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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

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Our industry just took one big step towards legitimacy with the hiring of renowned media exec Ynon Kreiz to run Maker Studios. You can’t change media consumption patterns easily. Ynon Kreiz is a force of nature in the media and tech sectors. hours of TV / day. hours of TV / day. They read less than 30 minutes.

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How Boards Need to Evolve Over Time

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As we’ve ramped up direct sales over the last few years our need to have relationships with the major media & advertising companies has become critical. So we first turned to solve the question of how to better meet the needs of our growing customer base of large brands and media companies. And here’s the thing.

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Why I Doubled Down on YouTube Investments with MiTĂș

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I have been saying privately for years now that I believe online video will evolve into fragmented distribution (my next online video post) and vertical production. Every politician in the country knows this as well as every consumer brand, every retailer, every restaurant and every media company.

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Good Times Ahead for VC-backed Tech Companies?

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the people who buy companies) in Q2 of this year of technology & media companies. Strategic investors are looking to consolidate their positions : The top 6 buyers in tech & media account for 27% of all purchases. As a result the bigger buyers will look to fill gaps in their vertically integrated offerings.

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Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar

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It serves a similar role as Digsby (which I love using) albeit from a social media metaphor rather than an IM metaphor. Still, I think that to succeed they really need to focus on vertical niches where they can differentiate and have more focus on content quality and user acquisition. I first met the team at TechCrunch50.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

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Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content. It has become a short form premium destination that is verticalizing content in category channels. Startup after Iron Planet? (6:00

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

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Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.; first vertical to launch by 2010 Holiday Season. Structured data asset creation works in on demand in real-time across multiple data sets Including web, e-mail, internal databases, documents, and media. Potential competitors: Gilt Groupe , ShoeDazzle.