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Entrepreneurs: When's the Gold?by Miki Saxon
Did you start your company to become a millionaire in a few years?
If so, you're in for a rude awakening.
If candidates' reason for joining is to become rich when the company exits should raise more than red flags; it should ring every alarm you have and send you running for the nearest exit.
That's true no matter how badly you need his skills or how much the team likes him.
Candidates who join because they believe they'll be millionaires in a few years are walking time bombs and hiring them could be your worst nightmare.
Because, as the man once said, "It ain't gonna happen."
This isn't about the well know statistic that half of all startups fail (they don't), but it is based on some interesting stats I came across in a blog called the "MarketInfoGuide" sponsored by China Research and Intelligence, a market research and consulting firm in Shanghai.
Slide sold for 200 million dollars to Google, but the employees made almost nothing, because so little was left for the common stock shareholders after the preferred shareholders were paid back.
I bounced it off Matt Weeks to see how solid the information and numbers were.
"Math is wrong regarding the participating preferred, but the main point is still pretty accurate… don't join a startup to make a million in 3 yrs."
Also, some phrasing slants the text in a decidedly negative way, but that doesn't change the stats.
So why should you start a company?
To solve a problem, make a difference in people's lives, maybe even help solve one or another of society's ills and create a happy place to work.
Why should you join a startup?
To work on the bleeding edge of technology, contribute to something amazing, be challenged, grow exponentially, be happy.
Whichever side of the table you are on remember that Rome wasn't built in a day, Google was founded in 1998 and IPOed six years later; and Facebook was founded eight years ago in 2004.
Even when it happens it doesn't happen fast.
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Washington may have as many as ten wolf packs, according to a new map from Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.
Does a map of more potential wolf packs mean wolves are "exploding out of control" as some anti-wolf activists like to exclaim? Hardly.
Recently the Washington Department of Fish Wildlife updated their map of potential wolf packs in the state - and it looks like we may have as many as ten packs. Northwest Sportsman did an excellent job explaining the current populations.
With 5-10 pups in a litter, wolves can reproduce at faster rates than other large carnivores like grizzlies. Does this new map mean that wolves are "exploding out of control" as anti-wolf activists like to exclaim? No.
This growth in the potential number of packs probably has more to do with people than wolves. With the wolf plan finalized, WDFW now has more capacity and resources to implement a recovery plan, and that means more boots on the ground. Many of the sightings around suspected packs had been reported by locals for many years, but little follow up work had been done to confirm pack activity.
A few weeks ago WDFW debuted a new wolf sighting reporting website to help monitoring efforts. The department deserves kudos for stepping up its game, showing the public that it will respond more rapidly to sighting reports - which will help us get a more accurate gauge on recovery progress.
Last week they also released three exciting videos of wolves caught on camera that may belong to one of the newly discovered packs in the Columbia Highlands (yet another reason to love that place).
Conservation Northwest has been a crucial partner to WDFW in assisting wolf monitoring efforts for years. Our camera program documented Washington's first confirmed pack (Lookout), and the other confirmed pack in the Cascades (Teanaway). And we'll shoot for 3 for 3 this year with expanded monitoring efforts in the South Cascades, where no wolf packs have yet been documented. You can help by sponsoring our South Cascade cameras this year.
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English conversation school operator ECC Corp. probably purchased some of the customer information stolen from Benesse Corp. to send junk mail to high school students, sources close to the matter said Friday.
The government, meanwhile, said it had suspended its English-language ability test for high school students, which had been outsourced to Benesse, Japan's biggest provider of correspondence education courses for children. The firms is controlled by Benesse Holdings Inc.
"A personal information leak is intolerable. We will urge Benesse to carry out its business under strict information management," education minister Hakubun Shimomura told a press conference.
In the latest sign that the stolen information may be making its way to other companies, ECC admitted buying information on 27,000 high school students that was likely owned by Benesse from a name list vendor.
Benesse Holdings said last week that personal information on at least 7.6 million customers had been leaked.
