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SouthWest NanoTechnologies Announces $3 Million in Funding
in Nanotechbuzz, on July 10, 2009
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Nanotube manufacturer SouthWest NanoTechnologies Inc. this week announced $3 million in funding from Michigan's Insight Technology Capital Partners, LP.
"Insight will manage the fun...
The Reality Of PR: Smile, Dial, Name Drop, Pray.
in Wangtam, on July 6, 2009
...resting Things He Said)
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• "我知道你在做什么"—欢迎来到twitter时代 ...
Pebble Beach Swamped, Calendar Needs to be Split
in Classical Drives, on July 6, 2009
... different times in the calendar. Having said that, I acknowledge that a La Dolce Vita Scholarship Fund has been established to assist young people aiming to follow a career in automotive design, sh...
Supply chain video: If you want to re-negotiate the terms with suppliers, the moment is now!
in Supplychainer, on July 5, 2009
... prices
- Extend the payment terms (if it doesn't kill the supplier:))
In applying these strategies, a main element companies should consider is human factor: In the crisis situations, peop...
How can a supply chain react to unexpected events (similar to Michael Jackson's death)?
in Supplychainer, on July 5, 2009
...e main issue is integration with other legacy systems but this is getting better.
- Postponement strategies: This is less technology related; postponing the final assembly operation of customizati...
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...
Good News for Liberal Arts Majors - StarCraft Classes Now Available
in The Gadgets Weblog, on July 2, 2009
...vested in learning the ins and outs of the game. Mr. ByunTae will teach you:
Basic and Advanced strategies and build orders for all three races.
In-game bugs to be used to your advantage such as...
Supply chain video: Preparing for the worst, managing supplier risk in the downturn (Part 2)
in Supplychainer, on June 30, 2009
...ves that's the time where supply chain leadership is necessary more than ever and more balanced strategies are required.
He talks a bit the tight credit these days and the problems which a...
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...
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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AADE'sNew Blog: Diabetes Education Voices
in Daily Diabetic, on June 29, 2009
...ng active, monitoring blood glucose, medication-taking, problem solving, reducing risks, and coping strategies.
The are working diabetes educators—so their subjects are based on their real worl...
Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate 3
in Wangtam, on June 26, 2009
...ith On Authentication: '70 Billion Reasons To Make This Work'
• Hedge fund managers betting Twitter will give them an edge in rapid trading
• Habitat sorry for Iran Tweeting
• Did Shaq J...
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...
Survival strategies for a deepening recession
in Sox First, on June 23, 2009
The green shoots are turning into yellow weeds. The World Bank forecast for the global economy is a sobering read. According to the World Bank, the global economy will shrink by nearly 3 per cent this year, a situation created by plunging trade and business lending. And world trade will contr...
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...
Improving working capital through effective supply chain management
in Supplychainer, on June 21, 2009
...iator for improving working capital. and need for effective working capital management. A series of strategies have been proposed as best practice to achieve such goals in which a summary of them is p...
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...
Look After YOur Man This Fathers' Day
in Straightfromthedoc, on June 18, 2009
...dviser for Men's Health Network, a nonprofit organization that advocates for preventive health strategies and education for men. "In almost every category of disease, men die at a higher rate...
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...
Hedge Funds Up & Social Media Footprint Expansion
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on June 16, 2009
... " Hedge funds finished up 4.06% in May , capturing the largest monthly gains since February 2000." Oliver Schupp, President of Credit Suisse Index, said, "Emerging Markets funds wer...
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...
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...
Supply chain video: Short interview on SC Finance
in Supplychainer, on June 8, 2009
... talks about their research on Supply Chain Finance. He highlights the opportunities, case studies, strategies and pitfalls of this Spend Management tool, which is gaining momentum in the current, ris...
Recession Forces More Golf Deals
in Eagle Par Birdie, on June 8, 2009
...hat kind of thing.
Retailers are desperate to move merchandise and they're employing inventive strategies.
But what about the recreational golf industry? Frankly, I haven't seen too many clu...
Entrepreneurial Life
in TJ's Weblog, on June 7, 2009
© tedmurphy
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...
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...
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...
MBAs and Entrepreneurs
in BootStrapMe, on May 21, 2009
... with the comings and goings of MBAs as obsolete as our lionization of investment bankers and hedge-fund managers? Is it time to look elsewhere for the "best and the brightest" of what busin...
Employee disengagement in a recession
in Sox First, on May 21, 2009
... outperform stragglers." So with more companies cutting costs, and cutting down on engagement strategies, we can expect a massive fallout and lots of pissed off employees....
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...
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 ...
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 &...
A Hippocratic oath for managers
in Sox First, on May 8, 2009
The global crisis is as much a failure of ethics as it is of finance. Business at the end of the day has to serve society which gives it its licence to operate. Creating virtual products as they did in financial markets wasn't serving anyone. Neither was flogging subprime packages to people ...
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...
Types of Content: Approaches to Creating Content that Can Drive Your Rankings
in The Search Engine Weblog, on April 29, 2009
...es.
Jeff Quipp had a piece last month that's been sitting on my back burner. It's about strategies for content creation. He makes the point that there are a number of types of content out ...
50 Ways to Leave your Outsourcer
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on April 28, 2009
© simplified complication
Robert Jaques, in an article posted on WhatPC yesterday, talked about the difficulties involved in exiting outsourcing arrangements.
Mr. Jaques rightfully points out that offshoring and outsourcing relationships have clearly migrated from "non-core" busin...
Future structural changes in supply chains
in Supplychainer, on April 27, 2009
...ical forces in China, Europe and the U.S.manufacturers to revisit their outsourcing or near-shoring strategies. Politicians are under the gun to protect domestic jobs and insure their country's co...
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...
HedgeCo.Net Spring Manager Showcase on Wed next week
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 26, 2009
...case. This event is open to all accredited HedgeCo.Net members and will profile some of the leading fund managers.
This will also be a good time to meet the HedgeCo staff and to ask them any questio...
Gates Foundation World Malaria Day Blogger Teleconference
in Straightfromthedoc, on April 23, 2009
...ity of Washington
Drs. Marka, Foy and Rathod received GCE grants during the first round of GCE funding. Now six months into their 1-year grant, the researchers will provide insights into their pro... ... their 1-year grant, the researchers will provide insights into their projects and malaria control strategies.
If you are able to join the teleconference, send an email to Becky Meisels (bmeisel...
Hedge Funds in the Cayman Islands
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 21, 2009
...oday hosting its inaugural Webinar on the highly topical subject of 'Managing Distressed Cayman Funds and lessons learned for new funds'.
"This fits in perfectly with our firm's pro...
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...
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 , ...
Enterprise 2.0: Reality Check
in The CIO Weblog, on April 10, 2009
...ds are, and at the depth of consideration which most attendees were putting into their social media strategies. The pushback that one hears about almost constantly online was nowhere in evidence; rath...
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...
10 secrets of the downturn leader
in Sox First, on April 9, 2009
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What are the secrets of the downturn leader? What sort of strategies are needed during a recession. I identify 10 of them in my piece here . The 10 secrets are communication, keeping up staf...
