Author: MGSN
The Covid pandemic hit the US restaurant industry really hard. In New York City close to 100 restaurants closed permanently. Some of the restaurants that survived the initial onslaught, converted to take out, using delivery apps and taking advantage of the free outdoor dining options that the City of New York offered as a relief measure.When the Delta variant struck the city in July of 2021, the height of the summer season was significantly affected. Some who survived the first wave could not survive yet another round of restrictions for an industry that has a high failing rate on a…
In Part One of this series, MGSN provided and overview of NFT. Now let’s look at how NFT’S can be used to fund a non-tech Startup. The case study involves a Concept Generation Plan created by a group of 5 nutritionist. The nutritionist met in school in San Francisco. Living in SF they were exposed to the Valley Startup culture, as many of their friends were working for Startups during the summer months After graduation they commenced their careers in different cities but stayed in touch with each other. As the years went by the frustration that each of founders…
Building a company is challenging for many different reasons. In most cases, companies start on flash moments as ideas that come surging through one’s consciousness. Some entrepreneurs who started large firms, recount that the idea was so intense it started to consume their days. There are other entrepreneurs who get an idea, and they think about it, push it aside, go back to it, refine it and at some point, adopt it. All business starts in the idea/concept generation stage. This stage is usually positive and energetic. It may border on giddy or manic. Just about every waking moment that…
Diversification of the US economy will strengthen the country. However, most studies identify that the failure of most corporate diversity programs is rooted in short-term solutions with the least impact on investment strategies. The shortsighted business model of providing lip service to diversity goals reaps the bounty of failed programs that litter the economic landscape of the US economy. The CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion™ is providing an advocacy and educational approach to the achieving diversity in the workplace through pledge drives from corporate leadership. However, companies are not successfully diversifying the supply chain, workplace and management, https://time.com/6110631/corporate-boards-diversity/. It…
Worldwide, tech entrepreneurs, engineers, coders, designers, tech sales and sales engineers are working away 12-15 hours a day in cramped apartments. The only break they get from their exhausting routine is to find a cafe with good coffee and reliable wi-fi. The pandemic has removed that option in many cities. In response, entrepreneurs and insightful governments have developed digital nomad visa programs for tech and remote workers. The digital nomad visa draws upon experience with business visa and tourist visa programs. It is a brilliant merging of immigration and visa laws and provides a win-win for entrepreneurs and remote workers and…
Hydrogen is one of the simplest chemical elements on this globe. It is most bountiful element that can be used for fuels and generating clean electricity. There is no need to spend trillions of dollars and cause irreparable harm to the environment, looking for oil. Hydrogen has a long history of being used for fuel. Hydrogen high combustion rate and high efficiency rate has made it the fuel of choice for global space agencies. Unlike the harmful greenhouse gases that petroleum and coal produces, Hydrogen by product is water. The practical use of Hydrogen, as a means to move beyond…
Eye -Tracking technology has evolved over the last few years to provide significant humanization benefits. Eye -Tracking means different things to different applications. A solid base premise is needed to understand. The Digital Team in the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Technology Transformation Service, provides a good point of analysis. As the name connotes, the technology drives in on the webpage’s views for eye measuring and analyzing the focus, and movement. There is a surveillance component of the technology that is embedded in the hardware/software interface. The Technology contains eye tracking software that captures the site visitors’ visual reactions to…
Sitting on a nice day in July in the Radisson hotel Cafe in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of Congo, presents the perfect setting to contemplate possibilities. A clear and pleasant day affords a generous view of the majestic Congo River and the city of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Two nations share the distinction of being one of the world’s closest international capitals, just a few kilometers on the Congo separate the two nations. A simple search on a smartphone will bring up one news item after the other that will document why…
As the New Year dawns and the global pandemic still presents challenges, the issues of free trade within the African Continent faces new opportunities as consumer populations decline. Across the globe, Africa’s potential is starting to draw the attention of multinational companies producing goods and services, hungry for the large youth populations and fastest growing middle class in the world. Although there is opportunity for companies headquartered in aging cities across the globe in robust African markets, the opportunities for growth within the Continent is not only promising but crucial. The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is a trade…
Happy New Year MGSN viewers! What better way to start the new year then to jumpstart that killer idea into a Concept Generation and onto that Startup you have been thinking about every morning, when you are either logging on the first Virtual Meeting of a daylong trip down virtual imprisonment or waiting for that monotonous metro to arrive in your monotonous metro station, to take you to your monotonous job. The first question is, where you go to nurture your Startup? Although certain headlines screamed Silicon Valley is in a decline and specifically San Francisco is not the city of…