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What Does Philadelphia, The Mummers, Cycling, and The Phillies Have in Common?

But with the city losing money faster than the jury foreman could say “guilty” in the Fumo trial, the Mayor had to cut the price money out of the equ[...] read more »
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Comcast and Sony to Throw Money Away in Retail

Comcast going to throw more money away in retail read more »
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A Case Study: Where The Hell is Matt? Or, Is Your Social Media Marketing Living Up To The Hype?

A Case Study: Where The Hell is Matt? Or, Is Your Social Media Marketing Living Up To The Hype? read more »
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Mayor Nutter Confronted Over Back Tax Flap

So, couple things here. How {pissed/stupid/arrogant} do you have to be to confront the Mayor on the street about back taxes YOU owe? It’s not even li[...] read more »
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Employee Termination Horror Stories - Do You Have One?

Have you reacted to a situation that resulted in the firing of an employee that you later regretted? How did you get over it? And the best question o[...] read more »
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Are Companies Cutting Too Deep?

Its one thing to trim staff when times are tough and you need to make sure payroll is met, but it’s another to cut so deep that you find yourself und[...] read more »
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DuPont and Genetically Modified Crops

It’s estimated that the world’s population will grow 30% to 9 billion people by 2050, and needless to say, that is a lot of mouths to feed. This is w[...] read more »
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PNC Cuts Dividend, Screws Investors

I went on a bit of a rant a few weeks back when PNC announced that CEO Jim Rohr was getting a $3 million dollar bonus for his efforts in 2008. At the[...] read more »
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Freeman to Stop Home Builders From Building?

Home builders recently went to Washington to ask congress for some walk around money in order to keep their industry alive. At the same time these sa[...] read more »
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As Papers Go Bankrupt, Greed Has Been Good to Tierney

Stop the presses: Philadelphia Newspapers, LLC. Filed for bankruptcy protection yesterday because of “dramatic declines in revenue, the worst economi[...] read more »
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Personal Branding Should Be Dead

Whatever happened to just being who the hell you are? I swear I am not trying to be some middle-aged curmudgeon who doesn’t get it, but in my day, personal brand was called being you, with all your faults and blemishes. read more »
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Goodwill Hires Ex-Cons to Refurb Your Computer

I am all about the Goodwill works program, I just think having ex-cons working on old computers has the potential to create a serious PR nightmare for both Goodwill Industries and Dell read more »
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Comcast & PNC: A Tale of Two CEO’s Compensation Plans

And today, I turn my sights on PNC CEO Jim Rohr, and Comcast chief Brian Roberts. Two fantastic CEO’s who have done stupid things. You see, sometimes CEO’s do stupid things because they are too arrogant to realize their own stupidity, and other time read more »
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Wharton entrepreneurship conference live blogging tomorrow!

Can’t make tomorrow’s big White Board - Blue Sky event tomorrow? Don’t worry, you don’t have to miss out on this massive Philadelphia Start-Up event, we’ve got you covered. Phillypreneurs will be there front and center starting with the first keynot read more »
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Move your online relationships to the next level

Today was a very productive day. I got out from behind the screen today and had two fantastic meetings with two very smart and energetic twentysomethings, both running successful companies and making it happen every day. read more »
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