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Why The Media Has Been Wrong About YouTube Networks

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For much of 2013 I watched the press write articles about how the YouTube “MCNs” (multi-channel networks) were doomed and tried to square that with the data I was watching at the one I invested in, Maker Studios, who has had one hell of a year. Selling at smaller retailers will net you fewer customers and higher margins.

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This Week in VC with Jim Armstrong of Clearstone

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Read more: HP Press Release , VentureBeat on P&L Sponsor Todd Bradley , TechCrunch follow-up. If this figure is accurate – it’s certainly a very large business even when you look at net revenues. Its net income for the 2009 period is $11.66 Net income was around $1.4 Read more: DST Press Release.

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How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

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It represents the great majority of entrepreneurship and eschews the fairytale rags-to-VC-riches stories we so often read about in the press. In one year of Airbnb Tracy netted more than $28,000. And that’s what I love about her narrative. Here’s what I learned about Tracy: 1. She started her business from a personal need.

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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

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My estimate is that the top 5 YouTube networks will do > $200 million net revenue in 2013 (after Google’s share). He joined when Maker was a small, chaotic organization and helped bridge our talented creative team with the outside world of investor, brands, partners & press. Distribution costs have, too.

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How I Use Visualization to Drive Creativity

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It’s how we package our company story and drive our press coverage. I have a high fear of failure that acts as my safety net. Specifically they pointed out that I didn’t cover all of the innovation they had done around the future models of advertising. I spoke at the NextGen conference last week to a large audience.

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