App to search same-day tickets for live events – iPhone app WillCall allows users to find and purchase same day tickets for live events, for around 50 percent of the full price. -springwise.com How come all the innovation comes from outsiders? Live Nation could have created this app, but someone inside said it couldn’t be […]

When the revolution comes, they’ll not only want to know what side you’re on, but what side you’ve been on. I’m watching these Wall Street protests skeptically. As delineated by so many news outlets, we’re not quite sure what these protesters want. But one thing we do know is they’re angry, that 1% have all […]

"There’s no one in this room I haven’t screwed." Irving Azoff at the Pollstar Awards In "Moneyball" there’s a fascinating, as in unable to put down, recounting of Billy Beane’s efforts to get the players he desires before the trading deadline. Let’s be clear. The players are under contract to other teams. Beane is operating […]

"The chief economic consequence of the creation of derivative securities was to price the risk more accurately, and distribute it more efficiently, than ever before in the long, risk-obsessed history of financial man. The chief social consequence was to hammer into the minds of a generation of extremely ambitious people a new connection between ‘inefficiency’ […]