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Canada Upsets the American Music Industry for the second time in 110 Years

By Tom Koltai

(Our previous article was the first upset.)   This time, Canadians have made the top ten list of countries that are “out to get” the content industries.   They share this dubious honour with the following countries. Priority Watch List (Links retrieve country specific pdf reports.)         Argentina         Canada         Chile         Costa Rica [...]

To Lie or not To Lie; The Entrepreneurs Dilemma

By Tom Koltai

As every Entrepreneur will tell you, the secret is not in the invention, or the patent. The secret is in the capital raising.   And capital raising isn’t about VC’s giving you money for the rollout of your invention. Capital raising is about the VC getting rich. That’s why he/she/they became VC’s. To get rich. [...]

Free Music, Free Movies and of Course it all comes from the Human Machine.

By Tom Koltai

Very few of us understand Carbon Credits. Especially us consumers. You cant eat them or at the moment spend them unless you own a big Coal guzzling Power Generation Plant. Sometime ago (2005) I developed a business plan for a company that proposed making a large portion of its revenue from Carbon credits. (In NSW [...]

Bush – The Legacy President

By Chris Gilbey

We think that we are disassociated from political leaders. We think that our countries and our cultures and lifestyles continue regardless, with a momentum separate from the mistakes of politicians and the tragedies of their decisions. But that is not correct. If we do not take matters personally and respond actively, whether at the ballot [...]

Establishing Alignment – Getting Records to #1

By Chris Gilbey

There is a fallacy about selling. They tell you that you need a USP. You don’t. You need a UBP. What is a UBP? That is a Unique Buying Proposition. Think about it. You think you sell things to people. You may do so once or twice. But if you build a Unique Buying Proposition, [...]