Ever since that day in the late 1950s when entrepreneur Charles Lazarus named his second store Toys “Я” Us (the first, which specialized in kids’ furniture, was called Children’s Bargain Town), those who wrote about him struggled with that backwards R. You just couldn’t reproduce it in most newspapers and magazines, and in fact the [...]
Here’s part of a comment, from Curious Capitalist regular Yagdyu, that deserves wider distribution: Most bloggers and blog commentors are either rich people or are friends and family to rich people. Our access to millions and millions of dollars allow[s] us to waste time on the internet giving baseless opinions on issues that affect less [...]
In May 2003, Nicholas Carr published an article in the Harvard Business Review called “IT Doesn’t Matter” that launched his glorious career as a technology pundit and made a lot of people in Silicon Valley really angry. Carr’s argument was that for most big companies, information technology had become a simple necessity, not a source [...]
