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Re: Researching Online Education

albert — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 13:46:28 -0000

Glad to hear it!

Re: Researching Online Education

Ian — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 11:59:13 -0000

Wow, this is an amazing resource. Thank you for posting! I think I agree with your hypotheses as I'm mulling them over. I definitely see online education becoming increasingly specialized in a certain way, as companies figure out how specific technology can make it easier to learn specific things. Code Academy is a wonderful example in my mind. Look forward to reading all the links!

Re: Researching Online Education

proofreader services ratings — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 10:30:49 -0000

The hypothesis that you have posted is some kind of a useful thing to know for education. It actually deals with some good point of education in which it can be easily learned by individuals.

Re: Splice

joeymuller — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 16:57:24 -0000

Andrew, congrats on this investment. I do wonder, though, about letting someone else have their hand in my project. I guess it could be fun once or twice, but I can think of many professional producers who'll say, Hey I do things my way for a reason, why would I let someone else affect my art?

Having said that, the most obvious use case-here is remixes -- that'll be fun.

Secondly, support for Pro Tools is a must-have!

Re: Visualizing our Investments

PJ — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 22:27:32 -0000

The links seem to be broken

Re: Researching Online Education

sara — Sat, 12 Oct 2013 16:27:41 -0000

vertical and local

Re: Splice

Mark Gavagan — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 11:10:18 -0000

Wow, what a terrific idea! I just signed up and I'm very interested to try it out. I wonder how this will evolve over time, since people will surely find unexpected ways to use Splice. Best of luck on a fascinating venture.

Re: Splice

gbattle — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 08:13:57 -0000

Over the past 13 post-Napster years, too much emphasis has been paid to the last mile of the music value chain. No doubt, it has resulted in a rich social delivery ecosystem, some necessary disintermediation, but few have concentrated on the first mile. Creation, as a social pursuit, still lives in the days of physical proximity, working with people close to you. There's a better way for creators to collaborate, whether tightly or loosely, and retain attribution throughout the process. I look forward to seeing how Splice furthers this effort.

Re: Splice

aweissman — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 15:02:52 -0000

very thorough and thoughtful Dan - thanks

Re: Splice

Spacecamp / Dan — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 14:04:05 -0000

Anyone wanting a bit more insight into Splice from a feature and musician perspective should check out our article on DJTT: http://www.djtechtools.com/...

Re: Splice

aweissman — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 13:35:56 -0000

thanks Austin - good to see your face pop up ;-)

Re: Splice

Austin Clements — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 12:24:46 -0000

Great to see investments in good technologies creating efficiencies around the production and distribution of entertainment content. You're on a roll. Glad you continue to pull the future closer to us Andy.

Re: Splice

aweissman — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 10:33:34 -0000

thanks James - I hope so

Re: Splice

JamesHRH — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 10:03:42 -0000

Love the founding belief in the similarities between creating code / music.

I mean this as a complement, as I am a fan of really good pop music (quality that scales is always the hardest thing to pull off) ......this seems like something Robin Thicke, Daft Punk & Farrell et al will fall in love with, at first sight.

Re: Splice

JimHirshfield — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 09:34:47 -0000

Congrats! Musicians are great collaborators. Love that you guys are part of this. Rock on.

Re: VHX

kenberger — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 14:31:38 -0000

Good to hear. I wouldn't be surprised to see that sort of momentum grow, especially given their recent trajectory.

Re: VHX

aweissman — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 12:40:41 -0000

I'm not sure VHX is solely for the long tail of producers. Why would a "tentpole" film, for example, and as one of its tactics, also utilize direct to fan?

Let's wait and see what VHX has in store for the future

Re: VHX

kenberger — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 11:46:49 -0000

I'd say that social (twitter and FB), and online video shifting mainstream (as Kevin Spacey mentioned in his speech) helped even more than those 2 in that time period.

Corralling and serving the Long Tail of video producers turns out to be super tough, as I witnessed back then. VHX seemingly has the stellar backing, and tools, to make it happen now.

Re: VHX

aweissman — Sun, 01 Sep 2013 09:08:05 -0000

mobile and increased bandwidth changed alot

Re: VHX

kenberger — Sat, 31 Aug 2013 09:01:35 -0000

Based on my identical idea 10 years ago, my friends started a company, dovetail.tv.

It raised some venture, hit some great milestones, but did not succeed. Too early. A key was using bittorent and this was pre-youtube.

Re: VHX

gbattle — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 08:40:27 -0000

They've been on my radar for a hot minute. So much innovation to be gained when disintermediation meets distribution to form a dynamic marketplace. However aesthetically similar to Tumblr, it is the core marketplace component driving the model. Kudos all around.

Re: VHX

aweissman — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 07:56:38 -0000

bandwidth, mobile clearly are catalysts here

Re: VHX

daryn — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 01:50:54 -0000

Very cool. Love the product / space. And funnily, first I heard of these guys was tangentially USV-related, at XOXO fest in Portland last year.

Re: VHX

William Mougayar — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 00:30:05 -0000

I like it. Congratulations.
Why did it take that long for new intermediaries like this to emerge? We were talking about this in 1996, but it only happened in books, then to some extent in music, now movies. There must be other segments. Even books isn't totally distributed bc traditional publishers still control a lot.

Re: VHX

andyswan — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 15:51:15 -0000

"The VHX platform increases in value to both creators and users as the participants and activities grow."

Dig.