Netflix's CEO just confirmed one long-hoped-for rumor: Netflix will be on the iPhone. It just won't be coming soon. Before the company tackles the tricky business of 3G broadband streaming, it's aiming to get on the other screens in your life.READ»
How to create a viral marketing campaign with YouTube. Any business can have a YouTube channel and market their company all it takes is some creativity.READ»
AT&T, your friendly ISP and cellphone provider, just became an online TV-Show and Movie network with the introduction of a new Web site. But it's not in competition against Hulu--thanks to an agreement with Hulu.READ»
According to a new survey, Hulu, the online video TV channel, just beat the viewing statistics of Time Warner Cable for July. Does that mean Hulu's now the second most important TV "channel" in the U.S.? Nearly...READ»
Ah, summertime. There's no better time of year to shutter oneself indoors and watch videos on the Web--at least that's what the latest numbers released by comScore would suggest. In July, 158 million U.S. Internet users watched a ...READ»
If there's any doubt that the future of home-made video is online, then some new survey data will dispel it: Apparently one third of all the videos people make get shared online. That's a lot.
But there's more too--the newly revealed ...READ»
A new survey by Pew features a couple of very interesting stats about online video viewership: 62% of adult 'net users have watched video online, a figure that's risen from 33% two and a half years ago. Meanwhile a massive 89% of ...READ»
Brains! That must be the secret to Hulu rocketing up to being the fourth largest video site in the U.S. in February, right? That's what Alec Baldwin told us in this creative Super Bowl ad, which may also have had something to do ...READ»
In this Economy I believe we all need to bond together. Everyone talks about this being one of the worst times ever but I don't see it that way. WE can learn so much about ourselves and others during tough times. This is when TRUE ...READ»
Patrick KoppulaCEO
Ffwd> San Francisco, California
Patrick Koppula, 34, who cofounded the popular music-recommendation site iLike, started Ffwd (pronounced fast forward) to bring order to the world of online video.
"TV has ...READ»
comScore just released November data on online video growth. November saw a +34% vs. year ago growth with 12.7 Billion online video views for the month. While Google and YouTube still have clear leadership, it has dropped to 40%, ...READ»
Entrepreneurs love to point to the success of "self-made" people like Bill Gates as proof that hard work, solid ideas and solid execution are the most important factors for success.
But is that really true?
Malcolm Gladwell, the ...READ»
I came across a great post by Umair Haque over at Harvard Business Publishing titled How to Build a Next-Gen Business Now.
He lays out five steps to build such a business but it was the fifth step that caught my attention because it ...READ»
As media companies like the New York Times Co. continue to post dreary results and circulation numbers continue to decline rapidly across the industry – It got me thinking of some questions that these companies (and other media ...READ»
Every entrepreneur has had some person laugh at their idea, but few have had thousands or hundreds of thousands laugh at their idea.
I personally know someone who had the chance to invest in MTV at the inception but laughed at ...READ»
I am currently in Jamaica and was invited on Tuesday to be a guest lecturer at the H.E.A.R.T. VTDI in Kingston by Dennis Howard, the UWI lecturer who brought me down in February to speak at the Global Reggae Conference.
It was a ...READ»
Fans across the nation (especially Red Sox Nation), many whom had just sat through Turner Broadcasting System’s (TBS) pregame for Game 6 of Major League Baseball’s (MLB) American League Championship Series (ALCS), prepared for ...READ»
John McCain’s “invisible friend,” as Keith Olbermann of MSNBC dubbed him after the debate, was the run away winner last night. I’m talking, of course, about “Joe the Plumber” (AKA Joe Wurzelbacher, an Ohio plumber). John ...READ»
As mainstream media becomes more open to tapping into the blogosphere and even the Twittersphere during this collapse; news and analysis are becoming two-way conversations.READ»
In the book The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur that I recently endorsed, Mike Michalowicz speaks early on about the importance of visualizing your goal before setting out to achieve it.
He quotes Bob Marley as the best example of ...READ»
I recently picked up Finding An Angel Investor in a Day to see what kind of advice was in there and to get additional info on term sheets.
I found the following breakdown very interesting: Three Types of ...READ»
The 3rd quarter has started nicely - The entrepreneurship book I endorsed is on sale and doing well, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, we have a meeting with a potential investor on Sunday who approached us and I am in Inc. magazine's ...READ»
As much as I am supporting Barack Obama this year and believe that the Republicans have screwed America with their de-regulation mantra and "deficits don't matter" approach, I call it as I see it.Every person who is trying ...READ»
It seems normal for humans to become slaves to their wants and desires but we have to overcome those, especially in business.
I was able to overcome many of mine (especially the desire to be liked by lots of people) thanks to ...READ»
