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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Smart Contracts – Powering the internet-native financial system, smart contract networks could generate fees of $450bn in 2030. Digital Wallets – Digital wallets could grow select vertical software platforms’ revenues to $27-$50bn in 2030. 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

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. The future of the Internet is video. Distribution costs have, too. 10 signs Internet TV is Ready to Disrupt the Industry.

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The only 2 ways to build a $100 million business

Version One Ventures

A great product is always the foundation but a clear distribution strategy becomes essential to cut through the noise. Startup Purgatory: No Man’s Land Unfortunately, many consumer internet startups find themselves stuck in the middle of these two strategies: they have a low monetization per user and limited viral effects.

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Why I Doubled Down on YouTube Investments with MiTú

Both Sides of the Table

I was an early and tireless advocate for the growth of the Internet video ecosystem and as virtually every article I wrote made clear I believe the 800-pound-gorilla is YouTube and will remain so for the foreseeable future. The Internet works best on Deflationary Economics. So Why MiTú? Indeed we are already seeing that online.

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Entertainment as the new Oil

VC Cafe

Entertainment is more than newspapers, more than Hollywood, and more than the sum of specific verticals jousting for consumer eyeballs. The large investment flows into entertainment fuel advanced in technology to produce, to distribute and monetise content that educates us, relax us, entertains us, and so on.

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Generative AI: Incumbents vs. Upstarts

VC Cafe

So one way to think about it is no different from how we have thought about maybe the personal computing shift, the internet shift, the mobile shift. The company is shutting down its consumer product in early June. Pretty much, it’ll touch everything: every sector, every industry, every aspect of our lives.

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The birth of a new Foundry theme – Distribution

VC Adventure

This theme – distribution – involves companies leveraging the inherent scalability of the Internet and it’s key platforms in targeted, but extremely large markets. The journey to our distribution theme has been an interesting one, but one that’s typical of how we work at Foundry.