Pittsburgh Offers Driving Lessons For Uber’s Autonomous Cars

by synergycap1 | Apr 3, 2017 | Bad Credit Loans, Bank Lending, Business Lending, Business Loans, Capital, Finance, Non-Bank Loans, Working Capital

Enlarge this image Each autonomous vehicle has two Uber exployees in the front seat; one is ready to grab the wheel and apply a foot to the brake pedal, the other in the passenger seat, has a computer screen showing what the car’s rooftop laser-bouncing radar is...

Advice CEOs Wish They’d Gotten Before Their First Job

by synergycap1 | Apr 3, 2017 | Bad Credit Loans, Bank Lending, Business Lending, Business Loans, Finance, Lead, Working Capital

I have absolutely no advice for people starting their first jobs, since my first paying job was playing electric bass in a rock band. All I learned was that musicians perform better when they show up sober. Because I’ve got nothing on this subject, here’s...

Self-Driving and Electric Cars Are Going to Have Tons of Strange Effects on Society

by synergycap1 | Apr 3, 2017 | Bad Credit Loans, Bank Lending, Business Lending, Business Loans, Finance, Working Capital

Autonomy and electrification will have bigger impacts on the world than you might expect.

Amazon beta testing Influencer Program aimed exclusively at social media bigwigs

by synergycap1 | Apr 3, 2017 | Bad Credit Loans, Bank Lending, Business Lending, Business Loans, Finance, Non-Bank Loans, Working Capital

Amazon is beta-testing an invite-only Influencer Program that will give social media influencers an Amazon.com vanity URL to make commissions on sales of products they want to promote. Reported last week on TechCrunch, the program is similar to Amazon’s...

The problems with our driver training system

by synergycap1 | Apr 3, 2017 | Bad Credit Loans, Bank Lending, Business Lending, Business Loans, Finance, Non-Bank Loans, Working Capital

Recently, a person dropped into the office at Altanic Transportation, looking for a job. He had no appointment, but I chose to interview and road test him. A brief conversation revealed he was from Europe, and had driven truck for a number of years. When he came to...

The Mark Dalton Project, Part 2

by synergycap1 | Apr 3, 2017 | Bad Credit Loans, Bank Lending, Business Lending, Business Loans, Finance, Non-Bank Loans, Working Capital

After delivering his load in Toronto, Mark headed for Scarborough in the east end of the city where his Aunt Mary had her home. Parking Mother Load on a residential street wasn’t allowed, so he parked his truck at a nearby shopping plaza a few minutes’...