Louisville’s digital media scene has just added a new player: SalaryScout. The company is the brainchild of Ben Thomas, an IT security specialist and moonlighting entrepreneur. Locally Ben is known as the organizer of periodic “Louisville Geek Dinners” and has had a few side projects up his sleeves for […]

RVK Architects, from detnews.com
Gone are the days when healthcare was siloed in hospitals and doctors offices. I’ve written before about the “retail” model that’s taken nurse practitioners into big box retailers such as Target and CVS. In recent weeks, we’ve seen further movement in the space with Duane Reade’s […]

The following fell into my inbox on Friday afternoon from Chrysalis’ building management:

Free donuts followed by $30 flu shots. Loss leaders can make for a good business tactic, but this one’s just morbid.

Interestingly, there’s a ton of VCs blogging, but few are below the partner level.  Maybe that’s because we (me being one of them) don’t have a whole lot to contribute to the conversation, or maybe it’s because we’re too busy taking care of the more mundane tasks of the VC world.  Whatever the […]

I think of Ben Casnocha as a “life lessons prodigy.” He’s received recent attention as one of BusinessWeek’s “Top 25 Entrepreneurs Under 25″ but he’s been riding high on the blogosphere buzz-train for some while now. And deservedly so. You can read about his accomplishments here, but what […]

As follow-up to this morning’s post on a grocery chain’s nutritional rating system, I thought I’d point out two healthcare startups worth keeping tabs on and, incidentally, applauding.

DailyStrength, which offers a health-focused social network, just received a glowing review on TechCrunch. I’ve long thought that this market was ripe for […]

It was, I’d say, with a fair bit of glee that I read one of yesterday’s headlining stories in the Health section of the New York Times: “The Package May Say Healthy, but This Grocer Begs to Differ.”  The piece covers Hannaford Brothers‘ (a Portland, Maine-based grocery store chain) decision to independently rate […]

After seeing Paul Kedrosky’s readership survey, I’ve been expecting some high-end advertising on his site and in his feed (like the Maserati ads that show up in the PAW).  After all, 29% of Paul’s readership earns more than $250,000 a year and 30% of his readers are CEOs/Presidents/Chairpersons/Owners of their respective organizations.  As Guy, Rick, or […]

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It’s rare that “fashion” and “venture capital” ever find themselves in the same sentence, but Howard Morgan at First Round Capital does an excellent job of lending historical perspective to Charles River Ventures’ new seed program in his post “Fad […]

On Saturday I wrote about Ringo’s aggressive customer acquisition tactics.  To summarize, the company is pushing users to open their email contact list kimonos in order for Ringo to gain new users.  That’s a harsh way of saying the company is encouraging its users to invite friends, which is how Ringo puts […]