After our recent announcement regarding RE TV, I decided to offer myself for interviews with bloggers regarding the YouTube and RE TV deals and the first blog to take up the offer was YawdFromAbroad.
The interview is the most ...READ»
Yesterday, August 1st, I was interviewed on South Florida's NPR station about Jamaica's Independence (Jamaica celebrates 46 years of Independence from Great Britain on August 6th).
This interview was the result of some ...READ»
I just completed some back and forth emails with some staff of an upstart website. This small site had an issue with our YouTube press release, saying that if we had been acquired by Google, we would have a seal and some special ...READ»
Everyone loves to have support from others but entrepreneurs probably love it more than anyone else because we take so many risks that most people don't. Every supportive word, comment and email boosts confidence and so I had to ...READ»
We finally got the approval from YouTube's PR and Legal departments yesterday evening for the wording of our release pertaining to our new agreement with them.
The press release hits the wires tomorrow, I sent it to blogs today ...READ»
Since relaunching Realvibez last year, we have been working diligently to secure great strategic partnerships that increased the value of the enterprise and would help to prove that the idea had real potential.
Earlier this ...READ»
A few weeks ago I signed up for this interesting free service I came across called <a href="http://www.helpareporter.com/">Help A Reporter</a>. It is supposed to allow journalists to submit queries for stories ...READ»
Today has not started off well at all.
We completed editing our first 2 videos to upload to our new YouTube channel, the first official Caribbean media channel on YouTube, but then it turned out that the audio was thrown off ...READ»
I just came arcross Choose Your Domain Name Wisely here in FC and wanted to add my story to that as a mistake others should learn from.
I have a marketing background so I preferred to choose a name that had some meaning but ...READ»
This is our first major content distribution deal for someone else's content. We have done deals with Imeem and Vuze involving our own content but this deal is more akin to Hulu signing a network like MTV, with Realvibez being Hulu. ...READ»
Found|Read on GigaOM published a great post on Sunday titled How to Avoid the Curse of Vision Overload. The core of the post is that your venture suffers "when you put your vision ahead of your users".
I agree with ...READ»
I was raised to be down-to-earth and always be willing to lend a helping hand without regard for what I was going to get out of it - the 'Good Samaritan' type of person.
I have never liked successful people who were standoffish ...READ»
How many times have you been to a networking event and been afraid to talk to 99% of the people?
Even outgoing people sometimes feel out of place or get the wrong vibe from the crowd. I have solved the problem with a simple ...READ»
I am not sure how I am managing to even write this post: I have not slept in 29 hours! I did manage to take a 45 minute nap :-)
Yesterday evening I left the office at 5pm and drove straight to Orlando for a meeting with our ...READ»
I am thinking about this today because we just signed a huge strategic partnership deal that I am not allowed to announce as yet.
It should make it much easier for us to raise outside capital, provide a new revenue stream and ...READ»
Today I happened to be thinking about my last few presentations at conferences, especially at the Global Reggae Conference in Jamaica in February where I was invited to speak about leveraging the web to promote Reggae ...READ»
NewTeeVee recently carried a post titled Report: User-Gen to Only Ever Account for 4% of Video Revenue that relied on a recent study from the Diffusion Group. This upcoming study claims that user-generated video accounts for around ...READ»
I was researching for a blog post about YouTube and professional video vs. user-generated video but I couldn't find the specific quote I was looking for: One where Sergey Brin (I am sure it was him and not Larry Page) said that he ...READ»
Exactly 7 days have passed since my wife and I launched StartupToons.com, our comics website that pokes fun at entrepreneurship, the web, angel investing and venture capital.
We have spent a total of $50 of our money to launch ...READ»
Some people will read this as YAFS - Yet Another Facebook Story - but I think it is different because it shows how I used a social network in a way that will provide free promotion for me, my ventures and build my reputation: ...READ»
I have been nagging my wife with an idea since 2005 that I felt was the perfect team project to combine my business experience and her graphic design abilities:
Startuptoons.com - a website/blog focused on editorial commentary on ...READ»
