Hey Mark, A few things that stood out from your recent string of Tweets: Yes, broadband speed and quality have gotten better. But it’s still behind the most of the developed world. We pay a lot more on average for slower speeds on average. The overarching problem is that there is no competition among ISPs….
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Another interview about streaming media from 1999
As I clean up or find old emails for whatever reason, its always interesting to run across old interviews I did about the future of streaming media. This interview was with Kevin Werbach who along with Esther Dyson wrote one of the leading newsletters of the time. Here is the entire email, the good and…
The 6 Things You Need to Know to be Great in Business
There are no shortcuts in business. In order to be successful there are some things that you must know. These are not all of them by a long shot, but IMHO they are 6 of the most important 1. Know how to sell. Selling means being able to convey why your product or service,…
AEREO – Everything Old is New Again
AEREO deserves a lot of credit for their effort. It was a long and expensive shot to do what they went for. But they went for it. And they attempted to pivot after their SCOTUS loss. I was watching with interest, because it is something we had examined 15 years ago at Broadcast.com The technology…
The Idiots Guide to High Frequency Trading
First, let me say what you read here is going to be wrong in several ways. HFT covers such a wide path of trading that different parties participate or are impacted in different ways. I wanted to put this out there as a starting point . Hopefully the comments will help further educate us all…
High Frequency Trading, and Proof that the SEC Approach to Insider Trading is Completely Wrong
Got to love Mary Jo White, the Chairwoman of the SEC. While Michael Lewis’s book Flash Boys was getting all the headlines and was the topic of some of the best television on CNBC, ever, Ms White used the firestorm to ask for more money for the SEC. Shocking ? The only shock would be…
The Back to the Future Arbitrage of Silicon Valley and what it will take to beat it
I’m not a huge fan of Silicon Valley. It reminds me so much of Hollywood and the movie and TV industry. In Hollywood every one will talk and listen to you about your project. But while they are standing there, right in front of you, they are not looking at you. They are looking past…
My 2 cents on Sports Marketing and what I learned from SMU Basketball this week
I had the pleasure of going to an SMU Basketball game this past week. It wasn’t a huge game from a standings perspective. It wasn’t a big rivalry game. It wasn’t a game between 2 powerhouse teams. It was an important game as every game is for an up and coming team like SMU. But…
So I Got Sued By A Patent Troll Who Thinks They Own Downloading Movies (only before they are released in theaters) over Cellular
Anyone who knows me knows I’m not a fan of Patent Trolls. Actually, there are only a few areas in which Im a fan of patents at all. The lawsuits filed against Magnolia (and Apple, Amazon and Weinstein Companies) are perfect examples of why. In this case a company was able to get a patent…
My First SEC Trial Transcript Has Some Real Comedy and a Message to Mary Jo White – SEC vs Schvacho –
I couldn’t have asked for a better case to kick off loading SEC vs …. trial transcripts on this blog. But before I get into it, let me add some disclosures. I am not a lawyer. So take anything I say that might be construed as legal “advice” with pounds of salt. I’m not attempting…
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