Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2015

Blockbuster failed to recognize that their industry had fundamentally and permanently changed, and even NetFlix has suffered from the same issue, as video streaming takes over. A smart entrepreneur learns to embrace failure as a badge of learning that provides a competitive edge. See point #1 or watch history repeat.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The philosophy of OPEC has been that if they can limit the amount of oil supplied to the world they can maintain high prices in a world where demand and competition should naturally have downward pressure on oil prices. Because they are anti-competitive most countries ban cartels. The model I would look to?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2016

Blockbuster failed to recognize that their industry had fundamentally and permanently changed, and even NetFlix has suffered from the same issue, as video streaming takes over. A smart entrepreneur learns to embrace failure as a badge of learning that provides a competitive edge. See point #1 or watch history repeat.

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MARCH 25, 2016

If you look at the structure of the travel industry above – of course we know that the hotel industry is fragmented while the airline industry is reasonable consolidated. But I’m investing on the assumption you will be successful, of course. It is Blockbuster video in the dawn of Netflix. Competition.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Public Storage is the Blockbuster Video of their industry and we set out to build Netflix. Of course we always knew the market would want furniture and we knew that 50% of the market wouldn’t store with us unless we had furniture. Little old us. Sound familiar? It’s no wonder incumbents don’t want us to exist.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Blue-chip customers such as Intuit, Williams-Sonoma, Fox Sports/MSN, Ticketmaster, Glaxo Smith Kline, Clear Channel, WebEx and Netflix turn to StrongMail infrastructure to bring enterprise-class reliability to their email systems. So, we decided to move the company to Silicon Valley (with a little encouragement from Sequoia, of course).

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FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Machine Learning / AI They discussed many topics ranging from protection of the press to what Mark looks for in an entrepreneur to investing outside of Silicon Valley and of course Trump and sports. And he believes with less companies going public there is less competition. Mark: My two biggest holdings are Netflix and Amazon.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The crypto in cryptocurrency is of course referring to cryptography on the ability to encrypt your transactions so they can’t be modified after they have been written to the blockchain. This market structure in which the few, large players use their market position to eliminate competition is inevitable. It’s Hobbesian economics 101.

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