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Veoh Cuts 20 Percent

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Los Angeles- and San Diego-based Veoh (www.veoh.com), an online video sharing site, has laid off 20 people, or roughly 18-20 percent of the firm's employees. Veoh said that the firm, although doing well financially, could not predict how soft the online advertising market will become, given the economic challenges of today.

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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. Initially it was a UGC site that competed with sites like YouTube and Veoh. Why do you think Veoh didn’t succeed? (40:30 Richard coincidentally cites Mike Yavondite’s Qiigo as an example; Mike was a guest on TWIVC later that day.

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How do I Really Feel About Anonymous Apps Like Secret?

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One really great experience was a discussion I had with the camera rolling with my good friend Dmitry Shapiro who founded the major YouTube competitor of its time (Veoh) that was sued into oblivion by Universal and who also founded a social network designed to promote pseudonymity. Tech Market Analysis' Kill a fat person. So so funny.

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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. What's your prior experience and how'd you get into this? READ MORE>>

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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. What's your prior experience and how'd you get into this? READ MORE>>

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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 argued that this would be the best product in the market because Google would continue to innovate. Nice unintended consequence. Anyway, six months in and I’m LOVING it. Huge time saver for me.

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