Monthly Archives: February 2016

https://player.ooyala.com/iframe.js#pbid=581186617b814402a62766e9903b5347&ec=cyNnBpdzomsYJauOUnM_y9zHuxbIcXV6 Next Time You’ll Watch! Next time they demonstrate how to fasten your safety belt, bet you pay attention… #creativitycounts @ quantum_entity (Source: https://player.ooyala.com/)

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-nqzhfCC3o?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=187] Where’re the Best Films Being Made Today? Television. It’s the new golden age of TV. Who knew? Put a talented cast and crew together for 4, 5, 6 or 7 years with great writers and what you get is the best work in the industry–the cable/Internet series. Even the made-for-series music is terrific. […]

The topic? How to Add Coach Houses and Other Animations to Your Residential Investment Portfolio to Produce Amazing Returns Highlights? -learn how to provide for yourself and your family by creating an outstanding real estate portfolio -learn how to animate and differentiate your properties, and boost cap rates -find out how to create rental agreements that increase […]

(This article originally appeared in Ottawa Business Journal, https://www.obj.ca/Opinion/Bruce-Firestone-5444) As an immigrant to Canada from Cairo Egypt and with a bachelor’s degree in physical therapy, Nasr Salib needed to find work in his chosen field—physiotherapy—to support his wife and two children. But after seven years working in a private clinic where Mr Salib had helped […]

In chapter 14 of a book I wrote about artificial intelligence (https://www.brucemfirestone.com/book-1/), attorney Jerom Van Der Hout argues before a future US Supreme Court that artificial “AI” agents (I call them quantum entities, QEs) deserve to have human rights extended to them.  I think this day will arrive relatively soon.  If you are curious about […]

How Developers can Make More Money and Urban Design can Improve by Exploiting Vertical Rent Curves It has always amazed me that many developers, those veritable profit maximizers, don’t understand that neo-urbanist principles can improve their returns while at the same time making them better city-builders and I suppose better corporate citizens. For example, most […]

Did you ever wonder why Toronto thinks of itself as the centre of the universe and ROC (the rest of Canada ) thinks of Toronto as a favorite child? Do you think it could be because Toronto’s Sky Dome (now called the Rogers Centre) was supposed to cost $150 million, but ended up costing $650 […]

(Plus Tapping Sponsors/Co-Branders/Strategic Investors  and Partners for Free Capital) There’s nothing new about raising money by issuing scrip. The Reynolds Brothers ran a sawmill (established in 1870 by Orson L. Reynolds) in the Adirondacks that in addition to central logging and operating their mill also ran a company store and developed other sources of income […]

By Bruce M Firestone, B Eng (Civil), M Eng-Sci, PhD Abstract The Business Model is supplanting the Business Plan in many organizations. It not only describes the complete business ecosystem, it is a mechanism to discover profitable new relationships amongst stakeholder groups. The Business Model is more resilient than a plan and harder for competitors […]

By Bruce M Firestone, B Eng (Civil), M Eng-Sci, PhD Abstract In the five year period leading up to 2010, approximately 91.6% of all tech startups in the US were self-funded or bootstrapped, 8.1% were Angel-backed and just 0.3% were VC-funded. How to self-fund (self-capitalize or bootstrap) new tech enterprises is the subject of this […]

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