I was invited recently to be a juror in a mock trial for Professor Michael Finkelstein’s Statistics for Lawyers class at Columbia University Law School. The core issue of the trial was whether or not a major teaching hospital was discriminating against women, as to...
Today it was announced that NBC Universal purchased iVillage for $600 million in cash. I have mixed feelings about this deal. I liked the idea of iVillage being independent; standing on its own. Despite all the knocks the company has received, I’ve always...
Catching up on my magazine reading on the plane to Colorado, I found a terrific article in BusinessWeek on managing your personal credit score. It caught my eye because I’d just finished solving a credit score problem of my own. My problem began with a Sprint account...
I thought the incubator concept was dead. But, against all logic, new ones keep opening. So, I guess it shouldn’t have been a surprise that I’ve been asked by some entrepreneurs whether or not they should "join" one. I have to say, I laughed out loud at the...
I’m an avid reader of Entrepreneur Magazine. I’m also someone who’s been both an entrepreneur in pursuit of capital and an advisor to companies in their search for capital. I know firsthand how complicated it can be deciding to hire an advisor, finding the right one,...
