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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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B2B Marketplaces Revisited

Version One Ventures

As such, successful B2B marketplaces will do the following well: Aggregate suppliers and provide price transparency. A marketplace needs to bring product catalogs from multiple suppliers and aggregate them in one convenient spot for customers.

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Airbnb S-1 (Part 1): So How Profitable Is This Thing Really?

View from Seed

Airbnb’s availability as a marketplace and its aggregation of substantial consumer demand has actually meant certain forms of lodging have been newly built or converted into rooms for the primary purpose of listing on Airbnb.

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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! This has been a very welcome addition. And this month we announced that Maker Studios, where I am an investor and board member, crossed 3 billion views. So if Time Warner + Ynon Kreiz + 3 billion views / month isn’t legitimacy, I don’t know what is.

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Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project

Steve Blank

The solution I’m exploring is a just in time learning methodology that accelerates founders’ learning curve by aggregating relevant content, peers and mentors.&#. The email continued, &# The problem I’m working on is that many founders are either making uninformed decisions or inefficiently learning the new skills they need.

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The Coming Brick Wall in Venture Capital & Why This is Good for US Innovation

Both Sides of the Table

We all know the result of the over-funding of the asset class – poor returns in aggregate for the industry. The doubling of the industry size was caused by the euphoria of the dot-com bubble and since funds take 10 years or more to dissolve the bursting of the funding bubble has taken its time.

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A Bigger Truth About Restaurant Food Delivery

Both Sides of the Table

The problem for the restaurants is that the more successful the “aggregators” of customer demand become over time, the less power the restaurants themselves have individually. they just put up with the food delivery company fees. Customers were happy and restaurants focused on their in-store business.