Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

The authors focus on the many new principles of customer lifetime value in the digital disruptor age, which I believe every business executive and entrepreneur needs to understand, in order to make their business more competitive and investable. Internet disruptors make prices and margins transparent.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

WINTER For starters when we conducted our annual VC & LP survey in December of 2016 to prepare our annual Upfront State of the VC Industry report we found that twice as many VCs cut their investments in 2016 relative to 2015 with > 30% of VCs having cut investments. On stark graph should give you a sense of the picture.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

The authors focus on the many new principles of customer value in the digital disruptor age, which I believe every business executive and entrepreneur needs to understand, in order to make their business more competitive and investable. Internet disruptors make prices and margins transparent.

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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. The company has stated that it plans to spend a total of $500 million on podcasting investments, meaning it still has a few hundred million to burn.

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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. 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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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. It tested our beliefs about pricing, products and marketing overall of our service. Public Storage does about $2.4 billion in revenue and has a public enterprise value of $44 billion.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

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. First, over time Salesforce.com’s technology got better and better yet the price didn’t shoot up dramatically relative to Siebel.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

The authors focus on the many new principles of customer value in the digital disruptor age, which I believe every business executive and entrepreneur needs to understand, in order to make their business more competitive and investable. Internet disruptors make prices and margins transparent.

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Customer Custom Competition Netflix 101

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

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

We are investing heavily in these changes. So people will spend money online to get you to sign up for credit cards or Netflix but not to change your laundry detergent. Give people massive price increases on most media and they’ll abandon it. We believe this is why Google Ventures invested in Pixazza.

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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. What would it take in investments to acquire and retain traffic to support these businesses? Our centralization is their achilles heel.

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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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Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Today, there’s no need to invest that much effort when cheap connected devices are ubiquitous. Even if they could be field upgraded, why would the manufacturer invest in a security patch? They already got paid for those devices; investing in them would only further squeeze their minuscule margins. One Target, Many Victims.

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

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. Was Fouad with Redpoint at the time? We've really tried to change the model.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Affiliates invest the up-front marketing expenses required to attract customers. Ideally, such ads should clearly articulate the value proposition including the price. Affiliate Network – Affiliates are third-parties which are only compensated when they perform a particular action on your behalf.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 6, 2012

Netflix, Hulu & HBO Go are coming from the opposite direction – the Head End. ” That is why Hulu has invested so much in building its Hulu Plus subscription service. Hulu announced $500 million to fund new content and Netflix has, for example, resurrected the hit / cult show Arrested Development. The Torso.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Prices are soaring in the beachfront communities tech types favor, and rents in these. Prices have gone up dramatically on this beachfront strip. Venices median home price in the first eight months of 2012 broke the $1 million barrier, rising to $1,012,000 from $899,000 in the first eight months of 2011. Derek Wooden.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

When I recently wrote about how excited I was about investing in “ The Digital Living Room ,&# Hulu was only mentioned in the context of how Clicker.com was a much better metaphor for content discovery and search. So what does this have to do with OPEC? Because they are anti-competitive most countries ban cartels. Why the limitation?

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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. We worked out our pricing, our tipping policies, insurance, logistics, package management – the works. 10x the experience.

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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. Jamie’s ethos led him to price at just $3 / user / camera / month at a time when traditional home security companies’ monthly fees were so unaffordable.

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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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