May 2001

Can’t Live With Them, Can’t Live Without Them; Trade Shows, That Is

It feels to me like more trade shows are being better produced at exactly the time when we don’t need them in quite the same way we use to. Or maybe there’s the same number of trade shows, but we don’t feel the need to go to as many. Or maybe retailers, who don’t make their living […]

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Swell Raises $2 Million

Surfing

Almost as soon as my article on surf industry internet models was finished, Swell shut down its Crossrocket site and then, on May 3rd, announced it had raised $2 million in bridge financing. I hate it when that happens. Rather than just throw up a press release that created more questions than it answered (see it

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