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Livekick

Live video coaching before the internet could handle it

timingSilent Shutdown

Quiet closure with no public announcement · Fatal mistake: Livekick built a live video coaching platform years before broadband infrastructure and consumer behavior supported seamless live-streaming interactions at scale.

Founded	2008
Closed	2010
Country	USA
Sector	Healthtech

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2008-01

FOUNDING

Livekick founded in the USA to build a live video coaching and personal training SaaS platform.

2008-09

FUNDING

Secured seed funding to develop and launch the live video coaching platform during the Web 2.0 boom.

2009-06

PRODUCT LAUNCH

Launched live coaching platform but encountered significant friction due to video streaming limitations and low consumer broadband speeds.

2010-06

SHUTDOWN

Livekick shut down after exhausting seed funding, unable to overcome infrastructure limitations and acquire sufficient paying users.

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Livekick launched a live video coaching and personal training SaaS platform in 2008, entering the market during the nascent live-streaming era. The startup faced significant structural headwinds that ultimately...

prevented scalability. First, the technical infrastructure for live video streaming was immature in 2008-2010, with unreliable compression, encoding, and delivery technologies limiting user experienc

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