- Dates
- 2010-01 – 2009-12
- Kind
- Business
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- commercetechnologycommunicationcommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The January 2010 Beaver Beacon profiled Vikas Reddy and Jeffrey Powers Jr., Beaver Island-connected founders of Occipital. Their RedLaser iPhone app used a barcode to compare prices, after the company received TechStars seed funding and opened an operation in Boulder.
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This is a newspaper business profile, not an audited funding, revenue, ownership, or product-history record.
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Sources
- The forum linked RedLaser’s Apple advertising and later community notices about Today-show coverage, TechCrunch reporting, stated download/scan figures, and eBay’s June 2010 acquisition announcement. The external media were not independently preserved here; the reported metrics and acquisition terms remain attributed to the linked reports.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 02 · t002294
- Beaver Beacon, January 2010, "Got Apps."Reports the Beaver Island-connected founders' $12,000 TechStars seed funding, RedLaser barcode-reader app, Boulder operation, and reported sales by Thanksgiving. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2010-01_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the technology-business profile.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2010-01_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island-connected founders develop the RedLaser computer-vision app, 2010”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-occipital-redlaser-app-2009/, accessed [date], citing Jeffrey Powers, "Red Laser on Network Television Advertising," Beaver Island Forum, April 8–June 24, 2010. (and 2 further sources listed on the page).
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