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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. So you either need to invest millions or partner with a “tools company” designed to help you promote and distribute video. Set design. One of the best I have seen in the market is Epoxy.TV.

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Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar

Both Sides of the Table

They called themselves a “social OS.&# Essentially I see it as two things: 1) an aggregator of social content from multiple places including Twitter, Facebook and soon even Gmail. The idea of aggregation is powerful in a world where your social communications are fragmented and increasingly hard to manage. Team Pip.io

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Daily Deals Still A Big Deal In Asia; All Deals Asia Launches iPhone App

YoungUpstarts

The daily deals aggregator says they are seeing more and more merchants listing their deals on deal sites, and consumers haven’t quite had enough of scouting for such deals. All Deals Asia iPhone App. There were numerous challenges too – they first had to determine the development team’s mix of expertise and adjust along the way.

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7 Incredible Web Design, Branding, Digital Marketing Experiences

Occam's Razor

Masterful design, branding and marketing. Innocent: Passionate Copy and Heart-warming Visual Design. ~ Innocent: Passionate Copy and Heart-warming Visual Design. AAA on the other hand takes me to a page that … well … seems to be designed for humans. We are surrounded by incredible digital experiences.

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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. This approach, popularly known as “glocalization,” means you design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market you plan to attack. Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. However, there’s a growing belief that the “design preferences” of Chinese consumers are just bad design. Perhaps products like WeChat , designed for an international market, might be the beginning of real innovation.

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A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1

Steve Blank

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. The first class was an introduction to the concepts of business model design and customer development. Would we signs of success early?

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