Strategic Immigration
There is often much said on strategic immigration and the competitive battle for the world’s most gifted workers. A recent interview with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in the Detroit Free Press drives home the negative externalities from limiting the brightest from our shores. Ballmer discusses why in 2007 Microsoft built an R&D facility in Vancouver – just over the […]
A Lack of Confidence Can be Very Contagious
Recently I’ve been asked repeatedly about the current state of Europe. I’ve said since January that 2012 was going to be marked by periods of volatility – stressing that European issues would be a key catalyst to those periods of volatility (energy prices have also contributed to uneasiness – something I’ll say more on at […]
Cole Hamel, Bryce Harper, and the Unwritten Rules of Baseball
One of the books I’m currently reading is Jason Turbow and Michael Duca’s The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America’s Pastime. It’s a great read that goes through the myriad of unwritten rules in baseball – from running up the score, when stealing should be done, retaliation and […]
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Cereal Boxes as Platforms
An interview from a few months ago where Mark Addicks – chief marketing officer of General Mills – discusses the future of the cereal box. The line that caught my attention, “the wonderful world of packaging, a cereal box, which a lot of people love some of the most well read print material in the […]
Are Daily Deals Another Bubble?
Daily deals were all the rage in 2011. Groupon – the leader in the daily deal space – went public last year to much fanfare. The November IPO raised $700 million and valued the company at $12.8 billion at the time. It was the largest IPO by a Web company since Google went public. A […]
Is Apple Winning the Enterprise?
Good Technology is a privately-held company which offers a mobile solution for corporate and government clients. The core offerings include email, calendar, and secure mobile access to applications and company data. While the customer base is likely small relative to the entire universe of tablets and smartphones and many end-users are likely bringing personal, mobile […]
Shrinking the Supply Chain – How Technology Consolidates What we Get and When We Get It
One thing heavily overlooked is how technology shrinks the supply chain. By supply chain I mean in the broadest and most general sense how a product or service is ultimately delivered through to the end user. This morning Fred Wilson wrote about Demand It! From Eventful. With Demand It! the basic concept is simple – users […]
How Quickly Can We Exhaust the Social Security Trust Fund?
Last week the Social Security Trustee Report reported the Social Security trust fund will be exhausted by 2033. Comparing this date with previously released estimated Veronique de Rugy at the Mercatus Center highlights the estimated exhaust date has continued to decline and is now estimated to happen 20 years sooner than estimated in 1990. The chart below […]
Sears expands ‘Scrubology’ shops
Sears Holdings is expanding the availability of its in-store professional apparel shop to 91 Sears and Kmart stores nationwide. Revealing of their core shopper.
