Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

In a world where we’ve seen newspapers crumbling, record labels struggling and Blockbuster imploding and making way for the rise of Netflix it seems kinda intuitive to most of us but we can’t quite place why this happens. And weirdly the buyers of this technology often have a vested interest in buying from the incumbent.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The most competitive startups do both, all the time and every time. In today’s competitive world, with its accelerating rate of change, no competitive advantage lasts long. The only sustainable competitive advantage is creativity. Creativity is the ultimate competitive advantage. Encourage courage.

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Competition Netflix Ideas Metrics 135

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Now these principles are complicated by the worldwide instant access to many competitive alternatives, indirect social and environment impacts, and the velocity of change enabled by the pervasive market move to digital. These principles include the following: Free and ultra-low cost may no longer be competitive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2017

Revenue and competitive position followed. Facebook competed against the model of free customer use paid by advertisers of Google, and the sophisticated data delivery infrastructures of YouTube and Netflix. Facebook’s winning strategy was a laser focus on increasing active user counts and time spent online.

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Competition Social Media Metrics Customer 65

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

The big three options right now are Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon, and they’re getting bigger: Americans are watching more than an hour of streaming content per day , a number excepted to steadily increase over time. Netflix Basics. Netflix has both quantity and quality.but isn’t very timely. Hulu Basics.

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Netflix Hulu Content Outsource Development 40

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

The second annual USC Silicon Beach event, hosted by the four professional schools at USC, featured a pitch competition and a conference filled with informational panels and interviews. Startup Pitch Competition. I tried to treat it as a learning experience and refined my pitch for this competition.”.

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USC Cornerstone OnDemand Southern California Netflix 98

TechCrunch LA

MAY 17, 2019

Both services are entering a highly competitive and increasingly fragmented entertainment landscape with many big studios building moats around their content in the form of exclusive subscription-based streaming services. . He points to the success of Netflix’s hit “You”, which the streaming service picked up from Lifetime.

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Services Report Netflix Content 167

TechCrunch LA

JUNE 3, 2022

billion company in the brutally competitive beauty industry, especially one with such broad appeal. Nasty Gal CEO Sophia Amoruso is credited with coining the term in the title of her 2014 memoir, “#Girlboss,” which chronicled her rags-to-riches success and was adapted into a Netflix show.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

I’m convinced that you can’t stay competitive that way with today’s customers, and today’s employees. Foster a culture of constant dialog with customers, experimentation, and multiple pivots required to stay competitive and responsive. Constant debates and re-analysis of data are the enemy in a fast-moving and competitive marketplace.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Now these principles are complicated by the worldwide instant access to many competitive alternatives, indirect social and environment impacts, and the velocity of change enabled by the pervasive market move to digital. These principles include the following: Free and ultra-low cost may no longer be competitive.

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Customer Custom Competition Netflix 103

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Now these principles are complicated by the worldwide instant access to many competitive alternatives, indirect social and environment impacts, and the velocity of change enabled by the pervasive market move to digital. These principles include the following: Free and ultra-low cost may no longer be competitive.

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Customer Custom Competition Netflix 101

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2012

The most competitive startups do both, all the time and every time. In today’s competitive world, with its accelerating rate of change, no competitive advantage lasts long. The only sustainable competitive advantage is creativity. Creativity is the ultimate competitive advantage. Encourage courage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2021

These include companies across multiple industry spectrums, notably NetFlix in entertainment, AirBnB in hospitality, and Whole Foods for groceries. Building and managing teams along the new lines outlined is not easy, and that’s why it’s a real competitive advantage when you do it.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2013

We're not going to be the perfect model for people who are streaming huge amounts of video, and using Netflix all day. The average user and consumer only consumes 5GB a month, and we think we can provide something massively competitive to both DSL and cable. We're looking to completely revolutionize home Internet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2013

The most competitive startups do both, all the time and every time. In today’s competitive world, with its accelerating rate of change, no competitive advantage lasts long. The only sustainable competitive advantage is creativity. Creativity is the ultimate competitive advantage. Encourage courage.

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Product Competition Netflix Ideas 92

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2022

Revenue and competitive position followed. Facebook competed against the model of free customer use paid by advertisers of Google, and the sophisticated data delivery infrastructures of YouTube and Netflix. Facebook’s winning strategy was a laser focus on increasing active user counts and time spent online. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Social Media Metrics Customer 144

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2011

The most competitive startups do both, all the time and every time. In today’s competitive world, with its accelerating rate of change, no competitive advantage lasts long. The only sustainable competitive advantage is creativity. Creativity is the ultimate competitive advantage. Encourage courage.

