JooJoo Only Had 90 Pre-Orders. NINETY, period.
March 31, 2010 by Gwendolyn Regina T
90 sounds like the score you get on a primary school quiz. Well, it apparently also is the number of pre-orders Fusion Garage had for their flagship tablet, the Joo Joo.
What seems to be a development of the legal wrangle between Fusion Garage and TechCrunch has just exposed the extremely low numbers of pre-orders for the device. When we first talked about pre-sales with Chandra of Fusion Garage, I imagined numbers in the 5 or 6 digit range. Now I know better.
Image from Gizmodo.
To make matters worse, “approximately 15 of these [90] pre-orders already have been charged back or refunded”. That leaves about 75 people out there on the entire planet Earth who’s interested in acquiring the Joo Joo.
75.
On the other hand, it seemed like the iPad from Apple got 120000 (6 digits!) pre-orders on its first day.
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Follow the Fusion Garage/JooJoo/CrunchPad/TechCrunch story here on SGE: one, two, three, four, five, six (this piece!).
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Apart from SGE, Gwen is also a Partner at Thymos Capital, where she focuses on early stage investments in technology firms. She has had two exits out of her investments via the firm, one of which is iHipo. A frequent judge for business competitions both locally and overseas, she graduated from the National University of Singapore. Gwen also spent some time in Silicon Valley and studied in Stanford University under the NUS Overseas College programme. Gwen is a mentor at Spanish incubator Tetuan Valley, Polish incubator Gamma Rebels, the Singapore Ambassador for the Sandbox network and the Singapore curator for StartupDigest. She enjoys languages, travelling, dance and adventure sports. Gwen can be found on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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