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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. Content editing: Owning multi-media workflows – combine an image with text, music with video, or animation with a voiceover. Bitcoin Allocation – Growing the role of bitcoin in investment portfolios.

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Internet/Media: 5 things that will define 2011

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Some observations from Bipul Sinha about the internet and media industry in 2011. This is as much of a game-changer (due to a new distribution model based on the social graph) as going from offline to the Internet was in the 90s. Startups to watch in this space are Legolas Media , Krux Digital , and BrightTag , among others.

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Intellectual Property for Startups in the Real World

Gust

How much is it worth investing in cultivating and enforcing an IP portfolio ? How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ? Sales and marketing plans , lists of prospects, supplier and subcontractor relationships, pricing data, media buying plans and strategies, etc. Barriers to entry ? trade secret).

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Why Is There So Much Turnover In Venture Capital?

View from Seed

These are literal quotes from social media and email announcements over the past six months from VC Partners moving on to other competitive firms, and, well, just moving on. Venture is a field with a power-law distribution of outcomes. I am pursuing an idea that I’m excited about and and happy to be back on the entrepreneurial path.”.

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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – VP of Sales, CTO, VP of Engineering

This is going to be BIG.

We realized that there were certain open positions in our portfolio we wanted to call extra attention to. Led by an accomplished management team from Yahoo/Right Media and Google/DoubleClick, AppNexus ( www.appnexus.com ) is the most advanced platform for buying display ads in real time.

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How to Remain King of the World amidst Titanic Disruptions

Lightspeed Venture Partners

There has been a lot of conversation recently on the future of the media industry, specifically drawing comparisons between TV and film and the shrinking music industry. In aggregate, the various revenue streams would continue to support the creation and distribution of high production value content. YouTube; Hulu. Subscription.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. An example is Metacafe, a Highland Capital portfolio company. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. Startup after Iron Planet? (6:00 6:00 – 7:30). 9:30 – 11:30).

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