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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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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. Examples include pop-up retail experiences like what Bulletin is doing, or efforts by large brands to partner with startups like 19 th Amendment to experiment with different direct-to-consumer models. Most apparel purchases are now in some way influenced by the internet.

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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. How do I get into contact with potential affiliates?

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. Richard De Silva is based in Menlo Park with three other partners, there and 5 partners in Boston. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. 6:00 – 7:30). 16:35-19:35).

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How To Staff A Startup With (Almost) No Money

ReadWriteStart

Last month, the 17-year-old sold Summly , his news-aggregation app, to Yahoo for a reported $30 million! StartupDigest , for instance, champions the Curator Model. The company finds talented individuals to manage or “curate” the digest for their home cities. Of course, most entrepreneurs do not have access to that kind of cash.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

My firm, GRP Partners, invested in the company that innovated this entire category – Overture (formerly known as GoTo.com). Twitter is better than RSS – it’s “curated RSS.&# The stream is limited in length and therefore people share links. I covered that topic in my Twitter is RSS post.

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Mass Relevance Launches with Funding

Austin Startup

“I have been very surprised at Austin’s strength in “IT consumerization&# – ideas that combine business software value with consumer internet distribution ideas,&# he said. The future is in finding relevance, curating for context, and syndicating this to the right audience at the right place. Austin Ventures.

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