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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here. AI characters are already hosting interactive streams and shows in which they respond to audience questions, comments, or votes in real-time. Verticalized Video Understanding – machine interpreted video.

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The Creator Economy is rising, but challenges abound

VC Cafe

New media platforms are enabling a new creator type: Digitally Native Vertical Creators , Eric Feng. Creators decouple their non-standardised skills from the aggregator and hope to become themselves a brand. These platforms include tools for composition/authoring, hosting/ delivery, sharing/collaborating and transaction/monetisation.

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Video Hosting Platforms: Which Is Best for Your Business?

ConversionXL

Google “video hosting platforms,” and you’ll get about 50 million results, along with several paid ads. Here’s a breakdown of the key features—and drawbacks—for eight popular video hosting platforms. You don’t pay to host videos on YouTube, nor do you need a license to create your own library of publicly available videos.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. Foundry Group is using their portfolio company Monday to aggregate portfolio companies’ job postings on their own jobs page. 9) Time, market, and exit investment.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

I have a question though- do you think that most content metrics (the ebook example you mentioned) should be developed by the "author" to target their specific data, or do you think there are opportunities for a new business vertical that give these tools directly to the creator. August 24, 2009 2:17 PM Norbert Mocsnik said.

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You Should Probably Send More Email Than You Do

www.kalzumeus.com

Statistically speaking, you’re probably reading it either through a feedreader or on an aggregator like Hacker News. They sell high-end WordPress hosting, and every sale requires a strong commitment to change on the part of the customer — migrating your blog is not easy or fun for most people.

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

David Teten

I use Google Drive to host my conference presentations , which are all embedded at teten.com. Foundry Group is using their portfolio company Monday to aggregate portfolio companies’ job postings on their own jobs page; Point Nine Capital uses Recruitee for the same purpose. the Untouched Vertical. The VC Software Stack?—?the