Comments on: Scribd Banks $3.5 Million from Redpoint

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By: Scribd získal 3,5 milionu dolarů od Redpointu

Scribd získal 3,5 milionu dolarů od Redpointu — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 03:54:20 +0000

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[...] have the the traditional dip in traffic after its launch, and has continued to grow rapidly after raising nearly $4 million in two rounds of venture [...]

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By: Bill Smith

Bill Smith — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:34:48 +0000

Good news for struggling venture people…I am curious to know how they came up with the $17.5 million post-money valuation.

By: Blue flower

Blue flower — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:40:11 +0000

good site.

By: Scribd získal 3,5 milionu od Redpointu

Scribd získal 3,5 milionu od Redpointu — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 03:08:35 +0000

By: The Thinking Blog

The Thinking Blog — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 01:02:24 +0000

That is insane amount of money! o_O

I wonder how much I can cash in if I tried to exit..

By: Shanti Braford

Shanti Braford — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 03:59:34 +0000

Everything that the “haters” said above, people were saying about YouTube six months before it got acquired for $1.6 billion.

Just pointing out a coincidence.

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By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:35:23 +0000

There’s a lot of talk about there about Scribd being over-hyped and overvalued and people don’t seem to understand the purpose or how to monetize document sharing. The ultimate asset that a Web 2.0 is its user base. With Scribd, the user base is made up of the general public, which definitely has some value. But imagine a user base that has a very targeted audience, such as FaceBook has with its micro-communities of college students at specific college campuses. This kind of targeted user base is what gets advertisers salivating.

So, that being said, there is a very valuable for document sharing and using it as the catalyst to build a targeted user base.

The newly launched Scriptovia is the perfect example of how a community can be built around document sharing. It is done by targeting a market that shares the same interest and get value from the documents by building useful tools around the sharing capabilities. For example, Scriptovia is targeted at high school and college students and, according to the website, allows them “to collaborate and receive feedback on their academic work.” This includes essays, notes, lab reports, presentations, and everything else students create to advance their knowledge.

Although Scribd is great, it’s not the pinnacle for this type of technology. I have a feeling though, we’re going to see a lot of other sites leveraging document sharing in very meaningful ways.

By: Concrete Stain

Concrete Stain — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:07:26 +0000

Alot of pirated content /

– lots of competitiors , slideshare? etc …

– Looks like funding was mainly in part be YC or their first 40k

By: Anon

Anon — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 07:35:03 +0000

Turns out that Flash embedded PDF viewer is a Macromedia product:

http://www.adob...paper/examples/

It appears that Scribd rebranded it as their own. What other technology do they really have behind this?

By: MrVegiita

MrVegiita — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 06:53:15 +0000

Wow, they still have many pirated materials on their site. I can hear copyright lawyers drooling !

By: Ryan Stewart - Rich Internet Application Mountaineer

Ryan Stewart - Rich Internet Application Mountaineer — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 06:40:36 +0000

Scribd Gets $3.5 Million…

TechCrunch is reporting that Scribd, the “YouTube of documents” raised another $3.5 million in funding. I wrote about Scribd a while back because they’re using FlashPaper to display the shared documents. I’m an old softie for Fl…

By: bdb

bdb — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 06:21:50 +0000

Don’t know how they got $. Don’t know how they’ll get $ back. Don’t know a high-volume legit usage for this application.

“particularly those who need to manage a variety of document types and share them with their colleagues.”
>ever heard of email?

“I guess we’re still not in a bubble”
>Did you miss the recent moves by CBS? Barely in, but in…

By: Scribd super user

Scribd super user — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 05:19:39 +0000

Check out the growth of viewers to these documents: exponential!
http://www.scri...ople/view/49193

By: What about Adobe?

What about Adobe? — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 03:22:39 +0000

If scribd have open source PDF it would be legal. I’m not sure about Adobe patent rights and the ownership of PDF.

By: TechCrunch Japanese

TechCrunch Japanese — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 03:05:40 +0000

ScribdがRedpointから$3.5M調達…

「文書版YouTube」と言われるScribdは、Y Combinatorの教室ではダークホース的存在であったが、このソーシャル文書サイトを、評論家たちが見直し始めている。
ローンチ以来、同サイトの…..

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 03:04:13 +0000

lots of traffic and…no way to monetize it. selling ads here would be hard enough, but even harder given advertiser reluctance to be associated with mass copyright infringement. well, as long as its VC money being burned and not the public markets’, I guess we’re still not in a bubble

By: mike

mike — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 01:41:59 +0000

These people are thieves. Throw them in jail!

By: ChandraB

ChandraB — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 01:21:24 +0000

Congrats the the Scribd guys, job well done. I still don’t understand how a site like this get funded…no revenue model, copyright problems with pirated docs, easily copied by 2 guys in a basement, not viral as something like youtube..thought it has better SEO potential than YouTube. I understand why YouTube gets bought for $1.6B after they capture 40% of the online video market….is that a parallel to the on-line document market? I’m not quite sure what the exit strategy is (and more importantly by whom).

By: Hasan Luongo

Hasan Luongo — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 01:08:54 +0000

the ability for Y Com backed startups to get to market, get some traction, and get that next round of funding is quite remarkable. I think scribd usage stats are pretty amazing, while I was not wowed by their value prop it has proven it self as it scales. Congrats to the team for hitting this milestone, should be interesting to watch them evolve.

By: trevo

trevo — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 00:27:43 +0000

“One wonders, though, with a post money valuation of 17.5 million…is there a profitable exit here? I can’t see one, but I guess Redpoint must have.”

A similar sentence might have been uttered about YouTube after their Sequoia funding. LOL.