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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

Both Sides of the Table

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. Ynon Kreiz is a force of nature in the media and tech sectors. billion deal to Disney.

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Entrepreneur That Grew Up In A Household of Educators Creates Solution to Education Challenges

Hearpreneur

Ironhack is a school in Miami and Europe that teaches adults 21 st century digital skills. Right now, we’re focused on teaching two verticals: Web Development and User Experience/User Interface (UX/UI) design. I seek to channel the students’ energy to help me continue building and growing Ironhack. How is it unique?

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The Scarcest Resource at Startups is Management Bandwidth

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“Yeah, but I’m just going to execute this [channel sales deal, international license of my product, new industry, new operating system, biz dev deal] and then it will pretty much run itself.” That channel deal that you thought would take no times ends up burning scarce calories. I hear it every week.

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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. The in invest in IT (Software + Internet + Healthcare).

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When to sell your company

Version One Ventures

Looking back, there were several factors limiting our ability to grow, including: Geographical markets: We had internationalized to five non-English speaking countries in Europe, but felt that conquering Asia was too risky an endeavor for a relatively small company (our platform revenues were in the hundreds of millions of dollars).

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The truth about FMCG in Australia

Start Up Blog

Brands that have a share of voice in the new media landscape will be ready to participate in emerging distribution channels when they arrive. What I’d be doing if I was an FMCG company in Australia is investing all of my advertising investment in channel innovation – I’d move all that consumer money across. .

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Cracking The Code: Cracking the SMB code

Cracking the Code

The time they spend with customers is usually limited to transactional core products sales, generating lower margins – The resource allocation is not always matching the opportunity (geography, customer segment, vertical.) – The rules of engagement for technical resources (solution or product specialists) are not clear.