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NOVEMBER 27, 2011

What’s awesome is that the ThisWeekIn team now does time coding so you can go directly to the section in the video you want to hear (you need to click on link for video and then below the video in YouTube the links to the exact times will take you to that section in the video).

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AUGUST 27, 2012

” He gives a nice little 6-minute video interview on Bloomberg reinforcing these ideas. No wonder there’s a growth in video game companies and photo apps. As I point out in my video. As per my video, think about the data in the following slide. Entrepreneurs can still build big businesses on the outskirts.”

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

So we stayed close to our investment themes of: healthcare, fintech, computer vision, marketing technologies, video game infrastructure, sustainability and applied biology and we have partners that lead each practice area. We also focus heavily on geographies.

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JULY 29, 2010

I explain in the video what happened in my first company (e.g. In the video I also covered why you shouldn’t raise too much money too early in your company’s existence. Minutes 11-16 in the video. << And I talked a lot about persistence in the video. This is wrong. I eventually needed more money.

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MARCH 23, 2015

Last week Fred Wilson and I sat down in Santa Monica for an hour+ discussion with the video cameras rolling. ” Here is a three-minute video with Fred answering this question. ” Here is a three-minute video with Fred answering this question. ” Fred and I had a long discussion about this in the video.

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JULY 22, 2010

NOTE: In the video I talked about how VC’s and entrepreneurs decide the total number of shares at the first major funding round and why it’s often a high number. We walk through this in the video. We spend a lot of time on them in the video but frankly we could have done a 3-hour session.

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MARCH 12, 2016

From the business perspective you need to understand a few things about media and video in particular. There is also a reported 8 billion videos viewed per day. I would also point out that Snapchat is becoming one of THE places to see breaking news on video in a way that isn’t reported widely enough. Engagement.

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JANUARY 25, 2015

How many video companies went through the roof when FB promoted video only to go into a free-fall dive when they don’t promote the app and when core users aren’t addicted to the product. But if users don’t come back to your product directly and often I question whether you have a sustainable product / company.

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MAY 20, 2020

If you want to see a short spot that outlines the importance of the restaurant industry arming itself with better software tools to serve and market to their customers you may enjoy this 60-second video that makes it clear why it matters.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Public Storage is the Blockbuster Video of their industry and we set out to build Netflix. Incumbents became increasingly annoyed with our successes in the country’s largest market – NYC – that they started even taking out ads against us. Little old us. Sound familiar?

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APRIL 20, 2017

We have no doubt that the storage market is being disrupted and that each city is lined with what will look like ex Blockbuster Video locations one day or frankly be converted to more productive / high value use since many of them are urban. years of software development.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). MySpace didn’t handle images or video well. They have become a juggernaut in online advertising, pictures, video and online games.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

You probably know that Disney recently paid nearly $1 billion to acquire Maker Studios (Upfront backed) and that is really just the 1st inning for online video companies hatching out of LA. As a result we have a large number of locally employed engineers with video experience that will fuel the next boom of the Internet (Americans watch 5.3

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

I’ve spent a lot of my career thinking about digital and online video (with investments in companies like Maker Studios) so for that reason amongst many, I was excited to open the Upfront Summit a few weeks ago by interviewing Meg Whitman about Quibi and the digital media space. And so it is with video. Quibi = “quick bites”).

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

If YouTube really cares about dominating the future of Internet video it should take less because at 45% it will only encourage video producers to seek alternate distribution and will make it easier for competitors to emerge. YouTube is a video distributor, not your end business goal. Back to video. ” Don’t.

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APRIL 13, 2011

If you have time check out the video (or download on iTunes – Episode 27 - and listen at the gym or on your commute!). They are releasing their first commercial product in Q4.”…” So you will see the instantiation of this first in video conferencing at the higher end. Or, as always, summary notes available below.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

I have always loved watching videos there but always believed that any company controlled by a consortia of interests would be doomed in the long run – especially by established, large incumbents with an interest in protecting the past more than innovating the future.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2018

The video is 24 karat magic. And if you do please share the video so we share the knowledge. It’s a short watch?—?I I highly recommend checking it out. Maybe you could learn a bit about the next major cryptocurrency trend.

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APRIL 19, 2011

if you don't have experience with venture debt you might want to listen to this bit in the video - we talked a lot about how it works]. if you don't have experience with how it works when you sell your company, you might want to listen to this bit in the video - we talked a lot about how it works]. - combination of factors –.

