November 3, 2008

Spotlight On: Mark Bisnow


He's had a half dozen careers--political wire puller, lawyer, technology yea-sayer, who lost M's and M's when Microstrategy took a nosedive (that's millions and millions lost, not chocolate candies). He's been an author, radio host, columnist, and each time, if all else fails or bores him, comes up undaunted with something new. He's been called "the unsinkable Mark Bisnow."

Even his name presages his latest venture: eight free online business newsletters available in your inbox under the Bisnow on Business, (Almost) Never Boring banner. The letters cover legal, medical, real estate, women, technology and other topics. "The tone's irreverent on all of them," says Bisnow, who labels them "Washington's most widely read business news."

Always dynamic, before he was 20 he had earned a B.A. and a master's from Stanford, did a year at Princeton, then went on to Harvard Law after he married helpmeet Margot Machol, another political worker who herself eventually wound up on the Federal Trade Commission.

Be forewarned. You'll get the third degree if he's given half a chance. Avidly interested in anything and everything, with an author's instinct for the story, he wants to KNOW, just as for his newsletters, he wants to TELL!

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