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The Most Misunderstood Facts About Building a Business on YouTube

Both Sides of the Table

Along with Greycroft, I was the first institutional investor in Maker Studios (sold to Disney for nearly $1 billion) and am still the largest investor in Mitu Network , the largest online video producer of Latino content. YouTube is a distribution and marketing channel like any other. But think of this.

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Going Public Circa 2020; Door #3: The SPAC

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If you are looking past or through Covid — and why not, all of Wall Street is — the topic du jour in Silicon Valley is Special Purpose Acquisition Companies, or SPACs. This competition is leading to improving terms for the targeted company and an overall lower cost of capital. What are they, and do they matter right now?

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Smart Bear Live 5: Dan from SyncBloc.com with Mark Suster

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Dan: My question is related to all this talk that I hear in the Silicon Valley about Internet scale. It’s quite simple, which is when you had systems where you had limitations on distribution or transportation of products, it enabled you to operate with a certain cost structure. I was in a 10-year company.

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How to Fine-tune Your Small Business Finances—from Funding to Growth [Webinar Recap]

Up and Running

The DIY mentality can really bog you down and become a burden eventually, plus it can really cost you more time and money in the grand scheme of things. I just wanted to break down those two pieces real quick the time side and the cost side. Then the second one here which I eluded to is really all about cost. Bates: Fantastic.