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MARCH 24, 2014

Because it’s video it is understood so poorly by the normal tech elite but the company has an amazing combination of content production, marketing, talent management and technology (tech team of nearly 60) and I can’t think of a better partner and home to develop this great company than Disney.

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MAY 19, 2016

We have have been funding agriculture technologies, water conservation, wireless electricity, aquaponics and so forth in addition to our standard investment themes in software, data, video and retail innovation.

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APRIL 16, 2011

That’s why I was so interested in having “ The Gotham Gal &# come on This Week in VC ( video link on YouTube , download iTunes, episode 15) ) and dispel those myths. I think this video should serve as an inspiration to any young aspiring female entrepreneur (and male!) She did this because she had great rapport with buyers.

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AUGUST 30, 2014

There are bootcamps, startup classes, video interviews – the sources are now endless. Many startups now go through accelerators and have mentors passing through each day with advice – usually it’s conflicting. What is a founder to do?

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The video link is here and quick time-coded show notes at the end of the post in case you want to jump ahead to just one section. We covered much ground. But the ground we covered was awesome for anybody wanting to know more about sales.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Greg knows consumer businesses and customers, which has added tremendously to our team where I admittedly have more of a background in enterprise software, data and online video. If you’re interested in sports tech (or want to argue with a 49ers fan) you should definitely follow Greg.

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JUNE 8, 2010

The deck is below and I’m attaching a link to video that has a very similar presentation (he spent more time in our session on “customer development” than apparently he does in this video). I felt the same way. Like we were listening to the wise, understated sage. But if you haven’t seen Steve speak I highly, highly recommend watching.

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JUNE 27, 2021

We try to balance deals across (amongst other things): cyber-security, FinTech, computer vision, marketplaces, video games & gaming infrastructure, marketing automation, applied biology & healthcare systems, sustainability and eCommerce. We do other things, too.

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DECEMBER 17, 2009

We all know Flip Video cameras by Pure Digital. Did you know that their original product wasn’t a video camera? Seemic (now a Twitter client) was originally a video blogging platform. Google had no clue that they were going to make so much money in sponsored search. What about PayPal – think you know their story?

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MAY 24, 2016

For the past few months I’ve been doing nearly daily “Snapstorms” or short videos with startup advice released on Snapchat. If you’re not on Snapchat — but still want video advice — Snapstorms.com is for you. I know it drives you nuts that the video disappears in 24 hours. Today I’ve made all of them available on Snapstorms.com.

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JUNE 20, 2014

Yesterday MiTú Networks announced that Upfront Ventures led a $10 million financing in what is now the largest producer of Latino online videos – primarily driven through YouTube. If you want to build a strong online video business it almost certainly must make YouTube an important part of the strategy. So Why MiTú?

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JUNE 25, 2017

Please consider watching this very short 2-minute video that talks about a program called the Renaissance Scholars program that helps children who are going into their freshman year of college and are either homeless or graduating from the foster care system. My small ask is below the video.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2015

And they have started cranking out super interesting videos. ” I revealed it but you have to watch the video. They have insights others don’t, they are getting into early-stage deals across the country that have become big but they backed the companies before others. ” Guys?

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JULY 27, 2014

What you’ll see if you watch the video is an unscripted and unfiltered look into how Scott Kupor & I see some of the changes and challenges of the venture industry. Here is the video of the presentation that I gave that preceded our debate. Each of the two videos is about 10 minutes long. tl;dr version.

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MARCH 30, 2010

We know that in early April Apple will deliver the iPad, which with a larger format may have an impact on the consumption of newspapers, magazines and videos. Burstly aslo has iPad video ad support. Burstly has also built in video as support as we know that’s likely to be a focus area for the iPad.

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JULY 25, 2010

He covers this is the first 15 minutes or so of the video and he’s awesome to listen to (more than 25,000 people have listend to this video so far – mostly entrepreneurs ;-)). In the video I linked to above Farb talks about how he got Rob Lord on board at Grockit.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

” So Ethan went to work as a product manager at Google Video. ” But I went back to the office and talked with Stuart Lander & David Lapter and said, “no prizes for guessing which job Ethan’s going to take.” When Ethan was considering leaving Google we talked about it.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

For the past three years I have been pounding the table as loud as I can about the future opportunities in digital video. You need to produce content for YouTube these days because that’s the lion share of online video consumption. If we get a video wrong our loss is $2,000 at the most. The concise guide is here.

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