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Business Week Report on “Radical Future of R&D” Misses Critical Capital Markets Link in Innovation Ecosystem

Pascal's View

The cover story of the September 7 issue of Business Week reports on the “ Radical Future of R&D “, focusing on the internationalization of research and development led by global corporations such as IBM and Hewlett Packard. Our growth engine has run out of a key fuel– basic research.” In the 1990s the U.S.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Publishers and authors (like O’Reilly and us) also benefit from Amazon’s success.

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BitCoin will be made illegal, but cryptocash is here to stay

Diego Basch

Untraceable digital cash that’s not controlled by a central agency such as a government. Bitcoin is a P2P currency that could topple governments, destabilize economies and create uncontrollable global bazaars for contraband. Of course, governments don’t like to be left out of overseeing financial transactions.

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The Rise of the Secondary Market for Emerging Growth Equities– Necessary But Insufficient

Pascal's View

2003: Spitzer’s Global Research Analyst Settlement, which had the unintended effect of depriving small companies from getting research coverage. We should all be concerned about this because small companies are the engines for job growth and new job creation in America. cents or 6.25

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The Ultimate CEO Twitter List

YoungUpstarts

brrhodes : IceRocket search engine founder and CEO Blake Rhodes tweets about his insights into social media and the online world. FuelOnline : Fuel CEO Scott Levy has been working in social media and SEO since 1997. @Michels : Oren Michels, CEO of Mashery, offers insight into API management, services, and more.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Surfers alway want to know the waves conditions in real-time and they want to stay connected with their local and global community. After more than a year of growing the goFlow global surf community, we realized that this need to know the conditions in real time doesn’t only apply for surfers. Thanks to Roni Eshel, goFlow !

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Don’t miss celebrating these seasonal events for mission-driven organizations

Board Effect

This is a good event for nonprofits related to STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and math). 3 rd week of April: As part of Global Volunteer Month, National Volunteer Week seeks to recognize and empower volunteers to change the world through building stronger communities. Celebrate your organization and the people in it.