Category Archives: Business

Do Techno Posers Have the Skills to Pay the Bills?

Posted on February 17, 2023 by MN Gordon

Gary from Chicago, no doubt, is a techno poser. Rather than digging deep and doing something rad, he’s counting his vacation days. We don’t know if Gary from Chicago is still employed at Meta. Regardless, we do know that many of his techno poser associates are now out of work. Continue reading →

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Is Your Wealth Durable?

Posted on March 11, 2022 by MN Gordon

Durability – in this case, the ability to survive hard times, as the Tuttle Farm demonstrated for over three centuries – is something that should be valued. Yet, it’s not a widespread topic among businesses and investors. Continue reading →

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Why Grubby Politicians like Joe Biden No Longer Get All the Breaks

Posted on August 6, 2021 by MN Gordon

Ted Nicholas Peterson – known to friends as “Nick” – was a man of confections. Fudge, to be exact. At age 21, and $96,000 in debt, he started his own confectionery business called, “Peterson’s House of Fudge,” in Wilmington, Delaware. Continue reading →

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Independence Day in America Circa 2019

Posted on July 4, 2019 by MN Gordon

In the early 1990s, Steve Rocco, a scrub freestyle skater from Hermosa Beach, delivered an epic haymaker to the corporate skateboard industry.  On a shoe string budget, financed with predator loans from a shark named Kirby, Rocco rapidly took down the big three skate companies that, in hindsight, had grown fat and stale.  In a classic case  of Joseph Schumpeter’s “gale of creative destruction,” he revolutionized the industry and subculture. Continue reading →

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