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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

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Europe is roughly the same as the US. And if you accept that premise then you have to accept that the future of the Internet will be dominated by video. Think of the Internet, short-formate equivalent of Discovery, NatGeo, E! Many of the online video companies started by aggregating content from other people. Not so fast.

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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! The future of the Internet is video. 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 10 signs Internet TV is Ready to Disrupt the Industry. hours of TV / day.

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Work Is Love Made Visible

YoungUpstarts

Nithya, together with a small team, developed an Internet-connected temperature sensor which travels with the vaccine fridge through the cold chain. He has previously started a number of technology companies and used to work as Head of eBay’s Platform Solutions Group in Europe and created Mozilla’s accelerator program WebFWD.

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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

Not only does the country have a higher percentage of homes with high-speed Internet than the U.S. plus it's faster and costs half as much ), it ranks first in the world for number of blogs per Internet user, and has a formidable market of Internet consumers who spent €5.5 billion online in the first quarter of this year.

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Cracking The Code: State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment

Cracking the Code

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. While the group sentiment for 2010 did not improve significantly vs. November 2009, the projections for 2011 are now a lot more optimistic - 42% higher 2011 aggregated EBITDA announced in March 2010 vs. the November 09!

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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. Utilizing the existing 2G network that the company says covers 86 percent of the planet, the application basically lets users experience mobile access to the Internet from anywhere … over SMS.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

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In the late 90’s he saw the internet boom and helped start IronPlanet.com, a construction equipment marketplace that is nearing an IPO. At the time consumer internet venture capital was still suffering from the collapse of the Tech Bubble. The in invest in IT (Software + Internet + Healthcare).

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