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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

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. margin range to more sustainable 50-60% margin businesses.

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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

What areas need to be disrupted? With the release of iCloud, that's less of an advantage now than it used to be. Adding a phone to that mix as the person paying seeing unnecessarily complicated, especially given the battery life issue. What areas are going to change? You can't have everything--where would you put it?"

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Behind the scenes: The challenges of building an EdTech startup

Startup Grind

You now transition from your mere focus on building a product to thinking more about building a viable business that sustains this product. Challenges: It’s not really that hard to acquire users for your product at this stage given your value proposition is clear and the product is somehow useful.

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A Meeting of Unreasonable Minds

Entrepreneurs' Organization

A successful entrepreneur, businessman and EO Bahrain member, Suhail Algosaibi had long thought about how he could use his position and his company—FALAK Consulting—to make real, radical and sustainable change in his corner of the world. Promoting Disruption. Contributing to Sustainable Development.

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60 Top Women-led Venture Capital Firms

American Entrepreneurship

Funding of women-founded startups remains significantly lower than those that are gender-mixed While women entrepreneurs are making significant strides in startup formation, they continue to struggle to gain access to funding on par with men. They invest in companies that are disrupting traditional retail and consumer experiences.

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The Duolingo EC-1

TechCrunch

What’s changed isn’t the market or its potential, but rather the perception that ambitious and sustainable companies can truly be built in education. And finally, note that Duolingo CEO and co-founder Luis von Ahn is coming to Disrupt, so make sure to grab your tickets because the conversation will continue there.

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Katakem’s ‘robot chef’ speeds up drug development with reliable chemistry

TechCrunch

It occurred to him that automation and robotics could make the drug development process more predictable, and so he founded Katakem , one of the startups in the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield 200. “The production of a chemical product is strictly regulated and standardized. Image Credits: Katakem. Image Credits: Katakem.