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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

You need to roll up videos into aggregated channels, “networks,” that are 30% of your views in the long-run. Many of the online video companies started by aggregating content from other people. To build a successful online network you must have some hit shows and then you can aggregate the rest.

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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

Both Sides of the Table

And for the record, that’s per month not total in aggregate! My estimate is that the top 5 YouTube networks will do > $200 million net revenue in 2013 (after Google’s share). This has been a very welcome addition. I frequently hear critics saying, “yeah, but you can’t monetize on YouTube.”

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A New Era For Entrepreneurs And Startups Has Begun

Startup Professionals Musings

in 2013, with aggregate proceeds of over $38 billion. Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich. Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. According to a report just out, a record 156 operating companies went public in the U.S.

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AI Startups Need Data, and the Government Needs Help

ReadWriteStart

Thanks to the digitization of government systems spurred when former President Barack Obama established data.gov in 2013 ; there’s a strong mandate to collect and organize government-owned data. Data owners have the responsibility to aggregate and anonymize their findings, although that still doesn’t mean everything is completely secure.

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Where would I go to invest in startups or emerging companies?

Gust

Subject to specific rules and dollar limits (10% of your income in aggregate for all investments per year, etc.) you will be able to invest online, just as easily as buying books from Amazon.

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10 Predictions About the Future of Ecommerce

mashable.com

By Scott Gerber 2013-10-01 12:46:54 UTC. Amazons product suggestions are great because they have so much aggregate data. If they did, I could get an amazing aggregate view of whats relevant to me based on a more complete profile. ©2005-2013 Mashable, Inc. Sites Jobs Events Social Good Summit Media Summit. Whats This?

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Intellectual Property for Startups in the Real World

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How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ? By 2013, the U.S. What is the risk-benefit calculus for developing and protecting proprietary technologies vs. buying or licensing them (“ build vs. buy ”)? To what extent might proprietary IP rights be undermined by antitrust laws ? In practice, this leads many U.S.