by Maury Forman | Nov 1, 2020 | Entrepreneurs
November has always been my favorite month of the year. You may think I love November because it’s my birthday month. But you would be wrong. It’s July and as the date gets closer, I will remind you. November is my favorite month because it is the month where people...
by Maury Forman | May 19, 2020 | Entrepreneurs
More than 33 million workers have filed for unemployment since the COVID-19 virus began. Many more don’t know if or when they will be able to return to their old jobs. They are waiting with great anticipation for a ground hog to poke his head out and tell us we won’t...
by Maury Forman | May 1, 2019 | Entrepreneurs
Our lifetimes are filled with firsts that are forever etched in our memories. Who doesn’t remember their first kiss, first car or first job? Some of these memories are so fresh that we use them as the answers to our security questions. If you’re an entrepreneur,...
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 | 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...
by Maury Forman | Jun 30, 2017 | Entrepreneurs
Some years ago I wrote a training exercise with a site selector. It was based on a parody of Paul Simon’s 1975 hit, 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover. I called it 50 Ways to Leave a Community. Terribly witty, I know. The goal of the exercise was to identify what communities...
by Maury Forman | Jul 6, 2016 | Entrepreneurs
I gave a lot of thought about what I should write about this month. There seems to be no shortage of topics to cover about economic development and entrepreneurship. But I feel that over the last two years I may have covered most of the subjects people beside me would...
