Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Based on traditional research, getting new customers is five to ten times harder than getting additional revenue from existing customers. Thus the subscription model (low fixed monthly payments), has become the norm for new products and services. Private club model. Front-of-the-line model. Surprise box model. Network model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Here are some ways we both recommend to beat the odds and thrive in today’s app ecosystem: Sell a digital service through your app. The ideal business model is to establish a direct-to-consumer service that enables you to bill the customer directly. Offer premium services after user is hooked. Marty Zwilling.

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Development Develop Platform Mobile 138

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

For those not familiar with Grow Credit, talk about what your service does? Joe Bayen: Grow Credit is the first platform to allow consumers to establish their credit, for free, using their subscription payments for services such as Netflix, HBO, or whatnot. How long has the service been around?

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Netflix Platform Report Services 203

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

[link] Why (and who) she thinks will pay for premium Quibi content In a world of Netflix, Hulu, HBO, and YouTube, why would a customer choose to pay the $4.99 April’s launch will give us a lot more insight into Quibi’s big bet but I appreciated having the chance to hear Meg’s vision for the service.

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Content Netflix Platform Mobile 244

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2020

Based on traditional research, getting new customers is five to ten times harder than getting additional revenue from existing customers. Thus the subscription model (low fixed monthly payments), has become the norm for new products and services. Private club model. Front-of-the-line model. Surprise box model. Network model.

Startup 168

Startup Customer Custom Netflix 168

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2023

Actually, great new customer solutions lead to great platforms, not the other way around. Extrapolating you as the target customer. Never mix up what you like with what your customers will buy. Or ask PlanetRx, an online service for prescriptions, before the Internet was pervasive. See point #1 or watch history repeat.

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Entrepreneur Netflix Social Media Startup 125

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Streaming services are designed to be easy – open an app, hit play, and you’re pretty much just where you want to be. But the latest range of streaming services also offer a lot of customization options…even if they are hidden from view. Netflix has both quantity and quality.but isn’t very timely.

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Tips Netflix Hulu Services 40

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2022

Why else would name brands with huge resources, like Blockbuster and Kodak , get overrun by upstarts like Netflix and Apple. If your business today is healthcare, it may be time to look for opportunities in artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and digital data management, rather than just more unhealthy customers.

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Artificial Inteligence Netflix Resource Customer 146

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

Here are some ways we both recommend to beat the odds and thrive in today’s app ecosystem: Sell a digital service through your app. The ideal business model is to establish a direct-to-consumer service that enables you to bill the customer directly. Offer premium services after user is hooked. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2019

In an age of ever increasing marketing spend to attract customers, how do you make sure you aren't spending more acquiring a company than they are worth? Los Angeles-based Retina is using machine learning and artificial intelligence to figure out customer lifetime value (CLV) for such businesses as Dollar Shave Club. What is Retina Go?

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Dollar Shave Club Artificial Inteligence Customer Custom 113

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2020

Actually, great new customer solutions lead to great platforms, not the other way around. Extrapolating you as the target customer. Never mix up what you like with what your customers will buy. Or ask PlanetRx, an online service for prescriptions, before the Internet was pervasive. See point #1 or watch history repeat.

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Startup Netflix Social Media Customer 124

socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2011

Los Angeles-based Hulu and Irvine-based Western Digital said this week that the two have connected Hulu's premium service, Hulu Plus, to WD's WD TV Live Plus and WD TV Live Hub media players. According to the two, the move will make it possible for WD TV customers to stream TV shows and movies to their television through WD's hardware.

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Hulu Netflix Los Angeles Media 113

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Cable provider Comcast appears to be taking aim at online video sites, and has demanded that Internet Service Provider Level 3 pay the company fees in order to transmit Internet online movies and other content to Comcast customers.

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Hulu Netflix Demand Content 145

Tech.Co

JUNE 24, 2022

Netflix and Uber are among the household names to have reduced their workforce numbers since the new year. Rising inflation has deterred customers from purchasing products online and shares in Etsy, Shopify, Wayfair, and Poshmark all plummeted last month.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 12, 2010

Los Angeles-based video game rental service GameFly is seeing more competition from video rental firm Blockbuster this week, after its competitor announced that it is expanding its online movie rental service to include video games.

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Netflix Satisfaction Content Acquisition 178

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

As noted in Pour and Stir Part I , the key to the successful execution of this strategy is managing the following equation: The cost to acquire a customer < lifetime value of a customer. Decreasing Your Customer Acquisition Costs. This is equivalent to being handed a free customer for every ten customers you acquire.

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Customer Custom Advertising SEM 164

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

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Many businesses give lip service to their celebration of innovation, but punish, rather than reward, risk-taking and creativity. Netflix, which is known for its creative culture, tells employees to “Say what you think, even if it is controversial. With a team full of passion, you can accomplish just about anything. Celebrate ideas.

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Competition Netflix Ideas Metrics 135

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

If a consumer will pay a fixed price for a product or service then the battle over who gets the margin in any sale is between the person who merchandises a product and the person who manufactures it. Ariel understood her customer?—?the This is an age-old marketplace tension where leverage often determines the value captured.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

We are bridging the gap between casual, self service dating apps, and traditional matchmaking, and doing it for business professionals in the dating market. With dating apps and dating websites like Tinder or Match.com, it's all completely self service. Right now, there are no real efficient products in the dating market.

