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SmartDrive Systems Snags Former Veoh CEO

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Mitgang was previously CEO of Veoh, and also had served at Senior Vice President of Yahoo!'s s advertising products, platforms, and services. San Diego-based SmartDrive Systems said Monday that it has named Steve Mitgang as its new CEO.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

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Initially it was a UGC site that competed with sites like YouTube and Veoh. Why do you think Veoh didn’t succeed? (40:30 It is important to leverage the fastest growing platforms but anticipate changing terms of service. Mark and Richard go on to talk about platforms, timing, and simple reiterative product design.

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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. Richard Yen: I have been at this for five years, working for Blueprint Ventures in Silicon Valley.

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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. Richard Yen: I have been at this for five years, working for Blueprint Ventures in Silicon Valley.

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