socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2020

According to ClickUp, its customers included Google, Nike, Uber, Airbnb, Netflix, and Ubisoft, where it helps replace or integrate workplace applications for employees. The funding was led by Craft Ventures, and also included Georgian Partners. As part of the funding, David Sacks has joined the board.

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Netflix San Diego Google Organization 203

TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Bounce, formerly known as Metro Bikes, allows customers to rent a scooter for as little as Rs 1 (0.1 Netflix leases New York’s Paris Theatre. Netflix is expanding its theatrical presence by signing a long-term lease for a historic single-screen venue in New York City. Indian scooter rental startup Bounce raises $150M.

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Netflix Guide Los Angeles Screening 243

socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2021

According to the company, it has tripled its revenue, and now counts such clients as McDonalds, Booking.com, Papa Johns, and Netflix as customers. ClickUp is led by Founder and CEO Zeb Evans. The company has now raised $535M in total. According to ClickUp, the funding will go to expand its footprint and hire talent.

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Netflix San Diego Software Development Software 140

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2019

Much has been written recently about the requirement to focus today on the total customer experience, as a competitive edge or even for survival. The challenge I hear from savvy business owners and entrepreneurs operating on a shoestring is that providing a superior customer experience costs money.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2009

Disney-ABC Television and movie rental service Netflix reported this morning that they are in a deal, which will make "Lost," "Desperate Housewives," "Grey's Anatomy," and other ABC television series available via streaming to Netflix customers. The deal will make episodes available the day after broadcast to Netflix members.

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Netflix Hollywood Content Report 100

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

As a startup advisor, I see too many entrepreneurs get distracted by technology or their favorite cause, and then wonder why they can’t find an investor, attract customers, or build a long-term business. Customers now put big value on experience, social impact, empowerment, and feedback.

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Customer Custom Competition Netflix 101

TechCrunch LA

JULY 23, 2019

So Bayen resolved to be more of a sourcing partner for new customers rather than developing a credit and lending business hmimself. it would have been a platform called LennyBike, which would have been a subscription service for customers to get access to a bicycle for $30 a month and those payments would then count toward building credit.

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Services Netflix Los Angeles Help 201

socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2013

appeals court ruled that the the Post Office unfairly gave Netflix and Blockbuster special services in sorting DVDs. GameFly had filed suit in 2009 saying that the preferential treatment by the USPS to Netflix and Blockbuster was unfair to the company, resulting in high breakage rates and other issues. Postal Service, after a U.S.

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Netflix Services Class Los Angeles 153

TechCrunch LA

JUNE 28, 2018

While leaders like Netflix migrated to cloud services in 2012 and 21st Century Fox worked with HP to get its infrastructure on cloud computing, other companies have lagged. For instance, Microsoft bought Avere Systems in January, and Google picked up Anvato in 2016 to woo entertainment companies. We open these doorways.”

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Hollywood Cloud Computing Netflix Google 254

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2023

Not all innovations have to be as disruptive as the Netflix digital download was to Blockbuster’s DVD business. Both authors are recipients of numerous academic and management awards for leadership thinking, and I will summarize here their key strategy insights, combined with my own experiences: Lead with a focus on finding customer value.

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Capital Netflix Resource Customer 142

socalTECH

MAY 23, 2018

According to the two, Electronic Arts also acquired the Israeli team which had developed GameFly's streaming service for games, which had allowed videogame users to rent videogames via the Internet, much like one might stream videos using Netflix or other online streaming services. GameFly is led by CEo David Hodess. READ MORE>>.

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Electronic Arts Netflix Los Angeles Acquisition 113

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2022

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. Your customers’ biggest need is not for more things. Your best strategy is to find more customers that fit the things you do best, rather than building more things.

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Startup Social Media Metrics Customer 144

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2023

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. It’s tempting to believe that one more new platform will win for crowd funding or video games, like Indiegogo and Wii.

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Entrepreneur Netflix Social Media Startup 125

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

link] Why (and who) she thinks will pay for premium Quibi content In a world of Netflix, Hulu, HBO, and YouTube, why would a customer choose to pay the $4.99 monthly subscription (or $8 ad free) for Quibi? We would argue that our movies are world-class movies, just designed entirely for mobile.”

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Content Netflix Platform Mobile 244

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

As a startup advisor, I see too many entrepreneurs get distracted by technology or their favorite cause, and then wonder why they can’t find an investor, attract customers, or build a long-term business. Customers now put big value on experience, social impact, empowerment, and feedback.

