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The Changing Venture Landscape

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By definition?—?I’m In 2001 companies IPO’d very quickly if they were working, by 2011 IPOs had slowed down to the point that in 2013 Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures astutely called billion-dollar outcomes “unicorns.” The market today would barely be recognizable by a time traveler from 2011. Are we in a bubble?” dot-com bonanza.

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Interview with Simon Anderson, DreamHost

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Simon Anderson: DreamHost offers a web hosting, and now, cloud computing platform and storage. Our services range from basically any platform service to enable an entrepreneur or developer or creative, to get online with a website, or do things like set up a blog. Our target market is entrepreneurs, creatives, and developers.

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M-GO's Take On The Digital Entertainment Streaming Market, with John Batter

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As it turns out, as we thought about that, we started looking for partners to help us build a platform. It turns out that Technicolor had already been separately developing a platform for digital media distribution. Talk about that platform strategy? That''s how content deals work in Hollywood.

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How ChowNow Delivers Mobile Orders For Restaurants, With Christopher Webb

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spent 2011 raising our seed round, which we used to build our team.and launched the product into beta about a year ago, at the end of 2011. Christopher Webb: ChowNow is a platform for restaurants, focused on online ordering. The platform can be divided into three products. One is the mobile app.

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Music Prodigy Beats 70 Startups To Bring Music Education Technology to the Masses

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Rock Prodigy is an intelligent iOS app and offers definitive, interactive, fun beginner guitar course of 150+ lessons/practice exercises with video tutorials through 49-day calendar that you can follow at your own pace. It also won the 2011 Appy Award in education and the 2011 About.com’s Readers Choice Award. How It Works.

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Interview with Clark Benson, Ranker

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It's a very flexible, open platform, and is pretty open ended. We're not yet marketing or selling direct to advertisers, because we're really focused on growing and honing our platform. Our growth has been steady from month-to-month, and has just started to ramp up heavily in 2011. There's constant interaction and testing.

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The Power of Torso TV (Why Media is Racing to the Middle)

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It was by definition a hits-driven business. In the “long tail” you can become enormously valuable if you’re a platform. In 2011 YouTube had 1 trillion views, which is the equivalent of every human watching 140 videos. Sadly, no Kindle edition). Less so if you’re a content producer.

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