Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail. Trying outrageous new things or even trying mundane things but in new ways but with extreme quality & innovation is what fuels the tech startup industry. But today I want to give you advice on how to decrease your odds of failure in a startup.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

We don’t hear about the remaining several 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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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

TechZulu caught up with Mr. Jason Njoku and he had this to say; When was Iroko partners launched? We are the ‘Netflix’ of Africa – with iROKOtv we stream Nollywood (Nigerian Hollywood) movies online, so they are accessible to anyone with an Internet line, anywhere in the world. iROKO Partners was launched in December 2010. Profitable?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

As a startup advisor, I see too many entrepreneurs get distracted by technology or their favorite cause, and then wonder why they can’t find an investor, attract customers, or build a long-term business. Value to second-order customer advertisers is key. Internet disruptors make prices and margins transparent.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2016

For most who don’t yet use Snapchat frequently I know the economic case feels like a stretch of the imagination because you’re caught up in the original Snapchat and I’m trying to offer a perspective about where the puck may be going. Reach matters to advertisers for an obvious reason.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2012

We just graduated, and wrapped up a round of $750,000, with a bunch of great folks from both up north and here. Those investors included a company called Paradigm, which is a big talent agency, Howard Lindzon in San Diego, and up north Greylock and Adam Nash. As we did that, the industry and research started to grow around us.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Startup Pitch Competition. In the end, 3 startups were awarded prize money for their spectacular business ideas. Innovation, Technology, and Startups. The conference itself was focused on innovation, technology, and startups. Tucker led the next panel on the topic of mobility in the startup revolution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

As a startup advisor, I see too many entrepreneurs get distracted by technology or their favorite cause, and then wonder why they can’t find an investor, attract customers, or build a long-term business. Value to second-order customer advertisers is key. Internet disruptors make prices and margins transparent.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

We discuss advertising, Vidzey’s story, technology, business, interns, and entertainment. So Sean starts at the beginning and discusses where Vidzey’s concept came from. ” Article 1 discussed the digital revolution and how companies like Netflix and Hulu were taking over. ” START WITH THE END GOAL.

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

We spoke with David Aronchick , the CEO and co-founder of the firm to hear more about what it's up to. David Aronchick: We started about three years ago. So, we spun up the site, and got it up and going in the middle of 2008, and it just took off, particularly right after the elections. What's the story behind Hark?

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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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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. No one wakes up and says to themselves, “I need to buy that product I have never heard of before.” John Wanamaker. It does not happen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2022

As a startup, you need to use your limited resources to excel at a few core things for your best customers, in order to stand out and get the momentum going. Customers today have adapted to a fast-moving world, and they expect every business to keep up. Revenue and competitive position followed.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and other online distributors bring viewers to their portal to watch movies and TV shows. The small startup in Los Angeles created an online movie player to be embedded anywhere on the web. “We Teaming up with Warner Bros. Business Entertainment Startups Movie Yekra'

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

They were started in affiliation with IdeaLab and were the first-round lead in PayPal. Read more: HP Press Release , VentureBeat on P&L Sponsor Todd Bradley , TechCrunch follow-up. Online advertising platform for local businesses; ReachLocal reported over $203 million in revenue for 2009, compared to around $146 million in 2008.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

► August (1) Stay Positive ► July (2) Go Fast, but Don’t Hurry The DNA of an A++ Team ► June (1) Setting up Shop - Picking an Office Space ► May (3) Startup 6.0 - the Rubicon Project: Internet Advert. ► May (5) the Rubicon Project The Journey Startup 6.0: Visit StrongMail Website Startup 4.0:

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 6, 2012

But as every blogger, musician, novelist or YouTube emerging talent knows … it doesn’t add up to much unless you go big time. Netflix, Hulu & HBO Go are coming from the opposite direction – the Head End. Interestingly Netflix plans to release the entire season all at once. TV was the same. The Torso.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

This applies equally to VCs, startups & big company executives. When I need to give a speech and I’m writing a slide for my deck, I think up the story in my mind that I’m going to tell for this slide. It’s ironic because I believe creativity is the most important success criterion for a startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The idea was that if you could put up a consumer site that was seen as the best place to consume content then people wouldn’t go to lower-quality or free sites to get it. Once this new service became popular then the media companies could control the rules of distribution & advertising. So what does this have to do with OPEC?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

They had a hugely profitable business and had a hard time giving that up to move forward. Tige and I discuss an excellent blog post written by the CEO of Hulu (Jason Kilar) on the future of advertising. Netflix is a great example. Netflix is a great example. One flaw could have been AOL acting like a big company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2019

As a startup, you need to use your limited resources to excel at a few core things for your best customers, in order to stand out and get the momentum going. Customers today have adapted to a fast-moving world, and they expect every business to keep up. Revenue and competitive position followed.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Tech entrepreneurs and executives from Silicon Valley are moving south and buying up luxury homes in the Los Angeles area. He uses his former home, a just-under 900-square-foot beach bungalow two blocks away, to house Facebook employees visiting from up north. More than 600 tech start-ups have sprung up in L.A.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2017

As a startup, you need to use your limited resources to excel at a few core things for your best customers, in order to stand out and get the momentum going. Customers today have adapted to a fast-moving world, and they expect every business to keep up. Revenue and competitive position followed.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

How did they end up with such an irreverent site and what was their objective? Should you have 7 people doing your seed round and why Ron Conway is the S&P 500 of Venture Capital (this discussion starts at minute 59). Online travel guide that is served up in-stream with restricted data size in the same was as Twitter. -

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

In my role as an angel investor in startups, almost every pitch I see highlights some real innovation in technology, business model, or market opportunity. Examples of being first include Netflix for movies and TV and Redfin for real estate. Users can be advertisers, consumers, sellers, or passengers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2010

Their revenue from advertising may approach one billion dollars this year, with most consumed by bandwidth and associated costs, YouTube isn’t even profitable yet. They are most optimistic about video advertising, rather than vlogging or other applications, since video ads have been the norm for a long time. Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2016

In long-form online video, companies were also broad in nature: Hulu, Netflix, Amazon and Apple TV. In the online world the ecosystem is being fragmented into those that primarily produce content (Mitu, Vice, BuzzFeed) and those who primarily distribute it: YouTube, Amazon, Netflix, Yahoo!, AOL and the like.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

But with the introduction of Apple TV, Google TV, the Boxee Box & other initiatives it’s clear that this battle will heat up in 2011. While we won’t get through all of this, here are some of the issues in the industry that I plan to bring up and ones I hope we’ll discuss tomorrow: 1. We watch it on the iPad.

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