SOPHISTICATED FINANCE

The Miami Gambling Conundrum?

New York City made a large step forward with the announcement of the new Cornell Engineering School campus on City Island. This project is intended to serve as a stimulus for high tech startups and related jobs in NYC. Honolulu takes a ...

Miami Web City Girls Event

@JanieC is organizing an event for female geeks and other females on November 4 in Miami. The event will showcase the stories of three women, their careers and aspirations. Janie is your standard run of the mill "wonder woman", and bein...

Educating Young Entrepreneurs

I have written frequently about the need to start entrepreneurship education at a much earlier age, perhaps as early as middle school. (Previous posts are here and here.) Two stories support this trend: A prep school in Miami recent...

Entrepreneurship Clusters

In a recent post in Marginal Revolution Tyler Cowen states: "Some economic sectors are distributed everywhere, like every city has its dentist[s], and other sectors are quite clustered. Banking is pretty clustered — New York, London, Ho...

Nice Apps--MailTab, Tempo, Eventbrite, PaybyPhone

Thought I would mention four apps for Mac and iOS devices I started using recently. So far they are working well. I absolutely hate Mail on Mac PCs. Everytime I get a new Mac I try it again and about sixty days later I find an alterna...

Change the World

When I worked in Indonesia we built a company with US$1 billion in annual revenues, but the accomplishment that I am most proud of is that we created 29,000 jobs for our employees. We were the largest private sector employer in the count...

Outsource Government

Recently I have been traveling a lot, which has prompted me to think about the role of government in developing countries. One of the most noticeable things about all governments, but especially developing countries, is the amount of b...

My Concern about How AI will Change Research and Thinking

Recently there have been some excellent articles and talks on AI, including: The Physicist Who Sees Crime Networks Science has outgrown the human mind and its limited capacities Mobile Is Eating the World, 2016 (recommended video) ...