by Jeff Yablon | Nov 2, 2009 | Media
File this under “I told you so”. And have been telling you so. Sure, it’s a small poll, conducted on people in only one country. And it’s a relatively small country at that. But it turns out that people who download music from sources other...
by Jeff Yablon | Oct 20, 2009 | Business Process, Media
Craig Newmark is a very smart man. Sure, you can be cynical and look at Craigslist as a fluke, or a ‘first-to-market’ that got lucky and think otherwise, but that would be a mistake. The guy continues to churn out one smart business change after another at...
by Jeff Yablon | Sep 10, 2014 | Business Process, Content, Media
Kim Gjerstad and MailPoet, you’re on the back burner today. We’re bringing music back to a place called Vertigo. Apple announced a couple of things yesterday that should have everyone in the music and banking businesses very, very nervous. PayPal and...
by Jeff Yablon | Feb 3, 2012 | Business Process, Marketing, Media
Oh to live on Sugar Mountain, with the barkers, the colored balloons, and the music pirates replacing the music labels. You can’t be twenty on Sugar Mountain, unless you’re ready for business change. My youngest son, just a couple of years away from being...
by Jeff Yablon | Jun 6, 2011 | Business Process, Content
iTunes has a problem. Amazon and Google, probably the only two companies with enough business savvy and money to challenge Apple’s music-selling monstrosity, are in. For real. And while (in spite of cute tricks like their Lady Gaga 99 cent album debacle)...
