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Whose Life are You Going to Change?

Both Sides of the Table

I had two goals in mind: I wanted to be even more technical than I already was as a developer (I wanted to work on cutting edge stuff, which back then was the Internet – pre World Wide Web browsers) and I wanted to live & work in Europe. At Andersen Consulting I had built computer networks and programmed in COBOL.

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6 Startup Lessons Learned By Passionate Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

He started an up and down career as an entrepreneur at an early age, and has since gathered experience and success in Europe and the USA on all sides of the business equation, including philanthropy. However, by finding a partner with complementary skills, the potential was always greater than “1+1.”

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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

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The industry finally has one of their own at the helm of the largest YouTube network. My estimate is that the top 5 YouTube networks will do > $200 million net revenue in 2013 (after Google’s share). Our industry just took one big step towards legitimacy with the hiring of renowned media exec Ynon Kreiz to run Maker Studios.

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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

In my last post I pointed out that many of the media commentators who have criticized the YouTube video network companies as not having strong businesses were mistaken. Europe is roughly the same as the US. Much of network television can cost $100,000 / minute to produce. We like sight, sound & motion. MSN & AOL.

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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

Accelerators provide these teams with technical and business expertise and connect them to a network of other founders and advisors. Venture studios create startups by incubating their own ideas or ideas from their partners. Today there are around 720+ venture studios across the world – half are in Europe.

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Is Going for Rapid Growth Always Good? Aren’t Startups So Much More?

Both Sides of the Table

Growing too slowly is particularly dangerous in a business with network effects, which the best startups usually have to some degree.” Our partners have invested in more than dozen companies that became worth more than a billion dollars and that has disproportionately drive returns. It is VC math, like it or not. million.

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Welcoming the Newest Partner to Upfront Ventures

Both Sides of the Table

Today is amongst the proudest days I’ve had at Upfront Ventures — getting the chance to announce that Kevin Zhang has been promoted to Partner. We are sparring partners, not “deciders.” Watching him develop over the past 4.5 years at Upfront has been both a pleasure and also has taught me a lot about venture capital.

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