Ether to Launch
Techcrunch is reporting that Super-Stealth Ether is to Launch Tonight, which is part of Ingenio, the pay-per-call people. Actually this seems to be very similar to a German company called Questico, which has started doing this kind of stuff years ago. The problem is that they never really succeeded and are now only doing horoscopes and things like that. It’s be interesting to see what Ether makes of it.
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Ether = Questico 2.0?
Ether is a decentralised riff on the original keen.com anno 99 model of allowing people to charge for advice over the phone. As for so many startups, keen.com had a German cousin, Questico. It took Questico a few iterations and unblinking investors to …
i think questico is doing quiet well now. check florians blog (http://www.floriandargel.org/) for a post about ether and questico:
“It took Questico a few iterations and unblinking investors to come up with a business model that works, but thanks to focussing on Astrology advice the company now grows like wildfire.”
michael