Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Helps content publishers and advertisers launch campaigns that develop viral distribution attributes and therefore gain “buzz.”. Platform that provides radio music programming via crowd sourced contributions from social community; programming is syndicated nationally. Total raised: $29.5mm. Read more: CrunchBase profile , TechCrunch.

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Partner New York City Cofounder Syndicate 240

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2022

Todd is the CEO of Blubrry Podcasting – a podcast media company that represents 105,000 Audio and Video podcasters in which his company provides advertising opportunities, media distribution/hosting, podcast media statistics, and other services. He is a podcast advertising specialist, and he founded the Tech Podcast Network in 2004.

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Audio SMS Technical Review Advertising 65

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

It could mean syndicating an interview podcast, writing new blog posts on a weekly basis, or distributing eBook tutorials on important topics. Content is relatively inexpensive to produce and syndicate, but it can have incredibly powerful effects. This is exceptionally powerful because of the cost-to-benefit ratio.

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Marketing Startup Syndicate Syndication 194

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Distribution revenue is CPC and CPA. . Historically more revenue came from distribution/lead-gen (57% in 2007), but this tipped in 2008 though appears to be steady from 2009 to 2010 at about 58% advertising and 42% distribution. Kayak generates both distribution (i.e. Expedia accounted for 24.5%

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Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

We are also seeing more investors try to be a part of syndicated A rounds for companies that are raising $5M or more and are really not what most would consider “seed” stage. We see innovation becoming more broadly distributed over time, and outlier companies being built in more and more places. This is not what Nextview is about.

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North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 36

Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

They have to build a product, distribute that product, and build a team. We’re big believers that syndicates of real value at the seed stage to get various skills, experiences, and relationships. . – Me! All companies at this stage really have to do three things well. So that’s where we spent a lot of time. – Satya.

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Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication Incubator 105

ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2020

Once objectives are identified and prioritized, your podcasting plan should outline strategies and tactics, which include format, frequency, duration, host/s, point of view, guests, research, syndication, and marketing. podcast directories) pick up and syndicate your podcasts for free via RSS feeds. Podcast distribution.

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Syndicate Syndication Hosting Audio 85

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

I’d like to thank all the Limited Partners who trusted me and who I will not stop working for until the very last distribution check is written, as well as all the founders who gave me a look at what they were up to, not just the ones I backed.

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Later Stage Venture Capital Term Sheet Limited Partner 218

Growthink Blog

JULY 12, 2012

Rather, it's the distribution of your press release that generates big value. Importantly, press release distribution has changed dramatically over the past 10-20 years due to, you guessed it -- the internet, which has changed how news and other information is dispersed. What are the main press release distribution services?

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Syndicate Syndication Distribution Warrant 101

YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2017

Author, entrepreneur, and nationally-syndicated columnist, Rhonda Abrams is widely recognized as one of the nation’s foremost experts on small business and entrepreneurship. Rhonda writes the nation’s most widely-distributed column on small business and entrepreneurship, appearing weekly in USA Today.

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Bootstrapping Syndicate Syndication Small Business 118

www.allthingsdistributed.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

All Things Distributed Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Seattle, WA, 98104 Syndication Subscribe to this weblogs atom feed or rss feed Search Powered by Movable Type 4.01.

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CTO CTO Hire Seattle Syndicate 40

Lightspeed Venture Partners

SEPTEMBER 21, 2013

There are definitely some industries where due to economies of scale (which can be on production costs or distribution reach) incumbents have enormous advantages. The company has made $95k in profit so far, after the two founders paid themselves $3k/mth each in distributions. But eventually two syndicates emerged.

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Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Dilution Distribution 162

Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Summit CPA is now a company with over $5M in annual revenue and our team is fully distributed throughout the United States. Little did I know that the simple and cathartic act of writing would lead me to become not only an author of several more books, but also a nationally syndicated radio host and patient safety speaker and trainer.

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Naming Entrepreneur CPA Software Review 146

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Flexible VC creates early liquidity which can be either reinvested or distributed to LPs. Coinvestors: Flexible VC terms have not been standardized, which may make the investment harder to syndicate. Early liquidity. Equity VC is a “get rich slow” business.

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Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Customer Acquisition – social media, SEO, SEM, etc Economies of Scale – not as big a barrier in web world Investment – little to none required to get started Pricing – free or freemium makes trial simple Distribution – syndication and APIs make partnering easier IP – in general the battle has been over users and less on IP many more (please comment (..)

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Business Model SEM IP Syndicate 150

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2010

They had a lock on “distribution&# and were named AOL, Yahoo!, Then came RSS ( Really Simple Syndication ) widely credited to Dave Winer for driving the spec & adoption. Twitter in Driving Application Distribution - Twitter has become the new source of driving viral adoption. Excite, Netscape & MSN.

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XML RSS Curation Viral 349

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 3, 2011

We have a very clear thematic strategy that we’ve discussed openly, along with a few other key principles such as being willing to invest anywhere in the US and being syndication agnostic. Our HCI, Adhesive, and Distribution themes are all great examples of this. Our conversation shifted to 2015.

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Syndicate Syndication Distribution Early Stage 129

The Next Web

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

A similar revolution is occurring on the distribution side, both for users – who are now surrounded by countless screens that make videos more accessible than ever – as well as for content owners who are now syndicating their content in order to reach their audiences and stand out in this highly fragmented market.

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Advertising Video United States Syndicate 138

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Traditional distribution services no longer work. Stop spending money on aggregation services that, at best, syndicate your content without driving any real eyeballs. – Firas Kittaneh , Amerisleep. Take distribution into your own hands and advertise press to your target customers through channels like Facebook.

