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 ...

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 ...

It's a bold move to build a social location app today, but Kevin Systorm doesn't care about that.I was introduced to Burbn by a friend who claimed, "it's like a Foursquare game".

From what we can tell, right now, Burbn is just a one-man shop: Kevin Systrom , a former Googler. With the funding, you can probably expect that to change soon. TechCrunch Desktop Logo TechCrunch ...

Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom (far right) killed off his first venture, Burbn, to focus instead on the part of the app that users flocked to. SAN FRANCISCO (CNNMoney) -- Go where the people ...

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 ...

A couple years ago, Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz invested $250,000 into a startup called Burbn – something of a Foursquare-clone. Burbn didn't work out, and its ...