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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. Fun Tidbit 1: Europe and North America are of similar importance in terms of revenue (40% EMEA / 41% N.

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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

Europe is roughly the same as the US. 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. His last company was built in Europe and sold for several billion dollars.

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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

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And for the record, that’s per month not total in aggregate! He created Fox Kids Europe and took it from scratch to worth North of 1 billion Euros in value and was ultimately sold as part of a $5.3 This has been a very welcome addition. I frequently hear critics saying, “yeah, but you can’t monetize on YouTube.”

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

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When you think about “time windows” of film distribution you literally need to think about the fact that you would open a film in the US and later ship the physical reels to London then Europe to open overseas. To give you a sense of scale: 800 million people visit YouTube.com every month. 4 billion videos are watched daily.

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Work Is Love Made Visible

YoungUpstarts

He has previously started a number of technology companies and used to work as Head of eBay’s Platform Solutions Group in Europe and created Mozilla’s accelerator program WebFWD. The device is now used in six countries; in 3 states in India alone there are now 11,000 devices in the field, saving the lives of millions of babies each year.

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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

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LeWeb , Europe's largest (and the world's second largest) Internet conference is held in Paris every December. They're going strong , and constantly adapting their platform to users' changing needs for information and social media aggregation.

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HBS Angels Healthcare Night

David Teten

Unlike 1st generation discs, their discs have an elastomeric core that provides a more natural range of motion, and have already received CE mark in Europe and are in clinical trials in the U.S. The company aggregates a tremendous amount of medical news and research and personalizes it into a user friendly experience.