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Marketing Customer Custom Competition 124

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2022

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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Develop Development Platform Mobile 138

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Canoo has beta cars on site at its Los Angeles headquarters where prospective partners and customers can test out the vehicles, which were made by an undisclosed contract manufacturer based in Michigan. The company intends to go to market with an entirely new business model by providing customers with its cars for a monthly subscription fee.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Joe Bayen: Grow Credit is the first platform to allow consumers to establish their credit, for free, using their subscription payments for services such as Netflix, HBO, or whatnot. Joe Bayen: The free plan restricts consumers to $15 a month that they can use towards their Netflix or their Spotify accounts.

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Netflix Platform Report Services 203

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

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. Define customer value as the only path to business value.

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Competition Organization Customer Custom 116

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Based on traditional research, getting new customers is five to ten times harder than getting additional revenue from existing customers. 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.

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Startup Pricing Netflix Customer 117

socalTECH

MAY 6, 2015

McBeard, which is also based in Los Angeles, provides custom content production and distribution to such clients as Coca-Cola, 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures, Mary Kay, NBC Universal, Warner Bros., Mattel, Netflix, and AT&T. The company was founded byAlec McNayr and Alan Beard.

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Netflix Social Media Los Angeles Acquisition 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2022

Instead of sizing up new opportunities and actively courting every new customer, you start worrying about cutting costs, repeatable processes , and overtaking known competitors. As a consultant, I hate to see you lose that startup focus on innovation, change, and customers. As the pace of change is growing, it can happen very quickly.

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Startup Artificial Inteligence Metrics Netflix 154

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The result is fewer and fewer new ideas are volunteered by prospective leaders and key team members, and the business suffers from poor customer satisfaction or loss of market share. Input from outside experts and real customers is always a credibility booster.

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Ideas Netflix Resource Customer 116

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2022

Why else would name brands with huge resources, like Blockbuster and Kodak , get overrun by upstarts like Netflix and Apple. If your business today is healthcare, it may be time to look for opportunities in artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and digital data management, rather than just more unhealthy customers.

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Artificial Inteligence Netflix Resource Customer 146

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2020

Based on traditional research, getting new customers is five to ten times harder than getting additional revenue from existing customers. 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.

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Startup Customer Custom Netflix 168

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

As noted in Pour and Stir Part I , the key to the successful execution of this strategy is managing the following equation: The cost to acquire a customer < lifetime value of a customer. Decreasing Your Customer Acquisition Costs. This is equivalent to being handed a free customer for every ten customers you acquire.

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Customer Custom Advertising SEM 164

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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Class Develop Development Startup 155

socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2019

In an age of ever increasing marketing spend to attract customers, how do you make sure you aren't spending more acquiring a company than they are worth? Los Angeles-based Retina is using machine learning and artificial intelligence to figure out customer lifetime value (CLV) for such businesses as Dollar Shave Club. What is Retina Go?

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Dollar Shave Club Artificial Inteligence Customer Custom 113

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2023

Thus they are blindsided and try to react quickly when a new competitor starts stealing customers. For example, we all remember when Blockbuster realized too late that Netflix was stealing customers by offering videos online rather than via DVDs, but even then they were unable to adapt their processes and their thinking.

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Metrics Training Netflix Resource 71

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2020

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. It’s tempting to believe that one more new platform will win for crowd funding or video games, like Indiegogo and Wii.

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Startup Netflix Social Media Customer 124

Tech.Co

JUNE 24, 2022

Netflix and Uber are among the household names to have reduced their workforce numbers since the new year. Rising inflation has deterred customers from purchasing products online and shares in Etsy, Shopify, Wayfair, and Poshmark all plummeted last month.

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Technical Review Company Companies Startup 136

InfoChachkie

MARCH 9, 2019

Even when it was published on Netflix, I had no desire to see The Founder movie, as it was clear from the film’s preview that it was yet another, “businessperson gone bad” film. Challenge the status quo and improve and innovate upon it, even if customers currently accept substandard offerings. had to throw away their own trash.

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Startup Netflix Entrepreneur Metrics 100

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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Platform Entertainment Netflix Content 167

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.

Mobile 126

Mobile Develop Development Platform 126

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2021

Customers always have alternatives, most notably continuing to do what they do today without you. They are reluctant to take advantage of questioning input from outside advisors, investors, and even friendly customers. Business leaders from Google, Netflix, and others have uncertainty built into their DNA. Marty Zwilling.

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Ideas Entrepreneur Netflix IBM 117

socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2011

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. WD's hardware already supported Netflix, Blockbuster, CinemaNow, Pandora, YouTube, and Facebook. The access to Hulu content requires a $7.99 a month subscription to Hulu Plus.

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Hulu Netflix Los Angeles Media 113

Berkonomics

AUGUST 28, 2014

Yes, most of that is from NetFlix and YouTube and others delivering entertainment content. If you are promoting the corporation as opposed to the product, short clips of the company’s previous projects with comments from enthusiastic customers would be appropriate. Ninety percent of all traffic on the Internet is in video form.

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Netflix Sites Content Entertainment 166