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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

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And for the record, that’s per month not total in aggregate! He created Fox Kids Europe and took it from scratch to worth North of 1 billion Euros in value and was ultimately sold as part of a $5.3 ” Dana & I took a chance on the founders early on. This has been a very welcome addition. billion deal to Disney.

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Kevin Rose wants to launch another startup, wishes he had stayed CEO of Digg

The Next Web

Google Ventures partner, Digg, Milk, and Revision3 co-founder, and raccoon enthusiast, Kevin Rose sat down with The Next Web co-founder Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten at The Next Web Conference Europe today. Entrepreneur Events Google Insider Next Conference tnw-europe' He said, “You might.

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Introducing our latest investment: Shippo, simplified shipping for small e-commerce sites

Version One Ventures

The opportunity is huge as the shipping industry related to e-commerce is $360B in the US and Western Europe alone. Other mashup APIs already exist that aggregate data from different carriers, but there’s yet to be any clear winner in the space. The annual rate at which e-commerce is growing is 20%.

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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

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Pamela Poole is a blogger, translator and tech writer, and founder of Francophilia.com , a social startup for Francophiles. LeWeb , Europe's largest (and the world's second largest) Internet conference is held in Paris every December. All those struggling, bootstrapping, Ramen-eating founders? But what about the little guys?

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Airbnb S-1 (Part 1): So How Profitable Is This Thing Really?

View from Seed

Airbnb’s availability as a marketplace and its aggregation of substantial consumer demand has actually meant certain forms of lodging have been newly built or converted into rooms for the primary purpose of listing on Airbnb. Fun Tidbit 1: Europe and North America are of similar importance in terms of revenue (40% EMEA / 41% N.

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Qunb wins the LeWeb 12 startup competition, helps users find and visualize numerical data

The Next Web

So has the startup competition, an important part of the annual conference for Europe’s finest in tech. Maybe it was just that the presentations were weak, maybe it was the language barriers, maybe it was the lack of enthusiasm and passion that was displayed by the founders during their demos. Whatever it was, it was noticeable.

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Introducing our latest investment: Shippo, simplified shipping for small e-commerce sites

Version One Ventures

The opportunity is huge as the shipping industry related to e-commerce is $360B in the US and Western Europe alone. Other mashup APIs already exist that aggregate data from different carriers, but there’s yet to be any clear winner in the space. The annual rate at which e-commerce is growing is 20%.

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