Scrapplenomics
Mayor Nutter Gets Out of the Office. Shouldn’t You?
Mayor Nutter recently made a trip to China, and this is a good thing. For the city. For him. For you! As a local business […]
18 Philly Businesses That Should Close or Be Shut Down
If you haven’t already heard, the Forum officially shut its doors. No surprise. Why would any grown man pay for his porn at a creepy […]
Philly Was Too Smart to Fall for Small Business Saturday
We had Black Friday. Then Cyber Monday. For God’s sake, now someone’s even come up with Giving Tuesday. And in the middle of it all […]
Powerball Jackpot Leaps Another 10 Percent to $550 Million
Pretty soon we’ll be talking real money. [Philly.com]
Willful Ignorance of Probability Propels Powerball Jackpot to $500 Million
Ticket sales are so brisk for Wednesday’s drawing that lottery officials have bumped up the previously announced $425 million top-prize number, making this the largest […]
How Small-Business Owners Can Survive Natural Disasters
The city of Philadelphia really dodged a bullet. All around us people and businesses are still recovering from floodwaters, loss of power, injuries and, in […]
In Philadelphia, Small Businesses Get Plenty of Support
One thing people don’t realize when they start a small business is that it’s a cold and lonely world out there. Where once you were […]
6 Stunts a Philly Business Could Sponsor for Publicity
Many of us watched Felix Baumgartner risk his life last weekend by jumping out of a balloon from 24 miles in the sky. And we […]
Have Sympathy for Dick Yuengling. He’s Just One of the 99 Percent.
I have a friend who’s a very successful, second-generation business owner in Montgomery County. His father, who built the business into the success that it […]
Why Philly Will Never Be a Start-up Hub
Last weekend was Startup Weekend in Philly, and no offense to the great companies who competed (and to voxx.io, the winner of the competition), but […]
Philly Needs a Suburban Taxi Service That Doesn’t Suck
Times are tough, and the economy is barely growing. People are looking for work. But others are thinking differently. They’re thinking of starting their own […]
The Orchestra’s New Music Director Knows a Thing or Two About Business
Yannick Nezet-Seguin has something very much in common with my friend “Andy” from Bristol. Nezet-Seguin is the new music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, which, […]
How Penn Is Turning Scientists Into Entrepreneurs
“David” cannot make a cup of coffee. But he is a better businessman than I am. I live in Lower Merion, which is overrun with Penn […]
What Business Owners Can Learn From Madonna
Madonna was late for her concert at Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center Tuesday night. How late? Oh, about two-and-a-half hours late. She kept close to 20,000 […]
How Some Philadelphia Businesses Are Surviving the Bad Economy
In this summer of lousy economic news it was good to hear Tuesday that retail sales finally had a nice jump. It was the first […]