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. After this connection, you need not share the 30% of all revenue collected by the store platform. Make your app support all platforms. Port every app to all the popular platforms – IOS and Android.

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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. It’s tempting to believe that one more new platform will win for crowd funding or video games, like Indiegogo and Wii. Actually, great new customer solutions lead to great platforms, not the other way around.

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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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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. We're not necessarily the platform to help up-and-comers or amateurs to be successful.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 23, 2016

SaaS – or Software as a Service – platforms are all the rage. Quintype thinks that digital publishing – which relies on platforms such as wordpress, drupal and other CMS platforms – has been stuck in the dark ages. This could include information on LinkedIn, media sources and more.

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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. This has obviously occurred in battles with tech platforms like Yelp vs. Google or Zynga vs. Facebook).

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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

OCTOBER 9, 2015

The ideal business model is to establish a direct-to-consumer service that enables you to bill the customer directly. After this connection, you need not share the 30% of all revenue collected by the store platform. Make your app support all platforms. Port every app to all the popular platforms – IOS and Android.

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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. It’s tempting to believe that one more new platform will win for crowd funding or video games, like Indiegogo and Wii. Actually, great new customer solutions lead to great platforms, not the other way around.

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Xconomy

JUNE 23, 2016

At their annual developer conferences, Google I/O, held last month, and Apple’s WWDC, last week they both announced updates to their development platforms. Customer experience is a high priority for both companies. Two customer-focused announcements stood out: the reviews API and the customer case studies.

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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. It’s tempting to believe that one more new platform will win for crowd funding or video games, like Indiegogo and Wii. Actually, great new customer solutions lead to great platforms, not the other way around.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Sellbot, an e-commerce platform for sellers made by USC graduates Michael and Payam Ahdoot, took home the grand prize of $25,000. Sellbot helps online sellers sell through multiple platforms. In the end, 3 startups were awarded prize money for their spectacular business ideas. The event ended with three final panels.

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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

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. To give consumers comfort in streaming. I sure hope it is, because people are quick to hold grudges.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Hyper-local, flash marketing platform connecting consumers with local business offers; super majority of offers are restaurant and personal services; competitor to Groupon. But Google’s investment seems to be focused on supporting a payment platform that can support the Android ecosystem. LivingSocial. Read more: peHUB.

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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. That is how great businesses are built. Choose that market.

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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 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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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

Let me first address VCs or anybody else who is likely above the age where they “get” Snapchat but whose customers are likely in the age demo who use it religiously. That’s like you saying you don’t want to go to cocktail parties and network anymore while every 25-35 year-old VC steals your customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Dana Settle & I are hosting a dinner tonight (10/20/10) with some of the biggest companies in entertainment to talk about the future of television, film & digital media. This is where the digital media puck is going. Michael Ovitz , the co-founder of CAA will be the keynote speaker. The device itself will have no storage.

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