Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

I’ve spent a lot of my career thinking about digital and online video (with investments in companies like Maker Studios) so for that reason amongst many, I was excited to open the Upfront Summit a few weeks ago by interviewing Meg Whitman about Quibi and the digital media space. monthly subscription (or $8 ad free) for Quibi?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2011

Los Angeles-based Hulu and Irvine-based Western Digital said this week that the two have connected Hulu's premium service, Hulu Plus, to WD's WD TV Live Plus and WD TV Live Hub media players. According to the two, the move will make it possible for WD TV customers to stream TV shows and movies to their television through WD's hardware.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2021

With real-time online reviews and feedback via the Internet, and instant relationships via social media, a voice from the top that is inconsistent with what is heard from the firing line defines a dysfunctional and noncompetitive company for today’s customer. Thus team makeup is the critical success factor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2020

With the success of Facebook and Twitter, I still see new social media startups almost every day, with most destined to fail. Actually, great new customer solutions lead to great platforms, not the other way around. Extrapolating you as the target customer. Never mix up what you like with what your customers will buy.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 3, 2022

Nasty Gal CEO Sophia Amoruso is credited with coining the term in the title of her 2014 memoir, “#Girlboss,” which chronicled her rags-to-riches success and was adapted into a Netflix show. It’s more of a mockery,” said Isa Watson , founder and CEO of social media app Squad. Please stop using the word Girlboss thank you.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2019

As a startup, you need to use your limited resources to excel at a few core things for your best customers, in order to stand out and get the momentum going. He talks in detail about ten of the key challenges that Facebook faced in their growth, to move from a tiny social media upstart to one of the most successful companies in the world.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 12, 2010

The firm said its customers now include such companies as Netflix, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Empowered Media, CBS, Powertek, DIRECTV PanAmericana and University of Wisconsin-Madison. Central Desktop is headed by Isaac Garcia, and has raised venture funding from OpenView Venture Partners.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This is true whether it’s physical products or media products. Think about the tension between media companies and cable operators like last year when Viacom threatened to pull Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, BET, etc. Ariel understood her customer?—?the from Charter’s subscribers. So Why Does This Matter?

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 27, 2022

That has led to record levels of interest and engagement in games, and that has in turn resulted in a host of new entrants into the space (including some from other entertainment verticals, like Netflix ).

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 4, 2020

It's a talent marketplace that connects marketers with customers, from big boys like Netflix, to startups like Allbirds, and all kinds of other companies. 500 business, and number one in the media category. The challenge we found, again and again, is that it's really hard to hire the best marketing talent.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Having paying “Customers” is what makes the cash register roar. An entrepreneur having low self worth is the number one deterrent for a potential customer not buying into what you are selling. Using your service or owning your product isn’t why a person buys, it’s the experience your customer will have. Second, how to get leads.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 23, 2016

Founded by Amit Rathmore in California, Quintype delivers modern-day media operations via this cloud-based SaaS service. Functioning as a data-driven, end-to-end platform that seamlessly integrates the most important functionality you need to successfully run a modern media operation, Quintype is the epitome of 21st century digital media.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

One of those is Hollywood-based FilmBreak (www.filmbreak.com), which is applying the world of social networking, media, and the Internet to help film-makers gain access to the analytics and insights they need to better market their films. Lots of them were in online media and entertainment. That's really the core focus for us.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

I cannot recommend it enough for people in the technology or media sectors. 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. Incumbents feel threatened.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2017

As a startup, you need to use your limited resources to excel at a few core things for your best customers, in order to stand out and get the momentum going. He talks in detail about ten of the key challenges that Facebook faced in their growth, to move from a tiny social media upstart to one of the most successful companies in the world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2015

With the success of Facebook and Twitter, I still see new social media startups almost every day, with most destined to fail. Actually, great new customer solutions lead to great platforms, not the other way around. Extrapolating you as the target customer. Never mix up what you like with what your customers will buy.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2019

With real-time online reviews and feedback via the Internet, and instant relationships via social media, a voice from the top that is inconsistent with what is heard from the firing line defines a dysfunctional and noncompetitive company for today’s customer. Thus team makeup is the critical success factor.

