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All The Questions You Wanted Answered about Bird Scooters and Their Recent $300 Million Funding

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While this reaction to such a valuation is understandable, to anybody who has seen the meteoric rise in consumer demand and actual revenue the valuation is much less surprising and may turn out to be quite conservative. As I like to tell people who ask about Bird, “consumers have literally voted with their feet.” Is Bird really defensible?

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“Visibility” — A Powerful Lesson on DACA and The American Dream from @LeonKrauze

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Speaking up is an obligation in a democracy and of course it’s the powerful who have the loudest voice TO speak up. Ramiro was demanding one thing?—?“visibility.” They brought children and demanded one thing?—?education: It is the duty of the visible to fight invisibility. He painted in cleaners and gardeners and nannies.

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Why Hulu is the OPEC of Online Video

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The formation of Hulu was defensive – designed to stop another YouTube or Napster from emerging and causing disruption to the TV industry. To say that the tech elite were cynical of Hulu’s launch would be an understatement , but by the time it launched just a few months later it was getting great reviews. Here is my case: 1.

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Why The Growth Of The Internet Is Driving EdgeCast's Revenues

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The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.

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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

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You must find ways to get some distribution through other online partners like Hulu or package up shows for distribution on Roku or Xbox. I’m not saying networks shouldn’t be talent friendly – of course they should. But you must work hard to develop alternate distribution at websites like Yahoo!, MSN & AOL.

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Internet Video is Hot, But Not a Money-Maker Yet

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Hulu is a popular website offering streaming video of TV shows on demand in the United States, and movies from NBC, Fox, ABC, and other studios. Hulu is for TV what NetFlix is for movies, but its growth has been dropping off sharply. But if you’re lucky enough to have a little runway left, add some video value.

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Why The Next Generation of Online Video Companies Will be Vertical

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Founded in Los Angeles by Latinos to address the growing demand for short-form online video for Millennials it is probably single-handedly improving the diversity of the tech industry as the employee base is overwhelmingly Latino and proud. And of course the 800 pound gorilla – YouTube – is also horizontal in nature.

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