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Would Shareholders Give a Higher P/E to Keep Jobs in the USA ?

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It used to be that if you owned shares of a public company, you actually felt like you owned shares of that company.  The concept of actual ownership by individuals is long gone.  Shareholders as owners are nothing but a concept , and echo from days gone by. That shouldn’t be a surprise. It’s just [...]

The TV Business Keeps Getting Stronger !

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Back in my broadcast.com days we had a saying that “bits are bits”.  That once content becomes digital, it is naturally going to become available on any and all digital devices. Based on this, we always made the point to be platform and device agnostic. We didn’t care where or how people saw our content, [...]

Why Startups Shouldn’t Hire PR Firms

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A quote from my book, How to Win at the Sport of  Business got picked up in multiple stories. In the book I stated effectively that “Startups should never hire a PR firm”.   As you would expect, the PR Industry was not over-joyed at the comment.  Articles were written about how incredibly valuable a [...]

You Don’t Live in the World You Were Born Into

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I thought this was appropriate to start the new year. We all have the tendency to believe that we are living in a very advanced technological period.  We get all excited about the new tech we got at Xmas and what we read about that will soon be available to us. In reality, everything we [...]

The Fan Experience at Sporting Events – We dont need no stinking smartphones !

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With the season starting tomorrow, I wanted to update a blog post I did in 2010. In just the past 18 months the number of proposals for in-game entertainment have skyrocketed. It seems like every day I get a new proposal to invest in a company that is going to revolutionize the experience of going [...]

Patent Law Kills Again

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Patent laws today do more harm than good, this is an example

My Views on Corporations & Taxes

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I understand why CEOs of public corporations take advantage of every opportunity to condemn taxes. The lower the tax rate, the greater the after tax profit. The greater the after tax profit, the greater the share price. The greater the share price, the closer they come to or exceed “their number”. You know, the number. [...]

My Soapbox Advice to the OWS Movement and then some

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I may not know much, but I know a lot of it. So I decided to share my opinions and thoughts on what I would do if the OWS movement either elected me Grand Poobah or asked for my advice: 1. The Great Lie of Wall Street. Every CEO tells the same great white lie. [...]

Thoughts on Our Federal Government, Taxes and Small Business and More

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These are not meant to be researched items. These are “streams of consciousness” from the conversation yesterday’s post created. First some housekeeping. I DO NOT like paying more in taxes. HOWEVER, I think that this country has created unique opportunities for entrepreneurs and paying taxes is a small price to pay.  Taxes are not a [...]

The Most Patriotic Thing You Can Do

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Bust your ass and get rich. Make a boatload of money. Pay your taxes. Lots of taxes. Hire people. Train people. Pay people. Spend money on rent, equipment, services. Pay more taxes. When you make a shitload of money. Do something positive with it. If you are smart enough to make it, you will be [...]