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JANUARY 13, 2016

And of course the 800 pound gorilla – YouTube – is also horizontal in nature. In long-form online video, companies were also broad in nature: Hulu, Netflix, Amazon and Apple TV. Of course there are many great verticals including: Auto, food, music, animation, shopping. And of course these numbers are only increase.

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APRIL 28, 2016

And of course fudging never produces world-class results, so many companies suffer from mediocrity. Leadership is about listening to multiple opinions but in the end trusting your instincts and deciding. Leadership is about listening to multiple opinions but in the end trusting your instincts and deciding.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well. My goal is to lay out a basic framework for anybody unsure whom to listen to as a way of helping you think about a way to orient your own views.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Think about the tension between media companies and cable operators like last year when Viacom threatened to pull Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, BET, etc. Many of us learned about substitute products in undergrad economics courses. Of course branding is many things and this post doesn’t attempt a master class.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Machine Learning / AI They discussed many topics ranging from protection of the press to what Mark looks for in an entrepreneur to investing outside of Silicon Valley and of course Trump and sports. But perhaps to most insightful was their discussion about Machine Learning / AI. Mark: My two biggest holdings are Netflix and Amazon.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2017

Thus when I read “ A Random Walk Down Wall Street ” in my early 20’s it reinforced my belief about how people are fooled by data. Given enough performance over time any number of random people will be proven “right” about a market and if you look back in time you can believe that they had a method to their outcomes.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Unless of course something Trump’s our good weather. This past year was also the year that startup boards also got more disciplined about containing burn rates and pushing for companies to be run more pragmatically. And while the US had FANG (Facebook, Amazon/Apple, Netflix and Google) China has BAT (Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent).

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2016

From the day after we sold the company until today I felt it was important that I not comment too much publicly about online video even though I continued to work actively in the sector and made five more investments. The initial period of the agreement has ended so I wanted to get back to talking about online video. And Vidme.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Fred Wilson wrote a blog post yesterday called “Real Names” in which he talked about a commenter on his blog who preferred not to comment because he didn’t want to use his real name. I wrote about Job Hoppers. Think about it. Of course they can be duped. It’s a powerful concept.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

That's what we do over the course of our two year contract. Can you talk a bit more about how the content and software work together? Because of that, Tinder spent a lot of time on the product, and thinking about the product, to make it as simple as possible. Here, we wanted to build a Netflix-like experience for this.

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APRIL 12, 2018

It is an LA-based company that was recently acquired by Amazon, which you can read more about in this incredibly well-researched article. Founder, Founder, Founder At Upfront we talk regularly about how 70% of our investment decision in Seed and A rounds is the quality of the entrepreneur and 30% is the quality of the idea.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? For those who don't know about EdgeCast, CDN services, who/what kind of clients you serve? James Segil: EdgeCast is the fastest growing CDN in the world.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

There are of course other outposts like Austin and Seattle. And we also talked about what it’s like to work with Steve Case. We are a venture capital growth equity fund in Washington DC with about $500m invested. Can you talk about it? The networks seem to be emphatic about monetization for the present.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2016

Today I want to talk briefly about why I believe Snapchat is an important media company. 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.

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MARCH 25, 2016

If you’re not even spending any time thinking about what your market could be you’re simply being lazy and unprepared. For all of the talk about Salesforce.com controlling the CRM market I’m told they still have less than 20% market share. Let me be very direct. Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses.

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JUNE 12, 2010

This was a really fun episode for me because Mo is informed and knowledgeable on so many topics and being a Boston / NYC VC it gave us so much to talk about relative to just covering California VCs. Content, of course, is the same!]. BookRenter – plus a discussion about Chegg … what is going on in the university book market?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2014

Of course, we all love disruptive new products, like the Pebble Smart Watch and Google Glass, but recent innovative services startups, including Uber for transportation and Airbnb for lodging, have grown much bigger and faster. Hence the popularity and wealth of new services like Citi Bike, Lyft, and NetFlix.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Public Storage does about $2.4 Public Storage is the Blockbuster Video of their industry and we set out to build Netflix. It tested our beliefs about pricing, products and marketing overall of our service. We had long debates about what the market differences were and what our best responses were. Why is it so valuable?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

When I recently wrote about how excited I was about investing in “ The Digital Living Room ,&# Hulu was only mentioned in the context of how Clicker.com was a much better metaphor for content discovery and search. Of course it’s their right to do so and there is so much money involved you can hardly blame them.

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APRIL 26, 2016

Mark Zuckerberg announced native Instant Articles as a feature update about a year ago and Facebook has been slowly rolling out and improving the product ever since. Of course, just like any other update, there will be winners and losers depending on how you play the game. Think about it: now instead of going to Time , Inc. ,

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

Let me just put this more clearly for you up front – the vast majority of the Internet is used for porn so every product has this use but you probably just don’t know about it: YouTube, Tumblr, Facebook, FaceTime, Skype and of course be very careful on Google Search without “safe mode” on. So get over it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2010

They are most optimistic about video advertising, rather than vlogging or other applications, since video ads have been the norm for a long time. Hulu is for TV what NetFlix is for movies, but its growth has been dropping off sharply. They now have 50M unique viewers per month, and have closed a $10M third round.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

That is, of course, as long as what you are selling is the absolute best in your market.) Typically entrepreneurs doubt themselves because they undervalue their offerings, but it isn’t about creating a product, setting a price and hoping people will buy. It’s a Netflix for business cards and receipts. What are their interests?

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

For instance, if a user registers for a firewall, subsequent offers for anti-spam or anti-spyware solutions will generally fare better than random solicitations for Netflix, Geico or the secret to whiter teeth. He is a member of the University of California at Santa Barbara’s Faculty where he teaches several entrepreneurial courses.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! This interaction was about 20 seconds long. About 80% of any email application is the same.

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