The Financial Times Looks at 2011
January 13, 2011
As 2010 came to a close, “a panoply of FT pundits … put their reputations on the line to divine what the new year will offer.” [“Cuts, leaks and atom smashing,” Financial
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Through the Looking Glass: Two Sides of Start-Up Financing, Part 2
January 12, 2011
The first of this two-part series looked at investing in start-up companies through the eyes of an investor. This post looks at the other side of financing — raising capital as an
Through the Looking Glass: Two Sides of Start-Up Financing, Part 1
January 11, 2011
There are obviously two sides involved when financing a start-up company: one side provides the capital and the other side uses it. Over the past couple of months I’ve read a number
Is Globalization Retreating?
January 10, 2011
For its first “big question” of the year, the Financial Times asked a number of pundits: “Is globalisation on the retreat in 2011?” [3 January 2011] This is a question that has
Going to St. Ives: Mankind’s Ability to Solve Problems
January 7, 2011
There is an old English rhyme that goes like this: As I was going to St Ives I met a man with seven wives Each wife had seven sacks Each sack had
Creating Buzz for a Start-Up
January 6, 2011
Rosalind Resnick, a small business consultant, reports that all of her clients face the same challenge: “How to get the marketplace to sit up and pay attention.” Her answer is: “Be the
Dan Gilmore’s Top Ten Supply Chain Innovations of All-Time
January 5, 2011
In an interesting article on the Supply Chain Digest web site, editor-in-chief Dan Gilmore asks, “What are the most important supply chain innovations of all-time? Can they even be identified?” [“The Top
Competing rather than Fighting with China
January 4, 2011
For readers who follow Tom Barnett’s Globlogization, you are probably aware that he was recently in China where he helped draft and present a “term sheet” that he and fellow authors, John
Examining the "What Ifs" in Life
January 3, 2011
Over the past couple of years, I have repeatedly noted that I am a supporter of examining “what if” scenarios, sometimes labeled alternative futures analysis. Read, for example, my post entitled Modeling
Happy New Year 2011
December 31, 2010
This New Year, like the last, will find many people struggling with the tight-fisted consequences of a lingering recession. Perhaps the best New Year’s wish that could be offered is an old
