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Advice from VCs: Digital Content Investors Tell Us What They Look For

Looking Beyond Advertising RevenuesIn terms of revenue models that VCs find compelling, advertising continues to play an outsize role. "The predominant model is, and will continue to be, advertising," says Lee. "There's still an opportunity to build an...

Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden: A Case of Lions, Tigers, and Bears

The Problem In-DepthA little over two years ago, the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden realized that the buying habits and profile of the typical visitor to its zoo was changing. "We were looking at some interesting business trends in our attendance patterns and...

Three Tips to Optimize CDN Performance

Content Delivery Networks, or CDNs, greatly improve end-user performance (download speeds) when compared to origin servers, due to the geographic proximity of their far-flung infrastructure. Recent performance data shows that images load more than 60% faster from a...