This is a repost of a note I originally published on my Facebook account on August 12th, 2016, in German language. Vielen Dank, dass du meinen Artikel geöffnet hast. Es würde mir viel bedeuten, wenn du ihn zu Ende lesen würdest und mir Rückmeldung gibst. Es geht um Chatbots, Conversational Commerce, die Facebook Messenger Platform und ein Produkt, das ich entwickelt habe.
Around the same time in 2011, I wrote a posting about the LeWeb 2010 finalists and startup success in general. I placed a reminder into my calendar to revisit the list in 2012 and went to check whether the companies were still alive and well. Unfortunately, I never released the post. Now, another year later, I saw the unreleased draft and decided to update it once again. Votizen – acquired by causes.com (open positions 11/2012: 2) Simple (former BankSimple) – online and hiring (2012: 7, 2013: 7) Blekko – online, no jobs offers found (open positions 11/2012: 3) Hipmunk – online and hiring (2012: 1, 2013: 5) Optimizely – online and hiring (2012: 9, 2013: 21) 1000 Memories – aquired by ancestry.com Elation EMR – online and hiring (2012: 3, 2013: 5) CueUp (former Greplin) – acquired by Apple, now defunct (2012: 4.5) SavingStar (SaveWave) – online and hiring (2012: 1, 2013: 3) Topguest – acquired by Switchfly Beautylish – online and hiring (2012: 1, 2013: 3) GroupMe – online and hiring (2012: 3, 2013: …
I was interested in whether there’s any truth in this startup-scene meme, so I took some time to walk through 13 startups who presented 30 second pitches at Web 2.0 summit 2010, a little more than one year ago.