Developer Portfolio Product Development Viral 
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 16, 2016
This term refers to an initial venture-capital investment, often wrongly sought to seed early product development. In fact, most often, it is limited to seeding a startup business rollout or scale-up after development is completed from friends and family. Seed-round investment. Super-angel investors (micro-VCs).
David Teten
MAY 1, 2013
The ff Venture Capital portfolio is evidence of how much we believe this, e.g., our companies Alerts.com , Gobbler.com , Identified.com , Patents.com , Phone.com , and Plated.com. Root Orange has developed a particularly innovative method for exploiting valuable domain names. I previously published this in Forbes.
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Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 28, 2010
Other players such as Obopay have set out to focus on mobile person-to-person cash transfers, mFoundry (a GRP portfolio company) has focused on mobile banking and a mobile wallet and one of my favorite companies m-via is focusing on mobile remittances (right now between the US and Mexico).
Version One Ventures
NOVEMBER 22, 2016
Last week, one of our newest portfolio companies, Abstract , launched their Private Alpha. From these posts, it should be clear that we get excited about social and collaborative platforms where there are strong network effects , virality and daily utility. You can read co-founder Josh Brewer’s announcement here.
Hippoland
AUGUST 8, 2018
As always, there are exceptions: if you build a viral consumer product (such as an Instagram) where people are just coming to your site / app in droves at no cost to you, then you’ve got a great business. Product second. But this is incredibly hard to do, and most sites cannot do this at scale. Marketing first.
Hippoland
AUGUST 8, 2018
As always, there are exceptions: if you build a viral consumer product (such as an Instagram) where people are just coming to your site / app in droves at no cost to you, then you’ve got a great business. Product second. But this is incredibly hard to do, and most sites cannot do this at scale. Marketing first.
Hippoland
FEBRUARY 12, 2018
I know nothing about viral marketing. All of the people we pitched who became our investors had at least one other portfolio company that was doing something in email. I don’t know how you get that many customers at scale without spending a lot. All the investors whom I pitched who believed that email was dead didn’t invest.
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