As a kid, I was somewhat of a math whiz. I was always in some kind of special math program and went from a mathlete (kind of like Jeff and Vant) to the glorious position as captain of the Great Neck North math team. But my talent in math probably had more to do with [...]
I’ve been tuned in to the Wall Street financial collapse for the past few weeks since I wrote my last blog post on the market. I wake up and go to sleep to CNBC and devour as much intelligent analysis as I can find in regard to the credit crisis, bailout plan and status of [...]
We’ve recently hit a few bumps in the road at Sportsvite and for the first time I can see a path to failure as easily I can see success. Then last week I was in the audience at the NY Tech Meetup. The most successful startups in NYC were presenting their companies and it was [...]
Throughout my quarter life I have often asked myself this question. It’s important to have dreams and lofty goals and I’ve always tried to set my expectations high. As my nanny has often said, “Brian, it’s your America”. In my youth I wanted to grow up to be a pro baseball player. It wasn’t about [...]
I still remember trying to connect my new Dell Inspiron 8000 laptop in my dorm room the first week of college (all the way back in ’99 – yikes) and having the nerdy dude on my floor help me figure out how to connect the Ethernet cable to the dongle to the computer. The first [...]
I’ve had recent conversations with some of my friends who have expressed both their eagerness and frustration to advance their careers. In the current professional environment moving up often means moving on. Unfortunately, most people don’t have jobs that allow them to naturally explore career opportunities within their daily routine. Furthermore, it always seems to [...]
The summer after my freshman year of college I had an internship in finance at Neuberger Berman. A few weeks into the internship I was pretty sure I had figured out the market so I opened an Ameritrade account and put a few thousand dollars into play (savings from my high school job). The first [...]
The other night my too cool for school cousin Samantha, who is a freshman at the University of Michigan, shot me a near midnight text that she was heading over to Red Hot Lovers. Red Hot’s is far and away my favorite spot to grub in Ann Arbor and at that moment I was instantly [...]
Last Thursday I spent part of my day at the Wharton Business School at Penn. I went there with my colleague at [212] Media Matt Emerman, Director Of Corporate Finance, to give a presentation to the Delta Sigma Pi business fraternity and the Wharton Venture Capital Association. Our presentation was the first event in their [...]
When I mention to people that I have my own blog I usually receive a smirk. It’s as if their exaggerated eye roll is speaking directly to me and saying “what the heck do you “blog” about and isn’t that kind of nerdy anyways”. Right before I started blogging I told one of my friends [...]
