Epic Fail: How Blockbuster Could Have Owned Netflix | Variety
Barry McCarthy, Netflix’s former chief financial officer, said in an interview with the Unofficial Stanford blog in 2008, “I remembered getting on a plane, I think sometime in 2000, with Reed [Hastings] and [Netflix co-founder] Marc Randolph and flying down to Dallas, Texas and meeting with John Antioco. Reed had the chutzpah to propose to them that we run their brand online and that they run [our] brand in the stores and they just about laughed us out of their office. At least initially, they thought we were a very small niche business. Gradually over time, as we grew our market, his thinking evolved but initially they ignored us and that was much to our advantage.”
Source: Epic Fail: How Blockbuster Could Have Owned Netflix | Variety
Read MoreSlicing Pie | Slicing Pie: Perfect Equity Splits for Bootstrapped Startups
Slicing Pie is a formula that allows founders to create a PERFECTLY FAIR equity split between founders, investors, partners and employees.
Source: Slicing Pie | Slicing Pie: Perfect Equity Splits for Bootstrapped Startups
Read MoreSlicing Pie | Slicing Pie: Perfect Equity Splits for Bootstrapped Startups
Slicing Pie is a formula that allows founders to create a PERFECTLY FAIR equity split between founders, investors, partners and employees.
Source: Slicing Pie | Slicing Pie: Perfect Equity Splits for Bootstrapped Startups
Read MorePart I: Validate Your Business Model Start With a Business Model, Not a Business Plan – The Accelerators – WSJ
Read MoreA business model describes how your company creates, delivers and captures value. A business model is designed to change rapidly to reflect what you find outside the building in talking to customers. It’s dynamic and it reflects the iterative reality that startups face. Business models allow agile and opportunistic founders to keep score of the pivots in their search for a repeatable business model.
Part I: Validate Your Business Model Start With a Business Model, Not a Business Plan – The Accelerators – WSJ
Read MoreA business model describes how your company creates, delivers and captures value. A business model is designed to change rapidly to reflect what you find outside the building in talking to customers. It’s dynamic and it reflects the iterative reality that startups face. Business models allow agile and opportunistic founders to keep score of the pivots in their search for a repeatable business model.
A Startup Conversation with Steve Blank
A startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.
Source: A Startup Conversation with Steve Blank
Read MoreA Startup Conversation with Steve Blank
A startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.
Source: A Startup Conversation with Steve Blank
Read MoreThe Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton Christensen
Clay Christensen shows how most companies miss out on new waves of innovation. His answer is surprising and almost paradoxic: it is actually the same practices that lead the business to be successful in the first place that eventually can also result in their eventual demise.
Source: The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton Christensen
Read MoreThe Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton Christensen
Clay Christensen shows how most companies miss out on new waves of innovation. His answer is surprising and almost paradoxic: it is actually the same practices that lead the business to be successful in the first place that eventually can also result in their eventual demise.
Source: The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton Christensen
Read MoreHow I Did It: Blockbuster’s Former CEO on Sparring with an Activist Shareholder
In a way, it’s ironic that Blockbuster is being featured in a special issue on failure, because I spent most of my career capitalizing on failure by fixing troubled businesses.
Source: How I Did It: Blockbuster’s Former CEO on Sparring with an Activist Shareholder
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