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“Had we sat down and said, ‘Let’s start a photo application,’ we would have failed,” Fake says. “We would have done all this research and done all the wrong things.”

Interesting little article on Caterina Fake and how Flickr came about.

On March 4, 2006   /   Business/Branding Advice, Favourite Entries & Quotes   /   Comments Off

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