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devongall

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About devongall

Co-Founder of Vidyard

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    Comment #12688412

    One day soon we hope to add a library - this is where you'd find features like this!

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    Comment #12688018

    Hi - sorry to hear you've hit some difficulties! support[at]viewedit[dot]com should definitely be able to help! At this point, download isn't supported. It's something we may do in…

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    Comment #12687993

    Cool! We're working on some other sales productivity tools alongside this - would love to hear what you guys have been doing. I'm devon [at] vidyard [dot] com.

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    Comment #12687985

    For sure. I think there's a great opportunity for teaching/training/product walk-throughs. We have a couple customers using the full-fledged Vidyard platform for running training c…

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    Comment #12687811

    Videos are stored in S3, and then syndicated to our CDNs around the world. The player is HTML5, with a flash fallback, so users shouldn't need anything special to watch.

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    Comment #12686157

    Yes, length is limited to 1 hour unfortunately. Hoping to extend this in the future, but right now for performance reasons we restrict it a bit.

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    Comment #12685005

    The product is built by Vidyard, so we make money on the enterprise platform. The use of ViewedIt will always be free. I talked about this a little more here: https://medium.com/@d…

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    Comment #12684777

    One of the makers here, good question. We think there's a number of use cases - customer support (screen cap what they're doing wrong) and sales (personalized sales pitch) being th…

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    Comment #6293206

    Drop the "the".

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    Comment #4775073

    In a freemium model, looking at Revenue churn on the $0 accounts would definitely give you a pretty useless metric. For some metrics it makes sense to lump the two together. But th…

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    Comment #4774891

    It's a distinction between Revenue Churn and Customer Churn. If customer A cancels their account, it is a loss of 1 account. You can't really have negative customer churn. Revenue …

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    Comment #3430312

    This story blew my mind. Love the perseverance!

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    Comment #3249035

    Definitely! We've actually got sharing pages built in already for people just wanting to share a video along with a call to action or other content. We've also done some pretty coo…

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    Comment #3248780

    Definitely something we've considered - they tried doing something similar awhile back, but ended up removing the service pretty quickly. It just doesn't fit Google's typical monet…

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    Comment #3208608

    When I test this, the page is getting cached - and thus my one time secret is viewable multiple times. Interesting little quirk...

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    Comment #3184200

    Waterloo, Ontario (Canada) or the Valley. Rails Developer. Full Time. We're Vidyard, a YC S11 startup building an online video platform for businesses. We're looking for back and f…

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    Comment #3179327

    On that particular landing page we did not; however, we've since done some testing on our site, and found you're really best to stay under 2 minutes. 60-90 seconds is optimal. Atte…

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    Comment #3022574

    The names on the funding aren't quite in the Ron Conway, Yuri Milner realm - access to that network is one of the most important pieces of Startfund for follow-on, BD, etc. That sa…

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    Comment #3022541

    Agreed - seems like the terms could potentially defer the top-quality companies (although most would be happy to have the $ in their pockets), while the start-fund structure makes …

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    Comment #3022473

    Been wanting to checkout Storm since the announcement - looking forward to watching the rest of this...

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    Comment #2970673

    Definitely agree on the expense of a list-keys operation, be sure to avoid at all costs. Some of the Riak documentation was incomplete/incorrect which made implementation a little …

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    Comment #2929590

    The free plan is intended to add player customization, no advertisements, no out-bound link and analytics over YouTube, along with pretty minimal branding (only on mouse-over).

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    Comment #2919905

    The other side of the coin is it could allow more content to remain accessible for free (given the stats advertisers are bound to pay more). I'd rather enter brand-specified words …

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    Comment #2919598

    Thanks for the feedback - the last thing we wanted was for the line to be confusing, it was just supposed to indicate that a free plan was available, customers are then prompted to…

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    Comment #2735901

    Tend to disagree - comments are on that topic because of the content of the post. I'd think the relevance of the venue is determined by the level of comments and votes from the aud…