I did a video for the National Association of Seed and Venture Investors today on attracting angels to entrepreneurial companies. We did the shoot at the downtown campus of DePaul. The funny part is that the L train kept going by so we had to stopped to let the noise pass. I also got […]

I travel alot around the US speaking about my book, entrepreneurship and business. If I want to do what I love, I need to fly alot..and I hate to fly. But from flying alot, I finally discovered the JOY of Seat 14C. You see on a 737-300, Seat 14C is in the row behind the […]

USA Today reports that Starbucks serves more than 19,000 choices of how to have your coffee? Somehow, this I think this can’t be a good thing?

It only happens once every 4 years, except for years ending in 00, in which case only if the year is divisible by 400. So we had one in 2000.

I always wondered how people feel that were born on Leap Day who only get to have a birthday every 4 years. They call these people […]

I was on a board meeting conference call the other day with one of the companies I have invested. After the first 5 minutes of the call, there were loud screams at the other end and the CEO abruptly ended the conference call.

Today, I received this email from the CEO:

“Arthur, who has been handling some […]

I was fortunate enough to be inducted into the Chicago Area Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame last night. This was especially important to me since at 44, I will never make it into the Baseball Hall of Fame! I was very honored to join the company of many well known and well deserving business people.