In talking to my correspondent who attended last week’s EMO show in Hanover, Germany, the mood in Europe is profoundly…
Month: September 2011
I’m in the business of finding gold in companies aged machine discards. To label our business as treasure hunting romanticizes…
Seth Godin, one of my favorite bloggers, wrote a piece this month called “Back to (the Wrong) School,” in which…
I’ve been negotiating deals for a living for a long time. It’s my livelihood, but I often feel like a…
6:00 AM – Wake up and pick up the iPad next to my bed to check email from Europe and…
Doug Purtee is a treasure hunter. He rummages though old barns around the Midwest, but his prey of choice is…
How do you change a habit, a behavior, a life pattern? I have been a lifelong food abuser—eating an American…