Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2015

All-you-can-eat content model. By providing access to a large variety of titles, like NetFlix with streaming movies, or Hulu for TV shows, with new content added regularly, there is always a reason to keep up your subscription. This one is an extension of the insurance model into new domains.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The formation of Hulu was defensive – designed to stop another YouTube or Napster from emerging and causing disruption to the TV industry. 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. Here is my case: 1.

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Hulu Technical Review Content Advertising 292

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2016

All-you-can-eat content model. By providing access to a large variety of titles, like NetFlix with streaming movies, or Hulu for TV shows, with new content added regularly, there is always a reason to keep up your subscription. This one is an extension of the insurance model into new domains.

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Startup Customer Custom Netflix 56

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

LA was a leader in lead generation (LowerMyBills), comparison shopping (PriceGrabber, Shopzilla), social networking (MySpace … I know, I know – Facebook won – but it was still a big business). In content creation we definitely have assets other markets don’t have.

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Company Companies Technology Startup 290

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

We are a city unique in merging the world’s best content with digital media and technology expertise. In SoCal we are also leaders in affiliate marketing (Commission Junction), Internet video (Hulu) and bringing local businesses online (ReachLocal). Much of this was highlighted at Twiistup.

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Twiistup SoCal Southern California Yammer 228

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Turns out everybody likes to produce content and take part in the “conversation.&# Massive uptake of user-generated content including blogs (e.g. Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). Traditional media companies published their stories on the web.

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

Jason Nazar

JUNE 18, 2009

It should be the next generation content/ entertainment portal that leverages millions of user profiles to more accurately provide data to advertisers on what is appealing to specific demographics. Work with the studios to have premium Hulu-ish content prominently branded and for sale. MySpace = Yahoo2.0: Fuel Micro Jobs.

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Development Team Review Content Sites eHow 76

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2010

They point to YouTube as the big gorilla, but also social networking with video (Bebo), and video job sites (VisualCV). The largest video social network, Bebo , purchased for $850 million, was just sold by AOL in a “fire sale,” after it lost half its membership of 10 million users last year.

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Hulu Social Network Blogging Netflix 84

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

That said, it would be an understatement to say that traditional media is skeptical about Google’s benevolence and many fear a world in which video content margins are crushed in the way that print & music have been with the primary beneficiary having been Google. At the time all telco’s were envious of Yahoo!

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