The stock market is now officially in “correction territory” as it has fallen to more than 10% below it’s high (hopefully) culminating with a 531-point drop on Friday August 21. Moreover all of the major indexes are below where they started for the year, which means for most investors weather it be your 401k, Investment Read More …
– A follow up to “The Shave Wars” – Early in June we recorded a piece on how Dollar Shave Club (DSC) has become a disruptive technology/service in the men’s grooming industry, and now they’re cleaning up their act even more. After having an additional round of funding that was very successful, 75 million in Read More …
For the last nine years there has been no bigger circus in the NFL than the New York Jets. Obviously you can go back way further back if you wanted to develop a ‘theme’, as they undoubtedly fit the mold of team that resides in the biggest city in the US. From “Broadway Joe” to Read More …
Well if last week in College Football was “dog day afternoon” (see our post below) then week six in College Football could go down as the calm before the storm as only three top 25 teams lost, three were idle, and the top eight schools won. Now there was one big upset with Texas upsetting Read More …
Firstly, apologies are in order for those of you whom lambasted us back in June when we went on record stating that strange names on the top of the divisions like the Astros, Twins, and Mets were here to stay. Well, here we are in August and three of the four clubs we highlighted are Read More …
Book Review: The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon – Almost Lives Up to the Hype This may be one of the most hyped-up books of the year with boastings of “Harry Potter meets Hunger Games”. It’s best to leave behind any thoughts of Harry Potter or Katniss Everdeen at the door because if you come Read More …
By now you’ve seen all of the commercials, some of them very clever, so much in fact that they’ve had an amazing response rate. We’re talking about the Dollar Shave Club commercials and they’ve become a disruptive technology in the men’s grooming industry. However what you may not know is that there are plenty of Read More …
Admittedly I originally only picked up this book because I found out the true author was the one and only JK Rowling and I am a definite Potter fanatic. She wrote this under the pen name of Robert Galbraith in the hopes that it would be better accepted than her previous novel The Casual Vacancy, Read More …
No doubt the fitness craze that’s been dominating the conversation recently has been fitness tracking devices, so we lined them all up side-by-side to who would win the race. We reviewed Fit Bit, Garmin, IWatch, Adidas (these were the final four), Microsoft, IFIit, Jawbone, Basis Peak, Pebble Steel, and a few others. Now all of Read More …