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Long term unemployment
Submitted by jpark on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 09:21NY Times article on the long term unemployed.
I've no solution for this situation.
Education/training hasn't helped this situation. too many of the "new" jobs were in industries that have already gone, or will soon be shipped away. How many html programmers are left in this country?
What new jobs have emerged from all the tra
Successful MITEF event at Canadian Embassy
Submitted by jpark on Fri, 02/19/2010 - 06:33Last night was a fantastic event for the MITEF Winter Gala at the Canadian Embassy.
There was a great crowd of entrepreneurs and other folks in the entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Remembering what I don't know
Submitted by jpark on Wed, 02/17/2010 - 12:26It is the season for business plan competitions. The MIT Enterprise forum of DC and Balitmore will be holding their competition in a couple of months. However, I've been working with some schools on the VCIC, venture capital investment competition, where the teams of students act as investors, not entreprenerus, and go about judging/grading the companies based upon criteria that VC investors would use.
I enjoy these events, because it puts me in contact with great students, amazing companies, and it helps me remember what I didn't know about the industry
Photysyntheis and quantum coherence
Submitted by jpark on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 06:49Does this mean than every blade of grass out there is a quantum computer?
VC can't hide any more
Submitted by jpark on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 09:19so the numbers that were propping up great returns are now out of the 10 year timeframe.
MIT Enteprise Forum of Washington DC and Baltimore Gala 2010
Submitted by jpark on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 09:08| Date: | Thursday, February 18, 2010 |
| Time: | 6:00pm - 9:00pm |
| Location: | Canadian Embassy 501 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC |
NYTimes: Sites to Refuel Electric Cars Gain a Big Dose of Funds
Submitted by jpark on Mon, 01/25/2010 - 05:05From The New York Times:
Sites to Refuel Electric Cars Gain a Big Dose of Funds
The infusion of cash is a vote of confidence for Better Place, the
closely watched start-up that hopes to create vast networks of charge
spots for electric vehicles.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/25/business/energy-environment/25electric.html
Electric Cars are supposed to come
Submitted by jpark on Sun, 01/24/2010 - 15:56US Post office to test electric vehicle
Submitted by jpark on Thu, 01/21/2010 - 11:08I've said for a while that it will not be the end consumer who decides when we switch to electric vehicles.
Went to Sisarina officewarming party
Submitted by jpark on Tue, 01/19/2010 - 18:39It was a nice event. I had the MAVA event to attend later in the
evening. But it is always fun to network with the startups in the
neighborhood. O had a chance to talk with the founder, and understand
why she wanted to strike out on her own. I knew one of the employees,
Amanda, from her time at Calvert.
evening. But it is always fun to network with the startups in the
neighborhood. O had a chance to talk with the founder, and understand
why she wanted to strike out on her own. I knew one of the employees,
Amanda, from her time at Calvert.
Each startup has its own flavor. And every company's flavor is
determined by the mix of talent and people in the shop.
