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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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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

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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Innovate Israel Conference Brings 28 Israeli startups to London

VC Cafe

There hasn’t been such a full list of Israeli startups coming to Europe since Barcelona’s World Mobile Congress. The UK is Israel’s second largest export market following the US, but Israeli startups often ‘forget Europe’ when it comes to Internationalizing their product.

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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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9 Case Studies That’ll Help You Reduce SaaS Churn

ConversionXL

Using an aggregated set of over 15 billion actions analyzed by Mixpanel each month during August, September, and October 2013, they were able to establish new, industry specific benchmarks for retention. Before 2007, O2 Ireland, part of Telefonica Europe , had a ton of disparate data and very little insight as to what it all meant.

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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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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

But the angels who’ve staked their funds on spreading bits of money all over the Valley are increasingly anxious that only 20 percent of their deals — in aggregate — will get the chance to keep going. Social publishing company Acquia has raised $30 million to help expand in the enterprise market in Europe and Asia Pacific.