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Digital Organizations Can No Longer Afford “Not-Invented-Here” Cultures

Jorge Espinel / August 12, 2009

Upon learning of Facebook’s acquisition of Friendfeed, very few industry people (myself included) were surprised that Facebook needed to acquire a company to bring in talent to compete with Twitter. However, if one takes a step back, this news should have at least raised an eyebrow. Currently, Facebook is one of the hottest digital [...]

Branding, Brands, Content, Corporate Development, M&A, Management, Media Companies, Startups, Video, Web Advertising - 1 Comments

Can Major Media Companies Survive The Digital Revolution?

Jorge Espinel / March 14, 2009

Recently, Techcrunch had an interesting article about the death of digital divisions inside major media companies. Techcrunch argued that the slowdown in M&A will mean that  most digital initiatives will now be led by the traditional divisions rather than by “digital” divisions.
While this may be the case in the short-term, I believe that major [...]

Corporate Development, Dealmaking, Management, Media Companies, digital media - 0 Comments

Re-organizing for the Acquisition War

Jorge Espinel / May 9, 2008

Acquisitions have emerged as an essential capability for digital media players to build scale and drive product innovation. The digital media business has become hit-driven and increasingly hyper-competitive. As a result, building a successful Web business is increasingly hard for anyone but particularly for corporate media players. This is leading most media players [...]

Content, Corporate Development, M&A, Management, Web 2.0, digital media, organization - 0 Comments