Ricky Van Veen Quotes

Ricky Van Veen — American Businessman

Richard "Ricky" Van Veen is an American entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of CollegeHumor, a popular comedy brand/website and CEO of Notional, a television production company born out of CollegeHumor. Van Veen created the site as a student at Wake Forest. Van Veen's site was earning between $10-15 million a year before the partners sold a controlling stake to IAC/InterActiveCorp. He is also one of the principal owners and founders of Connected Ventures, a company formed around CollegeHumor that included BustedTees and Vimeo. He also appeared in episode six of Jake Hurwitz and Amir Blumenfeld's podcast "If I Were You" becoming the first guest to do so... (wikipedia)

Viral videos aren't just about being funny. They're about identity creation.

Notional is a production company with the DNA of an Internet company that makes content for everything.

When people tell you Web content is better than television content, they probably don't mean that, they probably enjoy the format of the Web better than the format of TV.

All Internet comedy is niche comedy. If you do an Internet video about Halo, every Halo fan will send it to every other Halo fan. But if you did an episode of a network comedy that parodied Halo, most of your audience wouldn't even get it.

If you have a great idea that can translate elsewhere, then that's where the scalability comes in - and that's where you can actually start to make real money.

Ricky Van Veen Quotes

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