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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

In my last post I pointed out that many of the media commentators who have criticized the YouTube video network companies as not having strong businesses were mistaken. Traditional video had very high costs of distribution due to limited time slots of broadcast TV (we only had enough spectrum to support 3-4 channels). Not so fast.

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

What channels will you use (e.g., See also - When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication. Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Where’s the mystery (see Matching Algorithm )? Who are the other stakeholders involved? Administrators?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

What channels will you use (e.g., See also - When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication. Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Where’s the mystery (see Matching Algorithm )? Who are the other stakeholders involved? Administrators?

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Introduction to Growth Hacking for Startups

VC Cafe

In a nutshell: Acquisition - Get people to hear about your product from press, blogs and social channels. For example, Instagram has a feature that shows the user’s friends who have recently joined Instagram from other networks (i.e. your Facebook friend John Doe just joined Instagram – follow them).

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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

www.kalzumeus.com

If, for example, you are a Python-using shop which had a Redmine instance running around with no code on it, and you lose that Redmine server, you can expect a skilled attacker to then pivot from that privileged location within your network to start compromising other servers on your network. Just take it as a given, you will lose.

Security 101
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A new way to recruit for (and find) startup jobs

Startup Lessons Learned

also supports oauth, so you can log in with your twitter credentials. Maybe location-specific "channels"? I hope people will use this to recruit and share jobs/candidates in their own networks, letting retweets etc. Just write a few words about them, set their email address as the private recipient, and tweet about it.