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Jordan VC Firms Forge Mideast Silicon Valley: William CohanWilliam D. Cohan
Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Few Americans would pick Amman, Jordan -- a city of about 2 million in the heart of the war-torn Middle East -- as a vibrant place for entrepreneurs and the venture capitalists who back them.
But there Amman is, ranked as the 10th-best city in the world to launch a tech startup, according to a 2012 list compiled by Rachid Sefrioui, the founder of Finaventures, a California-based venture-capital firm.
Not surprisingly, Sefrioui's list is topped by Palo Alto, California; Los Angeles, Boston, London and New York. These cities have long been hotbeds of venture capitalists and the high-tech entrepreneurs who seek them out, and with good reason.
There are billions of dollars in equity capital to be invested. There is an advanced physical and intellectual infrastructure devoted to matching venture capitalists with entrepreneurs. And there is a 30-year-plus record of success -- and failure -- from which investors can learn the winning combination of a great idea, a receptive marketplace and a gifted management team.
Amman has very few, if any, of these advantages. Jordan is surrounded by strife, has few natural resources -- it has no proven oil reserves and is the fourth-driest country on Earth -- and is among the world's top recipients of U.S. aid on a per-capita basis. The official unemployment rate is 13 percent but few believe it; the conventional wisdom is that half the population is either unemployed or underemployed.
Lack of Capital
When I visited the country last month as a guest of U.S. Ambassador Stuart E. Jones, the young people I spoke with were palpably frustrated over whether it would be possible for them to have a meaningful career. Leading businessmen I met with lamented the lack of readily available (non-venture) capital in the country, thanks to the aftershocks of the global financial crisis and the uncertainties of the Arab Spring.
Jordanians also believe, with experience as their guide, that government corruption is rampant. The owner of an engineering firm complained to me that the government owed him $15 million for a completed project at a defense facility. He told me he had walked right up to the finance minister at a government reception and asked him directly why he had not been paid. (The finance minister promised to look into the situation.) The businessman suspects the country might actually be bankrupt. He's not alone. A year ago, Moody's Investors Service changed the outlook to negative on Jordan's Ba2 debt rating.
And yet, somehow, Jordan appears to be thriving as a home to young entrepreneurs. There are at least two groups -- Oasis 500 and Endeavor Jordan, a nonprofit -- that are incubating promising young businessmen. People in the business estimate that there is now around $300 million in venture funding to be invested. One morning, I met with some of the 40 or so entrepreneurs -- men and women -- that Oasis 500 has backed. I could just as easily have been in Palo Alto.
Among others, there was Lana Karrain, the founder of fakker.me, a website that uses online gaming to match employers with prospective employees; Abdulhameid Grandoka of taltol.com, an online marketplace for artists and graphic designers; and Ala Suleiman of Masmoo3, a company that provides audio books to the Arabic-speaking world. At one point, we had a robust debate about the proposed U.S. laws to combat Internet piracy and whether Facebook Inc. should be paying its users for data rather than just taking it free and capitalizing on it.
Money Finds Ideas
Amman is no fluke. Sefrioui told me he included it on his top-10 list (ahead of runners-up Madrid and Toronto) in his belief that, on a relative basis, the city has figured out a way to nurture young people's startup dreams despite the seemingly bleak economic environment. He often found that young entrepreneurs in Jordan have no choice but to start their own companies, and that the Internet has enabled that to happen. The Internet doesn't care where you live or whether there is oil in the ground; it rewards those with great ideas for providing people with a better way to get the things they need.
Can Jordan move up in Sefrioui's list? One hurdle is a lingering culture of shame that stigmatizes people who fail in a business venture. There are no bankruptcy laws that make it possible for a businessman to work through financial difficulties with creditors and emerge on the other side, raring to try again.
Jordan is not unique in this regard. Sefrioui told me about three entrepreneurs he met in Paris who received venture funding there but, when their businesses failed, were effectively shut out from trying again. One moved to New York; the other two to San Francisco.
In America, of course, bankruptcy laws help places like Palo Alto thrive. Most venture capitalists in the U.S. understand that backing entrepreneurs is a portfolio game, and not everyone is going to be Mark Zuckerberg. Americans understand the role that failure has in success. When Amman gets that message, too, watch out, Palo Alto.
(William D. Cohan, a former investment banker and the author of "Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World," is a Bloomberg View columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.)
