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The Power of Torso TV (Why Media is Racing to the Middle)

Both Sides of the Table

When you have limited distribution, the costs of distributing media are so prohibitive that only the largest of media producers (and distributors) are relevant. When you had physical stores selling books, the bookseller would have to stock the shelves with those books most likely to sell so consumer choice was more limited.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. Distribution revenue is CPC and CPA. . Kayak generates both distribution (i.e. Founding Date: 2004. Expedia accounted for 24.5%

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Why Average VC Returns Don’t Really Matter

Agile VC

For example, if there were no S&P 500 ETFs or index mutual funds an investor could easily buy a “synthetic” equivalent by buying shares of all the S&P 500 stocks in proportion to each company’s weighting in the index. Startup outcomes are a power law distribution rather than a standard distribution.

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What’s a Fair 409A Discount?

VC Adventure

As is true today, there was a requirement that options be priced at or above the “fair market value” of the underlying stock (otherwise there would be tax consequences to the optionee and sometimes to the company as well). Back in the olden days of venture capital, company boards had wide discretion in pricing company options.

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AI Enthusiasm is Not a Bubble and Even if it was We Wouldn’t Necessarily Know it Yet

Hunter Walker

It’s Very Likely That Artificial Intelligence Will Be Worth More In Aggregate Than is Currently Being Invested (Just Unevenly Distributed) In kindergarten my daughter learned to not ‘yuck’ someone’s ‘yum.’ That is, just because you don’t like something there’s no reason to share that in the moment with another person enjoying it.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. Your firm worked with an investment banking firm that underwrote and offered stock (typically on the NASDAQ exchange) to the public.

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The future of events in a social distancing era

VC Cafe

So I got curious: if virtual conferences and events are going mainstream, is there a virtual event aggregator? Is there already a virtual events aggregator? Also, the ideal solution needs to be a tool for event organisers – enable them to easily create events on the platform, and help with distribution and promotion.