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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 This has been a very welcome addition. I frequently hear critics saying, “yeah, but you can’t monetize on YouTube.”

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

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Since 2006 they have added offices outside of Boston including Menlo Park, Europe, and China. He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content. It has become a short form premium destination that is verticalizing content in category channels. He does think there are opportunities in vertical search.

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Meet the new Cloud Unicorn from Israel: Melio raises $110m to transform B2B payments

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Building a ubiquitous platform that enables B2B payments at the right time and place, integrating with other suppliers’ offerings, improves the customer experience, extends Melio’s reach and fuels the rise of adoption within vertical SaaS products. 25% of the value of the 10 public cloud companies born in Europe and Israel.

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Cloud Europe 2017: The Factory is Cranking

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Recent SaaS trends and the Accel Euroscape of the 100 most promising companies in Europe and Israel This article was co-authored with my colleague Pia d'Iribarne and published initially on Tech.eu. These 12 have performed well, with an aggregate $2.6 Out of the 12 IPOs, Mimecast is the only company from Europe. in the US, $2.6B

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9 Case Studies That’ll Help You Reduce SaaS Churn

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Using an aggregated set of over 15 billion actions analyzed by Mixpanel each month during August, September, and October 2013, they were able to establish new, industry specific benchmarks for retention. When looking closely at the verticals above, they found that two forces were at play—instant gratification and customization.

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

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He said that Western Europe is the most behind in the world at realizing this. Like most politically important information, consumers will eventually get to be in control of their own aggregated data. A Move back to vertical living – Years ago we used to live above the store, or behind the craftsman’s workshop.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

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