By spacing out additional share sales, Zynga may be aiming to smooth out the huge stock swings that accompany big follow-on offerings.
What made you comfortable with leading these big follow-on rounds, even after you had invested in them before?
It tends to help an accelerator's case if it has actually produced a few winners, an acquisition or two or helped facilitate big follow-on funding rounds.
If an amphibious force wants to open the door for a really big follow-on force, it needs to capture a seaport to offload ships full of gear and people — which means that an opponent really just needs to defend the ports, not the entire coastline.
So it is a big deal for us, and it follows on a really hard deal, with sequestration.
The new feature getting announced today, more generally, follows on from some bigger developments for how WhatsApp is already being used by businesses.
Well founded confidence is vital at this point of the year because the biggest tournaments follow on from each other at a rapid rate of knots.
In the meantime, Veselinović promises more action and protest from Ne da vi mo Beograd: "The big yellow duck is here, getting stronger and bigger!" Follow Guardian Cities on Twitter and Facebook to join the discussion.
His public pronouncements reportedly caused panic in the nearby city of Sulmona two days before the meeting of the commission (no big earthquake followed on that occasion).
So when he turns up in Cleveland three days later to meet an old partner, Troy (Nicolas Cage), and finds that they're joined by a new one, Diesel (Christopher Matthew Cook), it seems like the good old days are back, and Troy, the trio's self-styled mastermind as well as the movie's narrator, trumpets the big plans that will follow on their reunion.
He is of the opinion that it's risky for founders to take their cash because "if the big VC doesn't follow on it makes it harder for the entrepreneur to raise the next round".
