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I do love what transferwise is doing, thats awesome that the banks are riled up about it :)
https://www.paypal.com/cr/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_display-xborde...
https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/helpcenter/helphub/article...
Verizon's position is that simply adding more cards within the free peering agreement will make it even more unbalanced in level 3's favour, hence their suggestion that level 3 pay for bandwidth through a different agreement.
Verizon is saying that Level 3 should pay for the bandwidth (probably way more costly than the cards), since they are already getting more than they are owed in the free peering agreement.
What are your transcoding costs? Eg what is your profit margin on $0.3 per min?
3. From what I've seen customer acquisition is the key challenge of any startup. If you can acquire customers for less than their life time value then you are set!
Without a process to acquire customers your business is much less valuable.
Someone would likely pay more for transcoder.io if it had a scalable way to acquire customers but no tech, vs what you have which is tech but no customer acquistion.
5, 6. I did read that blog post before posting the questions.
From the end user perspective they just want their videos transcoded, it seems like all 3 of these services do that. I was hoping you could summarize the tl;dr of why someone would use your service to get their videos transcoded vs someone else's.
5. What are the reasons someone would pay to use transcoder.io instead of zencoder?
6. What are the reasons someone would pay to use transcoder.io instead of elastic transcoder?
1. How much do you want for it?
2. How much revenue do you have?
3. Have you found a way to acquire customers?
4. How much will it cost the new owner to get it developed further?
Find out why."
This sounds pretty useful, yet very simple. I wish I'd thought of it!