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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

The main thrust of the post is that with YouTube taking a 45% of revenue and talent taking 70% of the remaining revenue, YouTube Networks didn’t have sustainable businesses unless they invested heavily in technology as a tool to increase margin and provide defensibility. That is the definition of Disruptive Technology.

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The 4 Types of Stories Founders Need to Tell When Fundraising

View from Seed

Investors and smart hires will always do appropriate diligence before investing money and time, but they won’t bother doing that unless they are excited about your story. Stuart Butterfield had a vision for a non-violent MMO, and founded Tiny Speck to bring that vision to life. What makes you so special?” Exempli gratia: Slack.

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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

For each of these, there is a human element (non-scaleable) and the possibility of a tech layer (which any one VC will only have implemented to varying extents). I’m very interested in additional ways to use technology to extend each of these! – Aggregation, ranking, and discounts from service providers.

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How To Negotiate with Vendors, Partners And Employees

YoungUpstarts

Your body language will reinforce your non-confrontational message that you want to work together to solve some of the sticking points left in the negotiation. Your body language will reinforce your non-confrontational message that you want to work together to solve some of the sticking points left in the negotiation.

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Startup Marketing: The Nine Levels of Traffic Quality

Software By Rob

As I was looking at traffic stats I noticed a huge increase in mid-November due to a number of write-ups on startup and web-2.0 From the results fo the aggregate behaviours, real time videos and heatmaps you can mend any deficiencies and make it easier for visitors to your site to become buyers. #4 3 Dan on 01.12.10 at 9:32 pm [.]

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Conference Notes on Sourcing Deal Flow & Developing New Business for Private Equity

David Teten

Deal aggregation websites Increasing in popularity, trying to increase market efficiency. Larger funds tend to have industry-specialized sourcing, but less so at the smaller funds due to lack of scale Riverside shares deal-based compensation, so that the sourcing team works together and it’s not zero sum in terms of hoarding contacts.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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