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How to Make $100,000 from an Online Event

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Increased data collection: Online events offer greater opportunities for data collection , including attendee demographics, behavior, and preferences. This data can be used to improve future events and marketing efforts. Free download: How to Deliver 6-Figure Value to Virtual Event Sponsors ‍ 3. Sell online event tickets.

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Flip bags $28M to turn beauty, wellness social commerce on its head

TechCrunch

Social commerce startup Flip is mixing live commerce mobile apps with real customer reviews to improve the buying experience and opportunity for the creator economy. He intends to use the new funding to scale the company and its creator ecosystem, while also expanding the end-to-end logistics part of the platform.

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WaitWhat raises $12M to double down on what comes after podcasts

TechCrunch

” — as well as invest in its tech and R&D and efforts to break new ground for new kinds of formats. And Meditative Story, which focuses on mindfulness, is being downloaded 750,000 times each month. But we have found ways to use our fundraising rounds to leap us forward on diversity — in a few different ways.”

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Go1 snaps up speed reading app Blinkist to expand in enterprise learning

TechCrunch

After raising $100 million at a valuation of over $2 billion last year, the Australian ed-tech startup Go1 is making an acquisition and getting some investment to expand its reach and technology to serve the market of corporate online learning. “We see generative AI as a big opportunity,” he said.

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Looking Back On Tech, Startups, And VC In 2018

Haystack

And, with that warning, I offer to you, the big stories in the startup and investing ecosystem of 2018, written in ascending order of importance and magnitude…. Traditional seed funds have gotten bigger, many armed with opportunity funds on top. The fear of them investing in a competitor is real.

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SoftBank-backed Oyo files for $1.16 billion IPO

TechCrunch

That deal immediately proved to be a success, which then propelled Agarwal to explore broadening his offering — now using technology — to focus on what were the neglected segments of the market. Its aggressive expansion bet has had a mixed success rate. Oyo’s offerings. to name a few markets.

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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. Europe is roughly the same as the US.