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Dilbert Creator Scott Adams on Getting a Real Education

Christopher Vaughan — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 21:19:22 +0000

In a humorous and inspiring piece in The Wall Street Journal, Scott Adams (creator of the popular Dilbert comic strip) writes that most college students should learn the skills needed to run a business, which will prepare them for post-graduate life. Mr. Adams touches on several of his clever entrepreneurial ideas as a student that allowed him to master “the strange art of transforming nothing into something,” and he gives some excellent advice to burgeoning entrepreneurs.

Read the article here.

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Bureaucratic Red Tape Strangles Entrepreneurship

Christopher Vaughan — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:35:10 +0000

The Institute for Justice’s City Studies series examines the political red tape that keeps entrepreneurs from getting their businesses off the ground. The studies focus on “real-world entrepreneurs from eight different cities across the nation,” such as Los Angeles’ Jill Bigelow. Her “most frustrating experience while trying to open her restaurant was when an inspector would not allow her to open because her previously approved wall tile did not have enough ‘reflective value.’” Despite being in the top ten most economically free countries, the U.S. clearly has a long way to go towards truly supporting entrepreneurs.

Watch the Institute for Justice’s entertaining video that highlights some of the aggravating roadblocks that entrepreneurs face:

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Demotivating yourself and others

Ahartleb — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:16:50 +0000

Looking for some office wall art? Motivation is out. Consider these darkly hilarious demotivational posters on apathy, cluelessness, compromise, conformity, flattery, idiocy, inspiration, irresponsibility, or mediocrity instead.

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