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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

So why is online video such an attractive market to build a startup? Europe is roughly the same as the US. Europe is roughly the same as the US. These markets represent about $600 billion of total spend between them, leaving tons of opportunities for startups to disrupt and grow large. We like sight, sound & motion.

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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

Both Sides of the Table

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 The media world now has its own leader running the largest YouTube multi-channel network startup. billion deal to Disney.

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Work Is Love Made Visible

YoungUpstarts

This article is excerpted from “ The GuruBook: Insights from 45 Pioneering Entrepreneurs and Leaders on Business Strategy and Innovation “ Pascal Finette heads up the Startup Program at Singularity University , where he grows startups tackling the world’s most intractable problems leveraging exponential technologies.

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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. This story continues at The Next Web.

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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. Laura and Simon are first-time entrepreneurs and alumni of 500 Startups (Batch 8).

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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. And the winner is … Qunb , a Paris, France-based startup that wants to help users – both individuals and corporations – find, share, visualize and download numerical data.

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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

When I came to Paris in 2006, I had a well-developed idea for a startup and nothing else. In that time, I've discovered that the startup scene is infused with passion, energy and a strong spirit of collaboration. Pamela Poole is a blogger, translator and tech writer, and founder of Francophilia.com , a social startup for Francophiles.

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