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SmartDrive Systems Raises $47M For Better Driving

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The firm--which develops video-based driving monitoring systems--said it will use the funding for channel partners, accelerating customer adoption, and research and development. The funding came on the same day the firm announced the hiring of former Veoh CEO and Overture GM Steve Mitgang as its new CEO. READ MORE>>.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

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ESPN, Forbes, AOL were customers. Initially it was a UGC site that competed with sites like YouTube and Veoh. Why do you think Veoh didn’t succeed? (40:30 Highland Capital did a systematic search for who could build a stand-alone contextual ad search company and met with six or seven companies including Mike. 37:00-40:30).

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Productivity Hacks: Voicemail, Folders & To-Do’s

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Getting Rid of Folders - A friend of mine, Dmitry Shapiro (founder of Veoh), teaches a course called WeekendU. I’m not talking about tasks like, “call your customer back&# but real tasks you’ve been putting off. Nice unintended consequence. Anyway, six months in and I’m LOVING it. Huge time saver for me.

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Interview with Richard Yen, Saban Ventures

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For example, our existing portfolio is content related--Next New Networks, which is in online video, creating content for super distribution on multiple sites like YouTube, Metacafe, AOL Video, Veoh, and others--happens to be a content company.

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Interview with Richard Yen, Saban Capital

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For example, our existing portfolio is content related--Next New Networks, which is in online video, creating content for super distribution on multiple sites like YouTube, Metacafe, AOL Video, Veoh, and others--happens to be a content company.

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