The purpose of this BLOG is to recap Georgia’s 2022 Innovation Week conducted at the Ritz Group October Angel Club held at APRIO.   This Angel Club was our first physical in-person meeting since Covid and proved to me that online is a great way to deliver content, but seeing everyone in person and all of…

My GOAL in this Blog is to introduce the Metaverse – a new term made popular when Mark Zuckerberg announced 4Q 2021 that Facebook would be changing its name to Meta. Along with “The Metaverse” came a batch of terms that we will try to define to give you a working perspective of the next…

Kancel Kulture – Ten to the nth Power is a strange name for a business blog – although with full disclosure,  I have penned a political blog or two – but exclusively in the political theater The term “Cancel Culture” is rooted in the entertainment and political sphere.  However, I want to highlight a mutant variant…

ARE YOU A PROBLEM SOLVER? PURPOSE:  This white paper defines a new business practice that can be hosted on i-Lab, i-Lab 365 and Brite Idea Lab Match platforms. DISCOVERY:   This discovery was the result of Corporate Foundry’s efforts to interview and consult with multiple Corporate Innovation Centers, plus Innovation consulting companies providing Corporation Innovation services.…

Capital Formation Services – New for Ritz Group 2020 The Ritz Group is adding an exclusive and much needed deliverable to their 2020 Capital Services Suite.    Capital Formation Services consist of a suite of turnkey Private Equity Services tailored to entrepreneurs and small business owners who want to expand their business and need to raise capital. …

Facebook Responsibilities and Resolution Back to Facebook’s scope-creep related to their core mission.   Who do they serve and who do they want to serve? Connecting families or fanatics? Connecting business and consumers?   Serving politics or country-by-country parochial interests?   Common sense should tell you that ALL of the above is an enormous task…

Listening to Mark Zuckerberg testimony was scary… in the sense that his mission statement providing the “world with their voice” is well beyond the original vision of Facebook, and possibly a “bridge too far” even for Facebook. Or is it?    Facebook is generating $20 billion/year in profits annually, and along with other industry NEWBE…

I am a somewhat reluctant contributor on maximizing today’s member community value proposition.    At the turn of the century, my eBiz card, providing people with a dot.com answer to web identity and self-posting credentials, was de-railed by Facebook.   My effort to pivot into a credentials-based business community was de-railed by LinkedIn. Both have…

THE SCECRETS of SUCCESSFUL INVESTOR FUNDING Over the past 3 or 4 years, the Ritz Group showcased over 140 companies pitching for private equity funding for our Ritz Group Shark monthly Attack. Unfortunately, over one thousand companies failed to make the “show” coming through our Pitch Tank. Our Shark Attack mission is to get that…