Some familiar names here: Diversion Media - "Charting the startup process for a new media company."
cool. how niche is niche?
I don't really know. I guess it means too small for television. But that leaves quite a bit of room.
i guess it depends on production costs and what your measure of success is.
Interesting grist for the mill from one of the more thoughtful of the early Internet New York entrepreneurs.
Thinking about what NB says in his blog about how he ". . .realized that it would be stupid for me to start a new company without blogging the process."
Yes certainly, that's important for "buzz", for publicity, but also, there's that super-current compulsion for people to chronicle everything they're doing through some kind of "cast" (most of it "narrow", but also "broad) technology-- NB will show us what he goes through as he creates his company, but how "transparent," really, will it be?
From what I've seen (I don't know him ), NB has a long-standing interest in using digital means to encourage participatory culture. I also think he's aiming to create digital movie content for a certain demographic cheaply, and positioning himself as a potential content provider when the Internet or satellite direct-delivery technologies improve.
I'm not sure that the demographic he mentions--25--35--is so underserved. But I'm all for anything that is new and from the ground-up--at least for the first few months. . . .
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- jim 5-27-2004 6:06 pm
cool. how niche is niche?
- dave 5-27-2004 6:47 pm [add a comment]
I don't really know. I guess it means too small for television. But that leaves quite a bit of room.
- jim 5-27-2004 6:51 pm [add a comment]
i guess it depends on production costs and what your measure of success is.
- dave 5-27-2004 7:22 pm [add a comment]
Interesting grist for the mill from one of the more thoughtful of the early Internet New York entrepreneurs.
Thinking about what NB says in his blog about how he ". . .realized that it would be stupid for me to start a new company without blogging the process."
Yes certainly, that's important for "buzz", for publicity, but also, there's that super-current compulsion for people to chronicle everything they're doing through some kind of "cast" (most of it "narrow", but also "broad) technology-- NB will show us what he goes through as he creates his company, but how "transparent," really, will it be?
From what I've seen (I don't know him ), NB has a long-standing interest in using digital means to encourage participatory culture. I also think he's aiming to create digital movie content for a certain demographic cheaply, and positioning himself as a potential content provider when the Internet or satellite direct-delivery technologies improve.
I'm not sure that the demographic he mentions--25--35--is so underserved. But I'm all for anything that is new and from the ground-up--at least for the first few months. . . .
- bunny 5-28-2004 8:16 pm [add a comment]