When Telecoms Diversify Into Digital Media: The Vuguru investment is part of a strategy to differentiate itself with content.

We’ve seen this movie before– think of all the Asian telecoms (looking for growth) that invested into media:

The Vuguru investment is part of a strategy to differentiate itself with content. The goal, said Claude Galipeau, a senior vice president at Rogers Digital Media, is “to have products that are going to help us distinguish ourselves in the marketplace with our wireless customers, with our cable customers and with our Web audience.”

via Eisner’s Web Video Studio, Vuguru, to Emerge With Backing – NYTimes.com.

There’s a gap that’s not being address…

There’s a gap that’s not being addressed by today’s venture financing structures (which are inherently slow to adjust to market changes) and I enjoy reading others who are thinking about this space too:

dshen.com – The Web and the World of Business “Instead of caring so much about ownership, perhaps we should find a way to get a healthy return on capital invested through cash flow, if the startup monetizes efficiently and does it well.” http://bit.ly/19VnPY

The Hotmail story is interesting because…

The Hotmail story is interesting because the viral loop doesn’t increase the value of the network, but does increase it’s marketing reach. For instance, with Facebook, Metcalfe’s law is clear, whereas with Hotmail, the platform is email, not just Hotmail. And since the links reach people who are already on email, it doesn’t really grow the network size of email users.

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