Join Instagram and Get Your Business Profile
before we dive right in to the account setup details, let me share two brief paragraphs about the remarkable rise of Instagram. The founders’ story is incredibly inspiring, and tens of thousands of marketers around the world are now benefiting from their genius. Who are these guys? The Remarkable Rise of Instagram On October 6, 2010, two Stanford classmates, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, launched the Instagram app (Figure 1). They were backed by $500,000 in investor funding from famed Silicon Valley firms Baseline Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz. Their hope was to catch the wave of phone-based picture taking and sharing. Apple had made it fun and easy with the launch of the iPhone 3, and improved it in the summer of 2010 with the iPhone 4. Systrom and Krieger were betting on the death of point-and-shoot cameras and the rise of phone-based sharing. They guessed right. figure 1 Two months after launch, Instagram had a million users. By September 2011, less than a year after laun...
