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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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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Co-founder & CEO Steve Hafner and the business team are based in Norwalk, CT. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

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Top Five Digital Health Trends For 2013

YoungUpstarts

Despite the regulatory difficulties, 2013 will surely be an exciting year for healthcare. Here’s five trends that will dominate the healthcare front in 2013. There is clear room in this space for innovation, aggregation, and higher efficiency. We will see an increase in self-management and collaboration.

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TheSwizzle.com Helps Separate Subscribed Commercial Spam From Unwanted Ones

YoungUpstarts

It probably doesn’t help that the quantity of daily emails each of us will receive expected to grow 63% in 2013 from five years ago , not least from the number of social media notifications, as well as e-commerce store communications and offers from daily deal sites that we brainlessly sign up for.If

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Why The Media Has Been Wrong About YouTube Networks

Both Sides of the Table

For much of 2013 I watched the press write articles about how the YouTube “MCNs” (multi-channel networks) were doomed and tried to square that with the data I was watching at the one I invested in, Maker Studios, who has had one hell of a year. But the best MCNs are so much more. Having business models that aren’t only ad-based.

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Introducing our latest investment: Shippo, simplified shipping for small e-commerce sites

Version One Ventures

Other mashup APIs already exist that aggregate data from different carriers, but there’s yet to be any clear winner in the space. Since Shippo negotiates pricing by aggregating its users, the more e-commerce companies that join Shippo, the greater the discounts for everyone. The annual rate at which e-commerce is growing is 20%.

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Denouement

View from Seed

Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. But during this period, many founders and investors do prize growth above most everything else. Facebook goes public in 2012 and Twitter in 2013.

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