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9 Popular Startup Business Model Variations For Scale

Startup Professionals Musings

By providing access to a large variety of titles, like NetFlix with streaming movies, or Hulu for TV shows, with new content added regularly, there is always a reason to keep up your subscription. All-you-can-eat content model. If you already have many followers for some limited free offerings, this also becomes a natural freemium upgrade.

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9 Subscription Model Variations To JumpStart Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

By providing access to a large variety of titles, like NetFlix with streaming movies, or Hulu for TV shows, with new content added regularly, there is always a reason to keep up your subscription. All-you-can-eat content model. If you already have many followers for some limited free offerings, this also becomes a natural freemium upgrade.

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Interview with Ilya Pozin, Cofounder of Pluto TV

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I started a web design company, and ended up going to college in Florida, but kept on running the company on the side. Every single TV service online, from Hulu, to Netflix, and on requires people to search and find content, and really makes people work. Other people have tried to put linear television on the Web.

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How Laudville Is Bringing Your Entertainment Life Together

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You have Genius on iTunes, NetFlix''s recommended movies, Facebook or Twitter. Each of them has different programs, but we get four to ten percent of a sale. When we started this, we were a web-based platform, because that''s what made the most sense when we started. It''s a very fractured process. That''s not true now.

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Interview with Tobi Bauckhage, Moviepilot

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and are now one of the largest media outlets for entertainment on the web and Facebook. In the last four years, we built Moviepilot.de, which is like Yahoo Movies or Netflix on steroids. We try to understand your preferences, like Netflix does with their recommendations, and understand and give you a personalized experience.

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Interview with David Aronchick, Hark

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Rather than taking their hard work and just leveraging it on the web, the pitch is--we'll do this work for you, put reams and reams more metadata around a given movie, sound bite, TV show episode, or video game. We're now doing revenue share on affiliate revenue, doing revenue share on DVD sales, or ads we run against that content.

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Subscription Business Models Are Startup Favorites

Startup Professionals Musings

By providing access to a large variety of titles, like NetFlix with streaming movies, or Hulu for TV shows, with new content added regularly, there is always a reason to keep up your subscription. All-you-can-eat content model. If you already have many followers for some limited free offerings, this also becomes a natural freemium upgrade.

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