Hunter Walker

JANUARY 12, 2019

.” Inertia is too strong and companies like Spotify, which solve this via search, curation and personalization, are increasing their share of podcast market. So what are some businesses to be built here if you are passionate about this challenge?

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VC Cafe

APRIL 15, 2024

Initially, many publishers were slow to recognize the internet’s impact on their business model as distribution and the classifieds and ad worlds split – or what Ben Thompson calls the “ Great Unbundling ”. Media companies can create their own smaller, specialised LLMs to boost vertical content creation.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 1, 2023

And they probably never will be unless business model viability is reassessed across the board. We didn’t have to change our business model entirely, we just realized what was working and what wasn’t and moved on from there. they still aren’t profitable.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 18, 2013

Many of the video curation/discovery startups were based on two hypotheses: 1. It’s difficult on YouTube to find and manage the content you want to watch These are both absolutely true yet it doesn’t matter – video discovery startups are flawed products and even worse businesses. So what would I do?

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pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

But it’s possible that as the secret sauce of new media swings farther from disruptive technology and business models to a focus on curated and quality content, it’s the older entrepreneurs who are in the pole position. But old ones can be creative also, but young ones cannot be experienced. 2:1 to old folks.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 31, 2010

GuruStorms is a new brainstorming site that offers a unique crowdsourcing solution: a curated crowd of gurus that represent the world’s best and brightest online experts. The current business model for expert consultants is a brick and mortar industry with revenues of about 1/2 a Billion dollars per year.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2019

This will be followed by an Investor Week starting March 9, where Techstars Austin will curate meetings with investors from all over the United States. EarBuds (Austin, TX) Jason Fox, CEO EarBuds allows people to listen along LIVE with their favorite music curators in key moments.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 3, 2016

So, technically we were an MCN, but that was more a function of the landscape when we started than a business model. We were much more curated and signed people who we believed in holistically. Do you think vertical content (Multi-Channel Networks) MCNs are the future?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

So that means stuff like thinking about what a business model might be, it does mean customer development. They have 27 business units. In fact if I were to describe Mint, you see it as the business model of make money by pushing offers for credit cards, loans, and so forth onto people. What’s the worst case?

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VC Cafe

MAY 21, 2024

New Business Models : AI enables innovative business models, such as offering AI-driven services or selling the “work” performed by AI agents rather than traditional products or services, where the user still needs to operate some kind of dashboard/product. Potential areas include: Gaming – eg.

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The Next Web

MAY 26, 2013

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Sangeet Paul Choudary, who analyzes business models for internet startups at his blog Platformed.info. Curation of content: The platform should have a mechanism for separating signal from noise. Build a reputation system contextual to your vertical.

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