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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

You need to roll up videos into aggregated channels, “networks,” that are 30% of your views in the long-run. The benefit of networks is that you can hand curate the videos that run in the network providing higher-quality, better control and more brand-safe content for advertisers. You Must Produce Your Own Videos.

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Lessons From Leaders

SVPG

” "The company cares about what the leader cares about" - I attribute this to Bill Campbell, the product legend known as the Coach of Silicon Valley, and I argue this applies not just to the CEO, but also to the product managers (the team cares about what the product manager cares about). Very hard for me to pick just ten.

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Why Most Online Video Companies Will Fail

Both Sides of the Table

And it’s not about aggregating traffic better. I’ve written before about why I believe most Hollywood online video startups don’t get the future (and why most Silicon Valley startups don’t get online video ). They have a curator. And he has curated many stories. In this case Matt Orr.

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Hacking for Diplomacy @ Stanford –What We Learned With the State Department

Steve Blank

“Being in Silicon Valley, a lot of my friends want to work for Google or Apple, but this class showed me that the problems in public service were even more challenging and rewarding. Silicon Valley folks are familiar with Demo Days – presentations where the message is: “Here’s how smart we are right now.”

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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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Hacking for Diplomacy @ Stanford –What We Learned With the State Department

Steve Blank

“Being in Silicon Valley, a lot of my friends want to work for Google or Apple, but this class showed me that the problems in public service were even more challenging and rewarding. Silicon Valley folks are familiar with Demo Days – presentations where the message is: “Here’s how smart we are right now.”

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

A bit like Silicon Valley. Like most politically important information, consumers will eventually get to be in control of their own aggregated data. The Man on the Boon store is a curated store where the founder only stocks stuff he would buy or own. They are using Singapore as their model of economic development.

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