November 20th, 2012

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Social photos and videos app Color will shut down at the end of this year, with Apple picking up some of its "key assets" and one of its founding employees suing the company and CEO Bill Nguyen. The...

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October 18th, 2012

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Remember Color? The Silicon Valley startup famously raised $41m in VC funding, launched a much-derided photo-sharing app that sank without trace, and later pivoted into a Facebook video-sharing app, which...

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October 1st, 2012

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Remember Color? You know, $41-million-funding Color, which launched a social photo-sharing app in March 2011, which didn't take off, before pivoting to a Facebook-fuelled video app in October 2011. Which...

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October 20th, 2011

Fast Company’s profile of entrepreneur Bill Nguyen is very long, but it’s a great read. Nguyen is candid about the mistakes he makes as a CEO: “I make the same mistakes with every single...

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October 3rd, 2011

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In its first iteration, photo-sharing app Color was a flop – and one enhanced by the fact that the company behind it had raised $41 million in funding to make it. Cue a hasty pivot: Color has just...

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September 23rd, 2011

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Color founder (and ex boss of the Apple purchase Lala music service) Bill Nguyen unveiled his company’s plans to reinvent itself as a Facebook app at the f8 conference. According to TechCrunch, Color...

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