Afrostream (YC S15) Is Netflix for African and African-American Movies

Re:Afrostream (YC S15) Is Netflix for African and African-Am... by liotier on Friday July 17, 2015 @06:38PM (#9905766)

> It seems that once $NICHE-stream demonstrates sufficient demand, Netflix can simply license the same content and provide customers with a superset of the content that $NICHE-stream provides.

I would not be so quick to discount the difficulty of building a large number of commercial relationships in the long tail of African production. The mere time investment and tedium of dealing with producers who are not used to distribution channels beyond their local habits is a barrier to entry - and hence a valid strategic positioning.

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Re:Afrostream (YC S15) Is Netflix for African and African-Am... by danieltillett on Friday July 17, 2015 @08:39PM (#9906132)

But does this not apply to the startup as well as the incumbent. There is nothing to suggest that it will cost a startup less than Netflix to negotiate all these contracts.

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Re:Afrostream (YC S15) Is Netflix for African and African-Am... by lbostral on Friday July 17, 2015 @08:48PM (#9906152)

Absolutlely true, it takes time to have good relation with producers, and that's why we have worked for one full year to establish these relations.

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