Lloyd Graff
Are you sure you want to be an entrepreneur?
What’s the business plan? What’s your revenue model? How do you get from point A to Point B? Can you scale this? These are the questions people used to ask [...]
Baseball Religion
This blog is about religion. No, not Rick Santorum. Nothing about Judaism or Islam. I’m talking about the Cub religion, which I’ve practiced since I was three. Chicago is a town [...]
How to NOT Get a Job
A friend of mine was trying to help an acquaintance of hers get a new job. She sent me her résumé for my suggestions, or better yet, to see if [...]
Industry Scuttlebutt
I received a fascinating phone call after the last blog on titanium wedding bands from a gentleman named Roger Turnley. Roger has spent many years in the jewelry game and [...]
Lord of the Titanium Rings
I was shooting the breeze with a fellow machine tool peddler and he threw out the comment that he had an inquiry from a Chassidic jeweler in Manhattan who was [...]
Memories On Your Refrigerator Door
Memories are elusive wisps of mental energy. I jumpstart mine with photos on my refrigerator and a ceiling length picture board, also in the kitchen. The photo that I have [...]
Industry Scuttlebutt
Costa Rica is the hot spot these days for the medical machining business. With the free trade agreement with Central America, medical companies are ignoring Puerto Rico, which has become [...]
The Road Not Taken
It was one of those “Oh no” moments. I received a call from a former employee saying a mutual friend, Al, who I had had a falling out with, had [...]
Pitney Bowes–Another Warner & Swasey?
Pitney Bowes, the postal management company, is a hated name at my office, and probably yours too, if like us you are stuck with a machine and a contract you [...]
Lucas Oil Won the Super Bowl!
The New York Giants won the Super Bowl on Sunday and certainly enhanced the NFL brand and the Eli Manning brand. But the real marketing coup goes to Forrest Lucas, [...]