Another re-post that I thought was timely:    Wall Street’s new lie to Main Street – Asset Allocation   Jan 24th 2011 4:18PM The greatest lie ever told used to be Wall Street telling main street to “buy and hold”.  Of course thats what they told you every chance they got. It’s not what they did….

Originally posted april 2005. With all the discussion of HP potentially leaving or selling the PC Biz, thought it would be interesting to repost this from 6 years ago   Back in the day, it was all about the desktop PC. Starting with the Altair in the 70s and accelerating with the IBM PC in…

Here is some unsolicited advice to the Big 12. As you might expect coming from me, it’s going to be contrary to what everyone else thinks they should do. With Texas A&M trying to leave the Big 12 (It doesn’t happen until the SEC accepts them) every remaining school is trying to decide in the…

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…

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….

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….

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…

I love that SharkTank is killing it ! Its doing incredibly well and viewership continues to go up. What’s been the most amazing and rewarding is the number of teenagers that watch, and even more incredibly, the number of kids that watch with their parents. They dont Hulu it. They get together in front of…

Every kid needs to make some money , right ? You want a job. You can’t get a job. You need experience. You got no experience. High School and College kid problems. But fear not. Not every job has to be a career. Money plays. You don’t need brilliant ideas. Sometimes you just need to…

I hear it all the time from people. “I’m passionate about it.” “I’m not going to quit, It’s my passion”. Or I hear it as advice to students and others “Follow your passion”. What a bunch of BS.  “Follow Your Passion” is easily the worst advice you could ever give or get. Why ? Because…