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Interview with Ilya Pozin, Cofounder of Pluto TV

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That's when it clicked for me, realizing that for some reason, everything online is on-demand. Every single TV service online, from Hulu, to Netflix, and on requires people to search and find content, and really makes people work. The underlying issue is we don't know what to watch, which makes on-demand a really bad experience.

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5 Inertia Traps To Avoid In Your Business Leadership

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Then when market demand slows, you are not able to react in time. For example, Blockbuster was so busy expanding its hugely profitable video rental business, adding stores at a breakneck rate, that it failed to really take notice of new entrants like Netflix with no late fees, Redbox automated kiosks, and video on demand.

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Interview with David Aronchick, Hark

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David Aronchick: When we first got started, although we had a number of connection through Fouad, I worked with my network in Los Angeles, and my network in Seattle, and we landed an angel investment split between both those Los Angeles and Seattle investors. David Aronchick: The net of our jobs is really harnessing the demand.

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How to Out Amazon, Amazon

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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. There has always been tension between CPG (consumer packaged goods) companies and the retailers who sell their products to consumers.

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Understanding How The Innovator’s Dilemma Affects You

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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. This is important because the customers they serve (the red line) demand a product that meets their complex requirements.

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Startup Pricing: Are You Selling A Giffen Product?

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This is analogous to asking Netflix for a discount because you never use its recommendation engine. Even sales reps will invoke a cost plus logic when negotiating with me on behalf of their customers. Despite a tremendous price increase, overall demand jumped substantially while churn dropped dramatically.

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MakeSpace Raises an Additional $17.5 million and Unveils Strategy to Make Public Storage the Next Blockbuster Video

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Public Storage is the Blockbuster Video of their industry and we set out to build Netflix. First, customers in these new markets didn’t want to buy in “bins” and they demanded furniture. We had also built out a sales team and a marketing team and they had become fully operational. Public Storage does about $2.4

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