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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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The Investors Guide to SXSW 2019

Austin Startup

It’s stocked with free food, drinks and wifi but the real reason you want to be there is because we’ve curated all of the top entrepreneurs, investors, and innovators at SXSW and invited them to stop by. Come check out tech through a military lens. See hundreds of exhibitors and demonstrations across every industry and technology.

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The Austinpreneur’s Guide to SXSW 2018 Panels & Parties

Austin Startup

The biggest week of the year for tech and startups in Austin, Texas as South by Southwest (SXSW) descends upon the city from March 19–15. Bose will be demonstrating the new technology to app and device developers in a fun, informative setting. There are a zillion things to do, both official and unofficial?—?so Did I miss something?

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5 myths about the marketplace that mobile strategies busted

The Next Web

Communities are incredibly hard to create and curate so they cannot simply be bolted on. Myth #4: It’s all about the technology, not the service. It’s easy, especially in Silicon Valley, to get hung up on all the whizbang new technologies available to developers.

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Twitter Link Roundup #78 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Entrepreneurs Need to Find the Best ‘Curators’ – [link]. Ex-Googlers at almost every Silicon Valley startup & VC – [link]. Technical Web Typography: Guidelines and Techniques – [link]. Incredible Workspace Design – World’s Most Popular Tech Companies Offices – [link]. – [link].

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. The lesson was learned over 30 years in Silicon Valley: you create ecosystems where third-parties can innovate and thrive and you become the legitimate center of it all and can tax the system later. What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0

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Attention Entrepreneurs: Walk Before You Run

Up and Running

Entrepreneurship continues to be a sexy topic for governments, with every country worth its salt trying to create its own tech hub, mimicking Silicon Valley. For technology entrepreneurs, we need to encourage them to understand the lean startup methodology, as a means to help them validate their assumptions.