Last week, Simon Cowell's new show, X-Factor, called one of my companies, Mount Olympus Awards asking if we could outfit the varsity jackets for Marcus Canty's performance of Bobby Brown's hit "Every Little Step I Take" on tonight's live show.   Most of the time, letterman jackets with custom chenilles take 4 to 6 weeks, but Mount Olympus Awards is among, if not the, fastest large scale companies in the industry with a 2-4 week average.  We have a special media department that handles high … [Read more...]

Earlier this year, I was watching Gossip Girl and suddenly the characters on screen were wearing varsity jackets.  I immediately called the office and demanded to know why we hadn't been the one that made the products.  The response?  "We were."   There have been a few other moments like that in the past couple of months but I particularly enjoyed this weekend, when I unexpectedly found that custom letterman jackets and varsity letters from Mount Olympus Awards were once again featured … [Read more...]

It's been awhile since I updated you on the only investments I tend to discuss on the site, the KRIP portfolio.  That is the backup source of retirement funds behind the businesses, the projects, the "real" investments, and main focus of my career.  It tends to hold high-quality blue chip stocks that get bought at attractive prices and then parked, ignored, with dividends reinvested for decades.   In the past few months, I've been using some of my copyright royalties and dividends from one … [Read more...]