Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

In the media NYC is “hot” right now yet having just spent 6 days in NY I heard many similar stories as I get in LA: not enough VC and hard to get great tech resources. We talked about the analogies between what NetFlix achieved in movies and whether this is relevant to the book market. Online text book rental service.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Iroko Patners had , a souring relationship with YouTube, Google Ads Words, Amazon Web Services even though the movie streaming firm had about eight million YouTube streams a month, with a $1 million revenue run-rate in 2011. TechZulu caught up with Mr. Jason Njoku and he had this to say; When was Iroko partners launched? How does it work?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2012

From research and working with IAC, was saw that more than fifty percent of the videos online are web humor and comedy. We've got original contributors such as Vox Media, Maker Studio's POLIPOP Network, everyone from the Bad Lip Reading Guys, to Barackdubs, it spans the spectrum. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

Rather than taking their hard work and just leveraging it on the web, the pitch is--we'll do this work for you, put reams and reams more metadata around a given movie, sound bite, TV show episode, or video game. Once people are engaged with a sound bite, they're most likely a user who wants to engage further with that media.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g. Klout measures influence on topics across the social web to find the people the world listens to; assigns a Klout score to Twitter members. Segment Two: “Deal of the Week”.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

and are now one of the largest media outlets for entertainment on the web and Facebook. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2022

This freemium model has been used for years by web apps. 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. Even a conversion rate of one percent can build a healthy business. Build your own marketplace platform.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

This freemium model has been used for years by web apps. 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. Even a conversion rate of one percent can build a healthy business. Build your own marketplace platform.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

This freemium model has been used for years by web apps. 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. Even a conversion rate of one percent can build a healthy business. Build your own marketplace platform.

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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. As media morphed into individually packaged pieces of content across platforms, viewing media on the couch (lean back) quickly became the old model.

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Xconomy

MAY 2, 2018

If you’ve already liberated yourself from a cable subscription in favor of streaming video services over the Internet, you’re parcelling out your dollars to get the content you want most from services such as Netflix, Hulu, and N.B.A. League Pass.

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Xconomy

JUNE 23, 2016

It’s proven that consumers spend more money when the barriers to entry are lowered, and the ability to sign in to media apps with ease will certainly increase the amount of content they consume, while also increasing the variety of the media sources. Success of the app stores starts with developers.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 26, 2016

And if you’re paying attention, you’ll understand that this is their third push for native media consumption: first photos, then videos, and now written content. If you think about our behavior on AOL in the early to mid 90’s, people never really left AOL to go on the world-wide-web. By that I mean: Let me explain. Sound familiar?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

It’s a Netflix for business cards and receipts. It was at the South by Southwest Interactive conference in the media room when I overheard the founders being interviewed. So if you are selling me a solution to a core problem I have then that means I have been actively seeking you out and I’m relieved to find out you exist.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. What Apple proved, and what I suspect is the issue with web content, is that monetization was a product problem. Example: Netflix). Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem - This is going to be BIG.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

This freedom comes from the option to simply wait until we can find a new box office movie streamed somewhere on the web or available for download from pirate sites. What this means is, even though Netflix essentially pays for the rights to stream Hollywood movies, it doesn’t even come close to the money studios make from movie theaters.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The Internet and World Wide Web themselves emerged from open protocols (HTTP, HTML, SMTP, etc) that allowed businesses, individuals and governments to put information online that was accessible to the masses and then to build applications on top of this infrastructure to the benefit of the masses.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

It will be a follow on from my “App is Crap” or “Web Second, Mobile First” blog posts but in short, video, updated, digestible formats. The fourth part is “ discover ” and this is the professional media part of Snapchat that you barely knew existed but your younger peers certainly know about.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

There is a feeling that techies are the new celebrities," says Eric Kuhn, an agent who heads the social-media department at United Talent Agency. Tech companies are becoming distributors of studio content; YouTube, iTunes and Netflix have all licensed content from major entertainment players. WSJ Web Slice. View Interactive.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Dana Settle & I are hosting a dinner tonight (10/20/10) with some of the biggest companies in entertainment to talk about the future of television, film & digital media. This is where the digital media puck is going. Michael Ovitz , the co-founder of CAA will be the keynote speaker. The device itself will have no storage.

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Xconomy

MAY 2, 2017

Donald Trump spent his 100th day in office in ways that would appeal to his working class base—holding a campaign-style rally in Harrisburg, PA, where he confirmed his campaign commitment to controlling immigration.

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