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Greylock partner offers up his VC outfit's investment framework Speaking about Funding Online Video Ventures at NewTeeVee Live 2008's VC Panel entitled "Online Video Investment Trends" James Slavet (partner at Greylock) explains their valuation framework for investments, whose foundations stand on three pillars:Identify teams which have strong product leadership and instinctive comprehension of the markets that the pursue.Pursue market components/segments that are large, growing, and of strategic importance.Favor business models that scale with capital efficiency (i.e. increasing returns-to-scale).Within online video, there are a few trends that Greylock finds interesting. One is the migration of professional video content to the web, which may emphasize how material originally produced for SD broadcast/cable/satellite becomes re-purposed. James cites the statistic "25 percent of the views generate 95 to 98 percent of the revenue". ... [ Read more ]
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September 02, 2010
Former CEO of Gaia Online shares his view on the evolution of gaming and what’s in store for Gaia This summer, I caught up with Craig Sherman, formerly CEO of Gaia Oline, an online hangout/virtual world primarily for teenage girls. This interview was taken before Craig stepped down as CEO. ...
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August 31, 2010
Startup attracts 11 angel investors, including Keith Rabois, Russ Fradin, Dave McClure and more Empowering people with an ability to make connections and the tools to attract an audience is what the Internet is all about. And, Udemy hopes its new round of financing will help them do that for ...
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August 27, 2010
Vator’s Startup Sessions takes you into the creative startup culture of iPhone app developer, Smule (Note: This mini-documentary was originally posted in April 2010. But we wanted to highlight it again because we thought it was so cool.) I've been a fan of Smule since the company ...
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August 23, 2010
Craig Sherman, former CEO of Gaia, talks about continuous deployment and listening to the user Given the popularity of online communities, it’s always useful to hear from those experienced at building them talk about their failures and the lessons they learned from them. One of my favorites ...
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August 23, 2010
Profitable and growing, SideReel is becoming the place to track TV shows Despite the many number of video-tracking and video-search engines that have emerged and gone bust, SideReel continues to grow like gangbusters and become profitable. All this on just a relatively little amount of ...
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