Category Case Studies

Introducing the SoundMojo Label Fund

When we first launched SoundMojo 1.0, the idea was pretty simple: find great independent musicians and use our platform to help promote them. We worked with some talented artists, but there was a problem: from one artist to the next,… Continue Reading →

How to Solve Local Radio’s Death Spiral? The Global Radio Network Hiding in Plain Sight

This week, Rogers Media cancelled the sports radio stations in Calgary and Vancouver, leading to the loss of hundreds of jobs. Undoubtedly, this reflects the shift of audiences to the Web, as well as the proliferation of programming that competes… Continue Reading →

Criticisms of WatchMojo (aka YouTube is a Cheat Sheet!)

Founded with a vision to inform and entertain in 2006, sometime around 2011, WatchMojo made four big bets and updated its mission from serving audiences with a video on every topic to ranking pop culture. If location counts in real… Continue Reading →

The Wrong Takeaway About HR

Recently, I’ve noticed a growing debate among founders and business leaders about the role of Human Resources. Some argue that HR has become overly bureaucratic. Others insist that strong HR functions are essential for attracting, retaining, and developing talent. The… Continue Reading →

Why Montreal Is Not a Baseball Risk — But One of MLB’s Greatest Untapped Opportunities

One important thing to understand about Montreal is that baseball here predates the Expos themselves by generations. In 1926, Babe Ruth played an exhibition game in Montreal that drew enormous local interest, part of a long history of the city… Continue Reading →

Habitations Jeanne-Mance: Montreal’s Once-in-a-Generation Opportunity to Rebuild With Dignity, Vision, and Ambition

With capital addressed, personnel lined up, strategic partners signed on, and the city increasingly engaged, I am now clearly focused on the hardest variable of all: land, location, stadium. Two excellent plots of land — Molson Breweries and Peel Bassin… Continue Reading →

Why the Smartest Investors Don’t Just Buy Assets — They Build Ecosystems

Too many conversations about investing focus on the wrong question. People ask: “What’s the best asset class?” But the real question is: “What context makes an asset valuable?” Because in modern investing, a stadium without surrounding development can be a… Continue Reading →

How Many Tourists Would an MLB Team Bring to Montreal? A Practical Model

I was recently asked a simple but important question: If Montreal had an MLB team playing 81 home games, how many tourists would actually come per game—from visiting cities and nearby regions? Not a headline number. A real, grounded estimate…. Continue Reading →

Building a World-Class Organization: Lessons From Media, Sports, and the Importance of Complementary Leadership

One of the most misunderstood aspects of building a great organization is leadership structure. People assume that success comes from assembling a room full of impressive résumés. In reality, the opposite is often true. The most effective organizations are not… Continue Reading →

RFP: Academy & Study of Entrepreneurship (ASE) at 4C: Creative, Cultural, Commercial Campus – Future Home of the Montreal Expos

Building the ASE Global Academy & Study of Entrepreneurship (part of 4C) in Montreal. As part of the broader 4C (Creative, Cultural, Commercial Campus) concept that we’re developing alongside the potential return of MLB and the Montreal Expos, I’ve also… Continue Reading →

The YouTube Lesson — And Why AI Is Bigger

Twenty years ago, industry insiders saw YouTube. And most put their heads in the sand. They dismissed it.Discredited it.Mocked it as amateur hour. There was no economic incentive.No prestige.No immediate validation. So legacy media largely ignored it. But innovation —… Continue Reading →

Why Conviction Creates Leverage (and Silence Destroys It)

Dear Expos community, TL:DR: Institutions don’t reward silence. They reward credibility. And credibility comes from consistency under pressure. Institutions don’t reward silence. They reward credibility. And credibility comes from consistency under pressure. It’s not that principles hurt profit. It’s that… Continue Reading →

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