Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

One of the quickest ways to become an entrepreneur these days is to develop and publish a smartphone app. The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. According to Tim Cook at Apple, there were over 9 million registered developers in 2014. Build your own marketplace platform.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2013

Stephen Sesar: It's no major secret that telcos have been increasing their prices, and basically selling high volume wireless Internet packages to users, with 5GB or 10GB of data, when in reality, users are only using roughly 1.5 That peak of 10-12 down is faster than normal DSL, and will be at a fraction of the price.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Launched in beta July last year in Oakland, San Francisco, Dealflicks is a price line for movie tickets and gives movie tickets and concessions for up to 60% off to help theaters get butts in their seats. Python programmer and iOS developer. I love movies, basketball, skiing, and snorkeling (especially in Maui). 3rd Startup.

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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. There has always been tension between CPG (consumer packaged goods) companies and the retailers who sell their products to consumers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. It is Blockbuster video in the dawn of Netflix. What price will your customer ultimately accept?

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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. The development community and web developers, who tend to be our customers, like that flexibility, and the quick time to market.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

The sellers of those devices don’t care: they’re now selling newer and better models, and the original buyers only cared about price and features. Friday’s attack affected Netflix, Twitter, Spotify, AWS, Airbnb, Reddit, GitHub and many more companies at once. ” — Bruce Schneier. One Target, Many Victims.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Ad/Banner blindness, a talent which we’ve developed rather well as a society: The ability to subconsciously block out commercials WHILE physically watching. ” Article 1 discussed the digital revolution and how companies like Netflix and Hulu were taking over. What price point works the best?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Typically entrepreneurs doubt themselves because they undervalue their offerings, but it isn’t about creating a product, setting a price and hoping people will buy. Valu e and Exp erience versus Price and Product. It’s a Netflix for business cards and receipts. Perfect example; ShoeBoxed.com.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 6, 2012

Netflix, Hulu & HBO Go are coming from the opposite direction – the Head End. Very smart people are running these online video businesses and they know that they need to diversify by either creating or sponsoring the development of new content. Interestingly Netflix plans to release the entire season all at once.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

If you have the proper mechanisms to accurately calculate your Cost Per Customer / Lifetime Value Equation, you will happily purchase as many customers from affiliates as your cash flow constraints will allow, as long as the average acquisition price is less than the customers’ average lifetime value.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Developments Blog. In March of last year, Matt Jacobson, head of market development at Facebook, paid $10.9 Prices are soaring in the beachfront communities tech types favor, and rents in these. Prices have gone up dramatically on this beachfront strip. Median single-family home price increase, Jan.-Aug.

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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. Why the limitation?

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Pricing models, the freemium myth and why you may not be charging enough for your product - Seth Levine's VC Adventure , August 12, 2010 I’ve been pulled into a number of product and pricing meetings recently (for reasons unknown I’ve become the Foundry pricing and productization guy). Example: Netflix). How it happens.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

I also hope to lay out a way to develop a healthy degree of skepticism for the more outlandish arguments. I believe this use of cryptocurrency will develop and flourish long after the dust settles from the hype and crash of cryptocurrencies that we’re experiencing in 2017. Our social graphs are locked in Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

“Over the Top&# video distribution – Apple TV comes out in November and is priced at $99. The launch of their new Boxee Box in November and the user acceptance of that will be telling for their future development. But the whole market will develop more slowly as we watch this bum fight take place. We pause.

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