Jotspot has often been discussed as one of the most successful and established enterprise 2.0 companies and I imagine the selling price was a good one for the small startup. Joe Krause frequently points out that it cost only $100,000 to get Jotspot to market. Jotspot raised one round of funding in 2004 for $5.2 million from Redpoint Ventures and Mayfield Funds. Excite was once considered a darling of the early web but was first acquired for less than $10 million.
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As of today all existing customers are no longer being charged and new account registration is closed while Jotspot is integrated with the rest of Google’s services.įounders Joe Kraus and Graham Spencer are also founders of early web portal Excite, now an IAC property. An intro page and screencast about Jotspot is still online but may not be for much longer. The Palo Alto company reports having more than 2000 customers who subscribe to services costing $5 and $200 per month. In fact, far more than a wiki, I’m going to guess that when Google reopens Jotspot to new users it will be as a wiki based project management service. Google may push Jotspot primarily as a project management application, one of the most important missing pieces of the company’s office platform. The acquisition may have been largely motivated by the desire to bring on board an agile team able to quickly ramp up lightweight hosted business applications for collaboration. Other than a wiki, most of Jotspot’s plug and play applications are things that Google already has its own versions of. See all our previous coverage of Jotspot here. We also reported on rumors that Yahoo! was going to acquire the company in May. A business oriented service that plugs a long list of different applications like calendars and photo sharing into a wiki framework, we called Jotspot “the best business-facing hosted wiki available” when we reviewed its newest iteration this summer.
Google’s office strategy just got a whole lot richer with the announced acquisition of the wiki based company Jotspot.
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