Business

Later this week I’ll be traveling to Berlin, Germany and then to Dublin, Ireland.  I used to travel a lot, so that’s not the exciting part — in addition to being excited about meeting co-workers and being together to work as a team, I’m also looking forward to racking up points on my Marriott Card [...]

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I normally and quickly delete my Spam box, but today I thought of checking it out to see what spammers were up to. To my surprise, I found the Spam almost inspiring; fulfilling some deep human need.  Okay, not quite, but here are some nuggets from the Spam I’ve received today for your enjoyment. Spammers [...]

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I’m not sure if this actually means anything, but it’s nice to see Chicago Graduate School of Business ranked higher than Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, and Dartmouth for once. On a related note, I looked through some Christmas cards the other day and found one from Chicago that said this: Dear Pete, From the bastion of [...]

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Here is the ajaxified timeline of Mark Cuban NBA Fine History. Enjoy. I was amazed to learn that Mark Cuban’s cumulative fines from the NBA are currently at $1,455,000 USD. That is a lot of money that he could’ve avoided paying if he excercised some self-control. Another way to think of Mark’s fines is in [...]

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The premier of “The Apprentice” last week was pretty cool. Given my interest in people like Donald Trump, I decided to check out what I could learn about him on LexisNexis. I found several hundred lawsuits with the phrase “Donald Trump” or “Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts” or “Taj Mahal.” From what I understand, he [...]

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Google came out today with a click-fraud report, claiming that less than 2% of all clicks on both adwords and adsense are considered click-fraud. Shuman Ghosemajumder, Product Manager on Google’s Trust and Safety Team, claims that this is true because of Google’s 4-step filtering system. According to Ghosemanjumder, below is an accurate picture of click-fraud [...]

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The Business Plan Archive has some really interesting information. In concert with the Library of Congress, the Archive collects old business plans and items related to entrepreneurship. In their words: In partnership with the Library of Congress, the Center for History and New Media, and the University of Maryland Libraries, the Archive collects and preserves [...]

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