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I'm curious whether the issue is that there isn't an appetite among LPs for lower-risk, lower-yield investment, or that the indie.vc terms didn't enable enough upside or liquidity?

If it's not VC and it's not loans, what is the answer for funding growth at post-revenue companies that don't fit the hyperscaling model?

I think the poster was referring to the Greek economy's need for bailout/recapitalization from the EU, not provision of aid to their citizens.

While the US is in fact known as the manufacturers of several delicious varieties of cookie, you might be surprised to learn that consumer packaged goods as a whole are not among the top 10 categories of goods exported from the US to the UK. So I'm not sure supermarket shelves are a great data point.

(Total US->UK ~$55bn, about 4% of total US exports, top categories: aircraft, oil, cars, machinery, electronics.)

Dodgeball, the predecessor of Foursquare, predated Loopt in the mobile social space by at least three years. There were likely others.

Loopt received the at that time unheard of privilege of running an always-on location service on some phones, and failed as a business.

Separately, being inclined to believe someone in a matter of fact/law based on their track record in another realm is an example of the appeal to authority fallacy. The subject also has personal and institutional conflicts of interest in this instance.

Now if we're talking polo shirt styling...

In that it requires address validation. So "private" per se is wrong, sorry, but nothing within a community is intended to travel. Placewire is happily promiscuous. Thanks for the question.

Please see my reply to bobbylox for the operational differentiators I see between Placewire and other hyperlocal models.

I'd argue that despite feeling apathetic about the individuals in your community, one could be motivated use Placewire. Because person-to-person connections/follower counts are not a core part of the product (today), there's a lesser ambient sense of social haves and have nots. I also think an ambivalent person could use Placewire for both practical reasons (I learned that there's a new Cambodian restaurant opening on Smith Street), or because you enjoy being a person who has information. Think about Matt Drudge, a news hound and apparently somewhat of a hermit.

Instagram with a hashtag is fine if you 1. aren't bothered by sending the majority of your followers content that is irrelevant to them, and 2. believe that non-followers will discover your content by surfing your chosen hashtag. Algorithmic feed could change some of this - we'll see!

Nextdoor is a private message board, which is an ideal environment for people who enjoy message boards and the type of conversations they engender, while the unit of content on Placewire is a photo. I believe this enables a different type of conversation and will engage a different set of users.

I think Facebook groups are typically used at micro-local (eg. a city block) scale and it's perfect for sharing information in that context. I'm not sure how that maps to a neighborhood. Do you have any firsthand experience?

I also plan to circulate content in a less geographically siloed way than these quite private platforms.

1) Better unit economics via user-generated content creation. I'm not paying per-market salaries like Patch (though I'm not reaping the benefits of labor of a dedicated professional, either).

2) A native ad product (sponsored photo/link) which local businesses understand, because they're already creating the content for existing social media.

3) A content model based on a form of media which people enjoy both consuming and creating, rather than zoning board recaps and the crime blotter. I'm not denigrating either of those - I enjoy both - but like a lot journalism they are costly to produce relative to their travel.

Now tell us how this would affect your plans for the next round of Co-Prosperity Cloud awardees.

$41? $43? Sky's really the limit here.

"Co-Prosperity Cloud 2: the Trickle-Down"