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- Entrepreneurial Justice
- Judicial activism, Roe Vs. Wade, civil rights, constitutional interpretation – these are all topics that Judge Sonia Sotomayor has been grilled on in determining her fitness to sit on our nation’s highest court. Pretty much since the nomination of Judge Robert Bork, the confirmation...
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Posted by: Thom Ruhe
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July 16, 2009
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- If at first you don’t succeed… you might be an entrepreneur.
- First calling entrepreneurs lazy, and now saying they’re failures, too? We seem to be going down a dangerous path of late on this blog. But the notion of “The Acceptance of Failure as a Spur to Innovation,” isn’t something of my creation – it’s...
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July 15, 2009
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- Entrepreneurship News Round-Up: Week of 7/13/2009
- Fast Company explains How the Tech Boom Terminated California's Economy and that the dot.com boom and subsequent, inevitable bust are the real causes of our economic malaise.
Dr. Jeff Cornwall shares an article by John Tozzi at Business Week on the benefits of opening your...
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July 13, 2009
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- Entrepreneurs are... lazy?
- I’ve seen it argued that “laziness” is one of the most essential traits of some successful entrepreneurs because it leads them to innovate. They don’t complacently accept “the way it’s done,” if they can figure out an easier, faster way to get the same result. ...
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July 10, 2009
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- Speaking at the 18th Annual Congress of the European Business & Innovation Centre Network (EBN) in Fez, Morocco
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People from 30+ countries, speaking multiple languages, sharing diverse cultures, coming together around one theme – entrepreneurship. So it was recently when I had the opportunity to address the 18th Annual Congress of the European Business & Innovation Centre Network (EBN), in Fez,...
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July 08, 2009
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- Entrepreneurship News Round-Up: Week of 7/6/2009
- Bob Cringley writes about FreshJerky.com, a 1-man shop doing $1M annually on the internet.
George Mason University economist Tyler Cowen discusses the impact new media is having on the economy in an interview with The Economist.
Is entrepreneurship in decline? Steve King says no. BusinessWeek...
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July 06, 2009
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- Entrepreneurship News Round-Up: Week of 6/29/2009
- Barry Ritholtz on the Big Picture blog delves into a new article in "Scientific America" titled The Neuroscience Science of Bubbles and Busts. The article, which he calls "fascinating stuff," is a look at the “worst economic crisis since the Great Depression,” from the perspective of understanding...
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June 29, 2009
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- VIDEO: Speaking About Entrepreneurship at the C2ER Conference
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Earlier this month, I had the privilege of addressing a roomful of individuals at the 49th Annual Conference of the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER) in Kansas City, MO. The theme of this year’s event was "Energizing Entrepreneurship: Monitoring Progress, Making Change,” and...
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June 26, 2009
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- Entrepreneurship News Round-Up: Week of 6/22/2009
- Tyler Cowen on the Marginal Revolution blog raises the question (again) "which would you rather have, the fiscal stimulus or $775 billion in public health programs? Even better, how about $300 billion in stimulus -- the immediate stuff like aid to state governments -- and...
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June 26, 2009
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- Entrepreneurship Is “Boom-ing”
- “Economists know that entrepreneurship will drive the economy back to health, but many people may be surprised to learn that the baby boom generation is behind the wheel, according to a new study by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.”
As detailed in this recent...
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June 24, 2009
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