Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Making a Connection

Matthew Crocker remembers well the first discussions he had with his mother, Regis, the president of Crocker Communications, about moving the company into the realm of Internet service.

"I was leaving UMass and really dreading the thought of being without Internet service," he recalled for BusinessWest. "I tried to convince her that the Internet was the next wave of communication ... the place where the company needed to go. She said 'no."'

He and his brother, James, tried again a few months later. The answer was the same.

It took a cover story in Time on the Internet, which she read on the flight home from a business trip, that finally convinced her, said Matthew, …

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