Money & Investments
Breaking Up the Big Banks: Will that Solve the Economic Situation or Not? Financial Expert, Fred Shaffer Podcast!
October 15, 2012 | 
Author This topic might seem way out of whack with what I usually cover but if you take a few minutes and sift through some of the topics I have covered in the last two years, you will see blogs featuring venture capital, start-ups, business leaders in So. California that are geared toward entrepreneurial growth as well as people in banking, finance, emerging technology, real estate, education, security on your computer and mobile devices for both business and personal use. What do all these have in common? Often it’s money and the local, state, national and global economy has a big effect on what goes when it comes to launching emerging technologies which comes out of both start-ups and education as well as people who believe in those technologies.
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New Media Metrics’ Gary Reisman Talks about What Drives Your Shopping Habits! Is it Price, Brand — Both? Or More?
Brand strategy firm
recently released it’s fifth annual 360 Cross-Platform Emotional Attachment (EA) study, indicating consumers’ emotional attachment to all media types rose to its highlest leves in 5 years in 2012. Also, services like Netflix and Hulu were showing up as preferred content platforms (take that traditional and cable media networks!)
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School for Start-Ups Part 2: Gray DeFevere Wraps Up How to Get to FUNDING!
I had posted a question on Linkedin.com about how or when a start-up venture should move out of home or “garage” office space and buy into “official” office space back a couple of months ago.
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Security Expert, Berkeley Varitronics CEO & President Scott Schober Weighs In on Cyber & Mobile Security!
Given that hacking hasn’t stopped and it’s highly unlikely that the various phishing and scams won’t disappear anytime soon, it would be smart to take some extra security precautions given the proliferation of mobile devices to the point we give them to kids to play with and we (meaning me) walk around with a bluetooth device stuck in our ears. Want to know why geo-tagging and geo-fencing works? That’s why.
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Ketel One Vodka Launches “A Gentleman’s Call”: Nationwide Search to Find One Game-Changing Idea Worth $100,000
A Gentleman’s Call is a nationwide search to invest $100,000 behind one original idea that champions the lifestyle of the modern gentleman.
Ketel One is looking for substance and style within an idea, inspiration or endeavor that will raise society’s behavioral/activist bar.
New Cap Partners’ Thomas Turney Talks about Important Issues to Economic Growth! Podcast #2
You heard part 1 of Tom Turney’s podcast about the economic growth and problems as it applies ot the state of California, the US and globally. While we are standing in this wobbly middle ground — watching the global markets shift as well as that of the nation, it’s often hard to realize what’s really important to know what are the critical or tipping point issues. As seen in part one, it’s often best to talk to someone who has a truly “global” view of the business landscape. One such person happens to be Thomas Turney, managing principal in NewCap Partners.
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How Women are Changing the Tech World: Video Commentary from USAToday.com Roundtable Event
Story and photos courtesy of USAToday.com roundtable with female tech execs. The original post was from Jon Swartz, USATODAY.com. The interesting part is that 1) this story was written by a guy with an awareness that women are heavily involved in technology and start-ups– though not always on the engineering side of things but also that women are also discounted in the male-dominant world. HUGE mistake there and I know it as I get second-guessed in my work in social & digital media & marketing strategy– especially by men. Those that listen to what I say and pause before saying anything are clearly thinking through what it is I have said based on the merit of the commentary. It’s the ones that have closed their minds that I could possibly be correct in my suggestions, projections or theories that are quick to shut the door or ignore my comments entirely. Unfortunately so of those nay-sayers have been my partners. (Eventually those same people find out via a validation from other outside parties — male or female– that I was correct, then things actually start to move forward.)
Breaking Up the Big Banks: MoneyCrashers’ Andrew Schrage Weighs in with Answers to Questions!
As President Clinton mentioned in his speech at the DNC, there might be some good to come from breaking up the big banks into smaller S&L and commercial banks as well as regional banks thus spreading the ability to do business with a greater number of financial institutions would mean less risk across the board. I sought out experts and if you hit part 1 yesterday, you heard half of a podcast. Today is part 2 which is a question and answer session with Andrew Schrage, co-owner of Money Crashers Personal Finance.
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