Take the Money and Run
Screwed. Scammed. Such delicious, outrage-inducing, front-page-of-the-NY Post-worthy words. Unexpected that they’d be used in defense of a company—LinkedIn, in this case, following its much anticipated, eye-popping public market debut on the New York Stock Exchange last week. And rather than emanating from the NY Post, the headlines came from former Wall Street analyst, Business Insider [...]
Phil Jackson’s Spiritual Mashup
This photo makes me laugh–especially Dennis Rodman, second from left. What a handful. It was taken in 1997 after the Chicago Bulls had won five out of the six NBA championships they would take under Phil Jackson, before he moved on to coach the LA Lakers. This past weekend I had a conversation with a [...]
Meet Mobius One
Meet Mobius One. I’m a little bit in love with this sassy little car. Never mind the fact that it happens to be the prototype for a feel-good durable, functional, affordable car for the African middle class consumer. It’s just feisty. Mobius One may be tiny, but manufacturer Mobius Motors’ ambitions are anything but. It [...]
Patron of the New.
Patron of the New. is über sexy. A friend tipped me to the just-opened TriBeCa store last week, so I stopped in last weekend, on my way home from my ritual Saturday morning spinning class. Oh. My. God. Located on Franklin Street in a stunning, prototypical TriBeCa space–soaring ceilings, concrete floors, columns down the middle, [...]
IPO Innovation
I’ve spent many of my spare moments over the last few weeks absorbed by speculation about the current state of the environment for and future of IPOs in the United States, especially IPOs of small, high-growth companies, broadly, and, more narrowly, companies for whom business is about more than just profits. I’ve taken the opportunity [...]
