Top 7 Internet TV Startups

As Internet TV slowly gains ground, the line between the Internet and TV is getting blurred. Although IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) has not yet reached the stage where it can navigate the world of TVs and set-top boxes, it will soon.

eBay’s Auction Woes

Business Week reports that eBay’s auctions business model is being increasingly overlooked for fixed price transactions. Ease of use is a primary driver. Another is the ubiquitous presence of comparison shopping engines.

The Expansion and Contraction of “BI”

By Dave Hatch, Guest Author I have now completed a full year of research at Aberdeen Group (the last 6 months have been the busiest of my career, by far!), and I can truly say that after 20 years as a user and marketer of BI technologies, the past year has taught me more (as

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Shutterfly’s Strategy: A Conversation with CEO Jeff Housenbold (Part 11)

SM: Pretty much your customer base of 2.4M customers stick around. Do you see much churn? JH: I have been here three years, so 12 quarters; 75-77% of our revenue in each of those quarters is from repeat customers. That is a really good testament to the loyalty of our customers. I get asked a

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Shutterfly’s Strategy: A Conversation with CEO Jeff Housenbold (Part 4)

SM: Your vision was to move beyond the traditional print model, and rather be the center of a lifestyle. JH: I also saw us as building a personal publishing platform. Yes, we have consumers doing all the beautiful cards, books and calendars, but we also have lots of small businesses, charities, schools, non-profits, jewelry manufacturers,

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Deal Radar 2008: Kosmix+Adify – Potential Google Challenger

Kosmix is a vertical portal startup. Founded in 2006 by Anand Rajaraman and Venky Harinarayan, founders of Junglee, this site aims at creating a ‘Home page for every topic’. Featured Kosmix sites are RightHealth, RightAutos and RightTrips focusing on health, autos and travel verticals. They have also been working on other verticals like politics, finance,

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Will Netflix Survive iTunes Movies?

Amidst weak economic conditions, Netflix reported a solid 4Q07 beating the street’s expectations. Revenues in 4Q07 was $302.4 million, up 9% y-o-y. Gross Profit margin was 33.8% compared to 38.9% a year ago. Net profit increased to $15.8 million, up 6% driven mainly by a 9% q-o-q decline in Subscriber Acquisition Cost (SAC) to $34.60,

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Deal Radar 2008: TheFind

We profiled Siva Kumar, CEO of TheFind.com, a discovery shopping search engine last year. This is yet another vertical search engine optimized for visual merchandising oriented lifestyle products. In July 2007, TheFind raised $15 million in a third round of funding from Bain Capital Ventures, Ignition, Lightspeed and Redpoint. It had previously raised $11 million

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