I think people forget that the first text message was sent only 17 years ago. If text messaging were a person, he or she wouldn’t even be able to vote yet.
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Not even the most popular girl in the biggest high school in the world has sent more texts than this entrepreneur. Derek Johnson of Bellingham, Washington is 25 years old and the founder of Tatango.com.
Today we have a very interesting interview for you with Derek Johnson — founder of tatango.com — a Test Messaging Platform that allows the thousands that use Tatango every day to keep their group connected through group SMS.
The Tatango offices offer plenty of large displays, custom art, a stocked fridge and a wall mounted basketball hoop. All six of the current employees are under 25 years old.
Dead simple group texting for ministry with Tatango
Those of us involved in youth ministry are undoubtedly aware that text messaging is an indispensable tool for effective communication with our students, so I wanted to give another push for Tatango and the services they offer.
We had a fun chat with Derek Johnson, the CEO of start-up Tatango. Derek was recently chosen as one of the “2009 Finalists: America’s Best Young Entrepreneurs” by Business Week. Derek has led Tatango through many phases since it’s inception.
The Tatango service caught on quickly, and Johnson, who transferred to the University of Houston to study entrepreneurship, decided to turn the service into a business.
Text messaging is becoming more prevalent in the US and Tatango could become an increasingly popular text messaging tool. It may especially appeal to those who would prefer to compose messages on their computer instead of having to type away on their phone’s tiny keypad.
Whether you want to stay in touch with 5, 10, 15, 20, 500 or 5,000 people all at once, it’s possible but it’s not easy to do, unless you use a service called Tatango.
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Toss your phone tree in the trash. Through this service, you can send mass text messages from your phone or PC to large groups for easy, instant communication.
Text that next ad message! According to Stern of CenterNetworks, services like Tatango’s have some serious marketing potential. “This method could be more effective than email marketing,” he says.
Tatango is a cool startup located in Bellingham, Washington, USA, and they just turned on with Tatango.TV. Here we visit their offices, and learn what’s behind their live TV show.
Seeking Capital — Derek Johnson of Tatango on Fundraising
When I heard that Derek Johnson, CEO of Tatango, was headed to Vancouver and the Bay Area to pitch to various funding sources, I asked him if he’d be interested in journalling the experience.
Young Workers Rebel Against Standard Business Attire
Mr. Johnson is 22—an entrepreneur who dropped out of college when it got in the way of running Tatango, which enables groups to blast text messages to their members. Like many of his generation, he sees traditional business attire as a form of cover-up. In his workplace, he says, “we’re not trying to hide anything with our clothes.”
Then there is speed. Put SMS side by side against the next logical group-messaging option, e-mail, and text comes out way ahead, said Derek Johnson, CEO for Tatango, a five-person startup that went live in October 2007.
Tatango Opens Their Group SMS Service To The Public
The service is dead simple to use, as it should be. I made the jump from accountless bum to en masse messaging mogul in all of about 2 minutes. Sign up, invite some friends, and you (or anybody you dub as a group admin) are able to SMS the entire group at once, either from the browser or right off your mobile handset.
In his most creative selling point this far, Tatango CEO, Derek Johnson gives out his personal cell phone number to anyone and everyone (it’s 206-334-4012, published with his blessing) and is standing by to assist with technical difficulties and answer questions about the product.
Bellingham, WA-based Tatango, a mobile-applications startup focused on text-messaging to groups, rose 77 spots to #91 in this month’s edition of the Seattle Startup Index.
Tatango is perfect for getting help from your friends when you are out and about. It could also work well for work teams to make sure everyone is up-to-date on project and meeting status.
Perhaps the best thing going for Tatango is its completely intuitive feature set. Once you’ve registered, it doesn’t take long to get your circle of contacts connected. And once you’ve made that happen, group messaging will no longer be such an arduous task. Efficiency is bliss, eh?
Tatango is an instant messaging service focused on connecting groups together, which recently launched a public beta of its services. The firm has scored funding from the Bellingham Angels. Tatango is based in Bellingham, Washington, which is about an hour outside of Seattle.
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Johnson believes the product does something unique, and hopes he is on the way to creating “the Yahoo or Gmail of text messaging.” He reports an enthusiastic response so far: Since its Sept. 17 rollout, the service has attracted 5,000 users split into 500 groups.
