A dude sat next to me and a bunch of others wearing headphones or napping and HAD A LOUD PHONE CONVERSATION.  We all exchanged looks of exasperation. I was about to start commenting on his phone conversation. But then he called Romney a dangerous figure and said he sealed…

This is a good intro to incubators. Incubators are entrepreneurial honors programs. They are one of the few innovations in encouraging entrepreneurship we’ve seen.

It was my fault for working at home in the morning and taking a later train downtown.  It happened at Montrose.  I looked out the window as the train slowed and saw two dozen 9 year olds getting ready to board.  But, just in case we missed their entrance,…

THE WAR Legacy Learning Systems Inc. sold $5 million worth of DVDs of guitar instructions through affiliate sales. The problem? The affiliates didn’t disclose that they got a huge commission for each sale – instead, it looked like their reviews were totally impartial. THE WINNER The FTC, under a…

Want to know what I love most about the FTC?  The only people they dislike more than get-rich-quick charlatans are fake diet gurus. Here is an excellent post from a blog I really like about the FTC’s pursuit of some get-thin-quick barkers promising skinny jeans with human growth hormone. …

I don’t know when she got on. But, by the time we approached Fullerton, she was starting to lose it.   She sighed. She sighed again with feeling.  She stage whispered invectives. Finally, she telephoned. The problem? The CTA and its delays. If you don’t live in Chicago, you may…

This guy is Kingsley Martin, a lawyer and computer software programmer. On his blog, Kingsley pulls apart boilerplate and makes sense of it. In the world, he writes game changing software. I love his blog (tho I don’t have permission to use his image). Here he is on subletting clauses….

I switched to the Red Line today and found this loud person on the train. Whereas I usually sort of resent the people who are so loud I can’t not listen, this guy I just loved in all honesty.

This is an executive recruiter walking behind me onto a plane.  He was hustling on a sales call at a volume that reminded me of boiler rooms and telemarketing dungeons.  Ordinarily I would tell you what he said, but although I listened to him gleefully shout for 5 minutes,…

There is this amazing change happening on the outskirts of the legal profession. People are making legal information more democratic and accessible using data management, the Internet and crowd sourcing. Making the law accessible at less than $500/hour was one of the reasons I wrote BIRTH TO BUYOUT: Law…