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The BIG Ticket: StubHub Delays IPO

Hi! Okay, I get it…you liked the StubHub analysis. I appreciate everyone who sent me a note about StubHub delaying its IPO. This delay points to a few things: This is not the first time StubHub has delayed an IPO. I’m not an investment advisor, but from a brand and strategy POV, every delay makes launching the IPO […]

The BIG Ticket: Let’s Grok My StubHub Analysis…

Hi! Thank you for your notes about yesterday’s post. Thank you for sharing the post. Thank you for reading. I received a bunch of notes. I took a specific angle in my analysis based on my work in branding and strategy. Some of the ideas I had were too “in the weeds”. As one comment […]

The BIG Ticket: StubHub’s S-1 Filing

Hi! Below is the longest thing I’ve written in a while. I went through 3 or 4 drafts of it. I will probably come back to this story from different angles because it lets me teach so many ideas from my consulting and teaching that I want you to know. Before I give you my […]

The BIG Ticket: Notes on StubHub’s Prospectus

Hey! Scott Friedman talked about the notes I took digging through StubHub’s prospectus. His Twitter Spaces is here. He said I would be sharing something more in today’s note, but I’m not fully finished yet. To hold you over, I’m going to give you a few high level thoughts on the prospectus. If you haven’t looked […]

Taylor Swift’s Ticket Sale Slump Highlights A Number Of Industry Challenges

The efforts to spin Taylor Swift’s Verified Fan sales has been spun a number of different ways, but yesterday’s effort to boost sales by offering seats with “no fees” attached highlighted a number of issues with the program that should draw a lot of attention from artists, their management, and anyone that touches the entertainment […]

What Does The Collapse of RazorGator Say About Ticketing Today?

Over the course of the week, news has been breaking about Razorgator going bust. Yesterday, the news was confirmed with Razorgator saying that they had entered “formal insolvency.” If you look around the ticketing internet, you will see a lot of comparisons to ScoreBig and a lot of talk about consolidation deals, the place […]

September 12, 2017
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Last week news broke that morning radio host Craig Carton was arrested for a Ponzi Scheme involving tickets and resale of tickets on the secondary market. While surprising coming on the heels of so many other negative ticket related stories of late like: Bruce Springsteen and how “Verified Fan” shut out real fans from […]