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>And what happens when wider direct distribution means that the sports world no longer needs ESPN's cable reach to get to viewers? Its not the viewers the sports leagues value ESPN…

I would classify this as the most rational "insider alarmist" version of the anti-unbundling argument. There will certainly be discomfort upon the arrival of unbundling, but this a…

Generally speaking, stats are public domain as they are a public event that occurred. Because a sports league may disagree with this position doesn't mean that it isn't true. Howev…

>But seriously, ditch the real time sharing stuff. I don't know why so many todo lists focus on that. I think what you're missing here is THE TRACTION. They have 10s of thousands o…

Plenty of things go wrong everyday at companies like FB that people don't see from the outside. If tons of things go wrong, and FB fails (whatever that means), entrepreneurship is …

For Fanvibe (YC S'10) we looked at a variety of sports stats providers, including TSN, Stats, and SportsDirect (who we used). These are the guys that license all the structured dat…

SF / Bay Area, FULL-TIME & INTERN beRecruited.com ( http://berecruited.com ) is disrupting the high school to college athletic recruiting market. We connect high school students to…

I'm not sure I understand what you're asking for. Feel free to email me at vish AT berecruited DOT com with more details

"This means that the intellectual average of student athletes is highly likely to be lower than the average of non-athletes" This applies to Michigan specifically. They are willing…

That's awesome to hear. Would love to hear more about your experiences. We hear from student athletes all the time asking for advice on how to manage school and sport. Drop me a li…

While there might be a slight amount of skewing due to the fact that we're an online service, we have a very large data set relative to the population we're speaking about. Also, g…

Its a bit more than a "want". They are telling this to colleges that offer that major, are taking the necessary coursework, etc. To your question: I'll have beRecruited revisit in …

That's great background information. I wonder what the primary driver of switching out is

We did something very similar to hire our designer with Fanvibe (now we're with beRecruited.com) - we ran a normal job post, then asked everyone to submit a rough mock-up of a mobi…

Yes, primarily for the team and our expertise in sports and mobile. However, there are some pieces we built for Fanvibe that we can apply to beRecruited - but not much on the user-…

Yes, primarily for the team and our expertise in sports and mobile. However, there are some pieces we built for Fanvibe that we can apply to beRecruited - but not much on the user-…

DirectTV has a strategy of using sports as an acquisition/retention tool, and paying handsomely for it. They also have exclusive NCAA Tournament content - like being able to watch …

True, but blackouts are relatively rare in the NFL, unless its 2009 and you're the Raiders. In fact, the Chargers were about 1,000 tickets away from a blackout earlier this year, a…

I recently did a bunch of research on this for my company Fanvibe. eMarketer, a research firm, estimates fans spend $500mm on premium content about fantasy, but the Fantasy Sports …

just think back to why you played flipcup in college...

We'll look into the "Find Friends on Facebook" issue. We are posting the flags to Facebook, and using the Twitter hashtag easter egg to show flags there too.

Great thoughts. We're actively working on revamping the "logged-out" user experience - you should see some changes within a week - and we'll incorporate some of your feedback.