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ESPN's Disruption

2011-08-18T20:19:00.023-06:00

First of all, if you remotely enjoy sports and haven't read Spencer Hall's Every Day Should be Saturday blog, stop what you're doing right now and go read it. Effing awesome. It is the future of sports content - fun, entertainment-style-journalism that is commentary and snark - and one-half of the reason why ESPN is beginning to be disrupted. Outkick the Coverage covered Yahoo! Sports' ascent

Groupon's move into Loyalty Programs

2011-06-08T09:14:00.002-06:00

Groupon takes a cut of each groupon sold - up to 50% of the coupon value. Most retailers (excluding high-end luxury retailers) achieve gross margins between 20 - 30%. They are high variable cost businesses for which consistent use of Groupon may not be sustainable.Gap and Old Navy have done some national deals with Groupon of course. But these national players, by virtue of their size, have more

Is it worth $3 million just to grow a music download store?

2011-05-26T13:58:00.001-06:00

Is it worth it for AMZN to run a promotion which costs $3 million to grow its Amazon MP3 Store + Cloud Player?$3MM gets people aware and buying from Amazon MP3 for sure. And gets them trial of Cloud Player. Here's a hypothethical, very rough model of what they could hope to gain economically from this:OK, not too shabby (totally appreciate that there a lot of assumptions about revenue per user,

Now, everyone can invest in a startup

2011-05-17T08:16:00.004-06:00

GSV Capital will begin offering a publicly traded fund that will invest in private companies which have "$100 million and $1 billion in valuation, with revenue growing at more than 40% annually" Will this be competition with venture capital firms? Certainly, GSV will provide liquidity for entrepreneurs. Exchange Fund and SharesPost provide liquidity today, but not on the same scale, and not

Why did Walmart buy Kosmix?

2011-04-25T10:21:00.002-06:00

Walmart's recent purchase of Kosmix sheds light on how brick-and-mortar retailers need to re-think traffic acquisition online, given the winner-take-all dynamic of some digital businesses. Brick-and-Mortar traffic acquisition, conceptually, is simple. Pick a great retail location. Capitalize on the population trends and organic automotive/pedestrian/public transportation traffic that you is near

Week 4 - Top 25

2010-09-27T11:03:00.001-06:00

Here is my Week 4 Top 25. This is based on three factors (equally weighted):1 - Quality of Resume2 - Eye test - how good they look playing3 - My subjective judgment of how teams would perform against each other in a head-to-head matchup1 Boise State WAC2 Oklahoma Big 123 Ohio State Big 104 Oregon Pac 105 Alabama SEC6 Stanford Pac 107 Auburn SEC8 Arizona Pac 109 TCU Mountain

AOL display ad revenue per Unique Visitor

2010-04-28T15:23:00.005-06:00

Somebody please tell me my math is wrong in this sheet.

Does Hulu Have an Exit?

2010-03-01T09:53:00.003-06:00