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As its name would suggest, the Motorola SLVR L7e is a sliver of a phone. It's sleek and slim and very much the fashionable handset.
EDGE technology gives faster download speeds, there is a music player with support for Bluetooth headphones, a 1.3-megapixel camera and 128MB of internal memory to differentiate the Motorola SLVR L7e from its more basic predecessor.
The Motorola SLVR L7e is tactile and feels good to operate, and an improved user interface makes texting easier. Elsewhere, the camera and music player are straightforward.
EDGE technology makes web browsing and downloading on the MOTOSLVR L7e speedier than with a GPRS connection. Photos are low resolution and good only for MMS and wallpaper. Music only sounds good when streamed via Bluetooth to a decent headset.
For such a slim phone, the SLVR L7e's 400 minutes of battery life is impressive, and far better than may higher-specced handsets.
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The A2DP wireless audio streaming support is a nice touch.
Motorola hasn't taken the L7's upgrade far enough with the L7e.
When the Motorola SLVR L7 launched in early 2005, its 11.5mm-thick profile ranked as the thinnest candybar around. But, like the RAZR V3, it was all about fashion over features. The RAZR V3 got a welcome upgrade in the guise of the V3i and now it's the turn of the SLVR L7 with the new L7e.
As the 'e' suffix suggests, the Motorola SLVR L7e has been equipped with EDGE (2.75G) capabilities, giving it faster download speeds. But that's not all - the camera has been improved from VGA to 1.3 megapixels and A2DP (Advance Audio Distribution Profile) support has been added, allowing wireless Bluetooth streaming of music in stereo from your handset to a pair of compatible Bluetooth headphones or speakers.The original design remains intact except for a re-jigged keypad, the superfluous menu key has been dropped and buttons included for accessing the web browser and a cancel command. It's still tactile and fantastic to operate. Moto's slightly improved user interface has slicker texting and a contact search.
The built-in music player is very basic and you will have to connect a pair of Bluetooth headphones to boost the weedy sound issued from its proprietary earphones. The MOTOSLVR L7e retains the microSD card slot, so you can store around 500 good-quality tracks if you invest in a 2GB card, but you will have to share this with your other multimedia stuff. Motorola has also bumped up the internal memory from 5MB to 20MB.The camera upgrade is a tad disappointing, especially when the standard is now two megapixels. Photo quality is only good for wallpaper and MMS.
Motorola's mid to high-end phones always pack quad-band capabilities and the L7e is no different. This means you can make and receive calls in most parts of the world, and frequent global travellers will dig the airplane mode to enable use of the phone's non-network features on flights.The feature and design advancements on the Motorola SLVR L7e aren't really tantalising enough for L7 owners to upgrade or to attract new punters. There are more feature-packed slimliners at the same price point, like the Samsung Ultra range series, to aim for. But as a good-value prepay phone, it has potential.

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That's where Toshiba's Portégé G710 fell short: it tried desperately to squeeze as much as possible in for a low price, but because it failed in a couple of key areas, it failed to make the grade. That's where recent products from lesser-known phone manufacturer Asus have impressed.
Its P320 and M930 smartphones weren't perfect, but one thing you couldn't level at them was that they didn't make sense. Each filled a niche; each was unique in its own particular way. The M530W - a Windows Mobile 6 Standard phone - is next in line, but with its ubiquitous BlackBerry-style QWERTY candy bar styling, it has a harder job to impress.
And it doesn't make a great first impression. It looks business-like enough in matte black with silver highlights, but there's nothing that marks it out from the crowd. It's neither as slim or light as the Toshiba Portégé G710 (it's 0.5mm thicker at 13.8mm and 5g heavier) nor as striking to look at as the BlackBerry 8820 or the Motorola Q 9h - the bog-standard up, down, left, right and okay navigational control sees to that.
But for all that, it seems to have got the ergonomics largely right. The directional control isn't too fiddly to use and the keyboard - probably the toughest thing to get right - is usable too. Again, the latter isn't as good as the BlackBerry 8820's, the G710's or the Motorola Q 9h's - I'd have liked a slightly more rounded profile left to right and a little more distance between the keys - but it's by no means terrible, and with a little concentration and practise you'll soon be typing out emails reasonably swiftly.
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"Chances are when said and done … "
Dateline: … Until Came A Chance.
Why should you care about this?
This B.A.S.S. Federation Nation Championship thing.
Who cares?
