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Building the Electronic Arts of Casual Gaming: PlayFirst CEO John Welch (Part 5)
SM: What was the market landscape like when you founded the company? Competition? Competitive Positioning? JW: There was no formal publisher in the casual games space prior to PlayFirst’s entry. It was like authors not only writing books with no editor and no research staff but also having to scurry around from bookstore to bookstore
Murdoch Gets Dow Jones, Now What?
As expected, Rupert Murdoch has successfully negotiated for himself a position in the Business and Finance vertical with a crown jewel brand, The Wall Street Journal. Here’s my previous analysis on why this deal is a good one. I really like News Corp’s verticalization strategy. James Altucher asked Jim Cramer, “What’s the one thing the
Hat’s Off, J.K. Rowling!
In its first 24 hours, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” the seventh and final installment in the wildly popular series by J. K. Rowling that officially went on sale at 12:01 a.m. Saturday, July 21, 2007, sold 8.3 million copies in the United States, according to Scholastic, the publisher. The book’s official cover price
Jim Satloff & Neal Goldman’s AI Engine, Inform (Part 4)
SM: What is the business model of your company? JS: As I showed you, Sramana, we have 2 different business models, one a fee-for-service model that has a consistent, recurring revenue stream, and a revenue-share, ad-based model, which is more consistent with the lighter implementation of our products that I demoed for you. SM: What
Women & Web 3.0 (Part 3)
Business Model Most women’s sites earn money mainly from ad revenues, and also from subscriptions and products sold through their sites. According to comScore Media Metrix, advertisement revenues for the women’s sites are forecasted to grow at 19% in 2007 but iVillage has grown its ad revenues by 46% in 1Q 2007 and 40% in
Jim Satloff & Neal Goldman’s AI Engine, Inform (Part 2)
SM: What is your target customer? (Please provide a good segmentation perspective) JS: Our target clients include publishers and information providers who seek to maximize the value of their content. Many of these publishers support a network of properties, and employ Inform’s technology to offer more value to their users across sites. We also operate
Jim Satloff & Neal Goldman’s AI Engine, Inform (Part 1)
It turns out that both Jim Satloff and I happen to be Artificial Intelligence aficionados. What you read here is a discussion on Inform’s Natural Language Processing (NLP) based technology that attempts to create an interesting value proposition for publishers on the web. AI has been a notoriously difficult technology genre with big promises and
Re-engineering the Book Business: Blurb CEO, Eileen Gittins (Part 2)
SM: What was the market landscape like when you founded the company? EG: Well for one thing, Blurb was a very contrarian play at the time. VCs were funding blogging platforms and social networks and online plays – and here we were taking bits back into atoms. But fortunately I had good relationships in the
