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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. Competition: Chegg (has raised $144 in debt and equity)—estimated by Steven Carpenter ( TechCrunch ) to be 10x more unique visitors than BookRenter (during peak book renting seasons) with nearly $140mm in revenues for 2010.

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Why Hulu is the OPEC of Online Video

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OPEC (the organization of petroleum exporting countries) is a cartel that was set up in the 1960′s and represents the interests of the 12 biggest oil producing countries in the world with the goal of increasing prices of oil, a good supplied in limited quantities to a world that had insatiable demand for the product.

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How to Out Amazon, Amazon

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If a consumer will pay a fixed price for a product or service then the battle over who gets the margin in any sale is between the person who merchandises a product and the person who manufactures it. There has always been tension between CPG (consumer packaged goods) companies and the retailers who sell their products to consumers.

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Understanding How The Innovator’s Dilemma Affects You

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In a world where we’ve seen newspapers crumbling, record labels struggling and Blockbuster imploding and making way for the rise of Netflix it seems kinda intuitive to most of us but we can’t quite place why this happens. The incumbents have expensive product features to maintain and often expensive sales channels.

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Interview with Tobi Bauckhage, Moviepilot

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In the last four years, we built Moviepilot.de, which is like Yahoo Movies or Netflix on steroids. We try to understand your preferences, like Netflix does with their recommendations, and understand and give you a personalized experience. Do you see a lot of competition from current US services?

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Startup Pricing: Are You Selling A Giffen Product?

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A recurring entrepreneurial challenge is to determine the optimal price of a new product, especially absent a directly competitive alternative. This is analogous to asking Netflix for a discount because you never use its recommendation engine. Anecdotally, it seems that SaaS products often behave as Giffen goods.

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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. Competition. You need to ask yourself honestly how your product or service is going to be significantly better in some way than the competition that exists in the market. You need a wedge.

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