socalTECH

JANUARY 12, 2010

Pasadena-based software-as-a-service developer Central Desktop reported today that the firm had 44 percent, year-over-year growth, and boosted its staff by 50 percent in 2009, as a result of demand for the firm's online project collaboration tools. The firm said its customers now include such companies as Netflix, U.S.

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SaaS Netflix Pasadena Demand 140

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Netflix Inc and The Walt Disney Company have joined hands to give US film lovers high quality animated and live action films. ” Sarandos added, “It’s a bold leap forward for Internet television and we are incredibly pleased and proud this iconic family brand is teaming with Netflix to make it happen.”

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Netflix Entertainment Demand Content 68

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.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

I was selling products to Live Nation, Demand Media, Kelly Blue Book, Rovi, and the Screen Actors Guild. We provide full service, digital distribution and video-on-demand to iTunes, NetFlix, Hulu, Comcast, cable VOD, Time Warner, Cox, Dish Network, and AT&T. Lots of them were in online media and entertainment.

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Hollywood CTO Hire Social Media Platform 256

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

It’s Amazon, Virgin America, Netflix, Tesla, DropBox, iPhone, Uber, Lyft or any one of the other great brands that exist because they do things significantly better than what came before. ” That’s what we’ve set out to build at MakeSpace. 10x the experience.

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Technical Review Software Review CTO Hire Startup 380

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

OPEC (the organization of petroleum exporting countries) is a cartel that was set up in the 1960′s and represents the interests of the 12 biggest oil producing countries in the world with the goal of increasing prices of oil, a good supplied in limited quantities to a world that had insatiable demand for the product.

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Hulu Technical Review Content Advertising 292

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

We are the ‘Netflix’ of Africa – with iROKOtv we stream Nollywood (Nigerian Hollywood) movies online, so they are accessible to anyone with an Internet line, anywhere in the world. The post Interview With CEO Jason Njoku iRoko Partners | Africa’s Netflix Set To Disrupt US TV & Cable Market appeared first on TechZulu.

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Netflix Marketing Technical Review Content 82

SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

Theatrical release competes with broadcast and cable television and streaming video on demand. The half- dozen movie giants that have been with us in one form or another since the 1930s, plus huge upstarts like Netflix and Amazon (Prime).

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

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. We then moved on to discuss the following deals: Deal of the Week. Online text book rental service. Total raised: $129.0mm.

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

David Aronchick: The net of our jobs is really harnessing the demand. Our job is to help capture some of that demand. Maybe, that's directly with that piece of content--buying it as a ring tone, or buying the DVD, or renting it on Netflix, or seeing an ad that was cross promoted with that content.

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Redpoint Startup Content .Net 201

socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2019

That's when it clicked for me, realizing that for some reason, everything online is on-demand. Every single TV service online, from Hulu, to Netflix, and on requires people to search and find content, and really makes people work. The underlying issue is we don't know what to watch, which makes on-demand a really bad experience.

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Startup Content Demand Netflix 124

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2022

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. If you want to drive up the demand for your core product, one smart tactic is to drive down the price of all complementary products. Build your own marketplace platform.

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socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2012

Think of it like Netflix. We don't peak and valley with demand. They'll get access to our very first two planes, and our earliest routes. What we'll do with those early adopters, is learn about their travel habbits, and what happens with per-flight costs. You get unlimited views, but you can only hold two or three DVDs at home.

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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. More and more, entertainment has transformed into a demand driven industry.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2012

The round will explore some of the hits and misses of 2011 and look at recent Content developments & initiatives with YouTube Premium Channels, HBO GO, Hulu Original Content, & Netflix On-Demand. ** TechZulu readers get a 35% discount by entering the promo code ‘ techzulu’ at checkout. **.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Call it the Netflix effect. Mature businesses bring less in an M&A transaction than fast-growing companies, but the stability of recurring revenues always gives comfort to the buyer and allows the seller to slow the sales process, find multiple candidate buyers, and create increased demand for the company.

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Outsource Development Software Review Content Netflix 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

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. If you want to drive up the demand for your core product, one smart tactic is to drive down the price of all complementary products. Build your own marketplace platform.

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Mobile Develop Development Platform 126

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Everything from Skyfall in a packed auditorium on opening night to It’s a Wonderful Life on Netflix to Ponyo in an art house on a small screen. Growing our base of theaters as fast as possible to match our customer demand. Loves to follow financial market, huge Boston celtics fan. We love movies. How many partners?

