WHAT CAN MASS DO?

I live in Massachusetts and let’s face it; we live in what is perceived to be a high tax state. Whether this belief is true or not we share that belief of high taxes with California, New York, New Jersey and Michigan. On the other hand Florida, Texas and North...

Good Fortune, Dan

I think I was subscriber number 293 – certainly somewhere under one thousand. That got me the privilege of sharing a Dim Sum meal in Boston’s Chinatown with the curly haired, lightening talking, quick-fire questioning editor of what was then known as PE Week Wire. In...

Board Knowledge and Perspective

I field calls from GPs and CEOs all the time. Invariably they are doing a deal, whether investment or acquisition, and need either verification that the technology and/or markets targeted are real or a product exists and someone wishes to buy it in the future. Less...

Hogs-Head of Marketing had by all

Marketing Due Diligence Last Thursday there was a Happening…Monsters of Pork… at Petit Robert as part of a spectacular program of market oriented seminars and symposia under the brand Future M. The pork party was a real experience. I had been to the location before...

A New BOSS Comes to Town

Hello, We have all had a new boss in our life. This is an announcement concerning a different sort of BOSS. We here at Semaphore are excited to let you know more about our Business Operations/Strategy Service and the addition of David Friend, M.D., MBA as part of our...