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In the Press
April 22, 2011
The New Financial Matchmakers
“The rise of private market networks is changing the capital markets and opening up new opportunities for business leaders and innovators.”
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April 6, 2010
Nanny Sam to the Rescue: Stop the Startups!
“One of George Bush's most memorable lines was his complaint that the French had no word for "entrepreneur". Well, if Senator Dodd's new financial reform bill becomes law, we may well have the word, but no longer any need for it.” Read the entire post
November 16, 2009
Our Currency, Your Problem. Fair Deal?
“You know the story: out of control domestic spending, massive balance of payment and trade deficits, and the mind-boggling expense of foreign war are pressuring the dollar and leading governments around the world to demand U.S. fiscal constraint. Except that the President isn't Barak Obama, but rather Richard Nixon. And he responds by unilaterally terminating the convertibility of dollars to gold, stopping the run on Fort Knox by countries like France, which were holding gigantic US dollar reserves and trying to make America fulfill its "promise to pay.” Read the entire post
February 4, 2009
Capitalists, Socialists, and OPM
“The indignant screams still echo on Wall Street: Obama's a Socialist! As its own hometown paper puts it, the President's pronouncement that its collective $18 billion year-end tip was “outrageous” amounted to “targeting what capitalists we have left for abuse.” This is all helpful clarification, because I was getting confused. I had this fuzzy, but obviously incorrect, recollection from college...” Read the entire post
October 19, 2008
Seven Steps to Comp Control
September 25, 2008
Bob Rice Blogs: Captain McCain and Campaign Chess
September 15, 2008
Feeling Lucky? The Odds of a President Palin
September 4, 2008
Bob Rice Blogs: Google's Cash Cow: You
August 28, 2008
Bob Rice Blogs: A Beautiful Irony—V.C.'s Displaced By Technology
August 28, 2008
Bob Rice Blogs: Late Summer Here, and in Googleville
August 28, 2008
Bob Rice Blogs: AT&T v. Verizon. Who's the Pawn?
August 27, 2008
Celebrity Blog: Bob Rice on Portfolio.com Thursday
October 1, 2008
Roger Cohen: Nixon, Bush, Palin
“...I'm grateful to Bob Rice ...for pointing out that the actuarial risk, based on mortality tables, of Sarah Palin becoming president if the McCain-Palin Republican ticket wins the election is about one in six or seven.”
August 20, 2008
Listen to the podcast of Bob's interview with Peter Clayton of the Total Picture Radio.
As it turns out, Information Age business comes with a 1,000 year old user's guide.
August 13, 2008
Chess for Fun and Business Profit
In Three Moves Ahead, venture capitalist and chess player Bob Rice shows how strategies devised for combat between black and white can keep your business out of the red.