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Re:Can the Bloomberg Terminal be "Toppled"? by bane on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @05:10PM (#7431883)
But the returns can still be good.

Let's say you do just that, snag half the market and get 10k users each paying you $500/mo for their niche.

That's still a $60m/yr business.

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Re:Can the Bloomberg Terminal be "Toppled"? by antr on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @06:23PM (#7432305)
As someone who has used Bloomberg's Terminal for 5 years: Bloomberg's sum of the parts product is far more valuable than the parts sold one by one - add to that the immediate top-knotch customer support 24/7/365 and breadth/depth of the data they have, Bloomberg is a killer product. IMHO, I really doubt any product decoupling will be of value to any of Bloomberg's current customers.
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Re:Can the Bloomberg Terminal be "Toppled"? by bdunbar on Thursday March 20, 2014 @10:10AM (#7435582)
> to any of Bloomberg's current customers.

I'm not the only person to have thought about this - what about new guys who can use 'a Bloomberg' but can't afford the price? Is there a way forward for these guys to create new customers?

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Re:Can the Bloomberg Terminal be "Toppled"? by antr on Thursday March 20, 2014 @10:16AM (#7435621)
Absolutely, there are many customers left out at +$20k a terminal per year. The questions is, which of Bloomberg's services they want the most. I wished I knew the answer.
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