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Busted!

Jay Russell used to be a South Carolina State Trooper. Then he took the Travel Channel Academy video course, and it changed his life. Now, we’re pitching him as a series for cable.

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Breakfast with Richard Bookstaber

This morning we had breakfast with my friend and neighbor Richard Bookstaber on the back deck of his house in the Hamptons. It is on the water and the views were incredible, as was the food.

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The Bottom Line

1973 2003 2013 Pay attention to the chart above. It contains the inevitable seeds of the future.

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Take Down That Wall…

….looks like we need better barriers to entry…. Yesterday Ken and I spent a fair amount of time in the offices of one of the major VC groups in the country. We are trying to raise money for a...

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Ouija Board TV

Our new head of programming….. OK. This is not about VJs, ‘the revolution’ or my now defunct Bang and Olufsen system. This is about producing TV shows… or at least pitching them.

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Plugged Into The Future

A trillion dollars in a wire…. if you can see it… As we pointed out on last week, technologically driven change can be traumatic and disruptive. It can cause formerly stable jobs and industries to disappear almost overnight. But...

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