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Cap-and-trade Requires Paying the "True Cost" of Resources

Many of our Legislators have expressed the idea that cap-and-trade is a tax that would be expensive and hurt the economy, particularly farming. That isn't necessarily so.

Five Essential Tips For Any Internet Start-Up: How My Website Made it Into Fortune Magazine
Source: People For The American Dream

It was in the summer of 2006 when I decided, like Twisted Sister once bravely proclaimed several decades before me, that I wasn't going to take it anymore.

7 Business Lessons from the Garden
Source: Traveling Forever

Business lessons from the Garden.

10 Reasons Why Small Businesses Fail
Source: Triond

Every year new businesses are formed. The average business can last anywhere from six months to 100 years. Since the Internet is becoming even more popular, small business are popping up everywhere. Here are a list of 10 reason's why small businesses fail.

Bouje Publishing Honored by The Corporate Volunteer Council of Atlanta (CVC) for Dedication to Community Service

Bouje Publishing was awarded the 2009 Emerging Program Award which recognizes an employee volunteer program that is less than 2 years old and has achieved significant results.

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This is a recent article written on the Corporate Recruitment Leadership & Training Corps, a private sector ROTC company.

The Gig-Saver: 15 Tones, One Guitar
Source: NPR

Bruce Jacob, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Maryland, had a musical problem. His new electric guitar just wouldn't give him all the sounds he wanted.

Seeking Speakers, Authors, Poets, Entertainment, and Workshop Presenters (CALL FOR PROPOSALS)
Source: I See Color

EMPOWERED 2 PROSPER YOUNG-ADULT LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE would not exist without quality workshops, presentations, and entertainment venues.

Startup 128: An Interview with Bill Gurley of Benchmark
Source: Joseph Ansanelli

An interview with Bill Gurley of Benchmark on what he looks for in his investments, founders, the state of the venture capital business, and why Benchmark invested in Twitter.

Adam Dudley: From Physical Ed to Private Equity | Venture Hype
Source: www.VentureHype.com

As a Managing Partner at Grace Capital Partners LLC, Adam Dudley is an anomaly in the investment industry as his path to success has been interesting, fruitful and even a little bit adventurous.

The Surprise Is on Silicon Valley, Thanks to Obama - ABC News
Source: ABC News

Silicon Valley played a crucial role in the success of President Obama … and Silicon Valley naturally assumed that the new president would do the same in return. It hasn't quite turned out that way.

Convincing a venture capitalist to invest in your idea
Source: News at Nature

With the bear market for venture capital a seemingly permanent fixture of the investment landscape, it is critical for the fortunate few biotechnology companies that have secured a meeting with a venture capital firm to present their businesses' value propositions properly and po …

The Scientific Method in Entrepreneurship
Source: How To Split An Atom

Using the Scientific Method to support entrepreneurship.

New Political Leadership is Emerging in Africa - Good News from Africa in 2009.
Source: Independent.co.uk

Ansie van Wyk once asked whether Political leaders in Africa are "Presidents, patrons or profiteers?" New Political Leadership is emerging in Africa.

Washington Is Killing Silicon Valley: Entrepreneurship was taken for granted. Now we're seeing a lot less of it.
Source: Wall Street Journal

For more than 30 years the entrepreneurship-venture capital-IPO cycle centered in Silicon Valley has generated new wealth, commercialized innovation, and created new companies and industries. It's also spun off millions of new jobs.

Our First Thanksgiving| The Foundation for Economic Education: The Freeman, Ideas on Liberty
Source: The Foundation for Economic Education

So They Tried Freedom Yet, following the harvest gathered in in the fall of that same year, 1623, and for all the years that followed, Governor Bradford tells us, "any generall wante or famine hath not been amongst them since to this day."

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I first heard about the Puppy Channel on This American Life, back in 2006.

Bailout fails, but we will not!
Source: Club E Network

September 29, 2008 was quite an eye opening day and we can all admit to being anxious for what will become of the "greatest country the world." When CNN commentators are saying that we are entering a time of economic turmoil worse than that of the Great Depression, even I am sta …

'Inventing the Movies': The Epic Battle between Innovation and the Status Quo in Hollywood - Knowledge@Wharton
Source: knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu

Thomas Edison, whose laboratory created some of the technology that made movies possible, apparently had a blind spot about the potential of motion pictures.

Google to Extend Reach With Venture-Capital Arm
Source: Wall Street Journal

Google is working on plans to start a venture-capital arm and hired a former entrepreneur to help set it up.

Optimizing The University - Why We Need a New Educational Model For A New Century
Source: Scientific Blogging

There are currently great needs and great opportunities for improvement in post-secondary science education.

Gambles in a risqué business
Source: FT.com

Certain industries seem to attract more than their fair share of entrepreneurs – lingerie is one of those.

University as an entrepreneur
Source: Turkishdailynews

Unlike other state universities in Turkey struggling with funding problems, Anadolu University in Eskişehir operates like a private company to ensure it has sufficient revenue to support its research.

Corporatism: Greed for the Sake of Them, Not Us

I am a capitalist. I do not believe that communism is an effective mechanism for securing economic and social justice. I believe that private wealth, governed properly, is of great benefit to humankind.

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