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Help Netflix Research Screening 91

Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Not for nothing, Spotify’s CFO is the former CFO of Netflix, another streaming service that is betting big on owning an entire content pipeline.). The podcast will look even more like an on-demand version of radio than it already does. Finally, podcasting is a growing market.

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Acquisition Media News Platform 124

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Don’t demand or assume immediate and certain answers. The alternative is another Eastman Kodak, who failed to keep up with the transition from film to digital cameras, or another Blockbuster Video, overrun by Netflix and streaming videos on the Internet. Anything you or your team knows about the market today may change tomorrow.

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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

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. If you want to drive up the demand for your core product, one smart tactic is to drive down the price of all complementary products. Build your own marketplace platform.

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Startup Platform Pricing Netflix 98

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 20, 2012

There was an inkling of the changes to be when interactive TV services like NetFlix, Hulu and On Demand debuted as frenemies to traditional TV viewing. I think we are coming to a world with enormous amounts of content available on demand. At first the big shakeup was the option to watch what you wanted, when you wanted it.

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Screening Content Mobile Netflix 82

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Then when market demand slows, you are not able to react in time. For example, Blockbuster was so busy expanding its hugely profitable video rental business, adding stores at a breakneck rate, that it failed to really take notice of new entrants like Netflix with no late fees, Redbox automated kiosks, and video on demand.

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Resource Netflix Demand Examples 82

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2010

Hulu is a popular website offering streaming video of TV shows on demand in the United States, and movies from NBC, Fox, ABC, and other studios. Hulu is for TV what NetFlix is for movies, but its growth has been dropping off sharply. An early high flyer in this space, MoBuzz, couldn’t make a business and folded a couple of years ago.

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Hulu Social Network Blogging Netflix 84

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 21, 2011

When Netflix moved their model to more online streaming availability and packaging, away from physical DVD mailing, many panicked. Because Ultraviolet is a platform for film rather than music, there is a strong argument in saying that we don’t need digital on-demand accessibility as we don’t consume a movie several times a week.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

Where do the new entrants like YouTube, Pandora, iTunes, Huffington Post, Boxee, Netflix, Demand Media and other disruptive offerings fit into that equation and how is it changing? Who else is complicit and equally bound by The Innovator’s Dilemma ? Will this hold in the future? How much power does Google have due to search?

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Writing Startup Ideas Summary 356

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. Little old us. Sound familiar? If you want to know how that worked out for the respective parties see the chart below.

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Startup Pricing Marketing Product 150

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 26, 2019

Don’t demand or assume immediate and certain answers. The alternative is another Eastman Kodak, who failed to keep up with the transition from film to digital cameras, or another Blockbuster Video, overrun by Netflix and streaming videos on the Internet. Anything you or your team knows about the market today may change tomorrow.

Competition 73

Competition Organization Customer Custom 73

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2017

Don’t demand or assume immediate and certain answers. The alternative is another Eastman Kodak, who failed to keep up with the transition from film to digital cameras, or another Blockbuster Video, overrun by Netflix and streaming videos on the Internet. Anything you or your team knows about the market today may change tomorrow.

Competition 50

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. use Amazon’s EC2 for video/audio switching on commodity servers in a fully-virtualized environment.

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

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Tech.Co

JULY 29, 2021

As the world slowlyachieves successful Covid vaccine rollouts, tech giants Netflix, Google, and Facebook are now seeking to keep their employees safe by imposing strict vaccine mandates within their US workplaces. In Netflix's case , it isn't just enforcing this rule in its offices. Why Are Tech Companies Implementing Such Rules?

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Netflix Google Hollywood Demand 183

Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

The idea of video on demand has been around since as early as 1990 when GTE partnered up with AT&T to create the first VOD system. is suggesting offering recently released films on-demand seventeen days after debut for a $50 dollar fee. It relied on the use tapes as the source of video streams. For example, Warner Bros.

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Hollywood Demand Marketing Netflix 84

socalTECH

DECEMBER 4, 2020

It's a talent marketplace that connects marketers with customers, from big boys like Netflix, to startups like Allbirds, and all kinds of other companies. How did you solve the problem that marketplaces have of supply and demand? The challenge we found, again and again, is that it's really hard to hire the best marketing talent.

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Commerce Marketing Southern California Netflix 113

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

It is Blockbuster video in the dawn of Netflix. Our centralization is their achilles heel. And when you have a market where the competitor response can be that they throw money and resources at a problem but truly competing would be undermining their core business model and assets … BOOOOOM. What are the customer’s alternatives?

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