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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

In my last post I pointed out that many of the media commentators who have criticized the YouTube video network companies as not having strong businesses were mistaken. People aren’t going to fundamentally change their media consumption patterns just as consumers don’t fundamentally change their diets. Not so fast.

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7 Reasons Press Releases Are Still Relevant

YoungUpstarts

Granted in today’s era, it is simple to create a message or make a video and send it through various social media platforms. If it is something that would excite your followers, then the information can go viral within a very short time span. People today are bombarded by excessive information through social media and the internet.

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Why Most Online Video Companies Will Fail

Both Sides of the Table

You have to build a large online tech company that distributes video.” And it’s not about aggregating traffic better. Online technology company that distributes video. They want to be media companies that use the Internet rather than tech companies that distribute video. Most will fail.

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The Power of Twitter in Information Discovery

Both Sides of the Table

They had a lock on “distribution&# and were named AOL, Yahoo!, The idea was that websites (think news, blogs) could push out a regular “feed&# in an open, XML format that could be read by an RSS Reader otherwise known as a feed aggregator. Twitter resurfaces things and can drive old content viral. Look at Quora.

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How I Use Visualization to Drive Creativity

Both Sides of the Table

Creativity in our business lives – The average tech startup these days spends time talking with colleagues & investors about a multitude of things: customer acquisition, viral adoption, raising capital, hiring / firing employees, product features, technology trends, marketing / branding, and on and on. If so, why? No matter.

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The Very Best Digital Metrics For 15 Different Companies!

Occam's Razor

Remember: All data in aggregate is crap, segment or suck. For example, Salesforce spends tons of people/money on social media posting/activity and you can see this on display on their Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other presence. You’ll see my pet peeves about what media entities don’t measure in this cluster of recommendations….

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

“We’re using … TinyLetter for our “Content Newsletter” … and Buffer to schedule social media posts. Point Nine Capital uses Mention for media monitoring. I use Hootsuite to coordinate my social media activity, which consists of Teten.com, PEVCTech.com , Linkedin , AngelList , and (passively) Twitter and Facebook. 11) Exit .