Catching Up On Readings: What Should Apple Do With The $29 Billion?

Here is a summary of the posts from this past week, in case you missed them. >>>

Educating the Next Wave of Entrepreneurs (Part 2)

By Guest Author Dr. Shailendra Vyakarnam

[The second part of the series discusses what effective entrepreneurship education is and how it can help people move out of poverty.]

Why Entrepreneurship Education Is Important to Strengthen Social Inclusion

The most fundamental reason for thinking about entrepreneurship at the grass roots is to find sustainable solutions to overcoming the injustices of poverty, which is evidenced by indifferent educational attainment, inadequate healthcare, malnutrition, low life expectancy, poor access to water, and exclusion from the benefits of economic and technological progress. Witnessing progress all around while remaining poor can also create a feeling of hopelessness, dependency and low levels of self-esteem and aspiration. These are human conditions that can tear at the soul of a people. The arguments are well rehearsed and supported in many academic and policy documents, and they are highlighted by the UN Millennium Development Goals. How can entrepreneurship education address these issues and create a wider participation in economic, social and health benefits? >>>

Personal Branding and Me 2.0 (Part 2)

By Guest Author Dan Schawbel

[Dan continues with a discussion of what a personal brand is and things to consider when building and maintaining one.]

What is a personal brand? Since personal branding is used in public relations, marketing, entrepreneurship, social media, and more many different interpretations of the term have arisen. I was able to solve this confusion by generating a wiki, which is a website that enables collaboration through real-time editing. I then organized a team of global branding experts, including William Arruda, Krishna De, and Mike Myatt, to edit the wiki and develop a definition that accurately summarizes the objectives and goals of personal branding. That definition […] can be boiled down to this: how we market ourselves to others. >>>

How To Fix the Broken US Economy (Part 4)
Interesting Accounting

By Guest Author Bill McGinnis, CFA

I know it’s a lot to promise in a title that accounting will be interesting. However, if you think about it, that’s not necessarily what the title says. With a little bit of thought, you’ll realize you don’t know exactly what is coming next. >>>

Terry Cunningham’s Adventures: Crystal and Coral8 (Part 4)

SM: Tell me about selling Crystal to Seagate. Did they come to you?

TC: Yes. We were doing our thing out of Vancouver. We had grand visions of being a huge company. I remember thinking if we ever got to $20 million I would die a happy man. >>>

Personal Branding and Me 2.0 (Part 1)

By Guest Author Dan Schawbel

[What is brand you? How can people use new technology to create and maintain their personal brand, and why should they want to do so? For the next two weekends, Dan will take on these questions through excerpts from his new book, ‘Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success.] >>>

Educating the Next Wave of Entrepreneurs (Part 1)

By Guest Author Karen E. Wilson

[The World Economic Forum’s Global Education Initiative (GEI) launched its report, Educating the Next Wave of Entrepreneurs, earlier this week. The report highlights the importance of entrepreneurship education for developing the skills, attitudes and behaviours necessary to create jobs, generate economic growth, advance human welfare and stimulate innovation to address global challenges.

The report provides a landscape of entrepreneurship education practices across the globe covering youth (with a focus on disadvantaged youth), higher education (focusing on high growth entrepreneurship) and social inclusion (with a focus on marginalized communities). Through a series of four articles, the leading authors of the report highlight its key findings. Today’s article begins with a summary of these overall findings.] >>>

How To Fix the Broken US Economy (Part 3)

By Guest Author Bill McGinnis, CFA

A Short Take On Short Selling And Put Options

Short selling (selling shares you don’t own in the hope of profiting by buying them back at a lower price in the future) has become a lightening rod since last fall. The issue – is short selling exacerbating or even causing the financial crisis?

Short selling originated over 400 years ago and has been a common practice in stock markets for over 100 years. Why would it only now become a problem? >>>