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Sidecar App Re-Imagines Mobile Phone Calls With a Flurry of Clever Features
• http://www.wired.com, By Steven LevyThat was the reality facing Socialeyes, a startup co-founded by Rob Glaser (former CEO of Real Networks) and Rob Williams (the one-time Microsoft wizard involved in numerous startups, including Avogadro). The company’s idea to deliver persistent video connections between friends and workers wasn’t breaking out. “A VC looks for home runs,” says Williams. “We didn’t have that.”
“We’d raised $5 million [from Ignition Ventures],” says Glaser. “We could stick it out, or hard pivot.”
Sidecar actually offers two kinds of service to its users. First of all, it’s an alternative to actually paying for phone calls. Sidecar VOIP calls are free. This works not only when Sidecar users call others signed up for the no-cost service, but when they use Sidecar to call anyone in the United States or Canada