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Matt Knox and Joey Lane, Bingie

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I started protyping an idea of how to do this, across all platforms. Matt Know: It's interesting, because the demographics are the same as Netflix, and it's pretty spread out between those demographics. Netflix is now in 190 countries. The middle piece is where we've seen the most conversions. We see the opportunity as massive.

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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. Online travel guide that is served up in-stream with restricted data size in the same was as Twitter. - Users: More than 280mm monthly users worldwide use its apps or see its advertising. Total raised: $16.0mm.

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The Future of Television & The Digital Living Room

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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. Thus you see television manufacturers rushing to create content ecosystems, app platforms, TV OS’s and Internet offerings.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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For example, if you’re going to build a travel planning website (as many, many startup entrepreneurs do) your basic research would be: How much do people spend on travel books / guides today? No platform is naïve enough to allow an outsider to grow enormously large in their ecosystem without an appropriate tax or benefit to them.

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