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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here. AI characters are already hosting interactive streams and shows in which they respond to audience questions, comments, or votes in real-time. Verticalized Video Understanding – machine interpreted video.

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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! This has been a very welcome addition. And this month we announced that Maker Studios, where I am an investor and board member, crossed 3 billion views. So if Time Warner + Ynon Kreiz + 3 billion views / month isn’t legitimacy, I don’t know what is.

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The Creator Economy is rising, but challenges abound

VC Cafe

In the A16Z blog , Li Jin, one of the most prominent writers on the creator economy, said that creators can make a living with only 100 true fans, by segmenting their audience and offering tailored products and services at varying price points. While some say that its 1,000 true fans needed, others say its much less. ” Eric Feng.

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The Creator Economy – Who are they, what do they do and How do they make money?

VC Cafe

Although there’s some overlap with freelance platforms, where creators look for paid ‘gigs’, I’d argue that while creators are looking to monetize their craft, they care about “artistic freedom” To do that, they need to build and engage an audience, create unique, quality content and monetize it in different ways.

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May Your Help Be Wanted

Austin Startup

Those folks may be hired in vertical specialties, and the larger and more successful incubators have enough deal flow to keep their agendas filled. Dreamit is to me a shining example of this vertical approach. They had a couple of crusty NYC real estate barons on the show, and the audience asked astute questions.

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How to Handle Mobile “Moneyball Syndrome” & Cross-Device Attribution

ConversionXL

For example, according to Mona Elesseily , “conversions in the health vertical have the best ROI during work hours and into the evening on tablet devices.”. This means companies in the health vertical need to recognize that the majority of its users are coming from a mobile device. Aggregate Audience Data. Image Source.

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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

Had Facebook not purchased Instagram, Facebook’s aggregate numbers likely would have dipped as millennials have largely abandoned Facebook for Instagram and Snapchat. The smartphone is for everyone, we don’t have to think the iPhone is about a certain demographic, or country or vertical market: it’s for everyone.