Q2 2022

For centuries, military tacticians and business leaders have been studying the immortal words of Sun Tzu. But what is it about the Chinese generals philosophy that has fascinated the titans of industry? And why are the combat arts such effective and efficient preparation for the business world? As a small business owner, few things are […]

Stanley Westervelt, 27, is attempting to enter what appears to be an increasingly multiplayer segment of the regional economy.  When he’s not working at a Clifton Park dental clinic or tending his family in New Lebanon, the developer is producing a role-playing video game with friends. His start-up, Midnight Game Studios, has only crowdsourced $25 […]

Did you know it is NEVER legal to pass a slow-moving farm tractor in a no-passing zone (i.e. on a double yellow line)?  Yes, it can be annoying to be stuck behind one when we are rushing off to a meeting somewhere.  It can also be confusing if the tractor eases over to the right […]

Google was founded as a search engine in 1998. Mannix Marketing – a regional giant in search engine optimization – was founded in 1996. Talk about being ahead of the curve!  Sara Mannix was on to something enormous when she conceived of a marketing company that could help her clients connect with new customers in […]

Many SMBs (small & mid-sized businesses), and local employers, are looking to the big multi-national corporations to answer the question – “is hybrid work the new normal” We regularly see articles pointing toward the evolving decisions Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Google or Tesla are taking. Perhaps they are calling their employees back to the office, maybe they […]

The Capital Region’s status as a “brain belt” in the country’s industrial and scientific innovation economy wouldn’t hold up without the connections the Tech Valley Center of Gravity (TVCOG) makerspace has been facilitating for the past decade. How We Became a Brain Belt In the 1800’s the region was a hub for manufacturing everything from […]

Is the Great Reset a conspiracy theory imagining a vast left-wing plot to establish a totalitarian one-world government? No. Despite the fact that some people may have spun conspiracy theories based on it—with some reason, as we will see—the Great Reset is real. Indeed, just last year, Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the […]

Welcome to Tec-Smart SARATOGA COUNTY – The technology corridor running straight through Saratoga County has grown steadily for two decades, stretching from its Capital Region/Hudson Valley birthplace to New York State’s northern and southern borders. Tech Valley’s success can be attributed to many sources, but none so much as the halls of higher education institutions, […]

Probate.  Most of you reading this article have likely heard this word many times before, but what does it actually mean?  In New York, probate is the process of formally petitioning the local Surrogate’s Court to accept a deceased person’s Last Will and Testament and officially appoint an executor for the estate.  Depending on the […]

Introduction The Metaverse is emerging. It’s a new, hybrid world that will be built on the existing infrastructure of the internet but will be much more immersive, interactive, and social than what customers are used to today. As identified by Chad Beatty in the Saratoga Business Report, definitions of Web 3 vary, but feature core […]

Capitalism without a grassroots ethos of “do unto others as you would have them do unto you”, is nihilistic and ultimately un-useful. There is a reason that “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism”, a book written by Max Weber in the early 1900’s, forms a foundational social/economics thesis among modern social scientists and […]

On July 30th 2015, Vitalik Buterin launched a new entity onto the world: Ethereum. This is something unlike anything the world has ever seen, this new creation is, in essence, a decentralized global computer. Inspired by Bitcoin but with grander ambitions, Ethereum has opened up a world of new markets made of smart contracts, Web3 […]