Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2017

I called that analyst and he told me that he was in a rush to calculate future estimates and his boss told him that saying that the next 3 years would be the same growth rate as the past three years wouldn’t get headlines so he was encouraged to show 8% CAGRs rather than 5%.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

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. The result is a business damaged past the point of recovery, instead of just dented.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 14, 2012

Along with GoToMyPC, companies like Netflix, Classmates and ZoneLabs were learning from each other. When we initially invested in DataPop in 2010, we placed a bet on a serially successful team that had grown up together at DoubleClick, Yahoo! When we launched GoToMyPC in 2001, the rules of online marketing were still being written.

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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. In the past 3 years we did a lot of things the outsiders simply didn’t know about us. Fragmented markets can be a great target for disruption. Public Storage does about $2.4 Why is it so valuable? Little old us. Sound familiar?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Warby Parker produces modern eyewear at affordable prices, Apple produces elegant, premium technology products, Netflix offers an enormous library of binge-worthy, unique video. We of course all instinctively know when we see a brand that is well established what it stands for?—?Warby

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 5, 2015

This is analogous to asking Netflix for a discount because you never use its recommendation engine. We have raised both the unit price and the minimum order size by over 100% in the past year. The questionable “logic” of such requests is, “I only need a fraction of the features offered, so I should only pay for the features I will use.”

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 19, 2012

For the past week, I’ve been graced by the mobile-Gods with the new Nokia flagship cellphone, the Lumia 900. With a full day’s usage (reading twitter, watching some Netflix, downloading apps, making a few phone calls), the battery still had plenty of juice at the end of the day to continue, and then some. The Hardware.

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Google Netflix Mobile Screening 77

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Affiliates invest the up-front marketing expenses required to attract customers. For instance, if a user registers for a firewall, subsequent offers for anti-spam or anti-spyware solutions will generally fare better than random solicitations for Netflix, Geico or the secret to whiter teeth. selecting the time of day ads run).

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 19, 2012

For the past week, I’ve been graced by the mobile-Gods with the new Nokia flagship cellphone, the Lumia 900. With a full day’s usage (reading twitter, watching some Netflix, downloading apps, making a few phone calls), the battery still had plenty of juice at the end of the day to continue, and then some. The Hardware.

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Google Netflix Mobile Screening 40

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Revolution is a “stage agnostic&# fund (means they invest early or late) funded entirely by Steve Case , the founder of AOL and co-founded by two other individuals, Tige Savage (yes, pronounced like the golfer, minus the “r&# ) and Donn Davis. We are a venture capital growth equity fund in Washington DC with about $500m invested.

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Venture Capital Examples Startup Invest 277

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

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. ” That’s what we’ve set out to build at MakeSpace. 10x the experience.

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Technical Review Software Review CTO Hire Startup 380

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

How I Think About Seed Investing As A VC - Feld Thoughts , August 2, 2010 Last week saw an explosion of discussion around seed investing, including plenty of negative comments around VCs as seed investors. Every investment so far in this YC batch (and there have been a lot) has been done on a convertible note.”. Who doesn't?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

I have always loved watching videos there but always believed that any company controlled by a consortia of interests would be doomed in the long run – especially by established, large incumbents with an interest in protecting the past more than innovating the future. We are entering the age of “second screen&# TV viewing.

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Hulu Technical Review Content Advertising 292

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. We talked about the analogies between what NetFlix achieved in movies and whether this is relevant to the book market. Content, of course, is the same!].

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Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

I apply visual thinking for nearly everything I do: preparing for important phone calls (I imagine my opening lines, I imagine the responses), writing keynote presentations, deciding whether or not to invest in a company, preparing for board meetings – you name it. These are all creative processes.

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Writing Startup Ideas Summary 356

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

Founder, Founder, Founder At Upfront we talk regularly about how 70% of our investment decision in Seed and A rounds is the quality of the entrepreneur and 30% is the quality of the idea. I believe that the keyboard I am typing from and the mouse for navigation is a thing of the past. Here are my views … 1.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Kurt Rappaport, a Los Angeles broker specializing in luxury real estate, says the number of his house-hunting clients from Silicon Valley has doubled over the past couple of years. Ted Waitt, co-founder of computer company Gateway, also bought in Bel-Air, paying $14 million this past June for a six-bedroom Mediterranean.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

► August (1) Invest in Transparency & Active Communication ► July (1) The Fear of Success ► May (2) Optimized for Speed = 30% Waste Happy 1st Birthday Rubicon Project! We invested the first $1 million to develop version 1.0 ► October (1) New Video! the Rubicon Project's Secret to Succes.

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