I called AT&T to inquire about Internet service pricing last week. They slammed me. I figured this out last night when I got home and there was a package on the porch. Took it inside. Opened it. Saw a DSL modem. Livid. This started 10 days ago. I made an inquiry to AT&T sales. Wanted […]
Continue reading →You may have heard that Jason Calacanis, the CEO of Mahalo, publicly offered $250,000 for two years for one of the top twenty slots of suggested users that Twitter is now offering up as part of its service. Jason's offer was a publicity stunt. A game. He intended to attract media coverage. He is extremely […]
Continue reading →Moving around Atlanta this weekend you would never think that we are "in the midst of our greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression". Traffic jams in the Buckhead shopping district during the day, the mall packed with people carrying shopping bags. A small florist telling me business was good. Traffic jams in Midtown at […]
Continue reading →I got a problem. Two really. Problem one. A lot of people that I don't know want to meet with me for various reasons. And with the economy in recession and people looking for new things to do the various reasons are increasing. I want to be helpful. Networking with the startup community is actually […]
Continue reading →I have written from time to time about the differing taxes plans of Senator McCain and Senator Obama which often leads to comments from the Obama faithful deriding the credibility of The Wall Street Journal and other such things. Well another interesting little table appeared in the Journal yesterday. Interesting, because using information from an […]
Continue reading →Last week I posted an article highlighting consumer technology startups in Atlanta with a promise to explain why not many of them make it big. Here is that explanation. It stems from the work of Michael Porter. Porter is the preeminent scholar of our time on the subject of business strategy and competitiveness. If you […]
Continue reading →Interesting article by Michael Boskin the op ed section of The Wall Street Journal yesterday (paywall). Most interesting part is the table showing the changes in marginal tax rates for those earning above $250k (which, as a current public servant for the state of Georgia I do not, and seriously question defining a duel income […]
Continue reading →Here. The Commerce Department released Q1 gross domestic product numbers late last week. Up 1% for the quarter. Healthy. Despite all that is being written about what is wrong with the United States economy, (that is obviously having an impact on consumer confidence) it is growing and is forecast to do so for the rest […]
Continue reading →"To dream big or dream small takes the same amount of energy. So why not stretch a little bit?" Carlos Brito
Continue reading →The Wall Street Journal has an interesting piece today about how Cisco, one of the leading acquirers of small technology companies, is changing their takeover game plan. Cisco’s acquisition playbook is the stuff of Harvard Business school case studies. The bada bing, bada bang plan includes new business cards the day the deal is announced, […]
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