The Next Web
SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
When he founded Netflix as a DVD rental service in 1997, Hastings had already led one company, Pure Software, from its birth to an IPO. So we simply went too fast and didn’t anticipate how devoted some people still were to that part of our business. How can we optimize for global distribution. It is really hard moving forward.
Reid Hoffman
MARCH 19, 2019
And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Blitzscaling is a strategic technique for moving faster, not a reckless gamble.
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K9 Ventures
AUGUST 13, 2010
In fact, at the time (1996-1997) we offered both a downloadable product, that our customers could install on their own servers, and a “hosted-offering”, which came to be known as “On-Demand”, then the “ASP” (Application Service Provider) model, and today we call it “SaaS” (Software as a Service). being the dominant one at the time).
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 19, 2010
“Over the Top&# video distribution – Apple TV comes out in November and is priced at $99. That said, Apple will remain a closed system designed to drive media consumption through a closed iTunes system and a take a toll for media distribution. The device itself will have no storage.
aweissman.com
APRIL 14, 2010
All of it made me think back to my youth, the days of AOL, around 1995-1997. Indeed you can still see today he uses the same modified AOL logo he used back then: As a platform, this worked precisely because AOL provided the two key components every platform must deliver to create value: distribution , and monetization. Until it didnt.
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