(old found draft post)Pro-Entrepreneurial Public Policy Suggestions

Dec 24, 2008 @ 16:29
I should come back to gathering these.
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Dump Sox
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20081222/1647513199.shtml
Tort Refrom
IP reform
Radical transparency
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20081113/0321092822.shtml
OpenAuction
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080820/0110372037.shtml

(old found draft post) biz ideas X 2

From Sep 26, 2008 @ 14:29
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What was I thinking?
asisted Living Robotics
http://www.thomaspmbarnett.com/weblog/2008/09/a_billion_elders_by_2050in_chi.html
bio-discovery driven engineering
http://www.thomaspmbarnett.com/weblog/2008/09/another_county_heard_from_on_a.html

“The city’s Department of Public Works has been asked to patrol the lot to keep out illegal parkers, said Cecilia Gilbert, a spokeswoman for the city agency.” (Fixing Milwaukee Series)

Some special event visitors had a negative experience with downtown Milwaukee parking:
Jim Kirk was searching for a place to park around 7 p.m. Sunday near the Bradley Center when three men braving the evening wind and rain ushered him into a gravel lot at 324 W. Juneau Ave.
One man collected the cash – $10 – [...]

These “industries” are need of entrepreneurs with radical innovations

Just a few stray thoughts…
Housing – 30% of income for Housing? Jeez.
Personal Transportation – Where is my $5k car?
K12 Education – Too much money, too little results, little customization, wasted human and material capital. There has to be better ways.
Post-K12 Education – Cost are out of control, benefits are overstated. There has to be better [...]

Entrepreneurship Stuff: Mitt Romney on “making America more competitive”…

…here at CNN:

First, America must substantially improve our education system. We’ve fallen behind, particularly in areas of math and science.
Second, we’re going to have to remedy our disproportionate health care cost disadvantage. America spends far more than any other nation as a percent of GDP on health care. This effectively is an enormous tax on [...]

Robot News (and Entrepreneurial Opportunities): “Packs of Robots Will Hunt Down Uncooperative Humans “

You might think this is something about a fictional robot uprising, but no it is from Slash Dot:

They are looking for contractors to ‘develop a software/hardware suite that would enable a multi-robot team, together with a human operator, to search for and detect a non-cooperative human subject. The main research task will involve determining [...]

On “The Bailout”, Part 10: The Sunny Side of the Street

From here:

We will get out this current financial mess – not by government fiat, but because entrepreneurs and smart corporate executives and hard-working everyday people will innovate us out of it. They will come up with the new financial instruments that restructure this debt, the new technologies that will generate the wealth to make up [...]

Wisconsin has Problems with Entrepreneurs and Businesses

JSONLINE Community Columnist Al Smith nails it:
He joins an administration filled with hard-core ideologues and militant bureaucrats who view businessmen as the new kulaks, virtual enemies of the people whose wealth is to be expropriated in order to fund the endless expansion of the state.
The disdain is exemplified by John Wiley, the outgoing chancellor of [...]

The Coming Robots

Robots are coming, we just won’t pay them much attention. Slashdot reports on two robot stories:
The first (I’ll set aside my skepticism on the Global Warming nonsense)….
“According to UK and U.S. researchers, it should be possible to fight the global warming effects associated with an increase of dioxide levels by using autonomous cloud-seeding ships to [...]

US News: “Generation We’s Apollo Project”, Me: “What a dumb idea”

I saw this in the online version of US News:
…he’s urging both presidential campaigns to focus on one mega-idea the kids endorsed: an Apollo-style approach to the energy crisis. His plan is to create a department of new energy and give it $30 billion to $40 billion a year to invent the next best energy [...]

Entrepreneurship Opportunity? “Farming in the Sky”

From Popular Science:
The choice is clear—rethink how we grow food, or starve. Environmental scientist Dickson Despommier of Columbia University and other scientists propose a radical solution: Transplant farms into city skyscrapers. These towers would use soil-free hydroponic farming to slash demand for energy (they’ll be powered by a process that converts sewage into electricity) while [...]

I would buy a Micro-Chill – more then one most likely

I would buy this – but it should be called MyChill instead:
The first one, it seems, should be pretty straight-forward. The obvious name for it would be the ‘micro-chill’. Reverend Dave and I have been talking about it for years, yet it’s never been invented yet. Basically, we’re looking for the opposite of a microwave [...]

Sparse Elegance: Charles Koch’s “The Science of Success”

This is not a self-help book. It is an excellent slim introduction to free market economics and economic thinking masquerading as a business book.
While I picked up the “Science of Success” to see how he applied economic thinking to running a business, I was blown away the authors clarity and elegance in describing economic thinking.
I [...]

A Private SysAdmin Example

From the Entrepreneurial Mind:
Startup New Orleans is, instead, looking to free enterprise to rebuild the city one entrepreneur at a time.
To attract more of these types of individuals, Start Up New Orleans has been established by four of the city’s young business leaders. A resource for entrepreneurs seeking information and connections to other entrepreneurs, Start [...]

Genetics and Entrepreneurial Insticts

From the the NY Times:
The report, compiled by Julie Logan, a professor of entrepreneurship at the Cass Business School in London, found that more than a third of the entrepreneurs she had surveyed — 35 percent — identified themselves as dyslexic. The study also concluded that dyslexics were more likely than nondyslexics to delegate authority, [...]

“Huge penis engines are the answer”

How to generate cheap energy is the question.
Scott Adams writes:
As you can see from the story, big companies are building Stirling engine farms to capture the sun’s energy more effectively than photovoltaic panels. This could work, but it’s not the economic model that will set us completely free. Let me tell you what is: Giant [...]

Thank You Capitalism (entrepreneurship and productivity et al)

Instapundit (yeah I reading it right now) notes:
BIG NEWS: For the first time in 10,000 years, farming isn’t the dominant industry worldwide.
Say thanks to capitalism, entrepreneurship, creative destruction, the division of labor and the productivity growth of humans that we don’t need to have 99% of the population to grow food and instead we can [...]

Spacepot Concept Photo link

Check out the photo and link at Instapundit. This is a private venture too!

Book Notes: The Entrepreneurial Imperative by Carl J. Schramm

The book The Entrepreneurial Imperative by Carl J. Schramm is subtitled “How America’s Economic Miracle Will Reshape the World and Change Your Life”.
This is not a book on entrepreneurship, but rather a book on why entrepreneurship (practice of, promotion of, as foreign policy) is important to the a public policy for future USA.
Right from [...]

Nobel Prize Winner Phelps on “Dynamic Capitalism”

Edmund Phelps writes in the opinion Journal on “Dynamic Capitalism:
There are two economic systems in
the West. Several nations–including the U.S., Canada and the
U.K.–have a private-ownership system marked by great openness to the
implementation of new commercial ideas coming from entrepreneurs, and
by a pluralism of views among the financiers who select the ideas to
nurture by providing the [...]

Freedom Spreading (aka Gap Shrinking) via the Promotion of Entrepreneurial Capitalism

Via the PSD Blog, Carl Schramm writes in USA Today, starting with:
Smith’s great revelation was that political freedom would most likely emerge and persist under conditions of economic freedom, what we now call capitalism. Our democratic system as defined in our Constitution incorporated respect for this economic system. Like Smith’s invisible hand in the market, [...]

Information Security and Spreadsheets

From Slashdot:
G Roper writes "Studies show that most spreadsheets have critical errors in one percent of their cells, well beyond a permissible level. Here are some news stories about spreadsheet errors. Spreadsheets won't protect a firm from liability when they are audited and spreadsheet errors found: spreadsheets are not secure, provide no audit trail and [...]