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–Ben Kwan, Attorney
Work brought me to Harrisburg, Pa. during the first part of this week. Two colleagues and I finished with our business early Wednesday, so we took in the sights at the National Civil War Museum, which sits atop a marvelous hill overlooking the Susquehanna River Valley. If you ever have occasion…
–Ben Kwan, Attorney
The other day, my better half and I were brainstorming the next great social media app. You know, the one that would propel us from our employers’ payrolls like circus performers out of a cannon? We had the concept down — there was a social component, some cool location-based features, and a…
–Ben Kwan, Attorney
I love living in Minneapolis. The quotient for savvy and sophisticated branding is high – an opinion reinforced every time I glance out my office window.
Today, I have two examples of fantastic marketing in the public square. One has been around for quite some time, the other is brand new. One…
–Ben Kwan, Attorney
It’s February — and that means it’s time for local television stations across the nation to get out their measuring sticks. Here in Minneapolis, and on this day, that notion carries a double meaning. For one, the local weather forecasts are calling for maybe a foot of snow and blizzard winds after…
–Ben Kwan, Attorney
Ok. I admit. I’m too young, no, make that way too young to know how the milk man system of delivery worked. Was it subscription-based? Or was there an element of public service to it – where the milk man (or maid!) strolled past every house on the block anticipating that just…
–Ben Kwan, Attorney
It’s the week between Christmas and New Year – which hopefully means you find yourself with a little R&R time. R&R in our household always includes time to read purely for pleasure. With that, I’d like to share one of my favorite pieces of legal journalism from the past month, it’s especially…
–Ben Kwan, Attorney
Does anyone else think Amazon’s Jeff Bezos utterly bamboozled Charlie Rose and the good folks over at 60 Minutes last Sunday night?
In his interview with Rose, Bezos unveiled a service he dubs “Amazon Prime Air,” a delivery service that would use autonomous drones to deliver Amazon goods weighing less than five…
–Ben Kwan, Attorney
“Yes!” I exclaimed as I scrolled through my Facebook feed two days ago, “Perfect timing! I’ll get to follow-up on Brent Lorentz’s ‘You’ve gotta be shipping me!!’ DuetsBlog post from earlier this year.
Consider it an early Christmas gift from the cheeky folks at Kmart and their advertising partner, Joe…
–Ben Kwan, Attorney
Who knew the fleeting annual presence of haunted houses — around your town and mine — was enough to achieve the vaunted status of “Billion Dollar Industry?”
That’s what I found out when I tuned-in to watch the NBC Nightly News last weekend to catch my friend and fellow Medill School of…