by spm on February 24, 2010
Many are aware Vidli and the Blue-footed Boobies support the Startup Visa. Today there was a victory!
We are thrilled to announce Senators John Kerry (D-MA) & Richard Lugar (R-IN) today introduced The Startup Visa Act in Washington. Some may remember our epic blog post about the Lord of the Visa where we outlined the major players in the Startup Visa Movement. In light of today’s events we’ve posted our first round of updates – unashamedly named “Victory Updates.”
The Startup Visa Act proposes legislation to modify the existing EB-5 Visa in order to drive job creation in the US and increase American global competitiveness. This would enable immigrant entrepreneurs who are creating new companies to secure visas to come to the United States, if there is investment capital available from a sponsoring US venture capital or angel investor of at least $100,000 in an equity financing of not less than $250,000.
Stay tuned for more information. Check out the Lord of the Visa (our take), Brad Feld’s blog or the StartupVisa.com for more information.
by Nathaniel Brown on February 21, 2010
So, I ran into a video article today on YouTube that was published by Hulu. Not sure if you all see the irony in this, but hulu is an ad supported network who has cut a short cut out of their programming to relay to YouTube to get a cut of advertising on a 3rd party. This sounds smart at first, but if you realize that SNL, the authors of this content are getting a split of a split, it really doesn’t make sense. Why doesn’t NBC go directly with the publisher and make the comission? Lazyness? Maybe….
On the other hand, Vidli would let NBC license their content directly, and get all commissions outside of the base price and credit card transaction fees. Which in this case, where people wanted to see it over 20 million times, could have literally been 20 million dollars if they simply sold the video at the same cost as found on iTunes for the music download as they could get streamed directly to their interface of choice on Vidli.
Hopefully now you can see the irony of what’s happening here and what could really be made possible. Vidli doesn’t just let content owners be able to make significant profits, it let’s major networks do their thing the way it should be done.