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U.S. Online Video Startups Raised $461M in 2007
newteevee.com — "Some $460.5 million was invested in such startups in 2007, up from $266.9 million in 2006. And already, in the first quarter of 2008, another $217.3 million rained down on the category."
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- imacbook, on 04/25/2008, -15/+1I've got a new startup for you guys, come visit it at imacbook.com.
Our business is burying anything about startups.- sockpuppets, on 04/25/2008, -1/+5Iburydouchebags.com is mine. Don't bother visiting, I just signed you up!
- chrissku, on 04/25/2008, -3/+9I'm the dumb ass that pays almost $18 bucks a month to Netflix to stare at the same 3 DVDs that I've neither watched or returned for over 2 months now while they sit on top of my DVD player.
- sockpuppets, on 04/25/2008, -0/+3"The NetFlix Syndrome." I had it, too.
- bevans, on 04/25/2008, -1/+3Step 1 - Obtain VC Money
Step 2 - ???
Step 3 - Profit - digjam, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1460million? doesnt sound too much ?
- HaoWard, on 04/25/2008, -0/+0wowzers, that's business
- bag2p, on 04/25/2008, -0/+0You know the world is heading for a dim future when the leading video rental service is also the largest fast food retailer.
- dafunkmonster, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1What these VC's don't understand is that unless the current online video leaders screw up hardcore, these startups aren't going to become nearly as profitable. The people supplying the content have already picked their favorite venue, so its going to be tough to attract new uploaders and downloaders alike to these startups.
- marktrefgarne, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1Thats not strictly the point of this figure. Firstly it almost certainly includes a large number of very large sites like metacafe/veoh in the category you're thinking of. But a large proportion of this money will have gone into services/products around online video in a more general way, for example ad networks and technologies, media players and publishing platforms etc.
So to say that just because YouTube has the momentum in UGC video-sharing that these are not by-and-large sensible investments is just plain wrong.
- marktrefgarne, on 04/25/2008, -0/+1Thats not strictly the point of this figure. Firstly it almost certainly includes a large number of very large sites like metacafe/veoh in the category you're thinking of. But a large proportion of this money will have gone into services/products around online video in a more general way, for example ad networks and technologies, media players and publishing platforms etc.
- LOVEANDEQUALITY, on 04/26/2008, -1/+2youtube.com
- anshuman, on 04/26/2008, -0/+12007 was good year. 2008 is going to rough guys .
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