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New blog on social entrepreneurship from College of Wooster
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on July 5, 2009
... inaugural Global Social Entrepreneurship (GSE) program. The trip is supported by the Smucker's Fund for Global Ethics.
For any new followers of our blog, here is a more linear collection of...
NetworkingForPros.com Puts You on the Web
in Bizinformer, on June 30, 2009
© Dmitry Baranovskiy
I've been contributing over the last few months to the content of a vibrant and growing site that points toward the future of the Internet and has profound potential for eCommerce and business. The site is NetworkingForPros.com .
When I look across the web at the mome...
Your Company Website
in Bizinformer, on June 30, 2009
I talked yesterday over at BizPlanHacks about getting customers through your company website. Do you have a company website? You should.
SimplWeb has an online course available to help you start a website. They describe it as "a free 7 part guide to creating a killer content site that ca...
Is plain vanilla the right goal?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 30, 2009
...king them out.
That's the fear with plain vanilla: You might discourage creative, smart money managers from financial success.
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Durbin-Grassley, Indian Outsourcing, and the H-1B Visa
in Global Mobility Report, on June 29, 2009
...ll erupt if the Durbin-Grassley bill is signed into law.
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Can You Get Money from the Government? Maybe...
in TJ's Weblog, on June 23, 2009
Michael Sanibel had a helpful blog post recently on government grants. He looks at all the basics:
What is a grant?
Who can qualify?
How do you apply?
What types of grants are available?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of getting a grant?
Why would a grant application not b...
iPod Touch 2代升级OS 3.0新系统完美破解/越狱（附图文教程）
in Wangtam, on June 21, 2009
• iPod Touch 2代升级OS 3.0新系统完美破解/越狱（附图文教程）
• Embrace Your Femininity
• Mozilla Firefox 3.5 RC2 for Windows
• Mozilla Firefox 3.5 RC2 for Linux
• Mozilla Firefox 3.5 RC2 for MacOS
• Sony should beware - Activision chief is not simply playing games
• That Was Quick: Veodia Acquires Screen C...
Digital Britain on Filesharing
in P2P File Sharing, on June 21, 2009
...ister's Chris Williams . " UK Music , which represents labels, collecting societies, music managers and the Musicians' Union said it did not believe the package would reduce piracy by 7...
Enjoying First Grade
in The Parenting Weblog, on June 19, 2009
My son is truly enjoying first grade. It has been 2 weeks and he is already having a blast.
Though we both have to adjust to waking up early (classes are from 710 to 1130 in the mornings and 1 to 4 in the afternoons), we have slowly gotten there. I don't just rely on one alarm clock, I hav...
CIA recruits bankers
in Sox First, on June 19, 2009
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If you've been retrenched as a banker or hedge fund manager, don't worry. There's plenty of work out there, if you want to become a spook. The CIA is now running a recruitment ad for...
The Ultimate Fathers Day Gift for a Classic Car Guy
in Classical Drives, on June 17, 2009
...mology , assisting and educating the blind and visually impaired. The Bridgestone Americas Trust Fund is a co-sponsor. The annual automotive design show, held Sunday, June 21, features more than 200...
A GM name change?
in Sox First, on June 17, 2009
Last month, Harvard Business School set off the debate about a name change for GM . It suggested going for an American theme, although somehow I don't think Stars and Stripes Automobile Manufacturing Co. is going to cut it in a global market. But a name change might be necessary. "If ...
The slow recovery
in Sox First, on June 16, 2009
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So the International Monetary Fund has given the US economy, and by implication the Obama administration, a big tick of sorts in its latest report . The IMF projects that the economy will contrac...
Just Koogle it.
in Sox First, on June 16, 2009
Now I've heard everything. We have reports of a new kosher search engine called "koogle" developed in Israel that allows religious Jews to search the Net without compromising their religious standards. Koogle screens out such forbidden material as sexually explicit images or pict...
Throwing the book at Madoff
in Sox First, on June 16, 2009
... a son for whom all of this was about now unable to attend college because Madoff stole his college fund as surely as he stole our future. "Madoffs investors have been put in a position of years...
Accelerating Relationships with Social Networking
in TJ's Weblog, on June 15, 2009
Business has always been at least partly about networking. More and more, it has come to be about social networking. I wrote recently about the need to focus your efforts in social networking. I came across this piece not long ago by Christopher Rollyson on how business relationships can, in h...
Unemployment: are the numbers lying?
in Sox First, on June 14, 2009
So unemployment in the US has jumped to 9.4% but are the numbers telling us the truth? Is unemployment actually worse than what the statisticians are telling us? As reported here , consultant John Williams says the number of unemployed in the US is actually more like 20%, which takes it up t...
