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Creative Financing – the secret to getting the Gov to back your business plan

Every SME is looking for unsecured funding to help seed, restructure or grow their business – especially in a tight economy like today. One of the true unsung heroes of the American dream story for entrepreneurs before this current recession was the role that the Small Business Administration (SBA) played in helping small businesses get [...]

Being Creative: Or how to ride out the global recession

Unless you have been hiding under a rock, you would not have failed to notice that the global economy has gone into a spiral with the collapse of major financial institutions in the US, painfully high oil prices and unstable global markets all leading to a worldwide economic recession. The Indian economy too has not [...]

Forecasting the World in 2019

A new online multi-player game has been launched by the Future Institute in Menlo Park (Silicon Valley) called SuperStruct:
….the world’s first massively multiplayer forecasting game. By playing the game, you’ll help us chronicle the world of 2019–and imagine how we might solve the problems we’ll face. Because this is about more than just envisioning the [...]

Live Edge: Win $100,000 and save the world…

If you are a designer, inventor or environmental genius and have never heard about the “Live Edge” award then it may just change your life. This competiion offers an award of $100,000 and “to enter, your design must be original and innovative, use electric and/or electronic components, and positively impact the environment, such as by [...]

Brewster Kahle: A digital library, free to the world

Brewster Kahle: A digital library, free to the world
This great video from TED shows Brewster Kahle, inventor and librarian, talking about his universal free library for everything ever written, filmed or recorded….yes, utopian open ideas can still exist in today’s consumerist word – thank god!