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Startup Competition Netflix Ideas 92

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

The most competitive startups do both, all the time and every time. In today’s competitive world, with its accelerating rate of change, no competitive advantage lasts long. The only sustainable competitive advantage is creativity. Creativity is the ultimate competitive advantage. Encourage courage.

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Companies Company Competition Netflix 90

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2022

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 are over 34 million registered developers in 2022.

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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

APRIL 12, 2018

Throughout all of this we saw a tinkerer, a problem solver and a completely obsessed leader who was competitive and wanted to win. But we were sure that Jamie would be maniacally focused on improving the product, marketing the dream to consumers and out-maneuvering the slower-moving competition. We weren’t sure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

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 20 million registered developers in 2018.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

That is, businesses are using APIs like crazy to stay competitive and communicate with both partners and customers more effectively. Netflix, Amazon, and Twitter have already proven that using API services they can stay ahead of their competition and deliver continuous value to their user base,” says David Kullmann, Partner at Citrusbyte.

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Software Netflix Competition Design 74

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In many cases, the ideas may be small ones, such as starting a promotion to kick-start sales on a stalled item, or suggesting a huge strategy move to acquire Netflix and supplement an already healthy Blockbuster DVD rental business. Your idea has unpredictable negative side effects.

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Ideas Netflix Resource Custom 116

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. Foster a culture of constant dialog with customers, experimentation, and multiple pivots required to stay competitive and responsive. Constant debates and re-analysis of data are the enemy in a fast-moving and competitive marketplace.

Competition 73

Competition Organization Customer Custom 73

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

The most competitive startups do both, all the time and every time. In today’s competitive world, with its accelerating rate of change, no competitive advantage lasts long. The only sustainable competitive advantage is creativity. Creativity is the ultimate competitive advantage. Encourage courage.

Competition 65

Competition Netflix Ideas Metrics 65

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

JUNE 12, 2019

Much has been written recently about the requirement to focus today on the total customer experience, as a competitive edge or even for survival. Netflix suggests comedies based on your unique previous choices, and Blue Apron will deliver you a meal-kit based on your interest in health, fun, or variety.

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2018

What we do, is for a low, flat monthly feea lot less than Netflixyou become a member of the service, which gives you access to the group, and all of the anti-fraud systems. I worked in the medical field for the Kaiser HMO, and had my own surgical practice in the uber-competitive West Los Angeles market.

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Technology Startup West Los Angeles Platform 165

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2019

Revenue and competitive position followed. Facebook competed against the model of free customer use paid by advertisers of Google, and the sophisticated data delivery infrastructures of YouTube and Netflix. Facebook’s winning strategy was a laser focus on increasing active user counts and time spent online. Marty Zwilling.

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Social Media Metrics Customer Custom 87

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Warby Parker produces modern eyewear at affordable prices, Apple produces elegant, premium technology products, Netflix offers an enormous library of binge-worthy, unique video. We of course all instinctively know when we see a brand that is well established what it stands for?—?Warby I don’t use the word ‘spectacular’ lightly.

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Product Course Custom Customer 296

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2023

For example, we all remember when Blockbuster realized too late that Netflix was stealing customers by offering videos online rather than via DVDs, but even then they were unable to adapt their processes and their thinking. I see this happening in smaller ways often, where there is minimal focus on competition.

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Metrics Training Netflix Resource 71

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2019

These include companies across multiple industry spectrums, notably NetFlix in entertainment, AirBnB in hospitality, and Whole Foods for groceries. Building and managing teams along the new lines outlined is not easy, and that’s why it’s a real competitive advantage when you do it.

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Netflix Social Media Startup Mentor 77

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Public Storage is the Blockbuster Video of their industry and we set out to build Netflix. 80% of our software was “below the surface” and not apparent to the market or competition. Little old us. Sound familiar? If you want to know how that worked out for the respective parties see the chart below. The Early Years.

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Startup Pricing Marketing Product 150

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

This is the reason many businesses wisely place a huge value on human capital and prioritize their focus on retention though recruitment techniques like competitive benefits and incentives. They are the driving force that executes the company vision on a daily basis, and make decisions that make it possible to achieve its growth and goals.

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Companies Company Competition Capital 74

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. Foster a culture of constant dialog with customers, experimentation, and multiple pivots required to stay competitive and responsive. Constant debates and re-analysis of data are the enemy in a fast-moving and competitive marketplace.

Competition 50

Competition Organization Customer Custom 50

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Examples of being first include Netflix for movies and TV and Redfin for real estate. Look at competition for the numbers to beat, but in the consumer space, it usually takes millions to be the dominant player. Ride the network effect to more users than anyone.

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Netflix Social Media Competition Customer 54