Recession and marriage
in Sox First, on June 12, 2009
It seems the recession is saving marriages. Or it might be prolonging the agony. In Britain, The Independent reports that accountants Grant Thornton have found that fewer couples are divorcing. Plummeting property prices means it's just not worth it, even if it means prolonging a bad marr...
Wal-Mart Promises to Promote Women. Do you Believe Them?
in Bizinformer, on June 11, 2009
...le leaders by launching a "global women's council." Just 27% of Wal-Mart's senior managers are women, and that number has been stagnant since 2007. A sex-descrimination case against ...
Art Funds
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on June 10, 2009
...di, head of Merit Alternative Investments GmbH and director of the world-wide first Art Photography Fund. "Investments in material assets such as real estate, commodities, as well as art, continu...
Hedge Fund Competing To Buy British Bank
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on June 9, 2009
..., including the iShares business.
BlackRock's BGI buyout will break its own record in a hedge fund transaction, when in 2006 BlackRock took over Merrill Lynch's asset management business for...
Entrepreneurial Life
in TJ's Weblog, on June 7, 2009
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I came across a interesting piece last week from Small Business Trends : Entrepreneurial Lessons From The Experts. It was a list of simple observations about the life of entrepreneurs in general. Author Lisa Bourne was lucky enough to get Copyblogger's Brian Clark, John Jantsc...
Social Networking With Purpose
in BootStrapMe, on June 7, 2009
Entrepreneur.Com had a piece recently that made a simple point: You should be selective with your social networks.
The simple truth is that social networking can be a time consuming endeavor. It's easy to get bogged down trying to read all your Twitter posts. Social networks can become redun...
Cutting Salaries
in Biz Plan Hacks, on June 6, 2009
...d Cutting Salaries Instead of Jobs .
Does it make sense? Once considered off limits for salaried managers and professionals, base pay reductions are becoming increasingly common in today's brut...
Social entrepreneurship: A three decade history
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on May 31, 2009
...g an overview of social entrepreneurship initiatives done in the last 30 years. Leaders from Acumen Funds, Skoll Foundations and some entrepreneurs like Mohammad Yunus offer their point of views about...
Beer company to contribute to social entrepreneurship movement
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on May 31, 2009
...in Dublin, Guinness has pledged to raise €2.5 million in start up capital for its Arthur Guinness Fund for Social Entrepreneurs. The money is aimed to support approximately twenty-five social entrepre...
Facebook 公布 fbFund 基金获奖名单
in Wangtam, on May 30, 2009
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Facebook 本周公布了 fbFund 基金的 20 大赢家，其中包括 18 家创业公司和 2 家非营利机构。
为鼓励外部开发者为 Facebook 开发应用程序， Facebook 2007 年 9 月与 Accel Capital、Founders Fund 两家风险投资公司共同组建了 fbFund 基金，始创金额为 1000 万美元，并为符合条件外部开发人员提供 2.5 万到 2...
Is sacking people unethical?
in Sox First, on May 28, 2009
...ngs with the same moral rights as you. And that must include the right to make a living." The fundamental problem is that mass sackings are always reactive, responding to massive shifts in the e... ...
With all the layoffs going on, it's worth asking whether managers ever ponder the ethical implications of what they're doing. As the self-styled "ethics guy" Bruce Weinstein sa...
More on the Satyam-PWC scandal
in Sox First, on May 27, 2009
The implosion at Indian IT specialists Satyam raises many questions about corporate governance. As Madhukar Angur says in the Deccan Herald , the debacle suggests we have learned very little since Enron and WorldCom. And that's despite governments around the world tightening their corporat...
The Genius Visa
in Global Mobility Report, on May 25, 2009
© Keith Allison
You've probably never heard of the genius visa. Les than 10,000 people a year are allowed into the U.S. on it. People who are at the absolute top tier of their field in the arts, athletics, sciences, education, or business. Its formal name is the O-1 visa, and BusinessWeek...
No More Hydrogen Cars?
in IfEnergy, on May 22, 2009
... But TreeHugger pointed out one chunk of news that didn't get much coverage. Federal support funding for hydrogen cars seems to have collapsed for now: The money was stripped because the presid...
Tweeting Too Hard
in Wangtam, on May 21, 2009
...ners and property managers
• Sidomac.ca - An Online Book Keeping Application
• Valebrity ensures that celebrities on social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Bebo etc are really who the...
Franchises: WYNTK
in Biz Plan Hacks, on May 19, 2009
We talked recently about how well franchises do during a recession. To balance that I thought I'd point out this piece by Jeff Elgin on buying a franchise. Elgin looks at some things you should know about a franchise contract.
One of the things he points out is that strong franchises usual...
