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Best Alternatives to the Amazon Affiliate Program

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Suddenly, every other affiliate program and network out there is looking more attractive. The New York Times now includes a Bookshop link alongside an Amazon one, while BuzzFeed News, Vox, and New York Magazine are all in, and Hearst, Meredith, and Condé Nast will likely start using Bookshop next month.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. We also talked a lot about Stickybits (who uses the SimpleGeo platform) and Occipital who has the red-hot RedLaser scanning product. Provides an enterprise collaboration and storage platform. OTHER DEALS: 1. Go Boulder!

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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I grew up a computer programmer, a builder of computer networks and fascinated with infrastructure so in many ways I felt like I existed at the inception of many of these great technologies. We see big data storage solutions and processing platforms. We see improvements in wireless transmission and in real-time programming languages.

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How to Get YouTube Views and Become a Professional Content Creator

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This is true for all social platforms like Twitter and Facebook. There are tons of social platforms and he does his best to be on as many as possible because there are people who are only do one social network, maybe only twitter, only tumblr, only chive, only facebook or only buzzfeed. You want an audience who engages.

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Why Most Online Video Companies Will Fail

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Usually I tell them to study Upworthy & Buzzfeed. Some images will draw in viewers more than others and as it turns out the headlines & images that convert at different in each social network or distribution partner. And while a YouTube subscriber is useful it is still trapped inside the platform. Here is an example.

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Why The Next Generation of Online Video Companies Will be Vertical

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Mitu Network is the largest digital media company for Latinos in the US and also targeting Mexico and South America. In the online world the ecosystem is being fragmented into those that primarily produce content (Mitu, Vice, BuzzFeed) and those who primarily distribute it: YouTube, Amazon, Netflix, Yahoo!, The Food Network.

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Snapchat 101 for VCs and Old Folks

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Your customers are all on this product so not trying to grok this platform gives you a few big handicaps: Some VCs on on Snapchat and interacting with them daily on Snapchat and you’re not. That’s like you saying you don’t want to go to cocktail parties and network anymore while every 25-35 year-old VC steals your customers.

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