Venture Capital
I read recently that a digital comics company, Graphic.ly, had secured some one million dollars in what they call Series A (meaning first round) of venture capital. The implication is that more funding is on the way.
Great for them and says a lot for the predicted future of digital as a platform for comics. I have no knowledge but I would assume that the other major contenders currently in the space (Comixology, iVerse and Panelfly) are all funded by investors in one way or another as well.
It seems to me, though, that at least some of the venture capital is misplaced. Shouldn't someone be investing in the companies who MAKE the content these guys are going to deliver? Shouldn't at least SOME small part of that money go to the small businesses (like my own) who are trying to find a way to be competitive in the marketplace?
Just a thought. What good is the cart if there is no horse?
Great for them and says a lot for the predicted future of digital as a platform for comics. I have no knowledge but I would assume that the other major contenders currently in the space (Comixology, iVerse and Panelfly) are all funded by investors in one way or another as well.
It seems to me, though, that at least some of the venture capital is misplaced. Shouldn't someone be investing in the companies who MAKE the content these guys are going to deliver? Shouldn't at least SOME small part of that money go to the small businesses (like my own) who are trying to find a way to be competitive in the marketplace?
Just a thought. What good is the cart if there is no horse?
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Your a savvy online kind of guy. If you envision it, it may come.
No I have not and to be honest I would not even know where to start with something like that.
The point of my post though was (and in rereading it I can see where I was not clear) that the people getting the money should be trying to trickle some of that down to people making the content instead of simply building a system for Marvel and DC (owned by Disney and Warner Brothers) who will only abandon them once they realize that they can develop their own distribution channels digitally speaking and not have to pay a middle man.