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Matt Knox and Joey Lane, Bingie

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I had my own list on my iPhone, writing down what I wanted to watch, and where those shows are. 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. How did you come up with the idea for the company?

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How I Use Visualization to Drive Creativity

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So I thought I’d write a post about how I drive my personal creativity. (A The key is channeling what you learn when you drive onto paper for retention purposes so you have to write it down soon afterward. When I write a blog post I often see the words before I write them. These are all creative processes.

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

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We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. We talked about the analogies between what NetFlix achieved in movies and whether this is relevant to the book market. Users: More than 280mm monthly users worldwide use its apps or see its advertising.

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

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“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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Small Business Marketing | Get Customers versus Get Leads

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It’s a Netflix for business cards and receipts. On the card I usually write the date, where I met the person, how I met them and what value I can bring to the table. Pay Per Click advertising. To learn how to advertise on Google to get traffic to your website or offline business read “ Advanced Google Adwords ” by Brad Geddes.

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The Future of Television & The Digital Living Room

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I believe that NetFlix has won the battle for the “head end&# of content from films. They have such a strong base of subscribers and their strategy of “Netflix everywhere&# is brilliant. I’m such a big believer in the power of writing, editing and producing. We watch it on the iPad. We pause.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. It is Blockbuster video in the dawn of Netflix. Will a third-party pay (advertisers, data companies)? Market Size. Our centralization is their achilles heel. It it just more time that they save? Efficiency?

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