Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2020

Blockbuster failed to recognize that their industry had fundamentally and permanently changed, and even NetFlix has struggles with the same issue, as video streaming takes over. See point #1 or watch history repeat. Failing to adapt to tectonic shifts in the market. Fail fast and pivot. Startups can go down many times faster than they go up.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Many of us learned about substitute products in undergrad economics courses. Of course branding is many things and this post doesn’t attempt a master class. We of course all instinctively know when we see a brand that is well established what it stands for?—?Warby Here are some ideas of what I believe matters.

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APRIL 28, 2016

And of course fudging never produces world-class results, so many companies suffer from mediocrity. Netflix was widely criticized for breaking their business in two. And while leaders set direction, of course it is teams that deliver results. The problem with hard decisions is that you can never make everybody happy.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Unless of course something Trump’s our good weather. And while the US had FANG (Facebook, Amazon/Apple, Netflix and Google) China has BAT (Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent). We will also be publishing the full VC Survey and LP Survey over the course of the next couple of weeks. Baidu alone raised $3.2

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

That's what we do over the course of our two year contract. Here, we wanted to build a Netflix-like experience for this. Think Dateline, the Discovery Channel, and Netflix. It's education, measurement, analysis, and ongoing mitigation strategy. With consumer software, you have individuals who are buying this on their own.

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MAY 21, 2017

Of course he’s gone on to become one of the most influential thinkers in our industry and Box is worth $2.3 In order to get a better sense on your own fallibility I would encourage every entrepreneur to watch Brain Games, a Nat Geo series that is available on Netflix (and YouTube for a fee).

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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. See point #1 or watch history repeat. Failing to adapt to tectonic shifts in the market. Fail fast and pivot. Startups can go down many times faster than they go up.

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APRIL 12, 2018

Of course we have to believe that there is a viable market, a differentiated product offering and a chance to build something defensible but if you do those basics right you still get crushed without an amazingly talented founder. With Ring it became your doorbell so of course you always use it when someone’s at your door.

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JANUARY 5, 2016

And of course SnapChat is relevant for younger video consumers. And Netflix, Roku and Apple TV. Consumer product companies often create unique versions of their product that aligns with the specific channel in the way that people build high-volume SKUs for CostCo. That’s your job. You create and aggregate videos. And Vidme.

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OCTOBER 10, 2011

Netflix as a service has always prided itself on movie recommendations that are tailored specifically to you plus user ratings on the quality of films. Netflix needs to segment their customers and charge each what is appropriate. Perhaps they should have just created business units called: Netflix DVD & Netflix Streaming.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

Obviously, anyone except the largest five to ten content companies in the world, such as Google, Netflix, or Amazon, does not need to own their own CDN. Of course, since we're venture backed, we do have to consider our investors, as they're looking at some point for an exit. Instead, they outsource to an expert like Edegcast.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2014

Of course, we all love disruptive new products, like the Pebble Smart Watch and Google Glass, but recent innovative services startups, including Uber for transportation and Airbnb for lodging, have grown much bigger and faster. Hence the popularity and wealth of new services like Citi Bike, Lyft, and NetFlix.

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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. See point #1 or watch history repeat. Failing to adapt to tectonic shifts in the market. Fail fast and pivot. Startups can go down many times faster than they go up.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Of course they can be duped. We talked about this concept and also: online video, lawsuits with big media companies, the value or not of circles in Google Plus, the economic reasons behind the NetFlix decision, social TV startup Chill and much, much more. They wanted to know who you were. Image courtesy of PhotoXpress.com.

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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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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Of course it’s their right to do so and there is so much money involved you can hardly blame them. It has just been released to wide audiences November 2010 – mostly in response to the growing popularity of Netflix and ironically the introduction of the ABC.com player on the iPad.

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JUNE 12, 2010

Content, of course, is the same!]. We talked about the analogies between what NetFlix achieved in movies and whether this is relevant to the book market. I think you’ll enjoy this TWiVC video because the topics were so wide ranging. We then moved on to discuss the following deals: Deal of the Week. Online text book rental service.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 26, 2016

Of course, just like any other update, there will be winners and losers depending on how you play the game. If Zucks was able to acquire Snapchat 18 months ago like he wanted to, and if they were to developed an OTT (over-the-top) network that competed with Netflix, Facebook would basically be the anointed winner of the entire Internet.

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MARCH 12, 2016

Plus, Snapchat allows me to download my stories, which of course I do. Look at YouTube and its big push into Red having seen the success of Netflix. So while some people go mad that I would publish a Snapstorm (a short lesson on startup entrepreneurship) in a platform where it disappears in 24 hours – I actually love it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2010

Hulu is for TV what NetFlix is for movies, but its growth has been dropping off sharply. Of course other things, like the market, founder dynamics, funders’ indulgence, and luck will have a part in your success or failure. An early high flyer in this space, MoBuzz, couldn’t make a business and folded a couple of years ago.

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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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FEBRUARY 13, 2011

There are of course other outposts like Austin and Seattle. Netflix is a great example. The venture capital industry is so heavily skewed to Northern California, which the remains spilled over Boston, New York & Southern California. So it was wonderful to hear from a leading venture capital firm based in Washington DC.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

That is, of course, as long as what you are selling is the absolute best in your market.) It’s a Netflix for business cards and receipts. This article will cover two things; First, the top mistakes small business owners make that end with inquiries leading you to the exit door before making a sale. Second, how to get leads.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

For instance, if a user registers for a firewall, subsequent offers for anti-spam or anti-spyware solutions will generally fare better than random solicitations for Netflix, Geico or the secret to whiter teeth. He is a member of the University of California at Santa Barbara’s Faculty where he teaches several entrepreneurial courses.

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JANUARY 13, 2016

And of course the 800 pound gorilla – YouTube – is also horizontal in nature. In long-form online video, companies were also broad in nature: Hulu, Netflix, Amazon and Apple TV. Of course there are many great verticals including: Auto, food, music, animation, shopping. And of course these numbers are only increase.

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MARCH 11, 2016

Let me just put this more clearly for you up front – the vast majority of the Internet is used for porn so every product has this use but you probably just don’t know about it: YouTube, Tumblr, Facebook, FaceTime, Skype and of course be very careful on Google Search without “safe mode” on. So get over it.

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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. Greatest Public Startups Jason: You are still an investor in Netflix, right? 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. Distribution of media is tightly controlled by YouTube, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon and a handful of others. It’s Hobbesian economics 101.

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