Speed Sourcing - An Over-Reaction to Long Procurement Cycles?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on May 19, 2009
... a step backwards when it comes to the critical need to maintain organizational integration around fundamental business decisions.
Even in tough times - no - especially in tough times, that old adage... ...machine. While I understand frustration that corporate bureaucracy can create, particularly for IT managers used to immediate turnaround, and can see the attractiveness of the "solution" pro...
Times' reporter's story a reminder: It's easy to fall into foreclosure nightmare
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 15, 2009
...gage loan? Are you one of those very fortunate few who actually do have an 8- to 12-month emergency fund built up?
I know I don't. And if I lost my main job? I'd hate to think about how hard ...
Time to lob a Molotov cocktail
in The CIO Weblog, on May 14, 2009
...in not just new technologies but in the new process models which they allow us to apply to the fundamental mission of IT: supporting and accelerating the business.
Why now? It's about time, i... ...o in a way that is right. It provides a philosophy of IT operations which will allow CIOs and IT managers to work within the constraints of business expectations and limited resources without consta...
Hedge Fund Administrator of The Year
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on May 13, 2009
... Along with an award for Hedge Fund Administrator of the year for their alternative investment services (AIS), the Bank of New York Mellon received 6 other awards at the International Custody &...
No recovery yet
in Sox First, on May 8, 2009
Is the US economy on its way to recovery or not? Some would point to the results of the bank stress tests as a green shoot with 10 of the 19 largest banks needed to boost their capital by a combined total just shy of $75 billion. Not as much as many expected, prompting officials and industry ex...
An End to Tax Havens?
in Bizinformer, on May 5, 2009
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A vast number of news sources have been covering President Obama's proposal to close tax loopholes and shut down corporate tax havens. Some examples of the coverage include:
The NY Times , Agence France Press , The Washington Post , Financial Times , Mother Jones Bloomberg...
How Sound is Your Business Plan?
in BootStrapMe, on April 27, 2009
...eported at BizPlanHacks on some research that shows that business plans don't get start-ups funded by VC's. But what do we care?
A business plan takes on a whole new meaning in the conte...
More Wall Street greed
in Sox First, on April 27, 2009
...Citigroup executive to a colleague. "I'm not giving to charity this year!" one hedge-fund analyst shouts into the phone, when I ask about Obama's planned tax increases. "When p...
Nouriel Roubini: we're not even at the bottom yet
in Sox First, on April 27, 2009
...rowth cycle will come from. "We had the real-estate bubble, tech bubble, housing bubble, hedge-fund bubble, private-equity bubble, commodities bubble, even the art bubble-and they are all burstin...
TARP fraud investigations
in Sox First, on April 21, 2009
... looking at how the TARP cop Neil Barofsky bemoaning the lack of accountability for the bailout funds being put up by US taxpayers. Clearly, the system is open to fraud and now we have the Los A... ...t need widespread corruption for these sorts of frauds to emerge. "You only need a few corrupt managers whose compensation may be tied to the performance of these assets in order to effectively p...
Resources for Women Entrepreneurs
in BootStrapMe, on April 19, 2009
Adam over at Blogtrepreneur points out the prominent role women play in the bootstrap community and the larger world of entrepreneurs today. He uses suffrage as a point of reference; 90 years ago women couldn't even vote. "You've come a long way, baby." (Hope that doesn't...
The long recession's impact
in Sox First, on April 17, 2009
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So the International Monetary Fund warns that this recession will be around for some time. So what implications does that have for society? How will that shape the way we live? In its latest rep...
Save More Money in 2009
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on April 16, 2009
...you have in the past? Economically unstable times make it more than necessary to have an emergency fund somewhere - and many people's retirement accounts have already dwindled immensely - and some...
New Hedge Fund Manager at SilkInvest
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 15, 2009
...tment bank Renaissance Capital, to spearhead its move into Frontier Fixed Income, an emergent hedge fund asset class.
"We will offer a liquid Frontier Market Fixed Income product, " Zin Bek...
Understanding (and Maybe Avoiding) the Peter Principle
in Bizinformer, on April 15, 2009
...that turned out to be a dude despite their glowing recommendations and excellent resume. And most managers have promoted a loyal employee with 20 years of experience to a new job in the company wher...
VC Fund Raising Drops Dramatically
in TJ's Weblog, on April 13, 2009
... © borman818
Venture capital fund raising dropped in the first quarter of 2009 based on comparisons with the same period in 2008 by almost 40%. A number of sources ( Red Herring , VentureBeat , ...
What is up with Enterprise 2.0, anyway?
in The CIO Weblog, on April 13, 2009
... least week title Enterprise 2.0 Reality Check , where I discussed some of the realities facing IT managers and CIOs faced with the ascendancy of these new technologies and philosophies in their shop...
