Dec

06

Pinterest: The Website That’s Growing Like Facebook in 2006

Chances are, if you were asked what website is closest to firing users’ imagination the way Facebook did in 2006, startup Pinterest would not be on your list. But it would be on Ron Conway’s list and on 3+ million other lists around the world. And on mine, for what it’s worth. Pinterest is a bookmarking [...]

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May

25

3 Reasons For Instagram’s Meteoric Success

We talk to a lot of startups in an average work week and hear one specific question a lot – how did Instagram grow so fast? Instagram is a social photo sharing iPhone app that launched in October and gained almost instant celebrity among users even before the startup had real office space. Winning 100,00 [...]

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