Lean Start Up Guide Starting Now Is Essential | Lean Start Up Guide

Lean Start Up Guide Starting Now Is Essential | Lean Start Up Guide: "Excite­ment- When an idea first hits you, is often when you are at the peak of your excite­ment curve.
Now or Never- The world is full of great ideas, that never get imple­mented, if you don’t start right now, the like­li­hood that you will never do it increases expo­nen­tially with the pass­ing of every day!
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Theater shooting unfolds in real time on social media - CNN.com

Theater shooting unfolds in real time on social media - CNN.com: "the shootings early Friday morning at a late-night showing in Aurora, Colorado, of the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises," in which 12 people were killed and dozens more were injured. All three people who were quoted above appear to have been in the theater complex when a heavily armed gunman opened fire on moviegoers, according to police."

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Publisher's Note, New items such as this have there place in what needs to be some sort of refocus on what exactly is happening in one of the most "Democratic and Free Nations" of the world. While it is definitely difficult to ever make sense of any of this sort of random acts of violence, it is still useful to try to get a bead on why sometimes people "go postal".

I don't have the answers, I just hope we keep asking the questions.

Congress Now Trying To Outlaw Reporting On Government Corruption

Congress Now Trying To Outlaw Reporting On Government Corruption: "Lawmakers are pushing legislation through Congress that will criminalize reporting on illegal activities and corruption in the US government.

Just when you thought the United States government couldn’t sink any lower our beloved politicians in Washington have introduced legislation that will criminalize reporting on US government secrets.

What makes this new legislation shocking is that we have seen the US government repeatedly use the “State Secrets” and the “National InSecurity card to suspend the Constitution at will to commit a wide variety of heinous activities"

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SocialAdNet.net: Why doesn't Geico use the cavemen anymore for their commercials? | ChaCha

SocialAdNet.net: Why doesn't Geico use the cavemen anymore for their commercials? | ChaCha: "Why doesn't Geico use the cavemen anymore for their commercials? | ChaCha
Why doesn't Geico use the cavemen anymore for their commercials? | ChaCha: "The cavemen aren't used in Geico commercials anymore because it offends several cavemen who still exist in modern society.""

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MarsEdit 3 - Desktop blog editing for the Mac.

MarsEdit 3 - Desktop blog editing for the Mac.: "Think Outside The Browser
Browser-based interfaces are slow, clumsy, and require you to be connected to the internet just to use them. Browsers are perfect for reading web content, but not so great for creating it.

If you're serious about your blog, you need a desktop blog editor. If you're lucky enough to have a Mac, nothing is more powerful or more elegant than MarsEdit.
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illumineX :: ecto - blog editor for Mac OS X

illumineX :: ecto - blog editor for Mac OS X: "ecto: publish to almost any blog from your Mac
ecto is a feature-rich desktop blogging editor for MacOSX. With ecto, you can easily publish to a wide range of weblog systems, such as Blogger, Blojsom, Drupal, MovableType, Nucleus, SquareSpace, TypePad, WordPress, and more.

ecto should work with any blog which supports a standard remote editing API (such as the Atom, MetaWeblog, or MovableType APIs, and others). Most blogs (with the notable exception of MobleMe blogs) provide a remote editing API."

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HostPoet: Excuse Our Vast Omnidirectional Growth...

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20 Extreme Things To Do For The Rich | FIKED

20 Extreme Things To Do For The Rich | FIKED: "Becoming a secret millionaire is a pretty big task and it involves helping others so ethically and morally you will be on to a winner. The decision of helping others is a responsibility everyone should take upon themselves but the richer you are the easier it is to help those that need it the most. Being a secret millionaire basically means that you go to those who need the money and the help and you act as if you are simply a man or woman straight off the street; you simply need to act as though you earn the same minimum wage a"

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Archives Shortcode — Support — WordPress.com

Archives Shortcode — Support — WordPress.com: "To create an archive index for your blog, simply add a new page or post and type the following shortcode into your visual editor:

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Just One New Post | I think I have been had.

Just One New Post | I think I have been had.: "When your time and thought are not properly directed it really is a very unfortunate thing. I do know"

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Entrepreneurship at the Kauffman Foundation

Entrepreneurship at the Kauffman Foundation: "ntrepreneurship brought me from a state of childhood poverty to a life of philanthropy. And just as my own experience as an entrepreneur reaped rewards I never imagined, I believe embracing entrepreneurship will enable nations to mak"

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Entrepreneurship: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics | Library of Economics and Liberty

Entrepreneurship: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics | Library of Economics and Liberty: "An entrepreneur is someone who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise. An entrepreneur is an agent of change. Entrepreneurship is the process of discovering new ways of combining resources. When the market value generated by this new combination of resources is greater than the market value these resources can generate elsewhere individually or in some other combination, the entrepreneur makes a profit. An entrepreneur who takes the resources necessary to produce a pair of jeans that can be sold for thirty dollars and instead turns them into a denim backpack that sells for fifty dollars will earn a profit by increasing the value those resources create."

