As you’re building your marketplace, consider which tools and technology to leverage. There’s no reason…
Entrepreneurship
Image via Wikipedia One of the best talks I heard at CasualConnect last week was “Building communities, not just hits” by Max Levchin (founder and CEO of Slide) and Philip Rosedale (founder and CEO of Linden Lab, the company behind Second Life). Creating an online community is extremely hard to do and I have seen […]
As you’re building your marketplace, consider which tools and technology to leverage. There’s no reason…
As social has become integral part of how web product are built these days, every…
One of the best talks I heard at CasualConnect last week was “Building communities, not just hits” by Max Levchin (founder and CEO of Slide) and Philip Rosedale (founder and CEO of Linden Lab, the company behind Second Life). Creating an online community is extremely hard to do and I have seen a lot of examples where it just happened but nobody could explain why (and tons of examples where community plans never took off) so I appreciated the thoughts by Max and Philip on this topic. They basically boiled it down to 4 success factors:
Building online communities is very hard but if you are successful, you can create amazing value for your startup. So think about those 4 points when you think about adding a community aspect to your site.
Portfolio
It’s been an eventful quarter (when has it not?), and somehow we’ve already crossed the halfway mark of 2025. We wanted to take a moment to highlight just a few of the wins, milestones, and momentum we’ve seen this past quarter. As always, there’s a whole lot happening behind the scenes that can’t be shared […]
The V1 family kicked off the new year with fresh energy and no shortage of…
At the end of Q1, we anticipated that a tech sector slowdown is ideal for…