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Style Site Polyvore Debuts Its First Ever iPhone App, Touts Cash Flow Positive Operations

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http://techcrunch.com – Polyvore, the interactive fashion and style website that lets people create collages of apparel and accessories using images from any online store, has had solid growth since it first came on the scene back in 2007. Its monthly unique visitor count has steadily grown to more than 19 million, up from the 13 million monthly uniques it was seeing in the beginning of the year. And, most impressive by startup standards, Polyvore co-founders Jess Lee and Pasha Sadri tell me the 55-person company’s operations recently went beyond being merely profitable to hit cash flow positive status. So it& (IT news)

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