A few months ago, I did an interview with Rod Burkert, the founder of a business valuation and litigation support firm Burkert Valuation Advisors, LLC. Burkert writes a series called “Practicing Solo” for the Value Examiner which features interviews with sole practitioners from various fields providing some real-life practical advice from professionals who have went out […]
I am not a violent person. Other than a few fistfights with my younger brother, I have been in only one fight in my life. It was in the rear of a rival high school when I was in 10th grade. I got my butt whupped. And he was about half my size. But every […]
A few weeks back, I gave an intensive two-day training course for private investigators at a New York City-based investigative firm. The course was called Gathering, Analyzing and Interpreting Internet Intelligence – Master Class (I totally stole the “Master Class” from my friend Eli Rosenblatt). It was an exhaustive look into how to gather and […]
“I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” ~ Thomas Jefferson Life isn’t a lottery. It’s not a win-some-lose-some kind of thing. It’s about choices. And making smart decisions about those choices. That “lucky” person we all seem to know? It’s really […]
Anyone can request their own driver abstract record or “lifetime abstract” in New York by submitting Form MV-15 to the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles, but for individuals seeking to obtain someone else’s record, there are privacy protections in place. New York State driving records are protected by the Federal Driver’s Privacy Protection […]
Last year we started a tradition of giving thanks to some of our clients with a custom football made by my friend Paul Cunningham at Leather Head Sports. In an era where fastest and cheapest are formulas we use to describe the value of things, it’s a clear reminder that quality, premium goods and services […]
1Don’t take on clients who are more interested in the mysterious, secretive, shady, working-on-the-edge-of-the-law mystique 2Follow the facts 3Don’t get hung up with what other people think 4If at any point you think you know everything, it’s time to get out of the business 5If you are not an expert in something, become one (or […]
A few weeks ago we received a call from a local hedge fund manager who was being harassed through a series of text messages by someone who had threatened to create a website detailing the hedge fund manager’s infidelities. It had not reached the point of extortion or blackmail, but it was clear that this […]
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