Whenever a company has looked at acq-hiring Mojo Supreme (WatchMojo.com video site, BloggerMojo.com network of blogs, MetaMojo.com search technologies and StreetMojo.com database products) they ask me for a list of suggestions regarding the strategic value and integration plans.
Call me crazy, but reading Jason Calacanis’ email re: The First Ten Things the New CEO of MySpace Should Do, I couldn’t help but thinking that this was awfully similar to one of my “1+1=10 game plans” I submit as part of the song and dance, and in fact was Jason’s email to new News Corp. digital head honcho Jon Miller’s after Mr. Miller asked him: “hey Jason, we’re looking for a new guy to run MySpace, what would you do?” Mr. Miller bought Jason’s last company Weblogs Inc. for $25M when he ran AOL.
Whether Jason is really in the running or he’s simply found a way to play the media into thinking he’s in the running it’s moot; it’s good PR and buzz-building and he’s once again showing he’s quite adept at it.
Good for him. I highly suspect Owen Van Natta will get the job, mainly because he is coming from the company that stole MySpace’s mojo, that being Facebook.
In a few minutes I will post you an example of what I mean, check again soon.
Here is my sales pitch to CBS dating back in 2007, enjoy, I removed about half of the content and left the “strategic value” part.