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Xconomy

JUNE 23, 2016

Customer experience is a high priority for both companies. As customer feedback becomes critical to creating a better experience, Google announced several components of the Play Store that will support companies in their quest to understand consumers. Here are three of the most important takeaways: 1.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 4, 2011

Netflix, Hulu, and even YouTube and other content streaming sites have all but obliterated the independent DVD rental business of yesterday. Yes, Netflix has a huge arm in the rental business and Redbox is pretty popular, but you’ll find the titles are probably pretty limited if you like the good indie stuff.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

The afternoon began with a fireside chat with Albert Cheng, the Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer of Digital Media at Disney/ABC Television Group. The interviewer, David Cohen, Senior Editor of Features at Variety , led the chat by asking Cheng about the media industry, advertisements, and the future of the market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

If it’s not an order of magnitude better or cheaper, customers usually conclude that the risk and cost of change are simply not worth the potential payback over what they have today. Examples of being first include Netflix for movies and TV and Redfin for real estate. Lock in customers with loyalty and high cost of change.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 14, 2012

Along with GoToMyPC, companies like Netflix, Classmates and ZoneLabs were learning from each other. This latest wave in this transformation has been enabled by a number of sophisticated technology companies, including: Burstly , Coull , Collider Media , GraphEffect , SteelHouse , RingRevenue , GumGum , and DataPop.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2016

With the success of Facebook and Twitter, I still see new social media startups almost every day, with most destined to fail. Actually, great new customer solutions lead to great platforms, not the other way around. Extrapolating you as the target customer. Never mix up what you like with what your customers will buy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

With real-time online reviews and feedback via the Internet, and instant relationships via social media, a voice from the top that is inconsistent with what is heard from the firing line defines a dysfunctional and noncompetitive company for today’s customer. Thus team makeup is the critical success factor.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 21, 2011

The conference brings about panelists from across the platforms in film, television, new media and tech. Deluxe Digital Studios, and Digital Media Directions to understand the goals in the new space of digital film consumption. According to the brand, Ultraviolet is giving consumers more bang for their buck and bringing them digital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2014

If you think about it, services make more sense in this social media age where relationships, personalization, and interaction are king. Hence the popularity and wealth of new services like Citi Bike, Lyft, and NetFlix. I’m sure there are many more just waiting to be found. Process outsourcing services.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

After a year in the market, MakeSpace was growing rapidly and our biggest issue was CAC (customer acquisition costs) relative to payback period (when we get our marketing investment back) and relative to LTV (lifetime value). It is Blockbuster video in the dawn of Netflix. What price will your customer ultimately accept?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

It’s clear that many companies are going to need to understand “authority&# in the social media era. 11mm in Series B (oversubscribed); raised $16.5mm total. Investors: Greylock (Asheem Chandna) (lead), LightSpeed (Ravi Mhatre) (lead). Read more: peHUB. The biggest question I had was whether this was a feature or a company.

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Xconomy

MAY 2, 2017

Donald Trump spent his 100th day in office in ways that would appeal to his working class base—holding a campaign-style rally in Harrisburg, PA, where he confirmed his campaign commitment to controlling immigration.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

They are a national practice but “it would be hard to see a local media success that Revolution isn’t part of&#. This potential merger is another example of media companies getting together in what seems like a monopolistic way that still might find itself as prey for market innovation of the future; like Hulu for example.

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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. So I thought I would.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

We’re Living In The Dark Ages Of Social Media - rosskimbarovsky.com , August 9, 2010 If you believe the media and social media “experts&# , we’re living in the Renaissance of social media. Example: Netflix). The Dry Run. didn’t sleep that night. was scared and nervous. There is no competition. We declined.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

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. There is a feeling that techies are the new celebrities," says Eric Kuhn, an agent who heads the social-media department at United Talent Agency. FourSquare.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2016

Mitu Network is the largest digital media company for Latinos in the US and also targeting Mexico and South America. In long-form online video, companies were also broad in nature: Hulu, Netflix, Amazon and Apple TV. This is the cycle of synergies that lead to strong vertical franchises in media. AOL and the like. And so forth.

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