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Netflix Redux: Is It Ever OK to Fire Your Customers?

Both Sides of the Table

Netflix as a service has always prided itself on movie recommendations that are tailored specifically to you plus user ratings on the quality of films. Netflix needs to segment their customers and charge each what is appropriate. Perhaps they should have just created business units called: Netflix DVD & Netflix Streaming.

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7 Ways To Keep Your Business Working Like A Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

I remember too many once thriving and growing companies, such as Blockbuster and BlackBerry, who somehow changed their way of thinking, and were overtaken by more nimble and astute peers or newcomers, like Netflix and Apple. The challenge is that the future is much harder to quantify than existing competitor markets.

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6 Strategies To Anticipate And Survive New Entrants

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, we all remember when Blockbuster realized too late that Netflix was stealing customers by offering videos online rather than via DVDs, but even then they were unable to adapt their processes and their thinking. Never assume that your “first to market” lead will hold. The result is constant stress and losing ground.

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How to Measure & Track Marketing

Jason Nazar

I’ve been a part of dozens (maybe hundreds) of product launches And in each of these cases I ask my team to put together a simple dashboard of a small set of metrics for our paid and free products that let me know the success of our efforts. For startup entrepreneurs, you can also track these metrics with Google analytics.

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How to Measure & Track Marketing

Jason Nazar

I’ve been a part of dozens (maybe hundreds) of product launches And in each of these cases I ask my team to put together a simple dashboard of a small set of metrics for our paid and free products that let me know the success of our efforts. For startup entrepreneurs, you can also track these metrics with Google analytics.

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8 Startup Lessons From “The Founder” Movie

InfoChachkie

Even when it was published on Netflix, I had no desire to see The Founder movie, as it was clear from the film’s preview that it was yet another, “businessperson gone bad” film. Measure What Matters – The McDonald brothers were dogmatic about tracking metrics. The Founder won’t be available on Netflix forever.

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Interview with Michele Ruiz and Dan Gould, BiasSync

socalTECH

We caught up with Michele and Dan to better understand why they founded the company, and why this market was such an interest to them. Why that it is important, is the metrics associated with this is are how scalable it is. Here, we wanted to build a Netflix-like experience for this. What is BiasSync?

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