As WatchMojo celebrated its 6-year anniversary on Monday January 23, on Show 25 of HipMojo, Rebecca asks me about some of the highlights of WatchMojo’s first 6 years. Enjoy:
With CT running from the Feds again busy and unable to join us, Rebecca steps in for show #24. We talk about:
- the things entrepreneurs should avoid when fundraising; based on a very popular article I wrote on TechCrunch. continue reading...
In show 23 of HipMojo, WatchMojo producer and host Rebecca Brayton steps in for CT and chats with me about
1) the pros and cons of bootstrapping versus raising money from VCs,
2) how companies that manufacture an audience through technology are beating those who build real audiences and
3) the nature of Montreal as a startup city. continue reading...
On HipMojo 22, CT offered his predictions for 2012 while I gave my “anti-predictions”, things wannabe experts (like yours trul) keep insisting will happen but seldom do. To be clear, these are all trends that are occuring, but change takes time. That was the gist of the article, I wasn’t implying that these are false statements or hype alone. Read the article or watch CT and I ranting (ok, me ranting):
I’m catching up on embedding the last four HipMojo shows on the blog we’ve been publishing them on WatchMojo, YouTube and other distribution partners but many of our 8 viewers (haha) follow the show via this blog. This is the 2011 year in review show CT and I did in December where we talk about the stories in new media and tech that caught our attention. Enjoy:
Time magazine chose “the protester” as the person of the year for 2011. In WatchMojo’s end-of-year series, we chose “Popular Uprisings” as the story of the year, with two videos showcasing that, first one being the Arab Spring and the second one on Occupy Wall Street movement.
As such, it shouldn’t have come as much of a surprise when we chose Twitter as 2011’s Company of the Year. On HipMojo show #20 CT and I discuss the pick, see below: continue reading...
Back from the Digiday Video Awards, we didn’t win - CBS took the honors and HBO and WatchMojo were runner-ups. I can live with that (damn you CBS!). In any case, speaking on finalists and awards, on this week’s HipMojo, CT and I looked at some of the companies that are in the running to be Internet Company of 2011. This is a follow-up to the earlier segment we did when we added 2008-2010 winners to the 1994-2007 rundown I did in a 2007 blog post. Who will win? Tune in next week for Show 20. In segment 1 of show 19, we look at some of the finalists.
Clear sign that CT and I might want to compare notes on what we plan on wearing the day of the show… anyway, last week my article on Web rewards greed and bad behavior struck a nerve with the TechCrunch community, so on this week’s show CT and I spent segment 1 talking about it, enjoy:
Lots of traveling last week, so I am only adding the videos to last week’s show now.
In my first article on exclusivity, I argued that we were about to enter a period of exclusivity in which distributors paid content creators for access to exclusive content for a limited time. Since the article, we have seen YouTube spend up to $250 million on exclusive content, and Netflix announce it would be bringing back “Arrested Development.” continue reading...
