Five minutes before my first-ever pitch to an investor, I practiced Jerry Maguire in the mirror.
"Show me the money," I told myself six or seven times, and then just once, just as a final pump-up tactic, one epic shout: "SHOW ME THE MONEY!" When I emerged from the Starbucks...
(0) Comments | Posted January 23, 2013 | 12:07 PM
If we ask ourselves how much of our time in the present we spend in the past, most of us would realize we're plagued with a perpetual, insufferable case of nostalgia. You think it would get easier as you grow up, that you'd somehow figure out the tricks, master the...
(0) Comments | Posted December 26, 2012 | 8:03 PM
Scouting for a decent man on campus required a great deal of focus. You had to see past the sprinting engineering students, the slouching athletes and the arguing SIPA grads and try and find the prospects with an ounce of charm. On an Ivy League campus, they are few and...
(0) Comments | Posted November 30, 2012 | 5:12 PM
You might have heard a few weeks ago of a large, powerful suitor attempting to charm the sweetheart of the group, and no, we're not talking about The Bachelor. We're referring to HarperCollins offering to buy Penguin with a last-minute $1.6 billion bid. Maybe you were surprised to...
(50) Comments | Posted August 29, 2012 | 11:00 AM
I'm going to tell you a story, but I must warn you, you've heard it before. It's the one about Dr. Seuss's rhyme genius being rejected 30 times and Stephen King's manuscript of the famous thriller Carrie being tossed into a trashcan by the author himself and yes, even J.K....
(0) Comments | Posted January 30, 2013 | 4:53 PM