by Jeff Yablon | Sep 17, 2013 | Influency
Last week, the world’s richest movie pirate asked something that helped illustrate how he got to be so rich. Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures, about to add somewhere north of a billion dollars to his company’s coffers via their early investment in...
by Jeff Yablon | Jul 10, 2013 | Influency, Marketing
Influency comes from a lot of places and a lot of things. Some are big, others small. Some are easily controlled, and others must be brought under control. And once you get Influency ‘working’, what happens? If you have an idea with market problems (and...
by Jeff Yablon | Mar 9, 2011 | Business Process, Content, Marketing, Search Engine Optimization SEO
When Google admitted that they don’t know how to do SEO, we should have known something was up. It’s taken a bit over a year, the content farm wars are in full swing, and now we can see what’s really happening: Google Likes Search Engine Optimization...
by Jeff Yablon | Feb 9, 2011 | Business Process, Media
Fred Wilson is a very successful venture capital guy. He’s happy to pay for his music downloads and streaming. But Fred Wilson is a music pirate. Follow that maybe-a-bit-inflammatory link and you’ll see why Fred Wilson is a music pirate. And as long as you...
by Jeff Yablon | Jan 10, 2011 | Search Engine Optimization SEO
OK, the answer’s obvious, right? You are a smart person, so there’s no difference at all. Me, though, maybe you aren’t so sure about. Ben Horowitz isn’t so sure smart people make the best employees. Or more to the point, the very successful...