Comments on: Jangl Raises $7M To Enter Anonymous Calling Market

By: relaxedguy

relaxedguy — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:06:20 +0000

Michael, keep us in the loop, interested to hear more about this traction and differentiation.

By: Michael Cerda

Michael Cerda — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:35:24 +0000

Dave and Andy – Maybe there’s a whole lot of differentiation. Maybe there’s something the VCs know-that you don’t.

Bill – We have traction, lots of traction.

I urge all of you to watch this play out and reserve your conclusions.

-mc

By: Bill Broadbent

Bill Broadbent — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:07:41 +0000

Amazing Dave and a great acronym. Their site even has the feel of DateNumber which pretty much all the players in the industry got to see and they gained no traction. I imagine the VC’s think there is some viral component as did DateNumber. DateNumber (gNumber) didn’t make it work, adapted, and completely shifted their business to enabling eBay transactions (a killer ap in a huge market). Maybe Jangl figured it out, but I am personally doubtful.

By: Andy Arnott

Andy Arnott — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 00:54:33 +0000

This one really confuses me. It just proves that VC’s are back to just throwing money around. Just like Dave says there are just too many better alternatives that are already popular, and not limited to just dating (like skype). Why re-invent the wheel, unless you are going to give them some spinnersâ€¦

By: Julia Dorofeeva

Julia Dorofeeva — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 23:50:16 +0000

This feature is rather popular nowadays.

Not long ago (10th of July) Userplane has announced about its unique Anonymous Calling feature has triggered more than 20,000 calls worldwide during the past 60 days.

There was also a small survey within Online dating site users ran by Gordon Smith (www.gordonsmith.co.uk- this is not an ad, just a research) on whether they would be interested in an anonymous telephone calling service.

Anonymous telephone calling: Would you use a service that allowed you to talk to a potential date over the phone, without them knowing your phone number and without you knowing theirs?

* Sounds brilliant – I would definitely use this 967 (26%)

* I would consider it 1267 (34%)

* Sounds good but too complicated for me 152 (4%)

* Pass – I’m not interested 1171 (32%)

* Don’t understand it 138 (4%)

As you can see there’s a market for this service and I suppose it should be popular as now. By the way, how would you answer the servey question?

I suppose positively ;) A growth of this niche proves its importance.