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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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 Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. The ideal business model is to establish a direct-to-consumer service that enables you to bill the customer directly. Just getting an app accepted into the Store won’t get it found and downloaded by your targeted customers.

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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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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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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

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. So the startups tend to focus on totally new customers. Incumbents feel threatened. They can’t.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

But the latest range of streaming services also offer a lot of customization options…even if they are hidden from view. Netflix has both quantity and quality.but isn’t very timely. Price: $8 per month for basic plans, up to $12 for extra screens and advanced features. Price:$8 with ads, $12 without. Hulu/Hulu Plus.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

If a consumer will pay a fixed price for a product or service then the battle over who gets the margin in any sale is between the person who merchandises a product and the person who manufactures it. Ariel understood her customer?—?the This is an age-old marketplace tension where leverage often determines the value captured.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. The ideal business model is to establish a direct-to-consumer service that enables you to bill the customer directly. Just getting an app accepted into the Store won’t get it found and downloaded by your targeted customers.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

They have high-priced property and zero innovation. Public Storage is the Blockbuster Video of their industry and we set out to build Netflix. In just one year we captured 2% of all new customers in NYC who wanted to store household items other than furniture. And where they see stability we saw a sitting duck. Little old us.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

That is, businesses are using APIs like crazy to stay competitive and communicate with both partners and customers more effectively. Netflix, Amazon, and Twitter have already proven that using API services they can stay ahead of their competition and deliver continuous value to their user base,” says David Kullmann, Partner at Citrusbyte.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2015

According to many experts , 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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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

It reportedly paid a hefty $230 million to acquire the podcast publisher and network startup Gimlet Media, and has also acquired the podcast monetization platform Anchor for an undisclosed price. Spotify’s big competitors, Pandora and Apple Music, might all have the same music, but they don’t have podcasts to attract customers.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2013

Stephen Sesar: It's no major secret that telcos have been increasing their prices, and basically selling high volume wireless Internet packages to users, with 5GB or 10GB of data, when in reality, users are only using roughly 1.5 That peak of 10-12 down is faster than normal DSL, and will be at a fraction of the price.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Launched in beta July last year in Oakland, San Francisco, Dealflicks is a price line for movie tickets and gives movie tickets and concessions for up to 60% off to help theaters get butts in their seats. Theater owners love us because we bring them new customers without having to pay any setup fees, monthly fees, or monthly minimums.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. It is Blockbuster video in the dawn of Netflix. We need to market to that customer to make them aware of our product or service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2016

According to many experts , 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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2017

In order to get a better sense on your own fallibility I would encourage every entrepreneur to watch Brain Games, a Nat Geo series that is available on Netflix (and YouTube for a fee).

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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

APRIL 10, 2012

Think of it like Netflix. That's just an example I pulled out of the air, but we think we'll be more responsive to our customers than a traditional airline. That strips out the volatility, and just helps us lock in the price of fuel at the day's rate. They'll get access to our very first two planes, and our earliest routes.

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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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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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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. 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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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

When Jamie told us he was going to build “Doorbot” (the name prior to Ring) and he explained to us that it was a video security doorbell sold at mass-market prices to bring security to homes that have never been able to afford them?—?we we were sold on the concept immediately.

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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. Prices are soaring in the beachfront communities tech types favor, and rents in these. Prices have gone up dramatically on this beachfront strip.

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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. 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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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Pricing models, the freemium myth and why you may not be charging enough for your product - Seth Levine's VC Adventure , August 12, 2010 I’ve been pulled into a number of product and pricing meetings recently (for reasons unknown I’ve become the Foundry pricing and productization guy). Example: Netflix). How it happens.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

“Over the Top&# video distribution – Apple TV comes out in November and is priced at $99. I believe that NetFlix has won the battle for the “head end&# of content from films. They have such a strong base of subscribers and their strategy of “Netflix everywhere&# is brilliant. We watch it on the iPad.

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