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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

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The main thrust of the post is that with YouTube taking a 45% of revenue and talent taking 70% of the remaining revenue, YouTube Networks didn’t have sustainable businesses unless they invested heavily in technology as a tool to increase margin and provide defensibility. That is the definition of Disruptive Technology.

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Why Startup Entrepreneurs Need to Communicate More Like George Bush Than Al Gore

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This does not mean you shouldn’t solve big, complex problems or write complex code. But they’re under the gun to crank out story after story so they don’t have the time or energy to understand why your behavioral targeting technology is mathematically better than your 5 competitors. They also aren’t dumb.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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so compelling (other than the fact that the CEO Sean Rad is a great young technology leader and his advisers – Brian Norgard , Dan Gould and Evan Rifkin - are some of the guys I respect most in the LA tech market.). Advertising is also what allows you to watch Hulu for free, use Yahoo! So did the media. Then came blogs.

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How I Use Visualization to Drive Creativity

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So I thought I’d write a post about how I drive my personal creativity. (A The key is channeling what you learn when you drive onto paper for retention purposes so you have to write it down soon afterward. When I write a blog post I often see the words before I write them. These are all creative processes.

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Public and Open Debate is the Highest Form of Democracy (and Blogging)

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I’ve always believed that you learn a great deal when you’re presenting, teaching or writing about what you know. It’s not only the “consumer&# of this information who learns, the “producer&# also does. If I write about something that isn’t compelling I can see it in the unique reader numbers.

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