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Interview with David Aronchick, Hark

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We're now doing revenue share on affiliate revenue, doing revenue share on DVD sales, or ads we run against that content. David Aronchick: The net of our jobs is really harnessing the demand. Our job is to help capture some of that demand. Beyond that, everything is just gravy.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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billion in sales and thus controls less than 10% of the market. It is Blockbuster video in the dawn of Netflix. Will a third-party pay (advertisers, data companies)? If you look at the storage market I referenced above, the largest player – Public Storage – does about $2.4 Our centralization is their achilles heel.

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Why recurring revenues increase your company’s value

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Call it the Netflix effect. Application developers once considered their products as licensed in what would closely be allied to a single sale. Content providers found the same thing when many found that they could charge a subscription fee instead of relying just upon advertising. Paying for content. A buyer’s bonus.

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Why Hulu is the OPEC of Online Video

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Once this new service became popular then the media companies could control the rules of distribution & advertising. The philosophy of OPEC has been that if they can limit the amount of oil supplied to the world they can maintain high prices in a world where demand and competition should naturally have downward pressure on oil prices.

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

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We talked about the analogies between what NetFlix achieved in movies and whether this is relevant to the book market. Private, flash sales site focused on apparel goods (women, men and children). Metrics: 2.5mm members, 1,000 brands, 2,500 sale events to-date. Metrics: 2.5mm members, 1,000 brands, 2,500 sale events to-date.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 5.0 – I’m just going to chill out for a bit… (OK, for a month…)

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the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. I started dabbling with a few ideas around online advertising, search engines and other random projects. Zondigo, Inc. Startup 3.0:

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Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

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Last November, the Web-search giant opened a flashy new office in Venice to focus on engineering, sales and advertising; the company will lease close to a quarter-million square feet in the neighborhood by 2014. Entrepreneurs love being around other entrepreneurs, and thats driving demand toward the beach," says Mr. Miller.