Bunch of guys you've never heard of.
Who cares?
You should care because of Larry Johnson. And Larry Johnson isn't even here. Don't even know if Larry Johnson fishes. Don't even know if Larry Johnson has ever heard of B.A.S.S.
Larry Johnson is a great blues guitarist.
Almost wasn't though, almost wasn't nothin'.
Larry Johnson, the story goes, once applied to be a janitor at Radio City Music Hall … didn't get the job.
Dude wasn't making ends meet playing the guitar at Honky Tonks and shot and beer bars.
Needed to push broom to survive. Needed to clean up after others to make it, to make it to the next gig.
Hard to believe in yourself, pushing broom. Hard to become someone else, pushing broom.
But make it to the next gig Larry Johnson did. Not a stale beer joint gig. Not a gig where you are paid in smokes and a dinner.
A real gig.
Larry Johnson got to play in front of a packed house.
Got to be in a movie, a documentary about the blues, got filmed sitting on stage playing to a packed house.
On stage … at the Radio City Music Hall.
That's why you should care about these guys in the boats.
Last week, they could be pushing broom.
Next week, they could headed to the Bassmaster Classic.
Somewhere along the line Larry Johnson got a chance … a chance to play his guitar … a chance to show what he was put on this earth to do.
Ain't no pushing broom.
These dudes in these boats have the chance of a lifetime, a chance that could change their lives.
The gig of a lifetime.
Get in their boat, be them. You ever wish for a chance, you ever have tears roll off your pillow because no one will give you a chance, you ever look in the mirror and say "please God just give me one shot, please God, JUST ONE CHANCE."
You out there pushing broom … waiting … hoping … praying … for a chance.
We all got our brooms to push.
We all are hoping.
We all are waiting.
We all are praying.
Just give me the freakin' chance … that's all we ask.
Why should you care about all this?
Because IT'S YOU.
You out there in those boats.
This isn't pie in the sky liberal arts theory out there on the lake.
This is steel mill real life … become the boss, become the union steward … you're life gets better.
Win this darn thing, become one of the six who go to the Bassmaster Classic … YOUR LIFE GETS BETTER.
These are not stinking rich snobby jerk professional athletes out there … it's your neighbor, it's your insurance guy, it's your electrician, it's the welder, it's the salesman, it's your produce guy.
It's the guy with the same amount of money in his pocket as you have in yours.
I have never asked to be given anything other than a chance.
Don't want your charity boss man, just want your opportunity.
Don't want your owe me stuff, just want to earn my chance.
Don't want playin' no games to get it, just want a level playin' field.
I'll push broom.
I'll clean up after you.
I'll work two gigs, three gigs, all the gigs in the world.
For a chance.
A chance.
So that I won't be.
Almost was nothin'.
" … who'll be the lucky ones who make it all the way … "
I believe we have Kings.
I believe we have Queens.
Royalty, here in America.
If you get up every morning and schlep off to work to feed your family, to give your kids a chance to better themselves.
You are royalty in my book.
If you protect us from each other, a cop.
You are royalty.
If you run to something we run away from to save us, a firefighter.
You are royalty.
If you are a nurse, the guy who plows the street, the guy who drives the bus, the social worker, the people who show up to help others in a disaster.
You are royalty.
But above all, if you are a teacher, a teacher who cares, a teacher who shops at Staples with their own money to make up for the supplies after budget cuts, a teacher for the children, not an administrator for the numbers, a teacher who knows the world is a classroom.
In my book, you are double royalty.
So, I'm walking around the boat yard talking to the competitors, talking to their families … listening … mainly listening, for a story. I come up to this big guy in a boat.
I'm thinking to myself … we've got ourselves a linebacker here.
The dude is just sitting there, looking around, looking at his wife, just sitting there smiling.
"Where you from?"
The dude looks at me and says, "Michigan."
"Gotta love those Lions, huh?"
"Yes sir."
"Did you play?"
"Yes sir."
"Eastern Michigan University."
"What position?"
Now I'm smiling.
"What do you do now?"
"Teach … I'm a phys ed teacher at a high school in Michigan."
Before he finishes that sentence, I have my reporter's notebook out. I'm about to ask him a question when he just says, "I can't believe I'm here, everything I've done in my whole life has been for the chance to be in the Bassmaster Classic."
