Saturday, February 9, 2013

Why Foodspotting Is Worth $10 Million | Inc.com

"OpenTable's acquisition of Foodspotting shows why entrepreneurs should pay close attention to their platform capital.

Online restaurant reservation service OpenTable announced yesterday that it has acquired start-up Foodspotting for $10 million.

OpenTable lets diners book a table at their favorite restaurant. Foodspotting helps you choose a restaurant in the first place. You can search the site by restaurant or type of meal. It then serves up a set of user-uploaded photos of dishes at certain restaurants. The New York Times reported yesterday that Foodspotting has a database of three million food photos and is adding a few hundred thousand pictures every month.

But was that really enough to get Foodspotting a check from OpenTable? There are more than photos at work here."

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