(Founder of watches) Napkin Labs: Should startups pitch close to venture capital?

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Riley Gibson — CEO and co-founder of the Boulder-based napkin Labs, a startup that helps companies manage and involve their Facebook fans and twitter followers. Napkin Labs launched an updated version of the service today (read, napkin Labs allows brands to better understand their customers (and turn them into colleagues) to launch Gibson flew to New York to get advice on building your business during working hours with a hunch co-founder Chris founder Dixon and first round capital managing partner Josh Kopelman.

Based in Colorado, Gibson alleged that his company may be at a disadvantage, because it is not near large sources of venture capital. He wondered if the move will help. Kopelman don't think and react, saying, "I'm not sure it makes sense to go to be near VC ... I think you tend to move if you find that you're starved for talent, if you can't hire to fill positions at the right level. We financed companies throughout the country. "

Dixon chime in with a tongue-in-cheek response that is often better to abandon sources of venture capital.

After an exchange of Gibson asked Dixon and Kopelman on raising money. The question is the napkin Labs to try to reach the defined indicators to make money, or he doesn't worry about benchmarks and just go for it? Dixon and Kopelman take a similar position, with Kopelman, stating "probably makes sense to have just a handful of conversations, testing the appetite and the reaction of investors." he pointed out that you don't turn, fund-raising and shuts down, but rather is an ongoing process to attract sponsors.

Make sure to watch all the videos for additional ideas, along with previous episodes, the founder of the clock with a picture of Dispatch.io, Schedit and profitably.

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HTML5 or Flash? With Yokto new video player, you should not select

Yokto is a newly launched video platform, which offers embeddable player which intelligently switches between interface based on Flash or HTML5, depending on the device used for viewing content. This idea is not original, of course. Similar solutions from companies like Brightcove, Ooyala, Kaltura and SublimeVideo, for example, offer much in the same.

But where Yokto stands out in its feature "playlists". Instead of simply embed a video on your website or blog, you can assemble a series of videos from multiple sources and embed them on your site during a single player interface.

Yokto now allows you to select a video from YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Brightcove, Ustream, and Photobucket, as well as presentations from SlideShare. After signing up for an account, you'll walk through a number of steps to search for videos, organize them into playlists, select the type of player and grab the embed code.

The whole process is incredibly easy and very fast.

Another advantage of Yokto is the wide range of service options for player suggestions. For example you can have your playlist are displayed on the right or bottom of the video, choose "theater format player, display video as wall of thumbnails and more.

All players include social sharing buttons too, which will post links that send users back to your site when clicked.

After the Player embedded on your site, and any further changes in the playlist on the Web site Yokto immediately and automatically reflected in the player interface, without the need to update the embed code to your goal.

Pricing plans for Pro users, hook in S3 and CloudFront

Yokto offers Pro for advanced users that allows you to upload your own videos to the service. These videos are then encoded in formats and competently served based on end-user devices. The device iOS they you are also optimized for screen resolution, format and bitrate at Yokto in device iOS, Chief Tech Evangelist tells us Oojal Jhutti.

Pro users can connect to Amazon S3/CloudFront user accounts for Yokto, which will push all encoded content back to these in-process account to full control over your files.

Yokto in the basic service is free to use, and Pro users are offered 1 month for free right now. There are different levels of premium is available starting at $ 0.10 for the video and up. Distribution of prices can be found here.

Yokto was founded at the end of 2010 and is headed by Director Ross Alderson, who attended the launch of many technologies over the years, and who co-founded the Uk register. The company is funded by private Powershift Media Ltd.

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