Have you heard this one? Bill Gates walks into a bar… Actually, it’s not a joke. It’s a lesson about the definition of averages. Bill Gates walks into a bar. There’s 20 people in there. The average net worth of everybody in the bar is now 5 billion dollars. In a similar manner, New Orleans…

Show business has all kinds of folklore and superstitions. One of them is, “Never work with pets or kids.” Not because entertainers don’t like pets or kids, it’s because they don’t want to be up-staged by them. Peter Ricchiuti’s guests on today’s Out to Lunch are both entertainers who have chosen to ignore this advice. They’re…

The Small Business Association defines a small business as having fewer than 500 employees. By that definition, over 99% of all businesses in the US are small businesses.  Even so, the businesses in the remaining 1% that they’re competing against have a hugely outsized influence when it comes to marketing and other resources. How does a…

Each year around the holidays, we shift our collective focus for a few weeks. In addition to thinking about our own needs, we think about others. We buy gifts. We listen to music that’s all about unanimity. And we give to charity. For some people, this kind of largesse is not confined to the weeks between…

We hear a lot about the link between the online world and the real world these days. Most real-world purchases begin with an online search. Even purchases as big as a house. There’s no better example of the influence of the online world on the real world of real estate than Curbed. Curbed is technically a…