Putting on the Shvitz
By J.L. KOMINICKI // Can you build a $500 million brand on flash alone? If you’re Justin Bieber, apparently so. Otherwise you need a product, and a pretty good one…
Opinion
Think big, but don’t act like it
By J.L. KOMINICKI Those of us trying to scale a business got a free lesson from McDonald’s this week on the dangers of getting too big to pivot. I know,…
The real downside of losing our young people is what they leave behind. Us.
By J.L. Kominicki // You’ve probably heard Long Island is having trouble hanging onto its young people, particularly those in the coveted 18 to 34 cohort, the age group most…
The not quite magical, but mysteriously necessary, Start-Up NY tour
By JOHN L. KOMINICKI // The state’s economic development arm hit Long Island this week with what wags are calling the Start-Up NY Damage Control Tour. And there’s plenty to…
Don’t buy this for Father’s Day
By JOHN L. KOMINICKI // With Father’s Day nigh, the Web and social media are downright distended, digitally speaking, with gift ideas for the favorite progenitor-figure in your life. No…
VIEWPOINT: A second shot at suburbia
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio’s progressive agenda offers an historic opportunity for Long Island to right itself. By JOHN L. KOMINICKI // At long last, Long Island and New York…
Is it NIMBYism if it’s already in your backyard?
BY JOHN L. KOMINICKI History buffs know the Long Island Rail Road was built for one purpose: Getting people from Brooklyn to Boston. And it might have worked if a…
OPINION: Cuomo didn’t have to go so far south
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo was in Cuba this week to push his Global New York strategy, which seeks to expand trade and other business opportunities for Empire State companies. At…
VIEWPOINT: Shuffling in from Buffalo
Howard Zemsky, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s newly minted economic development chief, was on Long Island recently to hob and nob with pols and local business leaders. In a speech to a…