I was asked the above question the other day. It was asked in a tone as if I just happened to write about the topic that now has both the financial, as well as main stream media in an uproar. i.e., right place, right time coincidence. I thought it was a fair question for the…
Suddenly the world is a buzz with the revelations that High Frequency Trading (HFT) may be doing more than actually harming the markets, it might be destroying the illusion they still are markets. This past Sunday the world at large was introduced that maybe, just maybe, something was amiss in the financial markets. However, anyone…
There probably isn’t an over used phrase thrown across the media landscape than, “It’s different this time.” One can’t look at the financial markets, the political stage, and more without shaking ones head. Nothing seems to make sense. Yet if one wants to lazily answer, “It’s different this time.” Things become crystal clear. Water now…
I’d like to take this opportunity as to express in some other examples why I take such umbrage with so much I see across the web involving the whole social media space, and why I think it’s important to you. I both see, as well as talk to a great many whom are not only…
Today, one needs to be literally living under a rock to have not heard about the Facebook® acquisition of WhatsApp™. Everywhere across the media spectrum heads are being scratched on why Facebook would spend (wait for it……) $19 BILLION dollars in total for a company that most anyone outside of silicon valley never even heard…
It would seem my ideas or the possible implications about the upcoming (hypothetical) changes in the way the web is both used and/or allowed access, to or by service providers is becoming more prescient than I first envisioned. Today it was announced that the cable giants Comcast™, and Time-Warner™ have plans to merge with Comcast…
A funny thing happened to the financial markets since the new year. Suddenly, a great many unicorns are pulling up lame, and what about the rainbows they were paraded across you might ask? Well, they seem to have been painted with watercolors, for the reign of reality has shown they were far from anything naturally…
If there’s one thing that will always be in fashion, or in vogue it’s this: Someone having something others don’t by one of two means – “in the know” or, they can afford it. Followed with the willingness to flaunt it. Over the last decade or so brands have been the item du jour of this…
(Links to Part One – Two – Three – Four) I started this series with the stated goal as to make not only entrepreneurs, or people with an entrepreneurial mindset rethink, or realign their thought processes. But more importantly; to get what I believe are far too few as to question exactly where, and what,…
(Links to Part One – Two – Three ) If there’s one gauge a great many are convinced is “The” gauge as to whether or not a company, person, idea, or anything else is relevant, along with the equivalent powers of a sorcerers stone: It’s the phenom of social media. Along with the metrics used…
As in any new year there comes a time when one must decide where, or why, one is going to proceed in any direction. Which was the underlying premise for writing this series. (links to: Part One or Part Two) It’s one thing to set off on a course. It’s quite fool-headed to assume any…
As I stated in “Part One” of this series, the issue I believe that will determine whether or not bumps in the road will remain just that. Or, will a now complacent financial market realize not only are the gauges faulty but rather; will not be able to give any advance warnings other than an…
