Will Mobile PDAs & Phones Replace Laptops ? And if they do ….

I would love to be able to ditch my laptop and desktop and only have a single, pocket sized device. If I could carry my Sidekick or ITouch with me and when I set it on my desk, or even walk into a hotel room, it immediately makes a connection with my monitor or HDTV…

How Cable & Satellite Can Save the Newspaper Business

Here is a hard cold fact of the internet age. Any content creator whose sole business is selling their content al a carte will have a hard time surviving. In a world of unlimited digital choice, the cost of creating and marketing content that generates a profit is expensive and difficult. Which is exactly why…

Was Madoff a Better Investment Than Your Mutual Fund ?

Lets go back in time 10 years and look at 2 typical investors, Jack and Jill. Both are in the same tax bracket, have worked hard and saved a lot of money, $250,000 . Its their life savings. Everyone says they should put their money in the market, where it will grow and fund their…

A Little Video Comedy

Humor is everywhere if you just look. I decided to have my friends at Flinch Studios, the folks who do our in arena Mavs videos put together a timely parody of the FreeCreditReport.com commercials. Enjoy !

The Stimulus Plan Update

The response has obviously been overwhelming. Its taken a lot of time, but I have gone through every post. More than 1,400 of them. As is usually the case with any blog post, the vast majority of people don’t actually read the post before they write a response. So the vast majority were dismissed because…

The Mark Cuban Stimulus Plan – Open Source Funding

Its easy to write about what the government or other people should do with our/their money. It’s harder to come up with a course of action that I can undertake on my own that possibly, somehow could make a difference. My first inclination is always to try to look “for the next big thing”. But…

NBA All Stars by the Numbers

We have developed and enhanced a player and lineup evaluation system. We have been working on this for the last 8 years. Its far from perfect, and its greatest value is that over a period of years we have been able to identify trends to help us identify up and coming, starring and declining players….

If It’s Not Broke, Doesn’t Mean It’s Optimal. Even in the NBA

Probably one of the most annoying things I have to deal with in business is that people never question the status quo. It doesn’t matter what business it is. I doesn’t even matter if its something that applies to how I do things, that I have become set in my ways on. It is rare…

Hire Harry

Can I be the first to say that “Harry is the Man !” Putting the obvious reasons aside, I also want to be the first to suggest that we ask, and beg Harry to accept a newly created Presidential Financial Oversight Advisor position. Is there a better person to make sure that the oversight committees…

My Idea to Help the Economy and the Credit Crunch

Consumer savings are way up. Doesn’t more savings mean more money in banks to lend ? Isn’t that a good thing ? Here is an idea for you. Create rewards for putting those savings in lending institutions, and reward the institutions for lending it out. Make the interest earned on savings accounts and CDs …