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. Let’s start with the incumbents position in a market. So the startups tend to focus on totally new customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

The ideal business model is to establish a direct-to-consumer service that enables you to bill the customer directly. Through a free base product, you give the first taste of the service or game away for free, get users hooked, and then convert as many as possible to paying customers. Build your own marketplace platform.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2019

We were building about 300 to 400 products a year for other people, including tons of apps, for tons of startups, and were managing tens of millions of marketing spend for those clients every month. That's when it clicked for me, realizing that for some reason, everything online is on-demand. That's the idea that sparked Pluto TV.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

However, there's a new generation of technology driven startups who are looking to apply software and technology in a way that will change how movies are made, and marketed. That results in a drastically lower marketing and PA budget for the film. That's a massive amount of money to spend on marketing. What's your background?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 26, 2019

I’m convinced that you can’t stay competitive that way with today’s customers, and today’s employees. It’s time to push decision making down into the organization –insisting that the people closest to the customer and the markets learn and make the decisions. Don’t demand or assume immediate and certain answers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

You may not be blind to the changing market and technology, but being blind to internal traps that can be just as devastating. Then when market demand slows, you are not able to react in time. At this stage, investors won’t believe that more money for sales and marketing will turn the tide, so we all lose.

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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? We have 35 POPs all over the world, in every major market, and we have more than 6,000 customers today. We've grown really fast.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

We raised this capital in what has increasingly become a difficult market for fund raising so I’d like to share with you some details on how we get it done. Fragmented markets can be a great target for disruption. Public Storage is the Blockbuster Video of their industry and we set out to build Netflix. Little old us.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Lately I’ve been having to say things I thought I’d never have to remind people, like, “getting to positive gross margin in several territories is a very low bar to claim success” or “profitable excluding marketing costs” is not actually a real thing. Market Size. MakeSpace provides physical storage.

Startup 150

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Spotify’s big competitors, Pandora and Apple Music, might all have the same music, but they don’t have podcasts to attract customers. Not for nothing, Spotify’s CFO is the former CFO of Netflix, another streaming service that is betting big on owning an entire content pipeline.). First: better differentiation.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Loves to follow financial market, huge Boston celtics fan. Everything from Skyfall in a packed auditorium on opening night to It’s a Wonderful Life on Netflix to Ponyo in an art house on a small screen. We charge our theater partners less and offer them more customization. Worked with Sean almost 10 years ago.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2017

I’m convinced that you can’t stay competitive that way with today’s customers, and today’s employees. It’s time to push decision making down into the organization –insisting that the people closest to the customer and the markets learn and make the decisions. Don’t demand or assume immediate and certain answers.

Competition 50

Competition Organization Customer Custom 50

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

The ideal business model is to establish a direct-to-consumer service that enables you to bill the customer directly. Through a free base product, you give the first taste of the service or game away for free, get users hooked, and then convert as many as possible to paying customers. Build your own marketplace platform.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 5, 2015

This is analogous to asking Netflix for a discount because you never use its recommendation engine. At Citrix, GoToAssist customers would occasionally ask if they could just pay for our screen-sharing functionality because they didn''t intend to use the product''s other features, such as reporting and session recording. Price = Value.

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socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2012

We caught up with Wade Eyerly , co-founder of the company, who told us the story behind the company, and how it hopes to bring unlimited flights from local regional airports, via a subscription model, to the market. Think of it like Netflix. We don't peak and valley with demand. What's the idea behind SurfAir?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

The second is that the retailers were constrained by their high costs of local real estate and service staff relative to the costs of centralized warehouses where goods could be stacked high, sorted by robots, managed by RFIDs and then shipped via overnight to eager, cost-conscious customers across the US. 10x the experience. .”

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Call it the Netflix effect. Can you convert your model without losing your customer base? Email readers, continue here…] So, the conclusion is that most every business can take advantage of continuing, recurring revenues from its customer base. The massive shift in revenue models in recent years.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Further, growing familiarity of video from streaming applications such as Netflix and YouTube and real-time video service Skype were driving the consumerization of video and BYOD expectation to the workplace. We even have the ability to run in partner or customer own data centers where desired.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Go-to-Market 5. We provide turnkey digital messaging appliances for enterprises, service providers and software developers to send marketing, e-commerce, CRM and customer service email. Startup 3.0:

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Loading… Markets. Loading… Market Data. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. In March of last year, Matt Jacobson, head of market development at Facebook, paid $10.9

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2010

Hulu is a popular website offering streaming video of TV shows on demand in the United States, and movies from NBC, Fox, ABC, and other studios. Hulu is for TV what NetFlix is for movies, but its growth has been dropping off sharply. Video is one of the ways to deliver customer value, but it is not THE value, per se.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

Creativity in our business lives – The average tech startup these days spends time talking with colleagues & investors about a multitude of things: customer acquisition, viral adoption, raising capital, hiring / firing employees, product features, technology trends, marketing / branding, and on and on.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2016

Founded in Los Angeles by Latinos to address the growing demand for short-form online video for Millennials it is probably single-handedly improving the diversity of the tech industry as the employee base is overwhelmingly Latino and proud. In long-form online video, companies were also broad in nature: Hulu, Netflix, Amazon and Apple TV.

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