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Presslayer: there is a new Curious Office project in town

I’m really excited about our newest project that we are incubating internally codenamed “Presslayer”. The concept was developed completely in-house by us and, like Imagekind, I will initially lead the development of the concept and the recruiting of the initial team. Adrian Hanauer and Imagekind CFO Tom Riley are kindly providing support in their own way too. I think we were all reasonably pleased with the Imagekind outcome but in many ways, I’m honestly more excited about this new project than any other I’ve worked on before because:

A) I can’t believe nobody is doing this yet and;
B) We have a great base of investors, co-founders, developers and business partners to draw on right out of the gate

I can’t say a lot about Presslayer just yet. The market is big. The need is obvious. If we could just “snap our fingers” such that the platform just magically appeared in our lap I have no doubt that thousands of designers and marketers would use the system to make their jobs easier.

If you are a developer, product manager or marketing manager anxious to build a leading online community, please don’t hesitate to contact me at kelly@curiousoffice.com

Like last time, Presslayer will be partially funded by Curious Office. Once we finalize on the rest of the development co-founders and the other investors I’ll share more on this blog. This is an exciting time…that moment when you go from concept to a talented team of people all working to bring that idea to fruition. I’ve been fortunate enough to have been through this a few times and we’re sure that you will love what we are up to.

Stay tuned please!!

Kelly

July 21, 2008 | Filed Under Start-ups 

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