About Mitch Fox
Mitchell W. Fox is a management strategy consultant at Bain & Company in Sydney, Australia. He recently spent several months freelance consulting in San Francisco, CA at an entrepreneurial small business, Zecco, an online stock brokerage and investment community.
Previously, Mitch was a consultant for the Monitor Group, a management strategy consultancy, in San Francisco, Boston, Frankurt, and London. Mitch also worked with several nonprofit clients as an analyst with the Monitor Institute.
Mitch is a graduate of Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, where he studied International Business and Small Business Management. While at Georgetown, Mitch was the Founder and President of Hilltop Consultants, a pro-bono student consulting organization serving nonprofit organizations in Washington, DC.
Mitch is an avid traveller and amateur photographer, and enjoys sports and activities that get him into the outdoors.
California Clean Tech Open Finalists
The California Clean Tech Open, a business plan contest with considerable, hefty backers, this morning announced its list of finalists. I found the list of technologies and business ideas so interesting I decided to share it here to help bring attention to these impressive entrepreneurial ventures:
Air, Water & Waste Category Finalists
Clean Coal Inc.: Removes contaminants [...]
Continued... »Mashable’s SummerMash San Francisco 2008
Mashable hosted its annual SummerMash event tonight - it was the third such entrepreneurial hob-knobbing event I have joined since moving back to San Francisco in March.
After receiving a free drink ticket from PubMatic for signing up for their iPod drawing, I set out to meet some other guests. The first dynamic duo I met [...]
Killing Netflix “Profiles” - A Stupid Business Decision
Netflix is ending its longstanding policy of allowing customers to hold multiple profiles under a single account. The announcement was sent to users today:
We wanted to let you know we will be eliminating Profiles, the feature that allowed you to set up separate DVD Queues under one account, effective September 1, 2008.
Each additional Profile Queue [...]
Apple’s MobileMe: A Good Idea for the Wrong Price
Apple’s new MobileMe service, which will allow consumers to sync their mail, calendar, contacts, and other content across their phone, personal computer, and any other device which can access the web, has been been called “The Most Interesting part of this year’s WWDC” and heralded by some to be poised to “Crush Exchange and Google.” [...]
Continued... »Harnessing the Ocean’s Power for Electricity
This week’s Economist contains a couple of interesting articles in its Technology Quarterly outlining a variety of approaches to harnessing natural and renewable sources of energy for human consumption. Specifically, it focuses on technologies capturing power from the ocean.
Wind
The first looks at new technology for off-shore wind farms which would allow them to be [...]
Greystripe - Developing a Complete Mobile Phone Advertising System from Scratch
After attending a presentation yesterday by CEO and Founder, Michael Chang, and VP of Operations, Kurt Hawks, about their startup, Greystripe, I have a newfound appreciation for the challenges that face entrepreneurs innovating in a part of the market where there is so much uncertainty. Greystripe’s primary revenue stream is from the sale of [...]
Continued... »Reflecting on the Launch of Hilltop Consultants
I was recently asked to contribute to a guidebook for new student members of Hilltop Consultants, a student nonprofit consulting organization that I started while I was at Georgetown University. I thought it would be appropriate to also post my thoughts here:
Starting Hilltop Consultants was an exciting part of my university experience at Georgetown. [...]
TripIt and Dopplr - A Match (which could be) Made in Heaven
I was recently introduced to TripIt, a “next generation” travel site which has really impressed me in my first day as a user. It replaces Dopplr (which I have used for approximately four months now) as my favorite startup travel destination on the web for two major reasons: its superior input methodology and [...]
Continued... »How to Keep Your AT&T Wireless Number When Moving Abroad
I screwed this up the first time I moved abroad, but learned my lessons and want to share them with anyone who cares to listen.
The Problem: You are moving abroad, perhaps for a year, maybe two, and currently have an AT&T wireless phone. You do not want to lose your phone number, which all of [...]
Proud To Be a Californian Today
Today, I feel proud to be a Californian. I am proud to be a resident in one of only two states to finally allow same sex marriage. At 5:01pm today, my fellow Californians were finally able get married without question of their race, their religion, their political beliefs, or their sexual orientation.
I fervently believe [...]
When Boulder is Bolder
In late May, a few beautiful things happen to Boulder, Colorado. First, most of the students move out, reducing the city’s population by nearly 20,000 and leaving the bars and restaurants less crowded and accessible for the exclusive enjoyment of residents and visitors. Second, regardless of how many late spring snow storms have [...]
Continued... »Sydney Bound
After more than two months of promising friends “I’ll let you know as soon as I know,” I can finally say with near-certainty that I am, indeed, Sydney bound.
Ellaine was accepted last week into the University of Sydney’s Masters program of Applied Science in Molecular Biotechnology and will begin her studies on July 28. [...]
Impressions from Johannesburg
While it has been over two months since I returned from my trek through Africa, I am eager to share my thoughts and reactions from this important experience before they have faded even further from my memory.
Over parts of January, February, and March of this year (8 weeks in total), I lived in a one-bedroom [...]
Building the Zecco Bay to Breakers Float
Over the last week, I designed and helped build the Zecco.com float to be used in the Bay to Breakers race on May 18. It was fun to break out the skills I learned as a set designer and builder in high school and college theatre for an immensely more practical purpose: creating [...]
Continued... »Reactions from the Newseum
I visited the Newseum (museum of news in Washington, DC) this morning, four days after its inaugural opening. I was impressed, educated, and intrigued, and am in the midst of rearranging my day’s schedule so I can return for more.
This innovative museum tells the story of American history through a far more approachable medium than [...]
Impressions of Israel
Visiting Israel from Saudi Arabia was no easy feat. The two countries do not have formal diplomatic relations, and generally Israel (or Occupied Palestine as it is sometimes referred to) is a taboo subject. There are no direct flights between Saudi Arabia and Israel, and anyone with an Israeli stamp [...]
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