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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. So why is online video such an attractive market to build a startup? As I point out frequently, people want to consume video. We like sight, sound & motion.

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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! The future of the Internet is video. hours of TV / day.

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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. Verticalized Video Understanding – machine interpreted video.

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10 Video Introductions and Media Plugs for Israeli Startups

VC Cafe

Video is a great way to get your startup some viral visibility. According to Cisco , by 2015, one million minutes of video – the equivalent of 674 days – will cross the internet every second (!) and as the YouTube blog pointed out more than 48 hours of video are uploaded YouTube site every minute.

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Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar

Both Sides of the Table

They called themselves a “social OS.&# Essentially I see it as two things: 1) an aggregator of social content from multiple places including Twitter, Facebook and soon even Gmail. The idea of aggregation is powerful in a world where your social communications are fragmented and increasingly hard to manage. Team Pip.io

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The Future of Internet & Cars

Agile VC

I’ve been doing some thinking about the future of cars and the impact of the internet. When people talk about “internet” and “cars” people usually think of internet-connected automobiles for the purposes of infotainment. Ferdinand Porsche’s electric car, circa early 1900s.

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10 Predictions About the Future of Ecommerce

mashable.com

The hassle of trying on various sizes will decrease as video quality improves and were able to measure and size clothes from the comfort of home. As Internet shopping became prominent in the 90s, there was a distinct line drawn between brick-and-mortar and Internet retailers. Liam Martin , Staff.com. Virtual Sizing.

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