article thumbnail

Invest in Israel Newsletter – June 2012 Edition

VC Cafe

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

Latvia 109
article thumbnail

From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

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. I need money for the servers. Great info, I can’t wait to read more.

article thumbnail

Finding Your Co-Founders

techcrunch.com

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.