Archive for June, 2007
uWink puts the fun back in dining out
Thursday, June 28th, 2007I came upon a micro cap stock the other day by accident and upon further review, I believe there is some potential here for real growth. The company, uWink, is a restaurant concept based in Los Angeles, run by Nolan Bushnell, former CEO of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese. Uwink is special for two reasons: […]
Fresh City makes healthy eating fun
Sunday, June 24th, 2007My wife and I try to maintain a proper diet as much as possible. It’s a little ea eating at home but on those occasions where we choose to dine out; we try to pick restaurants with appealing yet healthy menu options. The same would be said if we were looking to invest in a […]
Toronto needs a Big Belly!
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007This morning I was looking at the preliminary prospectus for the Lululemon IPO and in it I noticed one of the directors was Tom Stemberg, co-founder of Staples. When I looked more closely at his biography, I saw that after he got out of Staples, he started Zoots, an environmentally friendly dry cleaner. On the […]
Izzy Lane brings UK sheep out of retirement with smashing success
Wednesday, June 6th, 2007I receive a weekly email newsletter from Trendwatching.com and its latest briefing is about consumers retaliating against the globalization movement by buying locally. It mentions one clothing company in the UK that not only is resuscitating the sweater business in jolly old England but singlehandedly saving more than 400 sheep from a certain visit to […]
My new gig is now officially my old gig!
Friday, June 1st, 2007Yes folks, I’ve been rightsized. My employer, Geosign Corp., decided Tuesday that 100 staff (40-50 percent of the work force) were redundant. So, I’m a free agent. My six months there were topsy turvy at best. I loved blogging about stocks at Rock Your Stock but the rest of the work was quite […]