" … chances are the fascinations … "
"I grew up on a farm in Ohio," says Tom Kiefer, who for the last 24 years has taught physical education and health and coached at Brighton High School in Brighton, Mich.
"We had 125 acres, but way out back we had a pond. I spent hours and hours fishing that pond. My mother used to come outside and start beeping the car horn so I would know it was time for lunch or dinner, but if I was catching fish she could wear the battery out in the car beeping the horn … I wasn't coming in if I was on fish."
I grew up on a pond as well.
At my Uncle Jim's and Aunt Irma's house.
My pond went from floor to ceiling … hundreds of books. I stayed at their home a lot. Every night Aunt Irma would read books from the pond to me and I would go to bed dreaming of tigers and bears, dinosaurs and rocket ships.
Dreaming of words.
Wishing for a chance someday to write the words that Aunt Irma would one day read.
Tom went from his pond out back to the football field of Eastern Michigan where he played in every game that he was eligible to play in. "44 games over the course of my career there, but I knew, knew the last time I took the pads off, was at the end of a bowl game, The California Bowl in Fresno, Calif. We played San Jose State … they said we had no chance … 20-some-point underdogs … "
While telling me about his final game, I know Tom has left me, and is back in sunny Fresno walking off the field, " … underdogs … we won though 31-27, so much for no chance."
"I have to tell you though, when I took those pads off I sat a long time in that locker room … sat a long time when I knew it was the end."
Know the feeling, Aunt Irma passed away before I ever wrote a word for her to read.
Ever word written since has been for Irma, the lady who gave me my first chance.
" … chances won't escape from me … "
How important is this, being here, competing in the championship … here's Tom … listen.
"I qualified at the tournament in Ft. Madison, Iowa … it was a 10-hour drive back home and when I called my wife Stacey back home … I broke down."
I didn't say anything, sometimes saying nothing is the best question you can ask.
"On the drive home I thought back to all those nights I spent catching night crawlers, all the hours spent out in the boat alone, in all kinds of weather, trying to get better. I tried to think in my head, how many hours, how many hours, and I couldn't, couldn't come near an estimate, countless … just countless."
And Tom drifts off for a moment … thinking I'm sure of all the hours spent in the boat … the boat he just sold … the bought he used for seven years … his old boat, now gone.
The boat he bought seven years ago …
… from KVD.
"I watch what KVD does, how he fishes, learned a lot from him, a lot from Rick Clunn as well … but a tremendous amount from Mark Davis."
Mark Davis, an Elite angler … an Angler of the Year … a Bassmaster Classic winner.
"I did the Marshall thing with B.A.S.S., did it twice. Didn't fish much just wanted to do it so I could watch and learn from the best, and both times I drew Mark Davis … great guy … but a great angler. I learned so much, an education, man, what an education!"
" … chances are only what we make them … "
I have to be honest, I don't know how many competitors we have here for this tournament, it doesn't matter to me, the number, so I can never get it stuck in my head.
But I have spent a couple days now walking up to as many of them as possible, asking them where they are from, and then just shooting the breeze.
I always ask one question, ask the same question, word for word, I make the introduction and chit-chat with them, all to ask this one question, all to hear their answer.
"So how cool is it that you are here at the championship?"
Not exactly a journalism Hall of Fame question, but short, non-threatening, easy to ask, easy to answer … but it will tell you everything about the person.
And from those answers, I worry.
Here's why … too many are thrilled to be here.
That's right, I said it.
If you are just thrilled to be here, this is as far as you are going. Enjoy the ride, you'll be going home.
It is the same in any sport, and it is what makes champions.
The goal is not to MAKE the Super Bowl … the goal is to WIN the Super Bowl. Subtle difference, but THE difference.
I'm happy all you dudes are here, enjoy it. Might be forever before you get back … but there is more than just here … here is where chance lives.
You have what may be a once-in-a-lifetime shot at getting to the Bassmaster Classic … and winning it.
If you don't think winning it means anything, don't think it is WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT … look close at the out of focus shot I took of KVD as he drove by me at the last Classic.
The dude had just won his fourth Classic title … you think that photo says it is old hat to him?
Look at it … do you think he would be happy just to be there?
I knew KVD was good. This photo, which I printed out and have hanging in my office, this photo to me is what a champion is all about.
Tom gets that.
"I'm a concrete sequential planning kind of guy. I have worked out every day for the last two months so I can come here and go on to the Classic. I know that if I'm in good shape physically, I'm also in good shape mentally."
