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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. 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?

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The Great Retail Reinvention: How the Internet Is Reshaping the Way We Buy Clothing

View from Seed

The old brands and distribution channels are dead or dying. It will also be interesting to see if the “job” done by department stores (curation and traffic acquisition) might be fulfilled by something different in the new retail reality, as smaller brands or independent designers look to find ways to reach consumers digitally and physically.

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The Creator Economy – Who are they, what do they do and How do they make money?

VC Cafe

Taking a look at the list above you can get a sense for what tools are needed for creators to create, distribute and monetize their content. Li Jin curates the Side Hustle Stash as a free resource to find platform-based work. FYI curated a list of 171 free resources for freelancers : FYI 171 free resources for Freelancers.

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The future of events in a social distancing era

VC Cafe

So I got curious: if virtual conferences and events are going mainstream, is there a virtual event aggregator? Is there already a virtual events aggregator? Also, the ideal solution needs to be a tool for event organisers – enable them to easily create events on the platform, and help with distribution and promotion.

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Using affiliate marketing and the Internet to boost your company’s revenue

The Next Web

Rick Boerebach is a co-founder of ZEEF.com , a curated link directory built by passionate experts. By opening fewer stores you decrease costs in renting real estate, distributing products to your stores, and hiring employees for every location in every area you’re operating in.

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The Power of Twitter in Information Discovery

Both Sides of the Table

Actually, it was originally called “Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web&# (true story) – it was basically a way for newbies to find information that had been curated by experts. They had a lock on “distribution&# and were named AOL, Yahoo!, Twitter curates even wider. That’s Twitter.

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