Ten years ago today — March 10, 2000 — the Nasdaq, a tech-dominated stock index, hit its all-time high, at 5132.52. (It closed yesterday at 2340.68; on October 9, 2002, it got as low as 1114.11.) The Nasdaq's insane growth through the late 1990s was a function of the dot-com bubble, the first wave of Internet mania that sent the stocks of useless companies making worthless produ... Continue reading this.
Among the many hassles a startup entrepreneur has to contend with is sifting through reams and reams (or gigabytes and gigabytes, we guess) of conflicting advice about how best to succeed and what not to do. If Adviser A is telling you the sky is blue, chances are good that Adviser B is telling you the sky is falling. Over at Forbes, Shaun Rein — the managing director of CMR Consultin... Continue reading this.
We can't tell if this is actually cool or not, but if you're going to parody, you might as well parody the best. In the finest spirit of paying tribute to the intersection of hip-hop and finance comes "The New Dork: Entrepreneur State of Mind," which uses a certain recent chart-topping hit to sing the praises of the Web economy and the nerds who provide the elbow grease to make it all h... Continue reading this.
Yesterday we highlighted the upcoming Drink Well, Do Good, a 14-city concert series, happening throughout 2010, that aims to help black South Africans who work in that country's world-class wine industry but don't see much financial benefit from it. Among the inspirations for (and underwriters of) that initiative are TheCASHFLOW 50 members Selena and Khary Cuffe, the husband-and-wif... Continue reading this.
Complex magazine online, the digital-media arm of TheCASHFLOW 50 member Mark Ecko's fashion-and-culture empire, offers a list of 10 of the coolest iPhone cases on the market. As always with Apple, the accessories often look just as good as the devices themselves. The featured cases range from $29.95 to $79.95. The ones featured here were designed by Todd Bratrud (left) and Christopher L... Continue reading this.
Last month, we made mention of Project Enterprise's Entrepreneur Week, which begins in New York next Monday, March 15, and continues throughout the week. Project Enterprise is a Harlem-based organization that helps support small businesses and those who run them throughout underserved communities in New York. Kicking off the festivities is TheCASHFLOW 50 member Steve Stoute, who speaks ... Continue reading this.
