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E Payments - Dwolla

Dwolla provides a free web based software platform which allows users to send, receive, and request funds from any other user. Dwolla’s maximum transaction cost is 25 cents per transaction.

The clip answers these three questions:

What is Dwolla?
What does Dwolla do?
How do you use Dwolla ?

Dwolla has been nominated as Top 10 Startup 2011 by ReadWriteWeb. Top 10 List can be found here.

posted : Saturday, February 11th, 2012

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PLATFORM - MONETIZE VIDEO WITH CENT2CENT

Cent2Cent is an Israeli company with a video monetization solution - working for large content producers and bloggers.

First interesting benefit: Cent2Cent is easy to install and use. No need to migrate to Cent2Cent’s hosting infrastructure. Your clip is encased within a JavaScript wrapper, oruse their  SOAP/REST APIs for better control of your content. If you need hosting, Cent2Cent is integrated with Kaltura. And to address all your needs, Cent2Cent has also plugins for Drupal and WordPress.

Second great benefit: Cent2Cent’s solution offer a variety of monetization options: Daily, Weekly, Monthly or recurring subscription plans, Pay-per-View, Bundles and Packages, and Metered plans (by number of views, or time viewed). Vow. Sounds terrific.

posted : Sunday, August 21st, 2011

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VC - PETER THIEL ON BUBBLE, SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE NEXT BIG THING

Peter Thiel is a very successful American entrepreneur, business angel, libertarian and venture capitalist of German descent. Thiel co-founded Paypal and made early-stage investments in numerous startups, including for example Slide, LinkedIn, Friendster and Yelp. He’s also angel investor of Facebook.

Thiel is also colloquially referred to as the “Don of the PayPal Mafia”, because PayPal alumni have founded or invested dozens of startups with an aggregate value of $30 billions.

He is also listed as a member of the Steering Committee of The Bilderberg Group

So listen carefully to what he says.

posted : Saturday, August 6th, 2011