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Versión en español. Venture capitalists in Latin America are looking for digital media startups with rapid growth, a plan for monetization, and international potential. Francisco Coronel: digital media well positioned Obviously, most new media don’t fit that profile. But startups with these characteristics are starting to attract angel investors who provide the first rounds […]
Read More »Miranda Mulligan, right, and me, left, with the startup teams. Versión en español aquí. We hear a lot about the next Silicon Valley, but we don’t hear much about the Valley of Death. That is where 80 percent of tech startups go to die. Startups die or join the walking dead mainly for two reasons: […]
Read More »So much innovation is occurring on the revenue side of new digital media that it’s time to review, update and aggregate. Some of the material has appeared in this blog before. Let´s start with the basics. Versión en español. 1. Create community, don’t just publish news. An audience is just a group of observers. […]
Read More »PolicyMic.com aims at millennials who are dissatisfied with traditional news outlets. It reaches 14.5 million unique users a month, according to Jake Horowitz, co-founder and editor-in-chief. The site started 2 1/2 years ago, and “the goal all along has been to empower young people who want to be a part of the conversation around the news […]
Read More »The news about Felix Salmon’s decision to leave Reuters and join Fusion.net threw a spotlight on this new digital venture of ABC and Univision. A few weeks ago I interviewed Fusion’s chief of digital, mobile and social platforms, Daniel Eilemberg. He talked about the target audience of Fusion — millennials — and his other entrepreneurial […]
Read More »Juanita Leon, founder of La Silla Vacia. ISOJ photo. Versión en español aquí. Launching a news publication online is the easy part. Paying the bills and surviving for several years is the hard part. Three of those who have evolved and survived for at least five years are La Silla Vacia, a political website in […]
Read More »Joey Chung, co-founder of The News Lens Versión en español aquí. Some of the fastest growing digital media in Asia, Latin America and the U.S. are tapping into a young audience that wants news that is less partisan, more believable and sometimes irreverent. Animal Politico in Mexico started out as a Twitter feed with an […]
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