I have been involved in a few start up companies and I have helped quite a few others to get their businesses cranked up, funded, and operational. I have also advised many more that their ideas, their companies – were not ready for prime time. Regardless of whether the ideas are fully formed one thing [...]
If you are completing your degree at university and going into the work force it can be a daunting challenge – if you choose to allow that. It is natural to feel some trepidation about going into a new and seemingly foreign environment. However, if you look at the data, which is always a good [...]
Dug out from the archives of the New York Times….. June 13, 1897 NYTimes American Publishers say they are Suffering by Copyright Violations There-Steps Taken for Redress. “Canadian pirates” is what the music dealers call publishing houses across the line who are flooding this country, they say, with spurious editions of the latest [...]
While other media companies look at merging their broadcast and catalogue divisions with online broadband delivery companies, (Comcast & Universal) Jeff Bewkes the CEO of Time Warner is placing his bets on content distribution agreements. But just in case that doesn’t work, he’s placing a side bet on owning the distribution methodology, whatever that [...]
We have noticed of Late that the US Judiciary don't seem to have all the facts pertainent to file sharing cases, relative to the issue of damages – or if they do, they are failing in their instructions to the Juries. Whether this is due to poor representation, or lack of adequately informed expert witnesses, [...]
Yesterday Rupert Murdoch unequivocally announced that soon he intends for people to have to pay to access content from his newspaper brands. He also announced very substantial losses for News Corp. Now those losses that were announced may actually be opportunistic write downs, that will enable greater profits to be announced in future quarters. So [...]
Maps have always been important.Since the era of the great adventurer explorers, Vasco de Gama, Captain James Cook, the map was the crews only link to home.The maps were the basis of explaining to the royalty what new discoveries had been made.The maps became the expansion of the empire. Google made a decision last week [...]
In an op-ed piece in the New York Times earlier this week, two prominent members of the financial community criticized President Obama and his team for telling the people one thing and doing another. In this case telling people that the country had moved back from the brink of financial disaster when nothing of the [...]
For some time (a couple of years, I think) I have been blogging about the problems in the global economy. My belief has been that with the transition from national economies to one single global and connected economy some sectors would find themselves in a boom while others were crashing. At the moment everything is [...]
Story in the NYT about how smells during sleep can help improve memory… As we age we spend less time in deep sleep, and as a result appear to imprint less in our memories. Previous research has shown that regions of the cortex, the thinking and planning part of the brain, communicate during deep sleep [...]