Welcome to Amvona.

How did Amvona get started?

Here’s the short version (there is a much, much longer version); In 1999 Amvona opened its virtual doors to the world to sell custom designed photo accessories wrapped up in a social context (before the word “social networking” meant anything to anyone other than 1950’s era sociologists). We let our users share digital images back then too, in a very open fashion… long before Flickr (guess we should have expanded on that whole photo sharing idea). It was a part time endeavor for the founders until mid-2003 when the first full time team members were hired. By 2005 Alexa ranked Amvona.com amongst the 10 ten most visited online photo retailers.

What is Amvona Today? 

Our history (in internet years aka fruit fly years) was in delivering products in a more meaningful fashion and at ridiculous prices, we also created innovative web technology along the way.  Needless to say, seven consecutive years of 250 + % growth offended some of our competitors. 

In the summer of 2009 Amvona re-launched the website to focus on a simple concept – “One Deal” with the goal of creating hyper efficiency in the product life-cycle-we also added a blog that focuses on the intersection of Clean Technology and Media creation. The social aspects of Amvona were peeled away at the same time and became our sister site - Flekt.com.  Although the "One Deal" concept exceeded our expectation, in April of 2010, we decided nonetheless to focus exclusively on the blog.

What is Flekt and why is it all over your site?

If the whole "take over the world" thing doesn't work out with Amvona we're hoping Flekt will... so we're hedging.  We also think it's the coolest contextual search service ever, so we want to promote it every chance we get.  Upload your media there and it will show the world the tools you've been using, and a bunch of other really "neato" things.  What's cooler than that?  Our CTO made sure you can use your Amvona userid and password to login to Flekt as well.  If you had your profile on Amvona before, don't worry, it's all safely located at Flekt now.

Who works at Amvona?

A bunch of people who think life and work should be an adventure, and who definitely don’t have “jobs”. We drive a few fuel efficient vehicles, not during work hehe, a motorcycle (but not during winter, that would be crazy), and one SUV (but we’re working on it.) Apparently, more than one of us sings at the top of our lungs in the car (but not at the same time, that would be disturbing.) We faithfully run on Dunkin...every morning (but only because of the nutritional value). We are strongly involved in our church and community. And, we somehow fit life in between.

Where is Amvona?

Somewhere in the cloud (that is to say, the virtual cloud-computing environment).  Amvona started completely 100% virtual, and that's where we've wound up, with just a few twists and turns in-between.