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280 North

280 North is a web application company based on their proprietary application framework, Cappuccino. Along with Objective-J, Cappuccino provides a complete toolkit to develop rich web applications. It's modeled after a proven desktop development environment, and has been released as an open source project under the LGPL.\r\n\r\n280 North's first application, 280 Slides, enables anyone with a web browser to quickly and easily create beautiful presentations. 280 Slides takes advantage of the web by making it trivial to find and include great media in your presentation. We also built in advanced features like importing and exporting PowerPoint documents, so your data is always portable.

AcquiredWinter 2008Other

About 280 North

280 North is a web application company based on their proprietary application framework, Cappuccino. Along with Objective-J, Cappuccino provides a complete toolkit to develop rich web applications. It's modeled after a proven desktop development environment, and has been released as an open source project under the LGPL. 280 North's first application, 280 Slides, enables anyone with a web browser to quickly and easily create beautiful presentations. 280 Slides takes advantage of the web by making it trivial to find and include great media in your presentation. We also built in advanced features like importing and exporting PowerPoint documents, so your data is always portable.

Risk Analysis

Category Risk

22%death rate

Other: 130 of 604 startups failed

MEDIUM

Team Size

11people

Median for failed in Other: 2

Median for active in Other: 4

Founded 2008 — older batches naturally have higher attrition rates. Death rate comparisons should account for age.

External Resources

Post-mortem content hosted on startups.rip — we provide the analytics layer.