It's a bold move to build a social location app today, but Kevin Systorm doesn't care about that. My first impression to Burbn was a Facebook Connect button, which is a brilliant idea. Connect me with ...

But did you know that Instagram almost wasn’t Instagram at all? I detailed some of their transformation from the location-based HTML5 app Burbn to Instagram in my initial preview of the app. But ...

ASPEN, Colo.—Instagram didn't start out as Instagram. It started out as … Burbn. Kevin Systrom, the creativity researcher Keith Sawyer explains, was a fan of Kentucky whiskeys. So when he created a ...

Kevin Systrom (right) and Mike Krieger.. Peter DaSilva/The New York Times/Redux In the beginning, there was Burbn. Sound familiar? Probably not; but it was Instagram’s co-founders Kevin Systrom and ...

For about the past six months or so, I’ve been using an app called Burbn. Despite being in stealth mode, the app attracted quite a bit of buzz as it was in the location space and built entirely in ...

Kevin Systrom was working behind a hissing espresso machine at Palo Alto’s Caffé del Doge in the spring of 2006 when Facebook Chief Mark Zuckerberg approached the counter with a puzzled look on his ...

Those highly stylized square photos you keep seeing all over Twitter and Facebook? They're from Instagram. From pics of your dinner to the ceiling in your dentist's office to aerial shots from 15,000 ...

Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom is undoubtedly one of the most active startup CEOs on Quora. Over the past two years, Quora users have read the many stories behind the creation of Instagram, one of ...

Dara-Abasi Ita writes about trading and investing for Investopedia and Investing.com, and he is an editor at Lawverse magazine. He has written about financial topics, including private equity, asset ...

ASPEN, Colo.—Instagram didn't start out as Instagram. It started out as … Burbn. Kevin Systrom, the creativity researcher Keith Sawyer explains, was a fan of Kentucky whiskeys. So when he created a ...