Author Archives: Justin

Can You Predict the Future?

 

Will Arizona win the Holiday Bowl?

Will Arizona win the Holiday Bowl?

I watched a video featuring Mark Cuban, the outspoken owner of the Dallas Mavericks and chairman of HDNet.  Some of the video revolved around business growth and Cuban’s vision for a high definition television channel.  In 2000, high definition televisions were $15,000+ (thank goodness for Moore’s Law) and very little programming was available.  With such a high cost, the market for HD viewers was low in 2000 but Cuban wasn’t just thinking about 2000, 2001 or even 2002.  He was thinking about 5 and 10 years from 2000 when you could go to Best Buy and purchase an HD TV for $500.

 

The Real (Slightly Gray) Face of Entrepreneurship

Behind every new internet craze, technology and social media is a hip, young twenty-something on their way to building an empire, or so it seems.  While the younger generation is probably behind most of the online revolutions, the media certainly portrays this group as the majority of entrepreneurs with their “Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30,” “20 Most Innovative Entrepreneurs Under 20,” and who knows, someday there might be the “10 Most Brilliant 10 Year-Olds.”  While we are obviously captivated by the hip, bright and silly-rich, young entrepreneurs, a study by the Kauffman Foundation, a non-profit group that encourages entrepreneurship, shows that the baby boomer generation has the highest rate of entrepreneurship.