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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

Europe is roughly the same as the US. Content can go viral – the highest quality stuff is shared. The benefit of networks is that you can hand curate the videos that run in the network providing higher-quality, better control and more brand-safe content for advertisers. We like sight, sound & motion.

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

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From big brands creating campaigns on Facebook to group buying sites like Groupon to subscription services such as Birchbox and Shoedazzle to highly curated specialty sites such as Fab.com , 2011 saw large increases in consumers buying online.

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

In the time since our conversation, data and science have shown again and again that wearing masks is an incredibly effective, low-cost and simple way to prevent viral spread. So my Twitter feed is fairly carefully curated. So yeah, I was kind of like a curator and kind of an organizer, I guess. That might be interesting.

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Out of the Crisis #16: Robert Schooley on why we weren't prepared, long-term thinking, and how to make decisions for the greater good.

Startup Lessons Learned

I'm a biologist and a member of the infectious disease division here at UC San Diego and have been involved in viral research, particularly RNA viruses, since HIV came along in the 80s. At the time, virology was not thought to be very interesting because we didn't have good ways to diagnose specific viral infections except antibody responses.