Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. After this connection, you need not share the 30% of all revenue collected by the store platform. Make your app support all platforms. Port every app to all the popular platforms – IOS and Android. Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail. Trying outrageous new things or even trying mundane things but in new ways but with extreme quality & innovation is what fuels the tech startup industry. But today I want to give you advice on how to decrease your odds of failure in a startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2015

Subscription pricing has been around for a long time for magazines, cloud-based software, and gaming, but now I’m seeing it used for just about anything, including for more stylish clothes via Mr.Conection , gourmet foods via TryTheWorld , and toys for your kids via SparkBoxToys. All-you-can-eat content model. Front-of-the-line model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

As a startup advisor, I see too many entrepreneurs get distracted by technology or their favorite cause, and then wonder why they can’t find an investor, attract customers, or build a long-term business. Internet disruptors make prices and margins transparent. Digital platforms create network effects that multiply customer value.

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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. That’s because the acquisitions make Spotify a publisher, as well as platform. What this Means for the Underdogs.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2013

If you're FreedomPop , the Encino-based startup, you start by offering up free 4G wireless data access, and then expand to offer free, voice-over-IP services, along with home-based wireless Internet services. Currently, users pay up front for data packages, and there are inefficiencies in that market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2016

Subscription pricing has been around for a long time for magazines, cloud-based software, and gaming, but now I’m seeing it used for just about anything, including for more stylish clothes via Mr.Conection , gourmet foods via TryTheWorld , and toys for your kids via Pley. All-you-can-eat content model. Front-of-the-line model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

As a startup advisor, I see too many entrepreneurs get distracted by technology or their favorite cause, and then wonder why they can’t find an investor, attract customers, or build a long-term business. Internet disruptors make prices and margins transparent. Digital platforms create network effects that multiply customer value.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

They’ve built products that have completely transformed industries, like the AT&T M2X Internet of Things platform. “If Netflix, Amazon, and Twitter have already proven that using API services they can stay ahead of their competition and deliver continuous value to their user base,” says David Kullmann, Partner at Citrusbyte.

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2011

We spoke with David Aronchick , the CEO and co-founder of the firm to hear more about what it's up to. David Aronchick: We started about three years ago. We thought we'd create a platform that was as powerful and rich as Youtube is for video, or Flickr is for pictures, or Docstoc is for documents. What's the story behind Hark?

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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. This has obviously occurred in battles with tech platforms like Yelp vs. Google or Zynga vs. Facebook). from Charter’s subscribers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

As a startup advisor, I see too many entrepreneurs get distracted by technology or their favorite cause, and then wonder why they can’t find an investor, attract customers, or build a long-term business. Internet disruptors make prices and margins transparent. Digital platforms create network effects that multiply customer value.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? We caught up with James Segil , the firm's President, to hear the story behind that big growth at the company. We've grown really fast.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Enter Vidzey , the in-video shopping platform that seamlessly combines media, entertainment and e-commerce. So Sean starts at the beginning and discusses where Vidzey’s concept came from. ” Article 1 discussed the digital revolution and how companies like Netflix and Hulu were taking over. I believe this.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 6, 2012

In the “long tail” you can become enormously valuable if you’re a platform. But as every blogger, musician, novelist or YouTube emerging talent knows … it doesn’t add up to much unless you go big time. Netflix, Hulu & HBO Go are coming from the opposite direction – the Head End.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Distribution of media is tightly controlled by YouTube, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon and a handful of others. In a world where perhaps foreign governments start propagating false information to influence our society, guaranteeing authenticity would become a very big deal. Our social graphs are locked in Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

But with the introduction of Apple TV, Google TV, the Boxee Box & other initiatives it’s clear that this battle will heat up in 2011. While we won’t get through all of this, here are some of the issues in the industry that I plan to bring up and ones I hope we’ll discuss tomorrow: 1. Enter Google.

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