Smallbiz America Radio Interview on EJ1

David Wolf interviewed me on Smallbiz America about Enterpreneur Journeys. Have a look.

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Capitalism 2.0: The Welfare State

I have written quite a bit already about my aversion to the welfare state philosophy, the chronic deficit spending, and the ensuing entitlitis and affluenza. Here’s Ayn Rand on the problems with a welfare state and guaranteed economic security:

Catching Up On Readings: Nobody’s Buying Diamonds

Here is a summary of the posts from this past week, in case you missed them: Technology Stocks: Blue Nile Struggles Amidst Luxury Industry Collapse EDA Industry Update LeapFrog Lows Oracle and SaaS: Inevitable Samsung Balances In Two Major Markets  Deal Radar 2009: MindTouch, MuleSource, Medsphere Entrepreneur Journeys: Critical Innovation In Healthcare Claims Processing: athenahealth

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Is It Time For Your CEO To Go? (Part 2)
A New Model for Silicon Valley

By guest author Tony Scott of ChampionScott Partners For technology companies, the biggest change that has happened since the burst of the dot-com bubble is their likely path to exit. In the late 1990s, it seemed like any company with not much more than an idea could go public. Venture capitalists invested in companies looking

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Green Grants To Xunlight: CEO Xunming Deng (Part 4)

SM: A $2.9 million grant sounds like real money. What was the project? XD: It was to build a hydrogen generation system using solar. At that time fuel cells were very hot. Of course, a fuel cell needs fuel, which happens to be hydrogen.

Capitalism 2.0: Intellectual Laziness

Here’s another interesting discourse from John Galt’s speech which is a good lens through which to examine several of our recently discovered “bugs” in capitalism: sub-prime lending and borrowing, Madoff’s scam, etc.

Capitalism 2.0: Is Integrity Implicit?

As we explore capitalism as a philosophy and a system of thought, I feel that one of the biggest fallacies in our assumption so far has been to expect that integrity is implicit. It is not.

Capitalism 2.0: The Need For Regulation

Never have I spent so much of my thinking energy on trying to understand, question, assess, debug, and dissect a value system that I had, for years, accepted as a fundamental principle of my life. This series, I hope, will provide a forum for many of us experiencing the same period of questioning, an opportunity

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