March 1st, 2011

What Every Entrepreneur Could Learn from Justin Bieber

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I know what you’re thinking – link bait title, right? Wrong. I will stand 100% behind my assertions in this post. Justin Bieber is unbelievably entrepreneurial and most of you will never know it because he serves a target demo that doesn’t include you. I promise you can learn from him and this movie.  I’m also betting that in 10 years he’ll be a mainstream talent rather than a pre-teen girl… → Read More

January 13th, 2011

Justin Bieber URL Shortener Bieber.ly Shuts Down After Cease And Desist

Earlier today we wrote about the Justin Bieber URL shortener Bieber.ly, which had the dubious distinction of shortening URLs to the catchy Bieber.ly. About 22 hours after the site went up developer Elliott Kember emails us to say he received a “Cease and Desist” letter, apparently from lawyers representing “His Bieberness.”

The site now reads “Aww, we got lawyered. Ah well, it was fun while it→ Read More

July 22nd, 2010

When anti-piracy agencies use Mafia tactics to stop you from downloading Justin Bieber songs

Nothing like helping out your fellow man. As you know, copyright infringement, known as “theft” by people looking to spread FUD, is the worst crime a person can commit. I mean, you can be in charge of financial intuitions that rip off people’s money, you can be in charge of an energy company that randomly drills into the planet then feigns ignorance when something goes wrong, but hey… → Read More

June 1st, 2010

Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga Court Silicon Valley’s Entrepreneurs [Video]

Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga’s managers are looking for the next best thing.

They’re not looking for the next Bieber or Gaga— well, they’re looking for that too, but that’s not what I’m referring to here— they’re aggressively searching for the next great web platform.

Now that their clients are major influencers online (Bieber has 2.8 million Twitter followers, Gaga has 4.3 million), Scooter… → Read More

May 26th, 2010

Bieber On Twitter: He's Talking To The 2 Million Girls At His Disposal

Today at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York, Justin Bieber’s manager, Scooter Braun, talked about the megastar’s usage of Twitter. It was brilliant. “What other way is a teenage boy going to talk to girls?,” Braun quipped.

Bieber currently has around 2.7 million followers on Twitter, making him one of the most-followed people on the service. But more impressively, Bieber has seemed to dominate… → Read More