Throughout my career, I’ve tackled academic exercises like developing an “Internet Valuation Model” in early 2000s when most analysts could not make sense of valuations of dot com businesses (the IVM model attributed a Price/Pageview, Price/Unique etc. multiple akin to… Continue Reading →
I asked my digital aide “Chassie”: “Can you give me the economic output (revenue generated, profits, any metric available) for wanna see what Expos Media / AceMojo can generate in non-baseball revenues, basically… think of these comparables: Field of Dreams,… Continue Reading →
Three initiatives. Three different responsibilities. One philosophy. I’ve spent the better part of 20 years building WatchMojo, a media company that has had to adapt to virtually every technological disruption imaginable. Search. Social media. YouTube. Mobile. Streaming. Algorithms. Programmatic advertising…. Continue Reading →
Today, Ted Leonsis was unanimously elected Chairman of the NHL’s Board of Governors, succeeding Jeremy Jacobs after 19 years. NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman specifically cited Ted’s “entrepreneurial instincts and forward-thinking approach” and the influence he has had on the league… Continue Reading →
Principle WatchMojo Peanut Project Started from the bottom We weren’t the first wave of internet video. We were behind others—but early relative to where the world ultimately went. Montreal may appear behind Nashville and other cities, but MLB hasn’t even… Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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