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Creative Destruction: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics | Library of Economics and Liberty

Creative Destruction: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics | Library of Economics and Liberty: "Technology roils job markets, as Schumpeter conveyed in coining the phrase “technological unemployment” (Table 1). E-mail, word processors, answering machines, and other modern office technology have cut the number of secretaries but raised the ranks of programmers. The birth of the Internet spawned a need for hundreds of thousands of webmasters, an occupation that did not exist as recently as 1990. LASIK surgery often lets consumers throw away their glasses, reducing visits to optometrists and opticians but increasing the need for ophthalmologists. Digital cameras translate to fewer photo clerks."

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Creative Destruction: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics | Library of Economics and Liberty

Creative Destruction: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics | Library of Economics and Liberty: "Americans benefited as horses and mules gave way to cars and airplanes, but all this creation did not come without destruction. Each new mode of transportation took a toll on existing jobs and industries. In 1900, the peak year for the occupation, the country employed 109,000 carriage and harness makers. In 1910, 238,000 Americans worked as blacksmiths. Today, those jobs are largely obsolete. After eclipsing canals and other forms of transport, railroads lost out in competition with cars, long-haul trucks, and airplanes. In 1920, 2.1 million Americans earned their paychecks working for railroads, compared with fewer than 200,000 today."

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Alphabet & ABC Blocks

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Unit Blocks Set - Block Set 401

Unit Blocks Set - Block Set 401: "56 Total Unit Block Pieces in 15 Different Unit Block Shapes



Unit Blocks Set No. 401 is available for $109.00

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Unit Blocks Set - Block Set 400

Unit Blocks Set - Block Set 400: "Unit Blocks Set No. 400 Includes:

Unit Blocks 10
Half Unit Blocks 4
Roman Arch Blocks 1
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Half Unit Triangle Blocks 2
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Kauffman Foundation Study Finds More than Half of Fortune 500 Companies Were Founded in Recession or Bear Market

Kauffman Foundation Study Finds More than Half of Fortune 500 Companies Were Founded in Recession or Bear Market: ""The Economic Future Just Happened," found that more than half of the companies on the 2009 Fortune 500 list were launched during a recession or bear market, along with nearly half of the firms on the 2008 Inc. list of America’s fastest-growing companies. The report also suggests a broader economic trend, with job creation from startup companies proving to be less volatile and sensitive to downturns when compared to the overall economy.

"You can see the story of the American economy in these numbers," said Carl Schramm, president and CEO of the Kauffman Foundation. "History has demonstrated this time and again: new firms create new jobs and fuel our economy. Policies that support entrepreneurship support recovery.""

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When To Bail On Bailing Out.

The article quoted on one of my other blogs;

Schmupeter argued that this was an essential strength of the American economy: economic destruction breeds creative success. From The Library of Economics and Liberty:

Schumpeter was among the first to lay out a clear concept of entrepreneurship. He distinguished inventions from the entrepreneur’s innovations.

Schumpeter pointed out that entrepreneurs innovate not just by figuring out how to use inventions, but also by introducing new means of production, new products, and new forms of organization. These innovations, he argued, take just as much skill and daring as does the process of invention.

Innovation by the entrepreneur, argued Schumpeter, leads to gales of “creative destruction” as innovations cause old inventories, ideas, technologies, skills, and equipment to become obsolete.

NavigatingVenture.com/Entrepreneurial-Silver-Lining-In-TodaysClouds

I agree, and I have already amplified this unique viewpoint and perspective.

The Diverse Forces of Capitalism Itself is What Has Created the Current Global Economic Collapse, however it is the current processes by which the US government in particular exercises in its "selective aid' by way of tax breaks, bailouts and/or other such incentives, to industries or financial companies which perhaps should have gone under.

When the US government as an entity views; lets say certain US auto manufacturers, for example, as important infrastructure for a healthy US economy solely because they are employers;

"regardless of weather or not their products are; well designed, economical to own and operate, or competitive with other products manufactured elsewhere that are perhaps of better quality, at lower costs to own and operate"

I use this example to illustrate a point, not necessarily stating that specific companies in the US auto industry should not have been bailed out. Rather I use this example to point a very important "missed opportunity" on the part of the US government.

If the US Government was actually going to respond to a privately held company's request for a bailout (a move towards socialism) it should have attached the kind of purse strings effectively guaranteeing that this public expendenture of funds would be successful, or at least move the nation into a more sustainable product, such electric cars that would run without using gasoline as its primary fuel source.


Stephen C. Sanders, first draft of a longer upcoming article.