by Maury Forman | Sep 1, 2018 | Entrepreneurs
My children had such great ideas. They were so good that I thought they would grow up to be famous inventors. My one son dreamed of inventing the perfect time machine, one that would whisk him briefly back to 1975 so he could buy Microsoft stock 11 years before it...
by Maury Forman | Jul 29, 2018 | Entrepreneurs
I hate to admit it, but Make America Great Again is a great marketing campaign and sound bite. That said, if you ask people what made America great in the past and what will make it great in the future the answers are all over the place. I could spend an entire blog...
by Maury Forman | Jun 29, 2018 | Economic Development
The City of Seattle recently dodged a bullet. Weeks after voting in a regressive $275 head tax on the city’s largest companies, the resulting civic uproar got the best of them and they backed themselves out of a tough corner. The goal was admirable: fund services to...
by Maury Forman | May 30, 2018 | Economic Development
Dear Elora, People have been congratulating me this past month on your birth and my becoming your grandfather. It’s not that it took much work on my part, but the way the congratulations have been flowing in you’d think I won the Nobel Prize or something. I must be...
by Maury Forman | Apr 28, 2018 | Economic Development
I used to think that children were at their best when they were seen, not heard. I guess that’s what happens when you’re a parent. You like to think that you know it all, that being a grown-up gives you all this magical insight into how the world really is and how it...
by Maury Forman | Mar 31, 2018 | Economic Development
I have a friend whose son is on the cusp of adulthood. He’s at that wonderful stage when he thinks he knows it all, but only because he hasn’t yet learned how much he doesn’t really know. Trying to impart some wisdom, my friend was trying to explain to his son what he...
by Maury Forman | Feb 26, 2018 | Economic Development
I know this may be hard to believe, but I was not born an economic developer. True, if I were a dog, I would have been in economic development for 117 years by now. Sometimes it seemed as if I was doing economic development for that long. And that’s no joke. After...
by Maury Forman | Jan 30, 2018 | Entrepreneurs
Here we are. It’s February. The days are still woefully short, but the promise of longer days ahead keeps us chugging through the dank and dark, anxious for the spring thaw to arrive once again. But more than freezing weather, or Presidents Day or being the...
