by Jeff Yablon | Apr 21, 2014 | Business Process, Influency, Media
I’ve made no secret of my feelings about the manner in which most media businesses conduct “business as usual”. As business changes and we all learn new ways of doing business, I find myself more and more concerned with the matter. This was one...
by Jeff Yablon | Oct 24, 2013 | Content, Influency
Who do you trust? Have you given any thought to why? I’ll bet it has something to do with engagement. Now, think about this: This week, Fred Wilson, a successful and, odd as this might seem, popular NYC-based Venture Capitalist, put his community on notice that...
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 | Aug 12, 2013 | Business Process, Content, Influency, Media
Go ahead, pirate Game of Thrones. Seriously, I mean it. The CEO of Time Warner just went on the record as believing that the HBO series being downloaded and redistributed ad infinitum, even by people who haven’t paid for the privilege is ‘better than [it]...
by Jeff Yablon | May 2, 2013 | Business Process, Influency, Media
Yesterday, Netflix lost the right to carry about 2,000 movies. Also yesterday, YouTube ‘declared victory’ over television. And this weekend, my fiancée and I are moving her daughter into an apartment of her own, where she has no plans to sign up for cable...
