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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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Weekly #FIRGUN Newsletter – August 1st 2024

VC Cafe

Kudos Eran Shust and team Holisto (formerly Splitty) on your $10M series B for your price aggregation technology! Nice job Shmuel Bachinsky and team Quantum Transistors on securing $17.5M in grant funding from the EU to make quantum computing accessible to everyone! Way to go Ofir Har-Chen and team Clutch Security on raising an $8.5M

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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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Meet the new Cloud Unicorn from Israel: Melio raises $110m to transform B2B payments

Cracking the Code

Israel produced three public cloud companies - Wix, Jfrog and Varonis - representing an aggregated market cap of more than $25b, c. 25% of the value of the 10 public cloud companies born in Europe and Israel. The number of rounds over $10m was also twice as big in Israel as it was in Europe. over 190 rounds.

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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! 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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Cloud Europe 2017: The Factory is Cranking

Cracking the Code

Recent SaaS trends and the Accel Euroscape of the 100 most promising companies in Europe and Israel This article was co-authored with my colleague Pia d'Iribarne and published initially on Tech.eu. These 12 have performed well, with an aggregate $2.6 Out of the 12 IPOs, Mimecast is the only company from Europe. in the US, $2.6B

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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.