May 2004
5 posts
Blog Moved
Moved my blog over to Blogger.com today, thus the posts all have the May 10, 2004 date.
Original Postings were Feb, March, April and May, roughly…
Coreflix sold to public company
Today we completed the sale of the Coreflix (tm) online DVD rental business to Americana Publishing, Inc.(OTC Bulletin Board: APBH). I have written about this business before, but in short it was a DVD rental service geared towards “action” and “extreme” sports titles. This was the first “disruptive” business I have launched and it proved to me the basic tenets...
Emergent Business Strategy
An important part of a disruptive business model is the concept of an “emergent” strategy. In short, startups never start out with the right strategy, part of the entrepreneurial effort is figuring out the right strategy as you go - thus the right strategy “emerges”.
As Clayton Christensen points out in “The Innovators Solution” (see link in previous post), a...
coreflix.com
My co-founder and I, Ben Padnos, along with another co-founder, started coreflix.com (www.coreflix.com) in late 2002 as an internet based DVD rental service for Action Sports (Surf, Skate, Snow, etc.). Learning from my last company, NetFreight, I had conceptualized this business to fit into the disruptive framework.
A little background on the Action Sports DVD industry.
1. There are no...
NetFreight.com
I founded NetFreight.com in 1998. It was the first business to business internet based marketplace to service the transportation marketplace (long haul trucking, both full truckload and less than truckload). Over the next two years, we raised and spent approximately $3.2M, built some cool technology but never really got traction in the marketplace (although we did have some cool test customers...