Pinterest raises $27 million in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz
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Re: Pinterest raises $27 million in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz
#2I have not seen my wife so engaged with a site or mobile app since Facebook and possibly Angry Birds. That's when I knew Pinterest was going to be huge. Good for them on raising this round.
I think the path to monetization will be a no-brainer as well.
Contrast that with the folks as Svpply (I heard hopes for them for early on) who sit around saying "They’ve (pinterest) locked themselves into a niche community of 22-35yr old women" while Pinterest is absolutely blowing up and eating their lunch. Very stupid and short-sighted view IMO. http://pieratt.tumblr.com/post/10452105095/who-svpply-is-com...
Take note on what your spouse/kids/SO spend their time engaged in.
Re: Pinterest raises $27 million in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz
#3I have not seen my wife so engaged with a site or mobile app since Facebook and possibly Angry Birds. That's when I knew Pinterest was going to be huge. Good for them on raising this round. I think the path to monetization will be a no-brainer as well. Contrast that with the folks as Svpply (I heard hopes for them for early on) who sit around saying "They’ve (pinterest) locked themselves into a niche community of 22-…
It's true. SVPPLY is mostly a bunch of dudes who all like the same boring JCrew-meets-Hypebeast dad wear. Not an awful market but nowhere near as big as "women age 20-35."
Re: Pinterest raises $27 million in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz
#4Congrats to the pinterest team, perhaps they can invest in more servers now ;P
Re: Pinterest raises $27 million in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz
#5So it's a photo sharing site?
Re: Pinterest raises $27 million in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz
#6I have not seen my wife so engaged with a site or mobile app since Facebook and possibly Angry Birds. That's when I knew Pinterest was going to be huge. Good for them on raising this round. I think the path to monetization will be a no-brainer as well. Contrast that with the folks as Svpply (I heard hopes for them for early on) who sit around saying "They’ve (pinterest) locked themselves into a niche community of 22-…
It's true. SVPPLY is mostly a bunch of dudes who all like the same boring JCrew-meets-Hypebeast dad wear. Not an awful market but nowhere near as big as "women age 20-35."
Right, but I also already see Pinterest moving out of that niche ... even I have an account now.
Re: Pinterest raises $27 million in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz
#7So it's a photo sharing site?
Yes, but with links. So it's definitely worth billions.
Edit: Now that I've actually looked at the site to ensure I wasn't speaking out of ignorance, I noticed that the external links are not rel="nofollow". This will be a brilliant breeding ground for SEO spam.
Re: Pinterest raises $27 million in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz
#8I have not seen my wife so engaged with a site or mobile app since Facebook and possibly Angry Birds. That's when I knew Pinterest was going to be huge. Good for them on raising this round. I think the path to monetization will be a no-brainer as well. Contrast that with the folks as Svpply (I heard hopes for them for early on) who sit around saying "They’ve (pinterest) locked themselves into a niche community of 22-…
From the article you posted from by Svpply blog:
"It’s going to be very difficult for them to grow beyond puppies and photos of Ryan Gosling."
Wow. What a complete disregard for women as a desirable demographic. When companies act like this it's an opportunity for the rest of us.
I've been using pinterest the same way I use twitter; as social media for my business (whose target demographic is women 22-35).
Re: Pinterest raises $27 million in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz
#9If they raised $25 million while valued at $200 million, and earlier raised $10 million, presumably at a much lower valuation...
That doesn't leave the company a huge amount of equity and control, does it?
Re: Pinterest raises $27 million in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz
#10They're killing it. Glad to have helped found it.