Picwing
Location: 235 Berry Street #509, San Francisco, California 94158, United States United States
Founded in: 2008
Stage: Revenue generating
Number of employees: 1-5
Profitable year: 2009
Short URL: vator.co/picwing
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Picwing

The World's Easiest Way to Print Photos
Startup/business
California, United States United States United States
http://www.picwing.com
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Company description

Picwing is the world's easiest way to print photos online.

Email your photos to Picwing, and you're done: The photos automatically get printed and sent to your friends and family on your distribution list. 

Team

Edward Kim received his BS (2005) and MS (2006) from Stanford
University in Electrical Engineering. Prior to founding Picwing, he worked on next generation navigation and speech recognition systems at the Volkswagen Electronics Research Lab in Palo Alto.

Enrique is an electrical engineer with several years of experience
developing enterprise software applications. He previously founded
notitu.com, a people-powered newspaper for the Spanish-speaking

community. Before Picwing he worked for the Volkswagen Electronics Research Laboratory where he was involved in projects that required expertise in both hardware and software. 

Business model

Picwing business model is selling prints. They currently have 2 pricing plans: 

1) Monthly pricing plans starting at $4.95/month

2) Pay-as-you-go pricing plans starting at $0.19/print 

Competitive advantage
Most photo printing services compete on price. Picwing competes on ease-of-printing.