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Interview with Kanaan Jemili, uCast Global

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As you know, today, video is one of the primary means of communications from a personal, corporate, and entertainment level. In 2004 and 2005, I was at DivX in San Diego, and I was head of product there. It turned out that media, entertainment, and digital media is a very good place to be. I had built an audio company before.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. When you look at the developing world this is the majority of users (due to lack of landline infrastructure) and it portends future opportunities in payments, entertainment, application development and services.