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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. Fun Tidbit 1: Europe and North America are of similar importance in terms of revenue (40% EMEA / 41% N.

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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

Europe is roughly the same as the US. Traditional video had very high costs of distribution due to limited time slots of broadcast TV (we only had enough spectrum to support 3-4 channels). Much of network television can cost $100,000 / minute to produce. And global. Content goes global (of Maker Studios 4.4

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Work Is Love Made Visible

YoungUpstarts

Today it takes us now mere hours and costs less than $1,000. And solar energy reached parity in its price/performance ratio to conventional sources of energy like coal – turning a scarce natural resource into something which will be abundantly available at little to no cost in the near-term future.

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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

Both Sides of the Table

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. And for the record, that’s per month not total in aggregate! Production costs have fallen more than 90%. Distribution costs have, too.

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

Both Sides of the Table

When you have limited distribution, the costs of distributing media are so prohibitive that only the largest of media producers (and distributors) are relevant. That couldn’t happen without the advent of lower cost production & distribution. This was how companies who produced media became big before the Internet.

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How To Disrupt The Investing Business, With Katina Stefanova (Ex-Bridgewater Management Committee)

David Teten

Technology innovation, globalization of markets, and recent market volatility such as the 2008 market collapse are driving painful changes (for some) in the asset management industry. ETFs have become increasingly popular because of the lower cost, generally tax beneficial structure and a wide variety of products now available.

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Accel 2020 Euroscape: "Decacorn Unleashed"? - Apply Now!

Cracking the Code

Last year, we predicted it would take three years for Europe to mark its first Decacorn. With this milestone, Europe has clearly established itself as a key center for software innovation in the world. The aggregate value of the 67 public cloud companies have surpassed $1T in February 2020 to reach $1.4T

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