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Why We’re Looking to Fund Stuff With More Meaning

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Many questioned whether it could survive under the fail whale, inevitable competition from Facebook, founder fighting, fights with 3rd-party developers let alone become a revolutionary business that could make money. in fact we still look at many deals in the media sector whose main objective is to entertain people. Far from it.

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The Most Interesting Online Video Trend

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Summary Version. They help find talented film makers globally, enter them into competitions and advance the best of them toward winners that get to produce full-length films. And to those who keep telling me that the CPMs are too low to make a business please stop thinking about two-way entertainment in only CPM terms.

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Viral Marketing Costs Real Money These Days

Startup Professionals Musings

Someone has to design and create those entertaining or informative messages that are designed to be passed along in an exponential fashion, often electronically or by e-mail. People are more demanding and have more choices than ever before. In addition, special offers and competition prizes may be required. Seed viral activity.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

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The 30-minute interview of Jonah Peretti is here but my summary in the notes below. Again he looked to the media industry history and pointed out that before Ted Turner founded CNN he had an entertainment channel. And I have been so fascinated by the emotions that BuzzFeed arouses that I asked Jonah if I could do the interview myself.

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