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Does America Care Anymore? How We Can Change The Answer To “Yes”.

YoungUpstarts

By Jon Gordon, author of “ The Carpenter: A Story About the Greatest Success Strategies of All “ Does America care anymore? I’m convinced that the Pirates’ emphasis on culture is a big reason why the team won 94 games and made it to the post-season in 2013, after not having a winning record since 1992.

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Connecting the Dots: How New Job Creation, IPO’s, and Venture Capital in America Are Intimately Linked

Pascal's View

Everybody agrees that, without meaningful job growth, America will not emerge from its current deep economic funk. Conclusion: If we don’t fix the IPO problem in America, we will not fix the job problem in America. There is plenty of debate, however, over what drives that job creation engine in our country.

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The 10 Best Teams Ever Assembled (And What We Can Learn From Them)

YoungUpstarts

The 1992 team’s roster reads like a list of the greatest NBA players ever: Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Patrick Ewing, Karl Malone, Charles Barkley. But as it stands, the Justice League of America (JLA) gets our nod as the greatest group of supers ever put to paper (and later to film, many, many times).

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Predictions, Prognostications, and The Future

Feld Thoughts

It’s followed by a comment by Lawrence Wright, a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992 and author of the incredible and timely book The End of October. I understood her gloomy assessment, but also felt that America could be on the verge of much needed change. “ But how?

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Reversing Unintended Consequences From Regulation is Critical to Restoring Small Company IPO’s

Pascal's View

IPO’s are essential to job growth in America and to maintaining a balanced innovation ecosystem for two important reasons. Between 2001 and 2008 mergers and acquisitions (M&A) accounted for 87% of venture-backed company exits, up from an average of 44% in between 1992 and 2000.

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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Since the company is a mortgage banking FinTech firm we wanted to distance ourselves from Bank of America and Wells Fargo while still saying Loans and Banking. In 1992, I published my first best-selling book, The On-Purpose Person, Making Your Life Make Sense. I wanted something edgy, different but trustworthy, fresh and humorous.

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Post Mortem… literally.

This is going to be BIG.

President Obama, in his speech, said, “Tonight we are once again reminded that America can do whatever we set our mind to.” on all our computers back in 1992. I’d be lying if I didn’t admit to feeling a deep pride and satisfaction—because when you get hurt, you want to strike back. It’s human nature, for better or worse.

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