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Generative AI: Opportunity or the end of media as we know it?

VC Cafe

Initially, many publishers were slow to recognize the internet’s impact on their business model as distribution and the classifieds and ad worlds split – or what Ben Thompson calls the “ Great Unbundling ”. Media companies can create their own smaller, specialised LLMs to boost vertical content creation. What do you think?

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Why the Future of Tesla May Depend on Knowing What Happened to Billy Durant

Steve Blank

Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. Sloan kept the corporate staff small and focused on policymaking, corporate finance, and planning. Today, if you look around the United States it’s hard to avoid Sloan.

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Covid-19 is a marathon, not a sprint, for startups in US, UK and Israel

VC Cafe

The $349 billion aid package issued by the US Government and distributed in the form of SBA loans was quickly gobbled up by a large number of applications, many of which were from venture-backed or PE-backed startups. This is part of Israel’s Ministry of Finance NIS 1.2

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay.

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

An era defined and dominated by the few who could afford the factories, the media and the distribution systems. While non bank business financing is currently miniscule by comparison, the numbers from kickstarter.com tell us something is brewing. The top down era of one size fits all. And now it is over.

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How to Craft a Digital Advertising Strategy that Combats Rising Costs and Captures New Customers

ConversionXL

The concept of content advertising is a relatively new one. Influencer Marketing defines it as: “…creating content that will be promoted through paid distribution channels like sponsored placements, advertisements, and pay-per-click campaigns. Use content advertising to fight rising costs. It can also scale credibility quickly.

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Not All Traffic Is Created Equal

www.pakman.com

To build the online media giants of tomorrow, companies need models where the costs of both content and distribution are near zero. But if your service attracts particular verticals of content engagement, not all content is created equal, and some is much more valuable than others. 26 September 2012. 20 Comments. Andres Moran.