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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

View from Seed

The internet continues the disintermediation of content creation. These two marketing and publishing platforms, respectively, allow for a more intimate relationship between creators and their audience. Finally, productivity mobile calendaring app Sunrise has been adding features which leverage demand-side economies of scale.

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A Critical, but Ignored Metric for Marketplaces

A Crowded Space

In contrast, if you don’t have people that are relying on you for their primary income, you’ll have a very fickle audience. They will not care much about their online reputation, they will not drive turnaround times lower, and they will be disintermediation risks.

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Better, Cheaper, More Convenient

Rob Go

These are companies that offer consumers a product or service (or both) that they are paid for (as opposed to consumer audience businesses that are monetized through advertising). The ride experience is better in an UberX than a taxi, uberX is cheaper than a taxi, and on demand mobile booking, payments, etc make it way more convenient.