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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

And global. Content goes global (of Maker Studios 4.4 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. Build a Global Business. Time independent.

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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.

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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 became a VC at London-based Benchmark Europe (now Balderton) and then CEO of Endemol, a large multibillion media company best known for creating & owning global franchises for Big Brother, Deal or No Deal and other unscripted television. billion deal to Disney.

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A New Era For Entrepreneurs And Startups Has Begun

Startup Professionals Musings

in 2013, with aggregate proceeds of over $38 billion. Entrepreneurs now can think globally about the opportunity, from day one but start locally. This approach, popularly known as “glocalization,” means you design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market you plan to attack.

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

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YouTube has done a phenomenal job in aggregating audiences, which is why I have taken to calling YouTube the new Comcast and believe it will be a huge disruptor in the TV market . In talking with the founding team I started to realize that this was a global phenomenon. People are developing global tastes. That was impressive.

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The Coming Brick Wall in Venture Capital & Why This is Good for US Innovation

Both Sides of the Table

We all know the result of the over-funding of the asset class – poor returns in aggregate for the industry. I’m proud to see this creative destruction happening more prevalently in the US right now because it gives me comfort that we haven’t lost our footing in terms of global innovation.

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Starting Up In Singapore (Part I) – Product/Market Fit

YoungUpstarts

Global from day one (GD1). Startups in this category have the know how, mindset, confidence and product differentiation to address the global market from day one. Finding: Sales Oriented companies tend to start and do well regionally and not globally] E.G. Brandtology, Stream Media (Movend), FlightOffice, Identifi etc.

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