Nation’s Startup Activity Reverses Five-Year Downward Trend, Annual Kauffman Index Reports | Kauffman.org

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Nation’s Startup Activity Reverses Five-Year Downward Trend, Annual Kauffman Index Reports | Kauffman.org: Business Startups are up. That’s great. Entrepreneurship and new business formation is a great advantage to the economy. The olde adage:  the worst time to start a business is at the onset of a recession. The correlate to that is: the best time to start a business is at the end of a recession. Well, it has taken 6 years but the…

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Do Cryptocurrencies Such as Bitcoin Have a Future? – WSJ – Crappy currencies

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Do Cryptocurrencies Such as Bitcoin Have a Future? – WSJ: This is a good discussion about bitcoin, a cryptocurrency. At the current exchange rate, $261 US equals about 1 bitcoin, or 1 USD equals .003 BTC. During the Great Recession all countries worked hard to devalue their own currencies. A great way to stimulate the domestic economy is to reduce the value of the currency such that exports are stimulated. All right, not a great…

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Falling Chinese Coal Consumption and Output Undermine Global Market – WSJ

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Falling Chinese Coal Consumption and Output Undermine Global Market – WSJ: Finally, Finally, Finally… China has finally started to cut back on it’s production and use of dirty coal. China now consumes far more than half of the world’s coal. It’s a perfect time for them to do so, with all energy prices so low, the Chinese economy growing slow(er) and the costs/consequences of pollution from coal becoming more and more conspicuous. It is also…

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SU Labs | Singularity University … Accelerating innovation

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SU Labs | Singularity University: Check out Singularity University… Exponential growth in information and technologies. Here is the introduction of the Singularity University at the TED conference by Ray Kurzweil in 2009: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMYVH-hBGWg Very cool This is interesting changes in technologies and technologies. ‘via Blog this’

To Incubate or not to Incubate

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Marshall Goodman: Ex-administrator For USF Helping Collier County | TheLedger.com: This answers the age-old questions: To Incubate or NOT to incubate? A: Incubators definitely have advantages for cluster development and rapid business startup. But, that doesn’t assure that it is a great investment for that governments to jump into. Where do old business incubator guys go when they get old? A: They go to Collier County, of course. Think Naples and Big Cypress National Preserve….

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WSJ. Eveything that can be invented, has been.

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Economists Debate Whether Technology Will Save the World. WSJ article.It’s true. Everything that could be invented, has been. Right?Well, there’s the 11 inventions posted last week. And there is 3d printing, all the applications of nanotechnology…I’m anxious to see what happens with the death of the computer chip, as we hit the limits of silicon… The next generation of computing should be very interesting. With that type of power at your fingertips, the nature of computing…