Months before a grilled high mallow sandwichraised$10 million in funding , the iPhone app Color was the tech house of cards doomsayer ’s startup of pick . The party bring up a staggering $ 41 million in funding for a non - existent exposure - sharing Robert William Service nobody really understood . So , where is it now ? Take a guess .
http://gawker.com/5807591/grilled-cheese-sandwich-gets-10-million-in-venture-funding
Color launch in March to insane buzz , thanks to its $ 41 million funding — morethan Yahoo pay for Flickr in 2005 — its charismatic founding father , Bill Nguyen , and the fact it compensate $ 350,000 for the domain Color.com . Nobody really sympathize what it was supposed to do — something about “ elastic social networks ” and also “ transforming the way people communicate with each other?”—but what it did do was let youstalkpeople sustain a better time than you .
http://gawker.com/5786148/hot-new-app-lets-you-stalk-people-having-more-fun-than-you
So , quiz clock time : about three months after launch , where is Color now ?
a ) Color has transfer the way we convey with each other . gamy school kids have abandoned the textbook and talk office of their phone for Color . “ gloss me ! ” has entered the lexicon , and the app was recently used to track down the Orcinus orca in a in particular gruesome instalment of Law & Order SVU .
b ) Color has a mild - but - growing substance abuser al-Qaeda and is well on its way to cut up out a niche among the many pic - sharing apps .
c ) The few substance abuser who did n’t abandon Color the day after its fatal , puzzling launch still do n’t really understand what it does . Color ’s President of the United States has beenfiredand engineers are scrambling in their broad Palo Alto office , perfect with “ beanbag chairs , collapsible shelter for napping and a hand - built half - pipe skateboard ramp , ” according to theNew York Times .
The correct answer is … c ) but do n’t count Color out yet . They ’ve still got ten of millions of dollars to piss aside . [ NYT , range of a function via AP ]
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