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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. That is the definition of Disruptive Technology.

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5 myths about the marketplace that mobile strategies busted

The Next Web

In the era of mobile, social, and the sharing economy, we’re seeing the emergence of next-gen mobile-enabled marketplaces in every ecommerce category, from fashion ( Poshmark ), to health ( Brighter and HealthTap ), lodging ( Airbnb and HotelTonight ), transportation ( Uber and Lyft ), and real estate ( Zillow ).

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Out of the Crisis #12: Curative founder Fred Turner and Celine Halioua on diagnostic supply chains, scaling up testing, and partnering with government

Startup Lessons Learned

When he realized that the technology the company had built could potentially be used to test for COVID-19, he jumped in feet first. At the beginning of this year, Fred Turner was building a biotech company in the Bay Area to work on sepsis detection. In one weekend, his assumption was proved correct. I am Eric Ries.

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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. In India, two female journalists launched a mobile app to allow women to report harrassment and abuse, an issue in their hometown of Delhi and throughout the world.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. This allowed followers to be able to “curate&# their newsfeed with people that they found interesting. What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0

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HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business

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This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. So, you’re a small or medium-sized business, and you want to build a Facebook, mobile or web app.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

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