During my years as a turn-around guy, I’ve boarded many an un-seaworthy, leaky vessel. This has afforded me the opportunity to be responsible for more sunken ships than the entire WWII German u-boat fleet. You see, sometimes the boat comes about when you push the tiller, and other times it continues full speed ahead into…
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There are so many reasons why America needs to break the shackles of big oil interests and move to renewable green energy. It isn’t just about saving the environment, and it’s not about wordsmithing and morphing global warming to the more energy company-friendly term climate change. It’s about retooling an economy and starting the next…
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Two words: Dress Barn. Seriously, is that a brand that is suppose to make a woman feel sexy and desirable? I can just imagine a woman saying to herself, “Hmmm, I’d like to find me some clothing amongst domesticated cattle.” “Great Moo Moo, Shirley!” “Thanks, I got it at Dress Barn.” I don’t claim to…
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This past week, an afternoon showdown of sorts has been capturing all those who have been able to watch it. The IBM Watson supercomputer took the main stage of Jeopardy for a showdown against some of the top winners in the game’s history – Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings. The IBM Watson is named after…
Read MoreUpdate: I have received so many inquiries about the computers from some really top notch orgs that I now have to put a deadline on submissions or I won’t be able to push any of the applications through due to sheer overload! Deadline for inquiries will be 5pm central time on Thursday, December 11th. Unfortunately,…
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There are a number of startup accelerator and incubator programs in the United States. We are fans of these programs (not to be confused with... Read More
Two months after the iPad 2 debuted in March, around 40% of users surveyed said their iPad was their primary computer, up from around 30%... Read More
With our Startup Mixology Conference coming up next week followed by our classic Tech Cocktail DC Summer mixer which will showcase a handful of early-stage... Read More
Coming off of one of our biggest Tech Cocktail mixer events in Chicago this past week, which showcased 14 early-stage start-ups, we thought it would... Read More