The Looney News Episode 07
The Looney Executive
A Slightlyt Looney Spin On The Business News!
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The Looney News 06
The Looney Executive
A recap of compelling, fun, and looney business headlines
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The Looney News Episode 105
The Looney Executive
The Looney News provides a different take on business news headlines!
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The Looney News Episode 104
The Looney Executive
Interesting business headlines with a sprinkling of satire!
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The Looney News 103
The Looney Executive
Recap of interesting, compelling, and sometimes completely looney business news headlines!
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The Bendix - Martin Marietta Corporate Takeover War
The Looney Executive
In 1982 Bendix and Martin Marietta engaged in an infamous corporate battle that became and instant classic and business school case study!
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The Looney News
The Looney Executive
Here is demo # 2 of The Looney News. This is barebones - no music or other fancy stuff. Headlines include: Seeking VC is Like An Eating Disorder Low Airfares Attack Trans-Atlantic Flights New York Diner Flips Last Fried Egg Edsel Tops List of Product Flops Dayton City Workers Flip Metal for Cash 5 Internet Companies Top Acquisition Target List Already Successful Clooney Rubs Our Noses in His Success Enjoy and ... Thanks For Listening!
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The Looney News
The Looney Executive
This is a bare bones demo episode of The Looney News. Here's what you'll find: The Chinese hit hurdles in Dayton Verizon fights Fios subscriber losses Hobbits defeat Warner Brothers Kroger sues new competitor Pizza chain rapidly fires in Texas Ignore common career advice 1980's corporate raider dead ... may get Macy's float
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Demo Episode - The Delorean Sports Car
The Looney Executive
This is a demo episode about the story of the rise, fall, and rise again of the Delorean sports car. The episode isn't complete. It's a demo!
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Outside The Valley Episode 107: Sam Boutros Returns To The Rust Belt!
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What is it like to move at an early age from your ancient homeland to a strange new country called Canada? ...
info_outlineIn many rustbelt cities across the country, the old auburn flakes of rust are slowly but surely starting to give ground to a new type of growth rising up ... tech startups!
That might be what we're seeing now in the Dayton, OH area. Dayton is one of the old-line hard-core manufacturing cities. It's a member of the rust belt hall of fame. Over the decades lots of jobs have been lost. And the population has steadily declined.
But in the midst of this, little seeds are being planted here and there to start growing a new tech startup crop in the Dayton region. Yea it's small right now. Maybe barely visible. But it's there for sure. It's gaining momentum. And maybe one day soon it will form into a real sustainable movement that launches many tech startup ideas into high-growth ventures.
One sign of that took place on November 4th, 2013. An event called Ventreprenure Marketplace was held in downtown Dayton. At this event I held discussions with 5 regional tech players. Unfortunately, because of the background noise, only 3 were salvageable.
But those three are a good representation.
- Lincoln Berry III leads Grab Vision Group, a company developing a solution for the holy grail of TV commerce - shopping directly from within a TV show
- Pat Newcomb is the director of a local Small Business Development Center (SBDC). She works with entrepreneurs to get their ideas into focus and to eventually launch them.
- Michael Klein represents Accelerant, the VC arm of a local economic development agency. He's seeking great ideas to fund.
Together their perspectives represent a good cross-section of what's happening in the Dayton region now ... and what the future may hold.
Yep, it looks like the rust belt is starting to rise again!