Rosetta Stone

What a great name for a company. Unlocking the code in your brain to help you learn how to speak a foreign language. What an interesting concept.

I am pleased and honored to join the Board of Directors of this public company. Their brand and distribution seem strong. Those kiosk and yellow boxes are everywhere.

There are headquartered here. They employ our neighbors and friends. They stimulate our local economy. They are growing. They are profitable.

I enjoy mentoring young executives and helping to drive companies to large scale.

This will be a fun and interesting adventure.

I hope to use their products, too, to learn how to speak Russian.

Go out and learn a new language and become a global citizen.

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Signs – Signs – Everywhere are Signs!

It was a good week in business, Google had what I believe was a terrific quarter with huge profits and its stock is closing in again on $400 per share.

Rosetta Stone, a local DC based company filed for an IPO and its share price soared at the end of the week to $28 plus from this week’s opening of $12. Congratulations to them! Way to go.

And Citibank had a profitable quarter. Big banks are slowly and surely reaping the benefits of all of that pruning and those big write-offs and the government’s intervention and cash to prop them up.

 These are three tangible signs that a turnaround has really started. Don’t miss the signs.