Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The framework of his book has profoundly altered how I think about the technology market and affects how I thought about building my businesses and how I think about investing in venture capital. This is important because the customers they serve (the red line) demand a product that meets their complex requirements.

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MARCH 25, 2016

The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. But this isn’t likely to be a VC-backable business (which to be clear is totally ok). Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. It is Blockbuster video in the dawn of Netflix.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Public Storage is the Blockbuster Video of their industry and we set out to build Netflix. I’m a stickler for focus, being efficient with capital and building out operational excellence, so our strategy initially was very constrained. Little old us. Sound familiar? It’s no wonder incumbents don’t want us to exist.

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JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital. Topics we discussed in the first 45 minutes of the video include: What is VC like in NY? We discussed NY vs. Silicon Valley and NY vs. Boston.

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MAY 1, 2014

.” Bill Gross, who is one of the Godfathers of the Internet, once told me, “ If you don’t design a product that is 10x better than the competition then you’ll never build anything truly big or amazing.” Sam moved back to NY and we announced our seed round of capital, which we led. 10x the experience.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? StrongMail Systems (Digital Messsaging Infrastructure Software) Status: VC-backed (Sequoia Capital, Globespan and Evercore) Lesson: Trust your gut. . Venture Capital Funding 7. I'm 30, now will you take me seriously? Zondigo, Inc. Relaxing 2.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

This market structure in which the few, large players use their market position to eliminate competition is inevitable. Distribution of media is tightly controlled by YouTube, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon and a handful of others. It’s Hobbesian economics 101. Our social graphs are locked in Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat.

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