socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? We have 35 POPs all over the world, in every major market, and we have more than 6,000 customers today. We caught on with the right product, at the right time.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2019

I started a web design company, and ended up going to college in Florida, but kept on running the company on the side. We were building about 300 to 400 products a year for other people, including tons of apps, for tons of startups, and were managing tens of millions of marketing spend for those clients every month.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2020

It works best in a tightly defined niche market, like antique car owners, or rare-coin junkies, or woodworking enthusiasts, where experts hare hard to find, and members can gain from interacting with each other. With this model, you provide website access to insider information for a regular subscription payment.

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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. Above all, don’t forget to develop a comprehensive marketing and promotion strategy. Build your own marketplace platform.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

How do a bunch of German moviemakers end up in Los Angeles, running a site helping studios to market and promote their films via their venture backed startup? We work with studios to understand those early audiences, and give them feedback on social marketing and making their marketing more effective.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

They first started in 1994 and are therefore almost as old as the Web itself. I’m sure it probably resonants with how most of you read the web. The global advertising market is estimated at around $475 billion / year with only 12% of this online and measurable. And market research seems to confirm this. Banner Ads.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

We caught up with Michele and Dan to better understand why they founded the company, and why this market was such an interest to them. Here, we wanted to build a Netflix-like experience for this. It's the idea of bringing a modern web experience to this. Think Dateline, the Discovery Channel, and Netflix.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

That is, of course, as long as what you are selling is the absolute best in your market.) It’s a Netflix for business cards and receipts. Pick 1, tops 2 marketing strategies that seem enjoyable for you and become a master in just those. Rather than how much you charge, it’s about how the purchase will impact your buyer’s life.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2012

I figured out that there was this massive market for comedic content, but the market was extremely scattered. From research and working with IAC, was saw that more than fifty percent of the videos online are web humor and comedy. My background is that I was at IAC, focused on advertising solutions and advertising engagement.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2014

You have Genius on iTunes, NetFlix''s recommended movies, Facebook or Twitter. The rest of the model will include things like customized marketing and advertising in a more focused way, all about entertainment. When we started this, we were a web-based platform, because that''s what made the most sense when we started.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2013

Steven Sesar: FreedomPop is all about bringing the freemium model to the wireless Internet market, and disrupting the telephone companies. Currently, users pay up front for data packages, and there are inefficiencies in that market. Clearwire is currently in 80 markets, and covers 140 million Americans across the U.S.

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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. Above all, don’t forget to develop a comprehensive marketing and promotion strategy. Build your own marketplace platform.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Only a few online movie distributors exist on the markets now, but how are they supposed to help grow digital movie properties? Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and other online distributors bring viewers to their portal to watch movies and TV shows. Yekra changes the way studios market their movies. Teaming up with Warner Bros.

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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. Hyper-local, flash marketing platform connecting consumers with local business offers; super majority of offers are restaurant and personal services; competitor to Groupon.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2015

It works best in a tightly defined niche market, like antique car owners, or rare-coin junkies, or woodworking enthusiasts, where experts hare hard to find, and members can gain from interacting with each other. With this model, you provide website access to insider information for a regular subscription payment.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 26, 2016

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. Having an all-native interface that’s overlaid on top of the world-wide-web is the ultimate ambition for an internet company. By that I mean: Let me explain. Think about it: now instead of going to Time , Inc. ,

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

We said to the studios--you have this amazing content, why not let us clip it all up, find the best moments in film, and allow users to post those to their blogs and Facebook pages, and let us create curated channels on the web? How is this different than the movie clips floating around the web now? You just won't get those moments.

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

Sure, that's a decent way to approach it, but the result is, studios then want a huge minimum guarantee, which really prices startups out of the market. 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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Xconomy

JANUARY 10, 2019

The market caps of some of the most successful tech titans reach as high as $1 trillion. Yet in 2018, perceptions about these dominant companies often reflected uneasiness and doubt—and for some, so did their stock performance. Some of these platform companies, taken together, now have a shared nickname: “FAANG,” which.

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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. Hyper contextualized advertising and granular measurements (like AdSense is to the web) will be established for TV. The potential market is enormous, if not inevitable.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2016

It works best in a tightly defined niche market, like antique car owners, or rare-coin junkies, or woodworking enthusiasts, where experts hare hard to find, and members can gain from interacting with each other. With this model, you provide website access to insider information for a regular subscription payment.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

There is no market solution because the insecurity is what economists call an externality: it’s an effect of the purchasing decision that affects other people. Friday’s attack affected Netflix, Twitter, Spotify, AWS, Airbnb, Reddit, GitHub and many more companies at once. Think of it kind of like invisible pollution.”

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

where he led the incubated startup to $300m in revenues as the fastest growing Service Provider for Collaboration services to include video, web, and audio. The result is a 2Mbyte royalty free plug-in that is remarkably easy to integrate with other web-based applications.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Have you noticed how many web apps and content have turned into subscription services during the last several years? Call it the Netflix effect. Xerox in its formative years, even though barely having enough cash to market its then revolutionary copier, elected to lease rather than sell the units.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

We will invest pre-revenue and even pre-product if we have discovered the right team in the right kind of market. We look at huge markets where there are large incumbents that might not be incented to innovate or react to what they perceive as an insurgent. Netflix is a great example. I run Revolution’s VC investments.

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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. They say that paywalls are stupid and that its just not monetizable. Because it was a tremendous pain in the ass.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Loading… Markets. Loading… Market Data. In March of last year, Matt Jacobson, head of market development at Facebook, paid $10.9 Another client of Mr. Rappaports, Mich Mathews, formerly the head of marketing for Microsoft. The units, asking $500,000 to $2 million, hit the market in about a month.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Go-to-Market 5. We provide turnkey digital messaging appliances for enterprises, service providers and software developers to send marketing, e-commerce, CRM and customer service email. Startup 3.0:

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2010

Hulu is for TV what NetFlix is for movies, but its growth has been dropping off sharply. There is now even a search engine, called Clicker , which is geared to find the online video and Web TV content to be able to watch it. They provide a fast, free, and easy way to search for online video all across the Web.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

BookRenter – plus a discussion about Chegg … what is going on in the university book market? We talked about the analogies between what NetFlix achieved in movies and whether this is relevant to the book market. We then moved on to discuss the following deals: Deal of the Week. Online text book rental service.

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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. In fact, it’s the most important tool for media to come along since Twitter, FB, YouTube and Netflix. But I promise to elaborate another day.

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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. It’s Hobbesian economics 101.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

So without my weighing into the pro’s / con’s of this I can say that I believe it will capture a large segment of the market but leave room for “open platforms&# to play a big role. and Excite in particular as well as all of the Internet companies with grandiose stock market valuations. We watch it on the iPad.

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