jooce
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Jooce was a Paris-based startup that launched a Flash-based WebOS and sharing platform in August 2007, targeting the 'cybercafe generation' — an estimated 500 million people who log on from internet cafes daily. It offered each user a private online desktop with instant messaging, email, storage, media player and widgets, plus a second desktop that friends could access to share and drop off files, functioning as a private sharing network. It raised a seed round from Mangrove Capital Partners, an original investor in Skype.
02 / jooce FAILURE REASONS
Failure reasons
No documented reason for Jooce's failure was found. The Flash-based WebOS competed in a crowded space alongside Goowy and G.ho.st, but no public account of the shutdown was identified. Without reliable sources, no failure reasons are stated.
03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Launch
Jooce launches its Flash-based WebOS targeting cybercafe users, with seed funding from Mangrove Capital Partners.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN
How the factors connect
- 01
No acquisition was identified.
- 02
No public announcement of the shutdown was found.