Labor

Are Universities The New VCs? Should They Be?

Last week, the world’s richest movie pirate asked something that helped illustrate how he got to be so rich. Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures, about to add somewhere north of a billion dollars to his company’s coffers via their early investment…

Can Your Boss Ask For Your Facebook Password?

Give me your Facebook password, or you’re fired.

What would you do if your employer said that to you? Give up the goods? Refuse to allow the breach of privacy and hope s/he was bluffing? Lean in (either) direction and quickly…

Labor Day Musings: Are Labor Unions Obsolete?

Here’s the answer (from The Answer Guy): NO.

Here’s the reasoning: as much as I love the idea of capitalism (and I practice it, thank you very much), it serves only the big guy. Trickle-down doesn’t work.