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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

Traditional video had very high costs of distribution due to limited time slots of broadcast TV (we only had enough spectrum to support 3-4 channels). The number of channels grew with cable & satellite TV but we still have limitations that makes distributing content high. But distribution is now unlimited. Not so fast.

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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here. Deepfake Detection – demand for a mobile application that provides deepfake detection, Caller ID, spam blocking and perhaps even live translation or agentic experiences for call handling.

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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. And for the record, that’s per month not total in aggregate! Distribution costs have, too. This has been a very welcome addition.

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Internet/Media: 5 things that will define 2011

Lightspeed Venture Partners

This is as much of a game-changer (due to a new distribution model based on the social graph) as going from offline to the Internet was in the 90s. Display Advertising Enters a Golden Era. The aggregation of such high-intent traffic is what makes Google a formidable force on the Internet. TV Goes Social via Mobile Devices.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. Mobile Usage: 8% of 2010 query volume (mobile app download growth of 344% YoY). Distribution revenue is CPC and CPA. .

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. One recession later and the US advertising market is about $245 billion – but still only 10-12% is online and measurable. And it turns out that we click a lot.

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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – VP of Sales, CTO, VP of Engineering

This is going to be BIG.

Monetate Mobile adds mobile-native navigation, search, GPS store location, cart access and more, to any site, overnight. The ideal candidate has experience with eCommerce systems, emerging mobile and social technologies, as well as RoR. " "Hit it."