In Segment 1, Kevin and I talk about entrepreneurship, money, investing, risk-taking, Brazil, management, employee motivation… we leave off on the Mattel deal. I reviewed his book a couple of weeks ago, here is the interview I did with him, below. Here is a link to the 3-video playlist, or watch the videos embedded below: continue reading...
The instant you start a company, your TV consumption goes downhill. Over the past few years, I’ve seen CBC’s Dragon’s Den and ABC’s Shark Tank a few times. The concept is simple: a bunch of money-seeking entrepreneurs pitch to would-be investors before a television audience. continue reading...
In segment 1, we shift our focus away from the debacle at AOL and look at Yahoo!’s own soap opera by expanding on a couple of articles I published on TechCrunch, namely why and how Yahoo! could make a run to Hulu and Yahoo!’s options. We cover a lot, and in there I go over a lot of numbers explaining the financial engineering, so I included the numbers below. Watch the video below (and scroll down to get the financial engineering math) continue reading...
A few years ago, we published a list of companies who ruled the Internet each year, from 1994-2007. Then, we forgot to update it for 2008-2010. On this week’s HipMojo show, we run down the list and picked a company for 2008, 2009, and 2010… and then open it up for you to suggest companies for 2011. Vote for the company of the Year below in the Comments, feel free to vote for the company you work for, but explain WHY, what was the one thing or many things that made the company stand out from the noise? continue reading...
History repeats itself. It’s like taking candy from a baby, sometimes. continue reading...
When NBC Universal and News Corp. hatched plans for a competitor to YouTube, the cynics were laughing already. continue reading...
This article I wrote was originally published on TechCrunch. continue reading...
This article was first published on TechCrunch. continue reading...
Each year the always sold-out, three-day confab American Magazine Conference, brings together not just the industry’s thought leaders and innovators, but the brightest and most interesting minds of our times including Barack Obama, Sheryl Sandberg, Bill Clinton, Eric Schmidt, Arianna Huffington, Nancy Pelosi and Jeffrey Katzenberg. continue reading...
I like Jason Kilar a lot. He’s done an amazing job at Hulu. We are big fans of Hulu and as a content provider, a partner to boot… but when I read some of the things he says and try to reconcile it all with his overlords’ feelings on paid content vs. free, ad-supported content, I wonder, is he on borrowed time? continue reading...