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PR Small Business SEO Warrant 145

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 14, 2010

Consider Multi-Formats For Mass Distribution and Engagement. Distribution: Ensuring your content reaches as many of the right people as it can. Note the very key difference between consumption and distribution. There’s no point having great distribution if no one engages with your content.

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Audio Distribution Syndicate Syndication 73

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Dave’s syndicated cable show: The Berkus Report. I am past chairman of a company that distributes its product through over one hundred fifty retail Internet travel channels, all websites where someone else spent the money attracting their users and attempting to go viral. Email readers, continue here.] Second: channels.

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Viral Matching Syndicate Syndication 71

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2018

Try using an RSS (Really Simple Syndication) tool to stay in touch with important thought leaders speaking to your audience. According to studies by content distribution network provider Akamai , a two-second delay in webpage loading time increases “bounce rate” (the number of people who immediately leave a site) by a whopping 103%.

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Mobile Design Technical Review RSS 48

K9 Ventures

JULY 19, 2012

K9 Ventures II will still be syndicating most investments with other seed and angel investors. No distributed teams, no overseas teams, and definitely no companies that rely on “outsourcing” to build their core technology. Hyper-local : The entire team should be located in the SF Bay Area.

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Technology Seed Stage San Francisco Limited Partner 132

K9 Ventures

JULY 19, 2012

K9 Ventures II will still be syndicating most investments with other seed and angel investors. No distributed teams, no overseas teams, and definitely no companies that rely on “outsourcing” to build their core technology. Hyper-local : The entire team should be located in the SF Bay Area.

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Technology Seed Stage San Francisco Limited Partner 132

View from Seed

JUNE 30, 2015

Or maybe you are just a bit off on your product, or else you needed more experimentation to get to the right strategy for distribution. You may actually need to raise a few financing rounds just to get to a series A, so think about the syndicate you are constructing (will they be loyal to you?)

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Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication Dilution 120

Agile VC

MAY 23, 2012

We now only think about “electricity” companies in the narrowest of senses… the small number of businesses (relative to the overall impact of electricity in the economy) that are actually in the business of generating and distributing electrical current. What’s Your Favorite Future?

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Internet Silicon Valley Seed Stage IPO 182

Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

And distribution rights to that content are still paramount to building digital video businesses. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC Syndicate 10 July 2012, 5:13 pm What A VC Orders for Breakfast Says 27 June 2012, 10:16 am To Leave or Not to Leave as Your Startup Grows 12 June 2012, 12:21 pm. What’s Your Favorite Future?

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Silicon Valley Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication 100

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 25, 2014

What small business owner hasn’t watched one of these shows and thought to him or herself, “I wish I had a TV show about my business distributed by a media giant to millions of viewers around the world”? You see, a podcast is basically a means of distributing content to an audience. billion people around the world.

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Jordan Las Vegas Alaska Audio 68

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Working with article distribution services online might be a good idea in this case, especially if email magazine editors aren’t opposed to using XML syndication technologies.

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Technical Review XML Startup Syndicate 138

Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

1) Qwikster May Have Different Owner in Longer Term – It was obvious before and it’s explicit now… the future of Netflix is digital distribution. But I think there are some two longer term impacts that we will see in the 1-5 year time horizon. What’s Your Favorite Future?

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Silicon Valley Private Equity Seed Stage Syndicate 100

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 8, 2013

Back then, podcasting was new, iTunes had just burst onto the scene and an army of podcasters embraced this new RSS driven way to syndicate content. 2012 became the year that a number of very well-known content producers embraced the podcast format, producing and distributing audio content in a very big way. My personal listening list.

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RSS Audio Social Media Syndicate 70

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 29, 2010

I’m sure at some point, the best of these deals will be syndicated to Homerun , Groupon, Buywithme, etc., Closely just launched at DEMO this week and is the natural evolution of group buying and discount sites—allowing retailers to run these deals on their own in front of their own audiences. Community is one solution I had in mind.

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Syndicate Syndication Venture Capital Flash 105

Rob Go

JULY 17, 2014

Just like any other startup, the question we are focused on post series A is whether we are doing the right things to allow us to win in a competitive market with a power-law outcome distribution. Does our strategy still resonate? Are we skating to where the puck is going? In most ways however, Fund II is a carbon copy of fund I.

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Seed Stage Early Stage Due Diligence Liquidity Event 69

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Once this new service became popular then the media companies could control the rules of distribution & advertising. The goal of any cartel is to control production, distribution & marketing of a set of goods with the goal of maintaining high prices. This narrative has been confirmed to me by several senior studio executives.

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Video Technical Review Advertising Distribution 292

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2010

“I have been very surprised at Austin’s strength in “IT consumerization&# – ideas that combine business software value with consumer internet distribution ideas,&# he said. The future is in finding relevance, curating for context, and syndicating this to the right audience at the right place.

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Curation Austin Cofounder Ruby 118

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 23, 2014

A Dozen Things I’ve Learned About Marketing, Distribution and Sales | 25iq – crowdspring.co/1lD0q6Y. Syndicate Funding on AngelList – A Company’s Perspective – crowdspring.co/Sl0HEA. A Dozen Things I’ve Learned About Marketing, Distribution and Sales | 25iq – crowdspring.co/1lD0q6Y. Re/code – crowdspring.co/1hYEli4.

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

APRIL 5, 2010

Initially, like blogging, I had no idea what this term meant, but with some quick research I learned that podcasts and podcasting are all about creating audio files and syndicating them online via things like RSS. You can read my more lengthy definition of what a Podcast is here.

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Audio Syndicate Syndication RSS 90