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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

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So it is a combination of markets and people. The contextual ad market was attractive. Richard’s email address is public but it is hard to manage all the inbound cold emails. Initially it was a UGC site that competed with sites like YouTube and Veoh. Why do you think Veoh didn’t succeed? (40:30

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

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Like you, I struggle to return everybody’s emails because I get too many. So I often try to stay off of email during the day. They take all incoming calls on my mobile phone and work phone, transcribe them for me and send me an email with a text transcription and a.WAV file to listen to messages if I feel the need to.

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