Great info – This means that almost all the startups survived 3 years in – I wonder if the same could be said of the startups in the years after 2007… I guess time will tell.
Amazing what a difference a few years can make. reading the list I could not recall more than 3 of these companies. I know DocStoc well since they are local, reminded of Mint when filing my taxes with Inuit, and I was reminded I once used the flock browser.
Very interesting indeed. It is funny that personal sites might just live longer than these company sites. Mainly, I guess the uniqueness of personal sites and the identity caught up in it, keeps the sites going.
But, I can see from the above, for companies, lots are built on top of loose sand and doomed to failure.
Metaplace Inc isn’t closed! We pivoted over to creating social games using our technology platform. You can see our games on Facebook (Island Life, My Vineyard). See here: http://www.metaplace.com/
We did, however, close the user-created virtual world service that used to be at metaplace.com.
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Metaplace closed 1/1/2010. http://www.raphkoster.com/2009/12/21/metaplace-com-closing/
Good find. Thanks Peter!
This was close to the Start of techcrunch, I am sure that quality improves as time goes by. You should check every year from now. Great.
Great info – This means that almost all the startups survived 3 years in – I wonder if the same could be said of the startups in the years after 2007… I guess time will tell.
Amazing what a difference a few years can make. reading the list I could not recall more than 3 of these companies. I know DocStoc well since they are local, reminded of Mint when filing my taxes with Inuit, and I was reminded I once used the flock browser.
Interesting table. Must have involved quite some amount of research tracking all these startups. Nice work.
Very interesting indeed. It is funny that personal sites might just live longer than these company sites. Mainly, I guess the uniqueness of personal sites and the identity caught up in it, keeps the sites going.
But, I can see from the above, for companies, lots are built on top of loose sand and doomed to failure.
The bottom line is, missing solid biz model.
Metaplace Inc isn’t closed! We pivoted over to creating social games using our technology platform. You can see our games on Facebook (Island Life, My Vineyard). See here: http://www.metaplace.com/
We did, however, close the user-created virtual world service that used to be at metaplace.com.
This might be a dumb question, but how can Mint have 250 million users when they require you to enter a U.S. postal code when registering?
I havent heard of most of them. Think they need to spend more budget on marketing!
You need to check your spam filter I have had to change my post 3 times already! I am human – I promise!
Wow to be honest, I figured there would be less successes on that list. Kudo on the post.
Jaske