What Boxee Can Learn From TiVo

Some interesting thoughts from the writer about the various directions Boxee can go, and some ways (with the devil) they should avoid. I think Boxee has a strategy in mind to profitability and look forward to seeing it develop.

Business Insider

So Boxee could — and should — be the broadband software that makes this possible. They could be the new operating system for the open content web. That’s a business plan. And Avner and his investors know it. (At the same time, an exit is an exit, and VCs can’t help but notice if someone with a big checkbook comes in and offers up a 10X multiple to sell Boxee to NBC or Comcast or another incumbent with a bunch of cash and a vested interest in slowing the development of open sourced content to the living room.)