Below is a two-part interview of Dr. Stephen Hicks, CEE’s Executive Director, with Spring 2009 CEE guest speaker Dr. C. Bradley Thompson about his lecture on John Adams’ moral character and his importance to the American Revolution.
Part I
Part II
At Open Forum, Guy Kawasaki lists 10 tips for successful bootstrapping. This article is reprinted from his most recent book Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition.
MattWilson.tv lists the advantages of being a college entrepreneur.
Very cool: McKinsey, together with the World Economic Forum, has created an “Innovation Heat Map,” which identifies the common factors of the world’s successful innovation hubs. (Via Policy Dialogue on Entrepreneurship)
Check out Score: This nonprofit organization offers aspiring entrepreneurs free education and mentoring from successful business owners. The local chapter here in Rockford, IL is Northern Illinois Score.
A cool way for kids to learn about entrepreneurship: The Johnny Money Online Game allows youngsters to simulate owning a small internet-based business.
A must watch: Using awesome images and video, Charles Elachi, director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, recounts stories from NASA’s Mars Rover project.
A new SBA Office of Advocacy sponsored report by Robert W. Fairlie examines the contributions of immigrants to the U.S. economy. Some of its findings are:
Immigrants are nearly 30 percent more likely to start a business than are nonimmigrants, and they represent 16.7 percent of all new business owners in the United States.
Immigrant business owners make significant contributions to business income, generating $67 billion of the $577 billion in U.S. business income, as estimated from 2000 U.S. Census data. They generate nearly one-quarter of all business income in California—nearly $20 billion—and nearly one-fifth of business income in New York, Florida, and New Jersey.
Nearly 30 percent of all business owners in California are immigrants, compared with about 12.5 percent of the population of U.S. business owners. Twenty-five percent of business owners in New York and more than 20 percent in New Jersey, Florida, and Hawaii are foreign-born.
In California, immigrants are 34.2 percent of the new business owners each month. Nearly 30 percent of all new business owners per month in New York, Florida, and Texas are immigrants.
Immigrants own 11.2 percent of businesses with $100,000 or more in sales and 10.8 percent of businesses with employees.
Immigrants’ contributions differ across sectors of the economy. They own a large share—more than one-fifth—of businesses in the arts, entertainment, and recreation industry. They also contribute significantly to other services, transportation, and wholesale and retail trade.
Check out StudentBusinesses.com, a site that connects college entrepreneurs to business partners, startup advisors, investors and small business providers.
