Here are the details from a claim filed in Santa Clara County Court by an attorney for early Color employee Adam Witherspoon against Color Labs and cofounder Bill Nguyen.
Claiming your product will revolutionize the industry? Dissing your competitors? Comparing yourself to Steve Jobs? If you don't live up to your own hype, you might end up permanently scarring your business. Take it from Color's Bill Nguyen and Blockbuster's Jim Keyes.
Foursquare has entered the mostly uneventful period between takeoff and landing. And one of its earliest employees, Tristan Walker, has left the comfort of its cruising altitude in search of the next rocket ride.
Remember Color? Bill Nguyen's massively funded app might have slipped into obscurity (again), but a slightly different network for connecting nearby strangers still wowed 'em at SXSW. Here's why.
Bill Nguyen launches startups with haste, never researches the competition, and makes the same mistakes "again and again."
So why do people keep giving him so much money?
Bill Nguyen recently told Fast Company "Facebook is broken." So why is he planning to re-introduce Color, his flop of a $41 million app, in conjunction with Facebook and its f8 developers conference? Nguyen explains.
While seven-figure domain names might make sense for established web companies and online services, in the app space, there's a sense an expensive domain dot-com isn't as important.
Popular check-in service Foursquare announced that it will add easy photo-sharing between friends, all tagged to check-ins. This service addresses the relevancy issues that crop up with Color, which shows you photos from random strangers all around you.