The new consumer
in Sox First, on April 9, 2009
Last year, I did a blog entry looking at the way consumer patterns have changed in the recession. The earlier this year, I did a piece looking at thrift chic, the latest trend where people are embracing frugality and a new conservatism. The lessons of the 1930s taught us that when an economy...
Airlines in tailspin
in Sox First, on April 9, 2009
The airline industry goes from bad to worse. A crumbling global economy means fewer seats on planes declining profits for the world's biggest airlines. More details here .The big problem lies in their fixed costs. As Morningstar analyst Basili Alukos told reporters , it's a high fixed...
Bossnapping: it's French for industrial action
in Sox First, on April 8, 2009
...failed to fix. "The tactic, which became popular during the tumultuous days of 1968, of taking managers hostage is an extreme yet common measure beloved of the French worker. Reserved for when ot...
Communities printing money
in Sox First, on April 7, 2009
It had to happen. USA Today reports how cash strapped communities have taken a Depression era idea and started printing their own money. Ylu buy it at a discount and spend it at stores that accept currencies like Detroit Cheers, Ithaca Hours in New York, Plenty in North Carolina or BerkShares ...
Google to Invest in Biotechnology
in The Biotech Weblog, on April 2, 2009
... Google is launching "Google Ventures" a new venture-capital fund which will invest across a range of industries, including consumer Internet, software, clean-tech, bio-tech and health ...
Advertising market crash
in Sox First, on April 2, 2009
Last week, I did a blog entry asking whether the Internet was shattering the advertising industry Well, if it's not the Internet, it's certainly the recession. The Wall Street Journal reports that spending on online advertising is starting to cool down. While online-ad revenue surge...
The Economist to Launch London Theme Park
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 1, 2009
As part of a strategy designed to broaden the revenue base, leverage content over new platforms and promote The Economist brand to a young and dynamic audience, The Economist Group is delighted to announce the development of a public-entertainment facility that combines the magic of a theme P...
电子商务前景明朗 市场显露“人才抄底”迹象
in Wangtam, on March 31, 2009
... to Venture Capital Fund in its First Year
• Google's newest venture
• Vexing computer worm to evolve on April Fool's Day
• 17 Adobe AIR Apps That Can Save Your Time
• Icon Generator f...
Charles River Ventures Raises $320 Million For Its Fourteenth Fund
in Wangtam, on March 31, 2009
...• Charles River Ventures Raises $320 Million For Its Fourteenth Fund
• Google Plans Fifth Birthday Present for Gmail Users
• University offers social media degree about Facebook, Twitter and Bebo...
The questions you should ask before going to implementation of SCM solutions?
in Supplychainer, on March 28, 2009
...aving the senior management at the top; supporting the initiative and trying to resolve issues is a fundamental element to overcome these challenges.
- Do we have a good project manager and project... ...re? This one seems obvious yet very important. Many times, when companies want to choose a project managers, they look for someone who is available. This is certainly not true. The companies should a...
St. Louis Institute of Nanomedicine Working Group Formed
in Nanotechbuzz, on March 28, 2009
...cine Working Group received $1.5 million for three years from the Missouri Life Sciences Research Fund , part of the 1998 state tobacco settlement," according to the St. Louis Business Journal ...
Do You Have a Jellyfish?
in IfEnergy, on March 28, 2009
The commercial-industrial efforts to turn wind into energy for money seem to get a lot more attention than the smaller efforts to enable individual citizens to use wind energy as a means of opting out of the power grid altogether. So I found the Jellyfish Wind Appliance to be fascinating as a pe...
Netflix to hit the PS3?
in The Wired Home Weblog, on March 27, 2009
I love my PS3. It sits at the hub of my media centre and plays blu rays, dvds, cds, and even my occasional SACD (I have an early model!). It's quiet, reliable, and it does almost everything I want, and will be even closer when I get round to aquiring a PlayTV.
However, for you US guys it just ...
Oil shock ahead
in Sox First, on March 27, 2009
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Last week, I did a blog entry on the International Monetary Fund warning that there might be a small recovery next year if there are comprehensive and co-ordinated global policies, and if commod...
A good crisis for George Soros
in Sox First, on March 26, 2009
...ming off in 2007, Soros came out of semi-retirement and took back control of his Quantum investment fund. By year's end, Quantum was up almost 32%, delivering Soros profits of $US2.9 billion. His ...
US dollar under fire
in Sox First, on March 24, 2009
...e dollar to be replaced with a new global reserve currency controlled by the International Monetary Fund. China's problem is that it's now backing what's left of the US economy by buying u...
Why Geithner's plan won't work
in Sox First, on March 23, 2009
... the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and of course money from private investors, to create a fund that will buy the banks' so-called "toxic assets". It will cost $500 billion with...
