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What Would Happen if you Built the Reverse of Amazon? It Might Look Something Like This …

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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. Tech Market Analysis Upfront Ventures makespace' ” That’s what we’ve set out to build at MakeSpace. 10x the experience.

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FabFitFun surpasses $200 million in revenue as it hits million-subscriber milestone

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At least one million people will be receiving the next FabFitFun box as the Los Angeles company surpasses $200 million in revenue and continues its run as one of the startups to watch in the Los Angeles tech community. . FabFitFun expands its video reach with a new experiment in live programming. “We

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The Power of Torso TV (Why Media is Racing to the Middle)

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It had the effect of greatly reducing the industry size but also of allowing some less known artists to reach audiences that previously would be unthinkable due to cost constraints. Netflix, Hulu & HBO Go are coming from the opposite direction – the Head End. Take that traditional time windows! The Torso.

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What Mattered in 2012: Aber Whitcomb, io/LA

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For the last week of the year, we're featuring the thoughts and reflections of some of the movers and shakers of Southern California's high tech community. We asked the same four questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next week.

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Tech Companies Are Hiring Staff… Then Rescinding the Offers

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A number of tech companies have made the headlines this week for hiring new members of staff, only to rescind such offers before they start. Get all the latest tech news straight to your inbox. Netflix and Uber are among the household names to have reduced their workforce numbers since the new year. A False Start.

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Why Hulu is the OPEC of Online Video

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To say that the tech elite were cynical of Hulu’s launch would be an understatement , but by the time it launched just a few months later it was getting great reviews. Amongst other things it chronicles the frustration many media companies have had in not being able to play by the same rules as the tech companies.

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Interview With CEO Jason Njoku iRoko Partners | Africa’s Netflix Set To Disrupt US TV & Cable Market

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We are the ‘Netflix’ of Africa – with iROKOtv we stream Nollywood (Nigerian Hollywood) movies online, so they are accessible to anyone with an Internet line, anywhere in the world. Naturally, there was a stringent due diligence process, and this took a couple of months. iROKO Partners was launched in December 2010.

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