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Cord Cutting is a Myth — But Will it be in 10 Years?

by Donald McMichael
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Mon­e­tiz­ing con­tent in a multi-platform world is com­ing of age… or is it they are com­ing of age? Dou­nia Tur­rill, SVP Client Insights at Nielsen pro­vides some infor­ma­tion for us to pon­der. Most impor­tant is that we need to under­stand that those most likely to jump from deliv­ery frame­work to deliv­ery frame­work are young, educated, […]

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The Video Evolution will be Televised… and ‘Over the Top’

by Donald McMichael
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photo via skip­pyjon   Does it seem that every year you make New Year’s res­o­lu­tions that are log­i­cal but never pan-out because of real­ity? I know that at times I do. It seems that this year I’ve noticed sev­eral arti­cles focused on how many want to jet­ti­son their cable provider (or at least the TV […]

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5 Fav Business and Strategy Post #22

by Donald McMichael
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  While I never going into depth about the finds, I do encour­age you check them out if they sound inter­est­ing.   Reverse Engi­neer­ing Facebook’s Busi­ness Model with Ball­park Fig­ures Every­one has com­mented on the $50 Bil­lion val­u­a­tion placed on Face­book by the Goldman-Sachs deal. Well InnovatioAfrica.com has weighed-in, the twist. It used the Business […]

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5 Fav Business and Strategy Post #15

by Donald McMichael
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photo by briansolis.com     While I never going into depth about the finds, I do encour­age you check them out if they sound inter­est­ing. The Dawn of the Social Con­sumer The rea­son that I decided to use the pic­ture from this post is that we think about how retail­ers, both phys­i­cal and online, can […]

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Mobile Internet = People Internet

by Donald McMichael
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Dig­gin’ In the Crate In case you missed it here is a video of Mary Meeker — Man­ag­ing Direc­tor, Mor­gan Stan­ley — talk­ing about the Mobile Inter­net on April 12, 2010 at the Atmos­phere event. What I found to be of most inter­est were: 48% of Inter­net users are in 5 coun­tries, com­pared to 1995 when 75% […]

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3 Ramifications of the Emerging Broadband 2.0 World

by Donald McMichael

The two dia­grams below pro­vide a great exam­ple of how one can use the Flag­ship Model dis­cussed in my last post to dis­cover and build advan­ta­geous strate­gic col­lab­o­ra­tions. Fig­ure 1: Cor­re­la­tion between Broad­band Growth & Pro­duc­tiv­ity Fig­ure 2: Push­ing Beyond Broadband’s Cur­rent Capa­bil­ity source: Orga­ni­za­tion for Eco­nomic Co-operation and  Devel­op­ment, Booz & Com­pany analy­sis Point […]

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