Tom credits his wife, his family, his faith as the reason for his success, that, and a linebacker's attitude.
"You can't let the previous play cost you the next play … it is always focus on the next play."
Focus forward, not backward.
"When I prepare, I always expect to win. Mentally, I don't play anything without expecting to win."
I'm going to say something that will flip out every coach in America … and I don't care.
Competition has got nothing to do about the other person.
When you compete, the only person you should compete against is yourself.
I don't care about what the other writers write about here.
They are all nice people and good writers.
None of them stink.
It is the mirror I battle. It's the mirror that tells me I stink. It is the mirror I must beat.
Larry Johnson, the great guitarist I began with, is who I will end it with.
A quote from the man who pushed broom to get to his chance.
"If you are working on your own style, little by little competition don't mean nothing. You in your own vein, the next guy do what he do and you do what you do."
And with that comes your chance.
Compete, within.
Within is where the champion resides.
Within is where championships are won.
The B.A.S.S. Federation Nation Championship is but one chance to reach your biggest chance … the Bassmaster Classic stage.
You wanted it.
You got it.
Here's your …
… chance.
" … and all I need."
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The five man lineup that traveled to Florida Atlantic's home tournament in Lake Worth, Florida was excited to get the spring season started. There were positive vibes right from the start as we flew JetBlue airlines equipped with DirecTV and XM radio. Prior to the practice round on Thursday, each team was introduced during an extensive opening ceremonies presentation with Florida Atlantic cheerleaders present, something we have and hopefully will never see again. Everybody hit the ball well during the practice round and we were anxious and excited to end our winter drought.
We played beyond our expectations for our first competitive round of the spring, sitting in an impressive fifth place after 18 holes. It felt awesome to beat out many southern schools who had already the opportunity to practice and play in a number of tournaments so far. We look to improve on our performance and defend our past win last spring at Bradley University's home tournament this weekend at Weaver Ridge Golf Club in Peoria, Illinois.
There is nothing that can truly simulate a tournament round because there are so many factors that go into playing well. Hitting fairways, greens and putts are just a part of the sport. The moment any bit of nervous energy or doubt start to enter one's mind is when this punishing and sometimes unfair game starts to become extraordinarily difficult: missed five footers, errant tee balls and failure to get up and down when missing the green are some examples I have experience with.
I have learned throughout my career that when the pressure is on, you have to learn to tell yourself that having butterflies in your stomach is actually a positive thing because you are in sole possession of your future success. If you are not experiencing some kind of nervous energy and adrenaline, then you are not playing for anything meaningful. You must have confidence that you will succeed when given a chance, assuming your practice and preparation is productive. This game can be the most rewarding sport when playing well, and be demoralizing when playing poorly. If you do not truly love the game, this game is not for you.
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Checksum tokens
There is a very powerful feature to allow you to send an email with CiviMail to your constituents with a link to the contribution form, profile, or event registration form with all of their contact information already filled in! This saves them the hassle of filling it out and increasing the chances they would ultimately donate. Or it can be a simple way to periodically allow people to review their contact info and update it if applicable.
The way it works is you create a "special" link in the CiviMail message that includes the checksum token {contact.checksum}. When people click on the special link, it looks them up in the database and prefills any information on the contribution form or profile with any data that exists in their record. The special link lasts for seven days from the time it was sent out.
DEVELOPER NOTE: the checksum token outputs the QS param, so if you are building a URL using CRM_Contact_BAO_Contact_Utils::generateChecksum(), you should include 'cs='
Checksum for Contribution Pages: To send people to a contribution page use this path where N is the ID of your contribution page:
Checksum for standard Profiles (edit mode): To send people to a profile use this path where N is the ID of the Profile you want to send them to:
Checksum for Event Registration Pages: To send people to an event registration page use this path where N is the ID of your event:
Checksum for Petition Signature Pages: To send people to sign a petition, use this path where N is the ID of your petition:


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Product Information for HP Power Array Cabinet
Highlights for HP Power Array Cabinet
Marketing Information
Power Array Cabinet Supports up to 2 switches: provides additional PoE power for up to two switches simultaneously or both supplies can be connected to a single switch. It has two slots for zl power supplies. It supplies PoE power only to zl switches.
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HP Core Switches:
HP Edge Switches:
Green ComplianceYes
Green Compliance Certificate/AuthorityWEEE
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