Number of US high tech start ups on the decline

From Washington Post and Kauffman Foundation

This is a cause for worry in USA since starts ups and high tech start ups generate more jobs than any other sector.  From 50% of total industry in the 80s, this is down to only 35%

The number of US start ups is on the decline.  So we see a lot of VCs around town, and even sponsoring small caps companies for first round financing.  Why is this so?

Well, complacency. There are guys who would rather receive unemployment checks.  And maybe US is so successful that its people do not think they should be entrepreneurial.  Start ups are"endangered species in US.  (California has become hostile to start ups;  so much red tape when you start a business?)

Is innovation on the decline at USA?  Were the migrants the source of entrepreneurship and innovation in USA

Poor countries citizens are hungry and are success driven?

What to you think?

From First Round, 30 best advice to entreps; start ups

From First Round -30 best advice to entrepreneurs

These are advices to start up wannabees and how to succeed.  These are timely tips if you want to be one now.

Creating malls for entrepreneurs using old container vans in Toronto Canada

Rizal  Philippines  |   January 10,  2013



I am on my way to Iloilo to visit a site and conduct a class on entrepreneurship tomorrow.

Last night I saw a project of govt of Toronto to give opportunity for start ups to begin their business using old container vans as store sites.  It looks ingenious.  The container vans are placed in vacant public lands.  The rents are cheap, there is a new way to recycle the junk container vans, and the stagnating local businesses are given chance to be perked up.

Very soon, they will put a mall with with second floor using the same technology/resources

The other uses for old container vans have been:   fun places (as in Pier one in Eastwood), offices (we are buying for our offices)  site offices, and cheap housing for disaster stricken areas.

EYP container vans

From Visayan Daily star - Container vans eyed as hospital wards

Incredible housing made from container vans

How To Profit from many new IT ideas, motivation and management tips

Here are some great ideas from Thriving business regarding IT, leadership, social media, management, marketing and motivation

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In the infographic above, Digital Marketer gives you some advice on subject lines that will help you be well on your way to creating subject lines that grab people's attention and thus boost your email opens and conversions. 6. The Best Tools For Note Taking At Meetings And Conferences If you're like me, you attend a lot of conferences and workshops. And at these conferences and workshops, you take a lot of notes via notebook, computer, phone, and so on. The question I've always wondered, and I'm sure you've wondered it, too, is "what is the best tool for note taking?" Well, in the article above, Duct Tape Marketing Founder John Jantsch gives you a list he came up with in regards to note taking tools people use during meetings, conferences, workshops, etc.    7. How We Acquired 100K Early Bird Signups With ZERO Marketing Budget In the article above, Kseniya Maksimova, a marketing manager at RealtimeBoard, explains how RealtimeBoard grew from 0 to 100k signups in 10 months – spending ZERO on marketing.   8. 10 Do's And Don'ts For Using Stock Photos In Your Marketing As you probably already know, stock photos can get real expensive quickly, especially if you're going to use them everywhere. But, despite their cost, stock photos can benefit you greatly. They can add visually interesting and compelling content to your marketing, they can be pretty quick visual content solutions in a pinch, and they can take out some of the design or outsourced photography you might have needed to build into your budget. In the article above, Hubspot's social media manager Brittany Leaning created a SlideShare presentation that shows you a few do's and don'ts for using stock photos in your marketing.   9. Christmas Marketing Ideas For 2013 Believe it or not, Christmas is just a few weeks away. And with Christmas comes the one time on the calendar where there is an onslaught of consumers primed to spend their hard-earned money. And, because of this fact, it is the best time of year for businesses like yours and mine to maximize our sales. In the article above, Ryan Christie gives you some marketing ideas that any business can use to make their holiday sales that much merrier.   10. 10 Ways To Motivate Anyone Have you ever wondered how to keep your employees inspired and productive? 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NU12 #8 “Walk for a Cause”- by Ed Vargas

From: Ed Vargas <ed_vargas08@yahoo.com.ph>
Date: Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 6:48 PM
Subject: NU12 #8 "Walk for a Cause"- Our health

NU12 #8 "Walk for a Cause"- Our health

By Ed Vargas

Filipinos nowadays especially in the urban centers are becoming obese or overweight. No thanks to the advancement in technology where practically all our human activities are done as conveniently as possible. For instance, before if you want to switch channel while watching TV, you'll have to stand to turn the knob; now you just click button of your remote or lately in some TVs you just gesture and voila! Channel is switch. In offices and commercial establishments you have the escalators or the lift such that even you're just going to the 2^nd floor, you take them instead of the stairs. In fact in some airports, you have the walkalator. I remember the movie Wall-E wherein the human race has become an obese race since practically all human activities are automated and menial jobs are performed by robots while all the people are practically just sitting down and lying down.

I proposed that companies adopt a policy where employees are forced to walk which is the simplest form of exercise and yet very effective.

(1) Locate all parking areas at least 500 meters from the office buildings and in the case of basement parking, no elevator from the basement – take the stairs. In the case of multi-level basement parking, the following rules will also apply.

(2) No elevator stop on 2^nd floor. There will be separate elevators to serve odd and even floors. For odd floors, elevators stop only on 4^th floor, 8^th floor, 12^th and so forth and so on and for even floors, elevators stop on 3^rd, 5^th, 9^th and so on. If your office is between the floors served by the elevators-take the stairs, either going up or down. Under this set up the employees take a minimum of one flight of stairs in going to their office. Employee can't cheat since their company IDs will be installed with RFIDs such that if you take the elevator not designated to your office floors it will sound an alarm and not close until you get out. This could be embarrassing so don't even try. 3.5