Facebook's success in building out the social graph is exciting and scary at the same…
Entrepreneurship
As social has become integral part of how web product are built these days, every new start-up pitch contains some social angle. While this is great to see, a few approaches seem to treat social as an afterthought and not the foundation of the business. A social commerce site will mostly likely not be successful […]
borisFacebook's success in building out the social graph is exciting and scary at the same…
Both Josh Kopelman and Fred Wilson have lately been pointing out that it is time…
As social has become integral part of how web product are built these days, every new start-up pitch contains some social angle. While this is great to see, a few approaches seem to treat social as an afterthought and not the foundation of the business. A social commerce site will mostly likely not be successful if you first build a straightforward e-commerce store and then put social features on it. In the same way, it is extremely hard to build a community around an existing content site (independent of how good the content actually is) – users usually come to the site to look for information and not to hang out and share their experiences with other members of the community. So if you truly want to leverage social for your product, you need think about it as the first layer you have to build, not the last.
Health / Biology, Portfolio, Version One
Shifting healthcare systems from reactive to proactive care is critical – the best outcomes occur when people can take action early, before a condition becomes a diagnosis. That’s why we are excited to announce that we have led a $2.5m pre-seed round for NiaHealth and are thrilled that they are coming out of stealth and […]
borisWe are continually refining our thesis on healthcare, from looking at clinical-grade at-home diagnostics to biotech and…
Over the past year, some of the most interesting and intellectually-stimulating pitches we heard have…