VC Cafe

JULY 2, 2012

Redwood City, California’s Shutterfly, a leading internet-based social expression and personal publishing service, has acquired Israel’s Photoccino , a developer of groundbreaking technologies for photo ranking, analysis and organization. Stanley is headquartered in New Britain, Connecticut, USA. Global sales in 2011 were $2.76

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

In consumer internet, that usually means one front-end user-facing developer, one back-end server-side developer, and ultimately a business person (details will come in a later post). More often than not, a startup/company fails because the product developed is not what the marketplace sought. Short and sweet.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. I don’t know any developers. I can’t tell you how frequently teams of three business school students tell me they’re going to start the next great consumer Internet company. No looking for partnerships (who’s going to partner with you anyway?).

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