Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 6, 2012

Netflix, Hulu & HBO Go are coming from the opposite direction – the Head End. ” That is why Hulu has invested so much in building its Hulu Plus subscription service. Hulu announced $500 million to fund new content and Netflix has, for example, resurrected the hit / cult show Arrested Development. The Torso.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Revolution is a “stage agnostic&# fund (means they invest early or late) funded entirely by Steve Case , the founder of AOL and co-founded by two other individuals, Tige Savage (yes, pronounced like the golfer, minus the “r&# ) and Donn Davis. We are a venture capital growth equity fund in Washington DC with about $500m invested.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Once this new service became popular then the media companies could control the rules of distribution & advertising. When I recently wrote about how excited I was about investing in “ The Digital Living Room ,&# Hulu was only mentioned in the context of how Clicker.com was a much better metaphor for content discovery and search.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2016

From the day after we sold the company until today I felt it was important that I not comment too much publicly about online video even though I continued to work actively in the sector and made five more investments. We had a studio and invested in content creation. And Netflix, Roku and Apple TV. We sold brand integration.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 14, 2012

Along with GoToMyPC, companies like Netflix, Classmates and ZoneLabs were learning from each other. Since then, the craft of advertising online has matured from an art to a science. When we initially invested in DataPop in 2010, we placed a bet on a serially successful team that had grown up together at DoubleClick, Yahoo!

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

The authors focus on the many new principles of customer value in the digital disruptor age, which I believe every business executive and entrepreneur needs to understand, in order to make their business more competitive and investable. Value to second-order customer advertisers is key.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

We don’t hear about the remaining three million apps that are mostly free, and garnering only trivial revenue through advertising. 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. Build your own marketplace platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. We talked about the analogies between what NetFlix achieved in movies and whether this is relevant to the book market. Content, of course, is the same!].

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

“I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half.” In the “good old days”, pre- 1999, advertising dollars were largely gambled away. Google’s market capitalization is in the stratosphere for a reason – keyword search advertising is highly effective. John Wanamaker.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Clearstone currently invests out of a $200 million fund based in LA with offices in Menlo Park and in India. Segment One: Jim’s background and Clearstone’s investment strategy. We also talked about Elevation Partners who invested in Palm and how this deal really salvaged their investment, which was a VERY big bet on Palm.

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

David Aronchick: When we first got started, although we had a number of connection through Fouad, I worked with my network in Los Angeles, and my network in Seattle, and we landed an angel investment split between both those Los Angeles and Seattle investors. Was Fouad with Redpoint at the time?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

What would it take in investments to acquire and retain traffic to support these businesses? After a year in the market, MakeSpace was growing rapidly and our biggest issue was CAC (customer acquisition costs) relative to payback period (when we get our marketing investment back) and relative to LTV (lifetime value). Efficiency?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

I apply visual thinking for nearly everything I do: preparing for important phone calls (I imagine my opening lines, I imagine the responses), writing keynote presentations, deciding whether or not to invest in a company, preparing for board meetings – you name it. These are all creative processes. Will this hold in the future?

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

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. MSN Money Investing. Investment Land For Sale. Investing Tools. Advertise Locally on WSJ.com.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

► August (1) Invest in Transparency & Active Communication ► July (1) The Fear of Success ► May (2) Optimized for Speed = 30% Waste Happy 1st Birthday Rubicon Project! the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Zondigo, Inc. Startup 3.0:

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