The next crisis is commercial real estate and maybe life insurance?
The commercial real estate crisis has been looming for months and it looks as though it’s being held back by a finger in the dam. It starts with the low mall occupancy rates. We’re already seeing store...
View ArticleA 35,000 feet view of the crisis
Guest author: Dave Frankel, VP Business Development I am writing this post from my American Airlines flight over Rapid City, South Dakota right now – connected to the internet via GoGo wifi . While I...
View ArticleTrusting information from the internet is age independent
Matt Brown from Forrester shared a very interested survey result with me: Forrester surveyed 2,000 US information workers last year, aged 18 to 64, and broke them into two groups for the analysis: GenX...
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Washington DC or London – whose economic approach would you chose?
There’s an old adage that the UK economy is tied more closely to the US than to “the Continent” – one of the many arguments used to justify keeping the Pound separate from the Euro. But over the past...
View ArticleMisreading the seismic shift HuffPo represents
There is a seismic shift going on that is continuing to shake the foundations of journalism. The intellectual view was well captured in an editorial by NYT executive editor Bill Keller – while the...
View ArticleCreate, Aggregate and … Interrelate?
Guest author Ryan Warren, FirstRain VP of Marketing Do you create, or do you aggregate? That, it seems, is the pressing content question of the day. Penny posted on Tuesday about the seismic shift...
View ArticleMonitoring the business and economic impact of Japan’s earthquake
We are all shocked and saddened by the terrible events in Japan over the last two weeks, and our thoughts are with the people of Northern Japan impacted by the tsunami. We have also been watching the...
View ArticleTwitter feed on Japan economic impact added
In addition to creating a monitor to put an Eye on Japan’s Economy™ (which you can subscribe to here) we have also added a twitter feed of highlights on the same subject. You can follow...
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Today’s tech bubble: Sell or IPO your company?
If you had the chance to sell your tech company for a great price would you – or would you play the long game? This is a decision successful entrepreneurs end up facing and is a question for some tech...
View ArticleIt’s not a bubble really – and the rockstars agree
Living in Silicon Valley, running a software company with big ambitions I hear the question a lot. Is this another tech bubble? Isn’t is going to burst again? The short answer is no. Pundits covering...
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