When Capitalism Fails When you think of unfettered, destructive capitalism and the developing world, you might think of Dow Chemical and Bhopal, or Shell Oil and Nigeria. But as this devastating Foreign Policy report from Zimbabwe details, the worst characteristics of unabated profit extraction are on full display by largely unregulated companies operating out of China, […]
The Water Wars Water is the resource we most count on, and, in the First World at least, it’s been the one we most take for granted. When it’s scarce, food runs short, political unrest becomes the norm, and the world’s diplomats send classified cables that make for scary reading. The Center for Investigative Reporting has […]
Streaming Services: The New Gateway Drug to Piracy You want Kanye’s record first? Better sign up for Tidal. Need zero-day access to Drake’s upcoming album? Pony up for Apple Music. Wanna stream Adele’s latest? Don’t bother. Sometimes new business models are messy and end up provoking unintended consequences for the disrupters as well as the […]
New Ridesharing Service for Women May Not Pass Go For a wide variety of reasons, from safety to solidarity, a ridesharing service only for women seems like an outstanding idea. Launching next week in Boston, Chariot for Women will offer better background checks, only female drivers, and no surge pricing. Sounds great, but it’s probably […]
GE Fires Back at Sanders, But It’s No Stranger to Government Help Now that the presidential campaign has reached New York, everyone is getting cranky. In their attempt to challenge the Republicans for name-calling, the Democratic candidates are taking turns calling each other unqualified. One of them, Bernie Sanders, has wandered into a back-and-forth with GE chairman and […]
We’re thrilled to welcome our co-founder Brian Monahan back to NewCo in the role of Chief Evangelist. Brian and I brainstormed what eventually became NewCo Festivals on a bike ride just north of San Francisco in 2012. On that ride, Brian pitched me the idea of an “artist open studio for business,” focusing on innovative […]
My Office Is Right Next to the Inkjet Cartridges Wanna work at Staples all day? No, not behind the counter handing out keys to the photocopiers, but as a place you go all the time to do all your work. Those Staples stores are spacious, floor traffic has been decreasing for at least seven years, […]
Panama Was Inevitable The fallout from The Panama Papers continues: The Icelandic prime minister has stepped down, politicians from the UK to Pakistan, Russia to Chile, have been implicated, and there’s even a Jackie Chan angle. The general response seems to be outrage, but why so surprised? Our view: Having the equivalent of the United States’ […]
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, APRIL 5, 2016 – NewCo, the company whose events and media focus on mission-driven businesses, announced today it will be among the first to join Medium’s just released platform for publishers. This statement comes the same week that the company plans to debut a new weekly column from Editor in Chief and […]
Tesla Cops to Hubris. That’s a Good Thing The advance orders on Tesla’s Model 3 suggest it has a bright future. But in the meantime, it needs to clear up its present. First-quarter unit sales (WSJ) were about 10 percent less than predicted. There were also problems manufacturing one of its current models, which the company admitted as […]
