Most people have loads of passwords, and are paranoid about cybercrime, malware, phony eastern European credit card charges and other schemes. These are certainly concerns, but let’s get a bit more low-tech. Recently, I was contacted about serving as an…
TABASFUNDING has been providing funding for entrepreneurs to expand or acquire businesses since 2002. We are an alternative to traditional bank financing, which since the recession has become more difficult to obtain for small businesses. Even though we are a…
My son, Ted, owns Rosemont Beverage Center here in Pennsylvania. He wanted to raise some of his prices, and wanted to make giving change easier by setting the sales prices, such that when tax was added, the total amount ended…
My wife Nancy and I have been discussing and debating Facebook’s proposed acquisition of What’sApp. Facebook has agreed to acquire What’sApp, an instant messaging service for $16 billion of mostly stock. Facebook and What’sApp remind me of the wildly popular…
While trying to crystallize a fall newsletter topic, one of my friends Julian Lum suggested that I write about education. I don’t know a whole lot about primary education, other than there are good schools and good teachers as well…
In November, Nancy and I took a “bucket list” trip. Nancy wanted to visit Vietnam. I wasn’t crazy about the idea, but I was curious as to what had changed since I was a teenager and 500,000 US soldiers served…
