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The Most Misunderstood Facts About Building a Business on YouTube

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Content is a “hits driven business” and therefore you can only invest in platforms not media. The point isn’t to “build a business on YouTube” but rather to use YouTube as a marketing platform to build a video business that works across many platforms. But you don’t need to spend money on SEM.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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Equally, hoping to unseat TripAdvisor without understand their SEO strengths and how much it would cost to knock them down would be naïve. No platform is naïve enough to allow an outsider to grow enormously large in their ecosystem without an appropriate tax or benefit to them. But not doing basic research makes no sense. Competition.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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In terms of topics we spoke about: - Do VC’s send your presentations around to other people if they don’t fund you? SocialVibe – Social media monetization platform that benefits non-profit organizations and social causes. WordStream – Provides software and services that help businesses manage SEM and SEO campaigns.