InfoChachkie

JANUARY 5, 2015

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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

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. Little old us. Sound familiar?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

billion in sales and thus controls less than 10% of the market. It is Blockbuster video in the dawn of Netflix. Airbnb’s success is that it unleashed a totally new market of inventory for travelers tired of paying too much for hotels and an entire supply of people who want to make a little extra money to make ends meet.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Call it the Netflix effect. Application developers once considered their products as licensed in what would closely be allied to a single sale. Have you noticed how many web apps and content have turned into subscription services during the last several years? An investor’s early question. Call it “predictable revenue”.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We talked about the analogies between what NetFlix achieved in movies and whether this is relevant to the book market. Private, flash sales site focused on apparel goods (women, men and children). Metrics: 2.5mm members, 1,000 brands, 2,500 sale events to-date. Metrics: 2.5mm members, 1,000 brands, 2,500 sale events to-date.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

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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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Blue-chip customers such as Intuit, Williams-Sonoma, Fox Sports/MSN, Ticketmaster, Glaxo Smith Kline, Clear Channel, WebEx and Netflix turn to StrongMail infrastructure to bring enterprise-class reliability to their email systems. Whatever the biggest, most challenging, most demanding, most important job we had at L90, I always turned to Tim.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2010

The largest video social network, Bebo , purchased for $850 million, was just sold by AOL in a “fire sale,” after it lost half its membership of 10 million users last year. Hulu is a popular website offering streaming video of TV shows on demand in the United States, and movies from NBC, Fox, ABC, and other studios.

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Hulu Social Network Blogging Netflix 84

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Last November, the Web-search giant opened a flashy new office in Venice to focus on engineering, sales and advertising; the company will lease close to a quarter-million square feet in the neighborhood by 2014. Entrepreneurs love being around other entrepreneurs, and thats driving demand toward the beach," says Mr. Miller.

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Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

Underpinning it all I wrote: sales, asset management, analytics & talent management. Where do the new entrants like YouTube, Pandora, iTunes, Huffington Post, Boxee, Netflix, Demand Media and other disruptive offerings fit into that equation and how is it changing? Were they vertically integrated ?

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