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Startup No 189 - #StartupRealities 2020 series  BlogPeerReview  is an online media company which subjects blog posts to peer review by fellow bloggers. For five dollars a piece, the company gets five experienced bloggers to read a blogpost and leave a meaningful comment each. The blog reviewers post all their comments in public and are free to make critical or positive comments as long as they have read the post once. The blog author who pays for the service gets engagement and feedback, which help improve the reach of the blog as well as the quality of writing, argumentation and topic selection. CEO QUOTE " In the world of social media, we are all shouting at the top of our lungs but hardly anyone would hear if all we do is leave scattered comments across Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Blogs are a different matter: they are targeted communication channels. My company helps these channels grow into rivers, and helps these rivers connect. We are the Fiverr of the blogosphere!...

Startup No 170 StartupRealities 2020 series 50HoursContent is an online video education company that recruits volunteer experts and intellectuals to dedicate one hour a week (50 hours a year) to recording video talks (video blogs = vlogs) in fields of their choosing. The company is building a TED-style catalogue of content by challenging academics and professionals to leave a legacy by contributing their thoughts to educating future generations. CEO QUOTE " We don't require contributors to dedicate their talks and videos to one field only. We let their minds roam. We appreciate that producing an hour of novel ideas and thoughts in a single field every week would be quite difficult. This is why we encourage our speakers and educators to break up their hour into six 10-minute talks on different topics. Their videos thus become a magazine-type series of video blogs (vlogs). " - said 50HoursContent founder and CEO Fifi Houghton Contador. Alexander Pope (image source...