Tatango

Connecting Groups Through Text Messaging
Startup/business
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Washington, United States
http://tatango.com/

Finalist in College Mogul and Vator.tv Challenge

Founded by Derek Johnson in his parent’s basement at the age of 22, Tatango is a group text messaging service that allows any group to communicate through group SMS.

With one message from the computer or mobile phone, the service has the ability to reach thousands of people, instantaneously. Initially built as a service to help fraternities communicate via text messaging, Tatango has grown to a leader in the industry, with groups ranging from the generic organization to fortune 500 businesses.

The Tatango service doesn’t require any special phone or its users to download any software to use the service.

Tatango is the redesign of networkText, a website that grew to over 260,000 users and 30 million text messages sent following their launch in October of 2007.

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Feedback and testimonials

Derek Johnson November 26, 2008
Thomas, you obviously haven't used Tatango. If you would have used Tatango you would have first realized that each SMS is monetized via advertising and second, we are not only text messaging, we also offer ad-supported group voice calling. If I was you, I would find a different venue to bad mouth competitors.

* Just to clarify, Teleflip was a completely different product as they offered the ability for peoples email to be converted into SMS. We do group text & voice messaging, not even close.
Thomas Sheahan November 25, 2008
Free SMS, isnt a great business model. There was a US company called Teleflip that went bust!!! They had great press too. SMS isn't free!!!
Andrew Dumont September 04, 2008
Thanks for the feature, we look forward to the show.
Bambi Francisco Roizen September 04, 2008
We just featured Tatango in a Vator Box show. Watch for it in the coming weeks.
Andrew Dumont September 03, 2008
I'm glad you liked the pitch Bambi! Derek has created a profile and will be adding additional information to it shortly. Thanks for the feedback!
Andrew Dumont September 03, 2008
Thanks Mark, greatly appreciated!
Mark Cramer August 21, 2008
Very impressive uptake in such a short amount of time!
Bambi Francisco Roizen August 15, 2008
Great pitch. But where is Derek's profile? The video pitch definitely helps to convey the founder's confidence and ability to articulate Tatango's story. But it would be good to see his bio, profile, etc.