I'm interested to know the story of the inception of the shapeways.com company. It's such a prolific business idea, that I feel the story should be told. I would like to know more about how shapeways.com went from being an idea on paper, to a real company. Maybe I'm not alone in wondering this.
Every so often articles in magazine contain a short history (sorry no links at hand) The blog also has may parts of the story throughout the years but I can recommend the first few blog posts: https://www.shapeways.com/blog/archives/6-A-new-service.html https://www.shapeways.com/blog/archives/7-Welcome-to-U-Design !.html
Here's a pretty good background story posted today on TIME: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2 094921_2094923_2104056,00.html