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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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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. They are radically lower in price. So what did happen? And what does happen in many other industries?

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Why Hulu is the OPEC of Online Video

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OPEC (the organization of petroleum exporting countries) is a cartel that was set up in the 1960′s and represents the interests of the 12 biggest oil producing countries in the world with the goal of increasing prices of oil, a good supplied in limited quantities to a world that had insatiable demand for the product.

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What Would Happen if you Built the Reverse of Amazon? It Might Look Something Like This …

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It’s Amazon, Virgin America, Netflix, Tesla, DropBox, iPhone, Uber, Lyft or any one of the other great brands that exist because they do things significantly better than what came before. We worked out our pricing, our tipping policies, insurance, logistics, package management – the works. 10x the experience.

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7 Keys To A Winning Business As A Phone App Developer

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The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. This is a tough one to accomplish, but it has paid off handsomely for the first to win in other categories, such as Amazon Kindle and Netflix. Free’ doesn’t make it stand out when there are a million alternatives at the same price.

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Interview with David Aronchick, Hark

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Sure, that's a decent way to approach it, but the result is, studios then want a huge minimum guarantee, which really prices startups out of the market. David Aronchick: The net of our jobs is really harnessing the demand. Our job is to help capture some of that demand. We've really tried to change the model.

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Interview with Wade Eyerly, SurfAir

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Think of it like Netflix. We don't peak and valley with demand. As a result, we can project into the future what our future fuel costs will be, and we can get fuel on contract at today's price, and just execute on that contract rather than try to hedge costs. When you fly one of them, get you get another.

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