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Tim Mullaney
"I hated a lot of what you wrote, but you were the only one in the whole damn pack who thought for
himself.''
Richard Braddock, former chairman, Priceline.com Inc.
"Tim Mullaney, who covers technology trends for BusinessWeek, has an excellent nose for new ideas.''
From ``Finding the Next Starbucks,'' by Michael Moe, Penguin Group, 2007
"I look forward to working with you the next time you are instructed (by short sellers) to call."
Patrick Byrne, CEO, Overstock.com*
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Welcome to my online portfolio. If I've given you this address, I've probably been in
contact with you about freelance writing or joining your organization. If you've found
it on your own, you need to get out more. Really.
I'm a technology, finance and economics writer who has worked for some of the
world's top news outfits. Most people who recognize my name would know me from
when I was BusinessWeek's E-Business Editor and a Bloomberg senior writer. I've
also written for The Washington Post Magazine, Reuters Breakingviews, USA
TODAY, The Daily, Wired, The Chicago Tribune,The Baltimore Sun and others.
I do a couple of things better than the average bear:
* I spot trends, and tell people what to do about them. I've had major magazines
and papers follow me on either their covers or page one, on topics from health care
to Internet stocks and buying diamonds. As recently as September 2010, the
Sunday New York Times did a page-one story featuring a robot I put on BW's cover
in 2005. Plus my published stock portfolio quadrupled from 2002 to 2008, and beat
every US tech fund from 2004 through 2009. (Thanks to conflict of interest policies,
I didn't make a cent.) In the summer of 2010, the seven stock picks I made for
Reuters rose an average of 61 percent by September 30. Mike Moe's book gives a
list of people to watch to find emerging growth companies: I'm the only MSM
journalist. Pretty much everyone else is a venture capitalist or fund manager. I'm
sure I'm the only non-millionaire too, he said ruefully.
* I write with a certain amount of voice and sass. If you need someone who will be
comfortable toggling back and forth between a traditional publication and the Net,
doing a column or a blog along with straighter stories, or just some nice magazine
work that doesn't sound like everyone else, I'm your guy. As you go through this
site, you'll see me turning that on and off depending on whether it's right for the
specific publication and the specific story. But it's always there if you need it.
The clips are organized under the categories on the left. Depending on what we're
talking about having me do for you, you can see the kind of stuff I've done. No one
needs to read it all, so graze through the kind of stories your publication might want
me to do. Many stories are in more than one category exactly because I don't
expect any one reader to devour the whole site. Sometimes there's a little
competitive analysis of who beat whom, too...I'm a pretty competitive guy.
Enjoy. And hire me soon.
* Dr. Byrne wrote this in response to written questions that asked, among other things, why he had
turned his fastest-growing division over to a twenty-something executive who had pleaded guilty to
distributing ecstasy. Shares of Overstock have fallen to $10 from $28 since, and Byrne has acknowledged
being under federal investigation.
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