There are shipping-impaired companies, there are sketch-mondo companies and then there are flat-out bogus companies.
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Launch another app and that will be cut in half, with the two apps sharing that mondo display.
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And the way Mondo Media came to its billion views on YouTube sets the company apart even further.
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U. Sirius is kickstarting a project called Mondo 2000: An Open Source History.
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For more on this topic, plan to attend the Mondo Visione Exchange Forum 2011 in London 28-29 November.
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If you read that carefully, and understand teen tastes, you might realize Mondo is the opposite of a Disney cartoon.
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Besides Polytan, a longstanding German rival, Chinese firms have entered the fray using technology that, according to Mr Stroppiana, copies Mondo's.
"This is like a religion, " he says as Mondo finishes his 100 laps and races into the infield to beat the thunderstorm.
That at least seemed to be the conclusion of several experts at the Mondo Visione Exchange Forum in London last month.
"This is like a religion, " he says as Mondo finishes his hundred laps and races into the infield to beat the thunderstorm.
Since then Mondo has invested heavily in research and development, on which it spends about 5% of revenues and employs 40 people.
But Mondo Media, despite its remarkable Internet story, has been relatively under-appreciated.
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In early summer 2008, while still living and working in San Francisco, I heard through a mutual friend that Mondo Taitu was for sale.
The story goes boom, bust, but survival because of content that young adults were seeking online, which ferried Mondo to the time when YouTube arrived in 2005.
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And it made total sense, as a 40-something contributor for Forbes I might appear to be among the last on earth to watch a Mondo Media production.
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Furthermore, Ms. Rai-mondo and the members of the SIC, in public meetings, discussed, deliberated and decided on an investment strategy to reduce long term risk, while protecting returns.
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Mondo protects its intellectual property with more than 200 patents.
Over just a decade, the U.S. and global financial systems have been rocked and roiled by mondo-bubbles in tech stocks, house prices, Asian and Latin American markets and commodities.
My childhood (at least the formative years) was spent reading novels like Neuromancer and Snow Crash, and poring over stories about a future promised by Mondo 2000 and Wired.
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John Evershed, CEO of Mondo Media, called me from the parking lot of Disneyland last week to discuss a milestone that only 18 other companies have reached on YouTube.
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Mondo has been around since 1988 in various incarnations, Evershed told me, and was one of those companies that got VC funding during the first Internet bubble in the mid 1990s.
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Then again there was always Walden Books at the Millcreek Mall -- if one of your visits happened to coincide with the erratic publishing schedule of Mondo 2000, you were in luck!
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But Evershed sees a time when the kind of content Mondo produces becomes the standard for entertainment: Online, on-demand, branded networks that can be watched from as many platforms as people can design.
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After all, this is the same company that enjoyed a triumph three years ago with another "site-specific" staging, performing Haydn's comic opera "Il mondo della luna (The World on the Moon)" at the Hayden Planetarium.
Just one hour ago, I was tossing back mondo glasses of chardonnay with boss Steve Forbes, Forbes Asia President Will Adamopoulos, colleagues Kendall Crolius and Cecilia Zeche, and Forbes columnist Ken Fisher and wife Sherri on the top floor of the Ritz Carlton Millenia in Singapore.
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