January 2011
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Jeffrey Miron » Blog Archive » Money Not... →
Evergreen Solar Inc. will eliminate 800 jobs in Massachusetts and shut its new factory at the former military base in Devens, just two years after it opened the massive facility to great fanfare and with about $58 million in taxpayer subsidies. The company announced yesterday that it will close the plant by the end of March, calling itself a victim of weak demand and competition from cheaper...
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Small business employment index indicates 57,000... →
The monthly report found that small business employment grew by 0.3 percent last month, equating to an annual growth rate of about 3.4 percent. This translates to approximately 57,000 new jobs created nationwide.
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Young College Grads Struggle to Find Work -... →
A Degree Alone “Doesn’t Cut It”
For the classes of 2010 and 2011, this means taking a practical approach to the job market. Instead of focusing on their grade-point average and waiting for offers to roll in, they have treat the job hunt as a major component of their education.
“The degree alone doesn’t cut it,” says Matthew Berndt, director of...
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Obama administration moves forward with unique... →
Well, though details are still pretty scant, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, speaking at an event at the Stanford Institute, stressed that the new system would not be akin to a national ID card, or a government controlled system, but that it would enhance security and reduce the need for people to memorize dozens of passwords online. Sorry, Locke, sounds like a national ID system to us.
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100 Top Entrepreneurs Who Succeeded without a... →
Andrew Carnegie, industrialist and philanthropist, and one of the first mega-billionaires in the US. Elementary school dropout.
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Charles Culpeper, owner and CEO of Coca Cola. Dropped out of high school.
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David Karp, founder of Tumblr. Dropped out of school at 15, then homeschooled. Did not attend college.
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Jake Nickell, co-founder and CEO of Threadless.com. Did...
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A Newbie's Guide to Publishing: You Should... →
For many years, I said DO NOT SELF-PUBLISH. I had many good reasons to support this belief. 1. Self-publishing was expensive 2. The final product was over priced and inferior 3. Self-pubbed were impossible to distribute 4. Most self-pubbed books weren’t returnable 5. Chances were, the reason you had to self pub was because your writing wasn’t good enough 6. Most POD houses were...