socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

That's what we do over the course of our two year contract. Michele Ruiz: The only thing I would add, is this is a software-as-a-service solutioneverything is on our online platform. Here, we wanted to build a Netflix-like experience for this. Think Dateline, the Discovery Channel, and Netflix.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2015

It’s tempting to believe that one more new platform will win for crowd funding or video games, like Indiegogo and Wii. Actually, great new customer solutions lead to great platforms, not the other way around. The fallacy of formulas that “can’t fail,” and holding on to troubled ventures, is alive and well in startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2016

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. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. Online DSP (demand-side platform) and ad exchange for display advertisers. Revenue model: % of total ad or data buy purchased through platform. Total raised: $129.0mm.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2016

It’s tempting to believe that one more new platform will win for crowd funding or video games, like Indiegogo and Wii. Actually, great new customer solutions lead to great platforms, not the other way around. The fallacy of formulas that “can’t fail,” and holding on to troubled ventures, is alive and well in startups.

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Startup Netflix Entrepreneur Social Media 59

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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Both Sides of the Table

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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

There are of course other outposts like Austin and Seattle. Netflix is a great example. When Facebook was opening up their platform, these guys thought that it was an interesting way to do user acquisition and preference acquisition of individuals and that they would be able find a way to monetize it in commerce-oriented verticals.

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Both Sides of the Table

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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Both Sides of the Table

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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Both Sides of the Table

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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