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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. Europe is roughly the same as the US. And global.

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The Importance of Teams and Why the Best Leaders Cultivate Them

Both Sides of the Table

I was watching my favorite show on TV this morning – GPS (Global Public Square) with Fareed Zakaria. The show has become my best curator of which books to read (including my favorite of last year, The Accidental Superpower ) and my go to for understanding geopolitics of: Russia, Iran, Pakistan, China, India and of course the US.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

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This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. As of year-end, Foursquare had over 15 million users, with an exponential growth rate globally. The era of the patriarch is nearing an end.

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26 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Word That Could Represent Them and Their Business in 2021

Hearpreneur

I selected curate because it represents that I am the director of my museum which is my life and my business. Interesting to note that curate is based in the Latin word cura which means care. Curate served me in 2021 as a year that was full of unknown, anxiety, and stress. Thanks to Shokouh Hatch, everlur ! #3-

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Soundbites from the future

Start Up Blog

BRIC nations especially are innovating and creating new technology platforms, while the west holds onto fossil fuel era. GEO-locating is the juncture that makes technology connections “real”. So the alternative of a global currency will emerge. Gen D’s parents are also excited by new technolog y. APP Appeal.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

I have the knowledge in tech to implement it. If you’re looking for technical talent – go to the dev meetups. what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project?

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Benchmarking Cassandra Scalability on AWS - Over a million writes per second

techblog.netflix.com

We have already released an Apache Zookeeper interface called Curator at Github and also plan to release a Java client library called Astyanax (the son of Hector, who was Cassandras brother, and Hector is also the name of a commonly used Java client library for Cassandra that we have improved upon).

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