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Opportunities For Wealth Building In Newcastle

YoungUpstarts

In recent years, its technology, manufacture, and service industry became the source of the city’s wealth. The early miners in the area were government convicts and miners from Britain and Wales. Mining and steelworks have dominated the industry in Newcastle up until BHP closed in 1999. The Boom of Real Estate in Newcastle.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. The Power of the Individual: This was the year that the individual, amplified by technology platforms, became empowered to rise against oppressions both large and small.

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Entrepreneurship in the Fast Lane

Growthink Blog

Try these statistics on for size, from 1999 to today Asia’s share of the world’s Initial Public Offerings grew from 12% to 66%. IPO by far this year will be the government ward General Motors. and of Green Dot CANNOT be retroactively analyzed for guidance as to what the next new thing will be. Pursue Global Markets. In the U.S.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

It struck me that had the technology existed, travelers could have taken advantage of our empty aircraft to get back to London and then the aircraft could be dropped in Oxford, with minimal additional cost. The wedding industry is notoriously one of the least technologically advanced retail sectors. Image Credit: Brittany Haas.

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Reflections of America this July 4th

Both Sides of the Table

The funniest experience I ever had on July 4th (US Independence Day) was in 1999. It’s clear to me that our economic divide is also a technological divide and unless we solve this economic disparity will persist. I know we have a budget deficit and as an economic conservative I believe in smaller government. Nobody cared.

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The Gender Issue Part II

thebarefootvc

It is great to see that a conversation is finally evolving on the importance of gender diversity in the technology and venture capital sectors. Mixed-gender teams have produced information technology patents that are cited 26 percent to 42 percent more often than the norm, according to the National Center for Women and Information Technology.