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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

AI to make IRL matches – What if you could chat with a bot that learns about you on a deeper level and uses this information to make a curated set of matches? Digital Wallets – Digital wallets could grow select vertical software platforms’ revenues to $27-$50bn in 2030. It’s time to build!

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Generative AI: Opportunity or the end of media as we know it?

VC Cafe

Initially, many publishers were slow to recognize the internet’s impact on their business model as distribution and the classifieds and ad worlds split – or what Ben Thompson calls the “ Great Unbundling ”. The creation of content, but especially the sharing of content became a zero cost game. What do you think?

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

He then worked in consulting which gave him a broad base of business experience working with the newspaper, cable, and advertising industries. Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories.

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The Definitive Guide To Instagram Marketing

Duct Tape Marketing

You know, even for advertisers, but certainly for organic as well. TikTok is very much vertical, short form, you know, 50 to 15 to kind of 62nd videos. Whereas the feed posts tend to be heavily curated. John Jantsch (04:04): So, so how, you know, when somebody comes to you and says, should I be on Instagram or TikTok?

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

An era defined and dominated by the few who could afford the factories, the media and the distribution systems. This execution was actually presented in the board room by executives who thought it was a genuine advertisement by them. But it’s here to stay and is about to replace the 200 year anomaly of the industrial era.

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Why AOL's "About.com 2.0" strategy will work. for a while

Genuine VC

As the internet becomes more fragmented, when– if you can produce great content in niche areas and then really leverage the distribution on the internet, you’re looking at a very high scale, high ROI, return-on-capital business.” Disparate brands for consumers with a single brand for advertisers.

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Why AOL's "About.com 2.0" strategy will work. for a while

Genuine VC

As the internet becomes more fragmented, when– if you can produce great content in niche areas and then really leverage the distribution on the internet, you’re looking at a very high scale, high ROI, return-on-capital business.” Disparate brands for consumers with a single brand for advertisers.

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