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MAY 9, 2019

According to a survey by Owl Labs, participants noted that brainstorms were the hardest activity to participate in via video. Challenges with Collaboration – Collaboration is key to the success of a company and a remote employee will need to put in extra effort to ensure there is collaboration with their co-workers.

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JANUARY 23, 2017

For this episode, Jay sat down with Kristen while she was head of biz dev at video platform company Wistia. Kristen Craft is VP of business development and marketing at Ovia Health. They talk about what business development roles actually do for their companies, and when and why a founder would hire someone to lead up the function.

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APRIL 4, 2017

Once a week, we’ll be curating and sharing thoughtful blog posts, podcasts, videos, and tips from people in the NYC tech community. And so today, I’m excited to announce that we at NextView are launching a new email newsletter, called Gotham Voices. Does the world really need another email roundup? We absolutely think that it does.

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JANUARY 26, 2022

As for companies such as Electronic Arts and Ubisoft that publicly support blockchain initiatives, backlash from traditional video gamers is rampant. Opaque markets are now transparent. What are the hurdles for adoption?

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FEBRUARY 17, 2016

You can also watch this hilarious video announcing their rebrand. The part after the decision to rebrand the actual tough part. Follow Liz @lizwessel and visit wayup.com to see the finished, rebranded product. And let me know what you think of the show — tweet me @jayacunzo.

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JULY 13, 2022

BC: My mom actually just shared a few childhood videos where I insisted on “doing it myself,” one of which may have consisted of me demanding my rollerskate kneepads belonged on my shoulders. I’m still in SF, while she’s in LA, but that doesn’t stop us from monthly meetups and 7+ zooms/phone calls every day. And your least?

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JULY 28, 2016

This is a credible photo or video of a solution. These images or videos should support your claims, educate your customers, and persuade them to proceed. Instead, stop telling someone you’re the best and write something that would demonstrate why you indeed are great. Hero shot (main image).

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DECEMBER 10, 2014

You can watch a video from Harvard about their Allston expansion and future vision here. Someday perhaps, the space in these buildings under construction in Allston will fill with a buzz that spills out of those buildings and changes all of Boston and hopefully the world.

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JANUARY 10, 2022

The notable alumni able to secure substantial funding success from VCs like Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund, and Softbank include ShelfLife (ordering marketplace for food & beverage brands – $3M Seed round), Jambb (NFT crypto platform for video content – $3.5M

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APRIL 2, 2020

That way, when you’re talking to them on Zoom, it’s not them trying to focus on what’s happening in the slide that you might be sharing or the demo that you’re doing, but they can actually try to make some kind of human connection via a video conference.

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MARCH 19, 2015

AS: I believe that the material that I and others have generated on pretotyping (books, articles, interviews, videos, presentations, workshops, etc.) You may over-invest in developing a variation of your product that people won’t buy or adding a feature to an existing product that people don’t use.

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JUNE 11, 2019

Be really good about sending regular updates, and find a way to see your investors in person or via a video call at least a few times a year. You also want to make sure you keep your investors in the loop so that they feel emotionally invested in your success as well.

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DECEMBER 7, 2017

But in addition to their inherent benefit as incentive mechanisms for distributed projects, they appear to be a useful new approach for certain types of organizations to raise funds — just as crowdfunding has been effective for everything from video game developers to hardware startups.

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JUNE 22, 2016

You can sort of look to video cameras as a parallel. Twenty years ago, it was pretty uncommon for people to own a video camera, especially if you didn’t have kids. But if you picture a drone for an end consumer, sitting in someone’s house, is it by the video games or is it in the garage?

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JUNE 23, 2020

I was on a pitch video call the other day when the founder asked me what the guiding principle for product was at Blue Apron when I was leading the team there, and my response was that consumer product experience should be like water. “Be formless, shapeless, like water.” – Bruce Lee.

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OCTOBER 7, 2015

Sector #2: Mobile Video Consumption. We seem to be at a watershed moment for mobile video consumption. Ephemeral and real-time video apps have broken new ground as we consider how and what types of video individuals are drawn to on mobile. When-oh-when will a movie premiere online only to a virtual theater audience?

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OCTOBER 7, 2015

Sector #2: Mobile Video Consumption. We seem to be at a watershed moment for mobile video consumption. Ephemeral and real-time video apps have broken new ground as we consider how and what types of video individuals are drawn to on mobile. When-oh-when will a movie premiere online only to a virtual theater audience?

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AUGUST 30, 2016

Most people shy away from answering or deflect when their boss acts, “Why can’t we create a video like Dollar Shave Club and go viral?” How do you create an infinite loop? ” Given our model, we have no choice but to embrace the idea and solve for it.

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AUGUST 2, 2017

The physical office hasn’t been rendered obsolete by any means, but IP video conferencing has fundamentally changed how and with whom many people work on a daily basis. Managed marketplaces , robotics , and on -demand delivery networks are changing how we experience the simple pleasure of eating a meal.

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AUGUST 27, 2014

Writers, however, must be intrinsically motivated, just like any production-oriented job role (design, video, etc.). Out of the 100+ I reviewed with HubSpot, only two stood out: a video someone created as a substitute for a text email, and an impassioned note about the state of our industry which started, “I’m afraid.”

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Similarly profound is the ability to watch cinematic-quality video on your phone while waiting in line at the grocery. For example, on-demand in the cloud access to the world’s entire music library for $10/mo is an almost unthinkable shift from the previous generation of physical CDs purchased and stored inside a rack in the living room.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Men tend to play a lot of video games, drink and do drugs more than employed men, and volunteer less than employed men even though they have much more time on their hands. I couldn’t agree more of the fact that work is fundamental to human existence. The data indicates that men in particular deal with idleness very badly.

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