socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

In the last four years, we built Moviepilot.de, which is like Yahoo Movies or Netflix on steroids. We try to understand your preferences, like Netflix does with their recommendations, and understand and give you a personalized experience. Do you see a lot of competition from current US services?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

When a product is truly unique and demanded a retailer willingly promotes and sells it en masse in part because it does get margin on the good but also because it brings customers in the door who spend on other products. We of course all instinctively know when we see a brand that is well established what it stands for?—?Warby Get Physical!

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. This is a tough one to accomplish, but it has paid off handsomely for the first to win in other categories, such as Amazon Kindle and Netflix. According to Tim Cook at Apple, there were over 9 million registered developers in 2014.

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Startup Platform Pricing Netflix 98

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 26, 2019

I’m convinced that you can’t stay competitive that way with today’s customers, and today’s employees. Don’t demand or assume immediate and certain answers. Foster a culture of constant dialog with customers, experimentation, and multiple pivots required to stay competitive and responsive.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Public Storage is the Blockbuster Video of their industry and we set out to build Netflix. First, customers in these new markets didn’t want to buy in “bins” and they demanded furniture. 80% of our software was “below the surface” and not apparent to the market or competition. Little old us.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2017

I’m convinced that you can’t stay competitive that way with today’s customers, and today’s employees. Don’t demand or assume immediate and certain answers. Foster a culture of constant dialog with customers, experimentation, and multiple pivots required to stay competitive and responsive.

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Competition Organization Customer Custom 50

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Further, growing familiarity of video from streaming applications such as Netflix and YouTube and real-time video service Skype were driving the consumerization of video and BYOD expectation to the workplace. How unique are you from the competition if you have any?

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Cloud Computing Software Platform Startup 65

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. Whatever the biggest, most challenging, most demanding, most important job we had at L90, I always turned to Tim.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

This market structure in which the few, large players use their market position to eliminate competition is inevitable. Distribution of media is tightly controlled by YouTube, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon and a handful of others. It’s Hobbesian economics 101. Our social graphs are locked in Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

It is Blockbuster video in the dawn of Netflix. Competition. You need to ask yourself honestly how your product or service is going to be significantly better in some way than the competition that exists in the market. Our centralization is their achilles heel. What are the customer’s alternatives? You need a wedge.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 5, 2015

A recurring entrepreneurial challenge is to determine the optimal price of a new product, especially absent a directly competitive alternative. This is analogous to asking Netflix for a discount because you never use its recommendation engine. Anecdotally, it seems that SaaS products often behave as Giffen goods.

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