The way we buy luxury in the future is going to change. The questions of how and when were discussed by industry experts at the "Luxury Insights Summit" in New York.
At the RSA Security Conference last week in San Francisco, I had the opportunity to sit down with the founder of Whitehat Security, Jeremiah Grossman. In a quiet corner of a hotel restaurant we chatted about things that we had seen at the conference.
Suitable Technologies and eight US museums have partnered to give people with immobility or disabilities the opportunity and ability to visit and virtually tour museums in other cities or countries and not even leave their homes.
No security will ever be perfect, which is simply another way of saying that perfect security is infinitely expensive. Any organization must balance the costs of security investments with the risks those investments mitigate. With offerings like BT Assure Cyber, enterprises can raise such risk…
Crowdfunding meets equity.
For years now, there’s been chatter about crowdfunding taking a leap further, offering not just donations, but investments. Like a design on Kickstarter? You can invest in the company -- not just offer a one-time contribution for a freebie.
That’s yet to happen,…
Known for his uncanny court vision, the 38-year-old NBA point guard is one of just 12 players to win the MVP award multiple times. His eye off the court is just as daring, through nine investments that are mostly sports-centric, including Liquid Nutrition (juice retailer), OneBode (supplements), the…
I’m just one Baby Boomer….trying to understand real world economics. I do this for a living, but I’m also developing a keen interest in real money. Not Samuelson’s “Economics”….but the real dollar in my pocket. Real effects on innovative companies and workers I see worldwide.
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital, a business-development company, announced plans today to expand its portfolio through the acquisition of MCG Capital, a struggling lender to middle-market companies that had taken steps to wind down its portfolio.
For many of us, building with and taking apart to build again with Legos was a formative part of our childhood – there was a lot of creativity and flexibility built into the box of bricks and pieces. Now, when my son and I work with Legos, more often than not, there’s a specific end result. It’s a…
I expect you’ve heard the line that ‘a camel is a horse made by a committee’? Well, it’s no truer than in the case of web builds. But there is a better way than tooing and froing with an increasingly angry dev team until you break the project, and I think I know how it's done.
Before you sign up for one more intensive, introspective “know yourself” leadership training course, take a look at the new trend in leadership development.
The fact that private-sector IT security companies cooperate with law enforcement agencies and international organizations such as INTERPOL tends to raise a few eyebrows. For some, such cooperation appears to be a source of great concern and suspicion, leading them to think that security companies…
Twitter Inc. shares add to losses in the extended session Tuesday after a steep selloff as earnings for the microblogging platform were disclosed early and shares dropped as much as 20%.
Real-life stories of entrepreneurs who built businesses with other people’s money and those who failed. The language of investors, how to pick the right ones for your company, and what second-time entrepreneurs know about money and investors that first-time entrepreneurs don’t.
At the Defcon conference in August this year, Tesla is set to open up one of its cars for hacker attendees. It's likely the luxury electric car manufacturer will find some bugs and some future employees along the way. The news comes at a time when hackers are increasingly trying to expose security…
An ongoing theme in my research about retirement income planning is just how big of an effect that sequence of returns risk has for both pre-retirees and post retirees. We are really vulnerable to the sequence of market returns experienced in the years in which we are saving for retirement, as well…
Apple’s total cash hoard comes to about $194 billion. That sounds like a huge number on its own, but it’s even more stunning when put in relative terms. Bespoke did just that with this chart.
"We’re using women in lingerie as tools for seduction. But what if we use the power of lingerie and fashion to empower women?" Renata Black, the founder of Empowered By You, shows women how their panties can help other women build and grow businesses.
Discriminating private equity (PE) investors have a long list of attributes they look for when deciding where they will put money to work. At a time when political, economic and social uncertainties are running high—as they are in most markets around the world today—PE investors are reflexively…
The U.S. markets’ worst six months — May through October — are approaching against a relatively bullish technical backdrop. Still, the late-month market skittishness keeps several well-defined technical tests in play.
Are the owners and managers of Britain's up and coming businesses just a little too eager to sell out? According to a report published this week by law firm Mills and Reeve, that might well be the case. Focused on medium sized business ( 50-500 employees) and based on interviews with