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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

Both Sides of the Table

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. And for the record, that’s per month not total in aggregate! Distribution costs have, too. This has been a very welcome addition.

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The Great Retail Reinvention: How the Internet Is Reshaping the Way We Buy Clothing

View from Seed

The old brands and distribution channels are dead or dying. Ironically, some of the most successful apparel companies are winning on the dimensions that Amazon has historically crushed other competitors on — namely personalization and product discovery. Most apparel purchases are now in some way influenced by the internet.

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The Creator Economy is rising, but challenges abound

VC Cafe

A “true” fan (or “superfan”) is defined as one who would buy anything you produce – drive a long distance to see you perform, subscribe to your paid newsletter and set up a Google Alert with your name. Creators decouple their non-standardised skills from the aggregator and hope to become themselves a brand.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Each VC firm/partner has a different spin on what to weigh more.) These types seem dangerous, yet are often the ones needed on board to get the fund to invest in the first place, seeing that the younger partners naturally have less pull during the Monday round-ups. I find the same still going on with a few firms and partners.&#

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How To Staff A Startup With (Almost) No Money

ReadWriteStart

Last month, the 17-year-old sold Summly , his news-aggregation app, to Yahoo for a reported $30 million! Because the platform lets curators distribute digests in their own names. Guest author Gary Whitehill is Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Startup Weekend. Of course, most entrepreneurs do not have access to that kind of cash.

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Don’t call it AdTech. It’s “Adhesive”

VC Adventure

For about the past year my partners have been pushing me to write up some thoughts on AdTech investing. We’re particularly sensitive to customer concentration issues related to margin – aggregating demand from a small number of sources, for example, which may lead to significant margin pressure. And for a while that worked pretty well.

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How to Write a Business Plan

Up and Running

At the top of the page, right under your business name, include a one-sentence overview of your business that sums up the essence of what you are doing. Does each business partner own an equal portion of the business? Distribution. For product companies, a distribution plan is an important part of the complete business plan.