Dennis Yu

Google and AmazingMail are both giving out FREE business cards

No, this is not a scam, Google is giving out free business cards to the first 10,000 folks that sign up to promote their new profiles product, but make sure you first have a Google profile that is set to Public. Better hurry before the offer is over. Cards will arrive in the next 10 […]

Walmart CEO says people enjoy spending less

Lee Scott in his annual address to the National Retail Federation, noted that in the latest focus group of young shoppers, “Every  one of them had given something up, and they were talking about how good they felt about doing that.” Thus, he doesn’t see a rebound in sales any time soon.  Look at your […]

Yodle gets $10MM in Series C Funding

I first heard of Yodle about 4 years ago, back when it was called NatPal, by Nathaniel Stevens out of UPenn, a friend of Brad Twohig, who is our joint friend.  Since then, I’ve seen the company grow from a few dozen clients to a reported 5,000, bring in a CEO (Court Cunningham), and a […]

Porn industry requests a bailout

CNN.com reported a story where Larry Flynt and some other porn executives are asking Congress for a bailout.  I suppose the folks making free porn are losing their shirts, literally?  If the adult industry, one of the largest and most lucrative segments of internet traffic, is asking for a handout, then things must really be […]

New Years resolutions that don’t fail– and your way out

How about making a resolution to not make any more resolutions? Seriously, when you example instances of when people fail versus succeed, a few key traits stand out. I’ll explain at the end of the article– but first… I read a study where patients were told by their doctors that if they didn’t stop smoking […]

The biggest Ponzi scheme ever!

There’s been recent debate from folks like Jim Cramer and Business Week on whether Social Security is a Ponzi Scheme. Of course, it is! You don’t have your own account that holds the deposits you make. The money you put in now is used to pay off people who joined earlier. The number of people […]