Startup 203

Startup Entrepreneur Southern California Netflix 203

InfoChachkie

JULY 25, 2012

Maybe even as big as Netflix’ seemingly permanent mistake of not allowing Netflix subscribers to send a “your friend Arden thought you’d love this movie. Click here to watch it for free” link to their non-Netflix friends. Facebook is a big, smart company. But they’re missing a huge opportunity here.

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Netflix Blogging Mobile Advertising 191

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. What's different here from the many other services out there? 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

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Having paying “Customers” is what makes the cash register roar. An entrepreneur having low self worth is the number one deterrent for a potential customer not buying into what you are selling. Using your service or owning your product isn’t why a person buys, it’s the experience your customer will have.

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Customer Custom Marketing SEO 85

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2015

According to many experts , getting new customers is five to ten times harder than getting additional revenue from existing customers. Thus the subscription model (low fixed monthly payments), is rapidly becoming the norm for new products and services. Private club model. Front-of-the-line model. Surprise box model.

Startup 106

Startup Customer Custom Netflix 106

socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2014

In the world of many online television, movie, and video sites, scores of music streaming services, and other entertainment content, it''s often a difficult task to find what you really want to watch, listen to, or read. You have Genius on iTunes, NetFlix''s recommended movies, Facebook or Twitter. It''s a very fractured process.

Entertainment 206

Entertainment Startup Southern California Netflix 206

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Here are some ways we both recommend to beat the odds and thrive in today’s app ecosystem: Sell a digital service through your app. The ideal business model is to establish a direct-to-consumer service that enables you to bill the customer directly. Offer premium services after user is hooked. Marty Zwilling.

Startup 98

Startup Platform Pricing Netflix 98

Eric Greenspan

MAY 10, 2013

Just the other day he opened a folder, found Netflix and started a movie. About me: I’m a dad, a social research marketer, customer service champion, closet chef, TEDster. In doing so, we “listen” to social conversations and match consumers with sellers of products and services that they truly seek to purchase.

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Netflix Startup IBM IBM 115

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 75

Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Spotify’s big competitors, Pandora and Apple Music, might all have the same music, but they don’t have podcasts to attract customers. Since Spotify’s subscription service needs to justify its monthly cost, podcasts are a big way to stand out. First: better differentiation. Finally, podcasting is a growing market.

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Acquisition Media News Platform 124

socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2013

If you're FreedomPop , the Encino-based startup, you start by offering up free 4G wireless data access, and then expand to offer free, voice-over-IP services, along with home-based wireless Internet services. First, for people who haven't yet heard about FreedomPop, talk about what the service is all about?

Startup 245

Startup IP Networking Encino 245

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 23, 2016

SaaS – or Software as a Service – platforms are all the rage. Founded by Amit Rathmore in California, Quintype delivers modern-day media operations via this cloud-based SaaS service. Fenero is a provider of cloud-based contact center solutions for sales and customer service operations worldwide. RelinkLabs.

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SaaS Artificial Inteligence Netflix Platform 49

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Let me start with Professor Christensen’s definition: “An innovation that is disruptive allows a whole new population of consumers access to a product or service that was historically only accessible to consumers with a lot of money or a lot of skill.&#. So the startups tend to focus on totally new customers. billion.

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Startup Framework Marketing Customer 376

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2015

Actually, great new customer solutions lead to great platforms, not the other way around. Extrapolating you as the target customer. Never mix up what you like with what your customers will buy. Or ask PlanetRx, an online service for prescriptions, before the Internet was pervasive. See point #1 or watch history repeat.

Startup 105

Startup Netflix Entrepreneur Social Media 105

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2016

According to many experts , getting new customers is five to ten times harder than getting additional revenue from existing customers. Thus the subscription model (low fixed monthly payments), is rapidly becoming the norm for new products and services. Private club model. Front-of-the-line model. Surprise box model.

Startup 56

Startup Customer Custom Netflix 56

Xconomy

AUGUST 31, 2018

Metropolitan areas have become target territories for the wireless Internet service providers, or WISPs, that for a long time have been the only options for rural residents whose neighborhoods aren’t reached by giant telecom companies such as Comcast and AT&T.

Networking 79

Networking Services Customer Custom 79

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

Who is the ideal audience for this service--studios, independents, others? Darren Marble: I spent the last ten years in enterprise sales, selling enterprise software and services to Fortune 500 companies. Where's the service now? Darren Marble: Top-tier, independent filmmakers. What's your background?

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Hollywood CTO Hire Social Media Platform 256

InfoChachkie

MAY 14, 2012

Along with GoToMyPC, companies like Netflix, Classmates and ZoneLabs were learning from each other. and Overture Services. It has developed a service akin to DataPop’s, focused primarily on dynamically increasing the relevancy of website content. Since then, the craft of advertising online has matured from an art to a science.

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Content Platform Paid Search OpenX 171