Archive for August 5th, 2004
Offering Legal Advice and Lattes
New York Times: “Eight years ago, Mr. Hughes opened a cafe called Legal Grind in Santa Monica, Calif. Every weekday and Saturday afternoon, lawyers arrive at the cafe – which offers legal advice in addition to coffee – to make themselves available to customers for about 15 minutes for a $25 fee. Now, Mr. Hughes [...]
At Wikipedia (one of my new favorite sites), there’s a page of company names and their origins explained: Casio – from the name of its founder, Kashio Tadao who had set up the company Kashio Seisakujo as a subcontractor factory. Cisco – short for San Francisco. Coca-Cola – Coca-Cola’s name is derived from the coca [...]
Dr. Jeffey R. Cornwall: One of the first new programs that we opened when I arrived at Belmont is our Student Business Hatchery, which is designed to serve just this kind of entrepreneurial student. It is a two room office that provides the basic business infrastructure to support students running businesses on campus. They have [...]
When Casual Passes For Upscale
Franchise Law Blog: “The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) had an interesting piece on August 2 about an innovative business and development strategy at Applebee’s. The casual restaurant chain now targets smaller rural towns where its restaurant is frequently the only one available to the residents and where its casual restaurant environment passes for upscale [...]
More on the Street Printing Bike
More links today about the street printing bicycle mentioned Tuesday: An article in Popular Science includes a large readable diagram. The bike’s creator, Joshua Kinberg, has a weblog with more photos and information about the design and construction of the device.
How to Negotiate a Term Sheet with a VC
Matt Blumberg: Based on the financings I’ve seen and worked on – both as a VC and as an entrepreneur – my Top 10 biggest takeaways for entrepreneurs are as follows (not in any particular order): Get a good lawyer Focus on terms that matter, otherwise known as Pick your battles Always have a BATNA [...]
Ten Recurring Economic Fallacies, 1774–2004
Ludwig von Mises Institute: Never in the history of our country have corporations, Wall Street financiers, bond holders, and other large capitalists, as a class or interest, favored a policy of economic liberty and nonintervention by government. They have always favored some form of mercantilism. The merchants and ship-owners of maritime New England put up [...]
