your mashups in JavaScript.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:53:26 +0000

We prefer server based mashup solution like iMacros web scraping or open kapow.

By: Deadpool: Teqlo Finds Out That Mashups Don’t Make Money | Sharecountry

Deadpool: Teqlo Finds Out That Mashups Don’t Make Money | Sharecountry — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:04:35 +0000

[...] Making my point that it is hard to make money from mashups, investors have pulled the plug on Teqlo. The startup, backed by Peter Rip, originally focussed on being a widget-based tool for creating mashups, competing with Yahoo Pipes, Dapper, and OpenKapow. Then it tried to morph into a vague “Web-based workflow” company, and lost its CEO. Founder Jacoby Thwaites tells GigaOm: [...]

By: Varun Krish

Varun Krish — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 22:31:47 +0000

Sounds like Foolish investors loosing cash

By: There is no Web 2.0 Bubble

There is no Web 2.0 Bubble — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 04:50:14 +0000

[...] The Internet market has matured remarkably since 2000, and even though there are failures, such as Teqlo - which recently announced it was shutting down - this is no different from other industries out [...]

By: Web 2.0 Manages to Sober Up « GigaOM

Web 2.0 Manages to Sober Up « GigaOM — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 19:58:13 +0000

[...] But I’ve seen signs of sobriety recently. Kleiner Perkins has said no more Web 2.0 startups. Teqlo shut down abruptly once investors were no longer willing to fund their continued search for a workable strategy. [...]

By: Kelly A. Shaw

Kelly A. Shaw — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:46:58 +0000

Teqlo’s problem wasnt’ that they pre-announced. Lots of successful startups do that. Their problem wasn’t that they got funding before they had customers. Real speculative investors are willing to take a chance on these sorts of companies because that’s where the big bucks are.

Nope, Teqlo’s problem was that they went after the business user with tactics more suited for the consumer world. They didn’t understand the problems faced by ‘business mashers.’ The business masher is less concerned about being cool and more concerned about showing ROI with some killer apps. (See Hinchcliffe’s blog post and my response on this very subject.)

Sadly, their web-based workflow transformation could have worked. Serena Software is taking a similar approach with some success. The business doesn’t just need cool mashups, they need the mashed data in the context of a business activity to support decisions and actions. Teqlo simply didn’t have time to figure out how to make it work.

Kelly A. Shaw, Ph.D.
Analyst
Serena Software

By: Denis Amselem

Denis Amselem — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:44:57 +0000

~LOL~ (nervous LOL)…
So, I guess this is going to make it difficult to go and pitch the website we just launched - (link) - a web based Tool Mashup Editor - to investors in the valley :-)
No, seriously, I think their mistake was to go after the enterprise market - a crowded space when it comes to applications development tools. Our approach is less ambitious and yet more generic: the tool we came up with is meant to be used and usable by the 3 segments we see in this market: the end-user consumer, who simply cares to use a mashup application, those who have the need and skills to assemble basic widgets together to produce mashups that fit their own needs, and finally, the programmer type of user, who can expand the set of widgets by programming their own. The goal is to build a community of some users who create new widgets, some others who assemble these widgets into mashups, and finally those who use them…

By: Isaac Garcia

Isaac Garcia — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:07:49 +0000

“We had great investors, great people and great technology, but we ran out of time working out what the killer product could be!”

Sorry guys, but the company should have never been funded without already having had worked out "what the killer product could be."

Have a product first. Prove that people want it. Prove that people will pay for it. ..and then start hiring, raising cash etc.

Business 101 folks.

By: Deadpool: Teqlo Finds Out That Mashups Don’t Make Money

Deadpool: Teqlo Finds Out That Mashups Don’t Make Money — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:51:37 +0000

[...] Making my point that it is hard to make money from mashups, investors have pulled the plug on Teqlo. The startup, backed by Peter Rip, was originally focussed on being a widget-based tool for creating mashups, competing with Yahoo Pipes, Dapper, and OpenKapow. Then it tried to morph into a vague “Web-based workflow” company, and lost its CEO. Founder Jacoby Thwaites tells GigaOm: [...]

By: Uday Subbarayan

Uday Subbarayan — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:21:55 +0000

Its sad to see a startup folding for 2 reasons:
[1]failure of someone’s dream
[2]loss of someone’s $.

From the beginning, i couldn’t able to understand what is the problem, this company is trying to solve…

To me, too many pre-announcements before a product gets shipped is a -ve thing for any startup.

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:14:07 +0000

Kleiner won’t fund any more web 2.0 startups? Wow. That’s a great opportunity for more clueful VCs.