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The Great Retail Reinvention: How the Internet Is Reshaping the Way We Buy Clothing

View from Seed

The old brands and distribution channels are dead or dying. It will also be interesting to see if the “job” done by department stores (curation and traffic acquisition) might be fulfilled by something different in the new retail reality, as smaller brands or independent designers look to find ways to reach consumers digitally and physically.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Now that Google’s acquisition of ITA is closed, following lenghty FTC review, it would appear Kayak is poised to proceed with their IPO in the coming months. =. paying for travel data from ITA or others (customers acquisition spend is not included in COGS). 2010 Operating Income: $16 million. Kayak Software Corporation.

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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

the “TOPSCAN” framework from my research study on value creation by VCs ): T eam-Building – We aggregate openings across our portfolio on our jobs page. This is roughly comparable to PRNewswire’s distribution service. – Aggregation, ranking, and discounts from service providers. . RJMetrics ); technology (e.g.,

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Why The Media Has Been Wrong About YouTube Networks

Both Sides of the Table

Maker announced it has raised $62 million this year, acquired an amazing off-YouTube distribution network and grown its business in monetary terms by almost 300% year-over-year off of an already large base. Developing O&O (owned & operated) businesses (outside of YouTube). ” YouTube takes 45%.

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The Most Misunderstood Facts About Building a Business on YouTube

Both Sides of the Table

YouTube takes too high of a revenue split (45% vs. 30% that Apple and many other distribution companies take – FWIW, YouTube argues this is because their costs are much higher since they host and stream the video). Notably I said: You have to have owned & operated websites (O&O) to drive traffic to. post-script.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Tech acquisitions went crazy at the same time the IPO market did. The Rise of Mergers and Acquisitions -– March 2003 -2008 After the dot.com bubble collapsed, the IPO market (and most tech M&A deals) shutdown for technology companies. And some companies didn’t even have to go public to get liquid. billion.) So what’s left?

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The Very Best Digital Metrics For 15 Different Companies!

Occam's Razor

The very best analysts are comfortable operating with ambiguity and incompleteness, while all others chase perfection in implementation / processing / reports. tearsofpain One way of removing silos and focusing on the entire business is to leverage Acquisition, Behavior and Outcome metrics. We have to really get good at this.

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