You don't get big without VC Perhaps I'm just jaded or out of touch, but I'm pretty sure something like Flipboard wouldn't get Google-big even if they were giv

You don't get big without VC Perhaps I'm just jaded or out of touch, but I'm pretty sure something like Flipboard wouldn't get Google-big even if they were given 100 million dollars rather than 10. Huge investments might be necessary to become gigantic, but they certainly aren't sufficient, nor are they necessary to create an actually viable business.