Comments on: Graspr Raises $2.5 Million, Shifts Into Syndication Mode

By: Instructor Identities Can Now Roam With Graspr’s New Video Player | RateJamaica

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:15:52 +0000

[...] the instructional video syndication network run by an ex-Yahoo exec, has released an advanced video player with a featured called the [...]

By: Graspr’s New Video Player Gives Portable Identities to Instructors

Graspr’s New Video Player Gives Portable Identities to Instructors — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:00:16 +0000

[...] the instructional video syndication network run by an ex-Yahoo exec, has released an advanced video player with a featured called the [...]

By: Holly

Holly — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:54:17 +0000

They are still growing. They only upgraded from beta a few months ago and are working on gathering producers and users, generating buzz, etc. It’s taking a lot of work to get a site like this to go viral. Don’t shoot them down just yet, they actually have quite a lot of potential, not to mention brilliant leadership.

By: Dan Root

Dan Root — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:42:48 +0000

This sorta looks like I Got 2 Know.

http://www.igot2know.com

By: Joe T

Joe T — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:37:23 +0000

Bad name. There are too many websites and startups that look like verbal nouns — that would normally end in “er” — but end in “r”, presumably because the “er” domain was unavailable.

Flickr, Dopplr, and lots of others too countless to name.

Also, I can see what the probable chain of events was behind their evolution from “destination site” to “syndicator”.

There is a cliche in VC cirlces right now that a simple “destination site” will not work, that the model is played out and won’t give the desired ROI.

So, VCs are mechanically discouraging any new destination site model, without really analyzing whether a particular model will work or not.

I think this idea could have worked as a destination site, provided they charged users to watch videos, and shared the revenues with the video creators.

Syndicating videos is actually a much more complicated, and problematic proposition, and the revenue model is actually much more tenuous and speculative.

By: Alejo

Alejo — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:39:43 +0000

“captured our attention because it was led by an ex-Yahoo VP”

This kind of attitude puts many entrepreneurs away. It’s chicken or the egg and we are left out no matter what we do. And the irony is Yahoo! is a Bubble 1.0, and now 2.0 prime example of a company not doing anything well but with a lot of hype drive. This very site shows it almost daily.

This site does video aggregation? Oh, like a hundred others? They got VC money?

It’s probably my fault to expect anything better, this is not my net ‘hood.

Ale

By: 2,5 millones de financiación para Graspr

2,5 millones de financiación para Graspr — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:21:42 +0000

[...] un sitio de vídeos de instrución, ha recibido 2,5 millones de dólares en financiación Serie A de Draper Fisher Jurvetson y business angels. la compañía, lanzada en septiembre, había [...]

By: Vivek

Vivek — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:23:22 +0000

All the best to them!