In buying the information, ECC asked the vendor whether it had been obtained in a fair manner, the company said. The vendor replied that it got the data by using official resident registry documents it had access to before Japan's privacy protection law took effect.
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A 39-year-old systems engineer was arrested Thursday for allegedly stealing data on about 10 million customers from Benesse to sell it to name list traders.
Investigative sources said Friday that systems engineer Masaomi Matsuzaki, who was fired on July 10 from the agency he was temporarily working for, admitted that he illegally downloaded Benesse's customer list.
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by Dr. Tony Phillips for NASA Science News
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This week the second planet from the sun will pass directly in front of the Pleiades star cluster. It's a rare sunset conjunction that's easy to find with the unaided eye, but best seen through binoculars or a small telescope.
The action begins on Monday evening, April 2nd, when Venus enters the outskirts of the little dipper-shaped asterism. Look west at sunset for Venus--it's the brightest thing around--then scan the area using binoculars.
The conjunction will be immediately clear. The best evening to look is Tuesday, April 3rd, when the brilliant planet glides just south of the dipper's bowl. Venus exits by the handle on Wednesday, April 4th. Venus passes through the Pleiades in this way about once every 8 years.
To say this is a mixture of dissimilar things would be an understatement.
The Pleiades are elusive. You rarely find them on purpose. They're best seen out of the corner of your eye, a pretty little surprise that pops out of the night sky when you're staring elsewhere.
Venus is just the opposite. Dazzling, bright enough to cast faint shadows, it beams down from the heavens and grabs you when you're not even looking.
The Pleiades, also known as the "Seven Sisters," are a cluster of young stars. They formed barely 100 million years ago during the age of dinosaurs on Earth from a collapsing cloud of interstellar gas. The biggest and brightest members are blue-white and about five times wider than our own sun.
Because of their distance, about 400 light years away, the Pleiades are near the limit of naked-eye visibility. When Venus joins them in conjunction, it will look like a supernova has gone off inside the cluster.
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HUNDREDS of parents from across York are getting a helping hand to prepare for awkward questions from inquisitive youngsters this winter.
The University of York's Centre for Lifelong Learning is running a free session to help York parents with primary school-aged children answer tricky questions about the science behind winter weather.
The one-hour event will look at how to predict a white Christmas and how to keep things festive if the perfect wintery scene fails to materialise this year.
The session, which is supported by the Wellcome Trust, is offered at the Tang Hall Community Centre on Wednesday and the National Science Learning Centre on Thursday.
Lesley Booth, director of community relations and lifelong learning, said: "The session is designed for parents who would like to catch up on the science they may have missed at school or who struggle to find an answer to a question from a child naturally curious about the world around them.
"Our aim through these and similar sessions is to raise parents' understanding of science as they support their children in their schoolwork."
Alex Brown, from the university's Centre for Lifelong Learning, is running the taster sessions, and will teach parents some simple experiments to try out with their children in the kitchen.
He is also running a longer, free course for parents starting in February.
The White Christmas taster session is at Tang Hall Community Centre, Fifth Avenue, York, on Wednesday from 9.30am to 10.30am, and at the National Science Learning Centre, on the University of York campus, on Thursday from 10am to 11am.
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Rare East Texas Earthquake (fracking?)
TIMPSON, Texas (AP) A moderate earthquake rattled an area in (E)ast Texas near the Louisiana border.
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Fri May 18, 2012, 08:16 PM
NCarolinawoman (2,825 posts)
1. Fracking was the first thing that came to my mind. n/t
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Fri May 18, 2012, 08:26 PM
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4. Expert: Well activity could be to blame for Timpson earthquakes
One of the states leading experts on earthquakes said Thursday that two recent quakes near Timpson might be connected to commercial injection wells operating in the area.
Cliff Frohlich was studying the May 10 earthquake northwest of Timpson when the earth shook again there early Thursday.
The U.S. Geological Survey reported that a magnitude 4.3 quake rattled Shelby County a little after 3 a.m.
I thought, Whoa! I was working on the May 10 earthquake yesterday and now theres another one. said Frohlich, associate director of the University of Texas Institute of Geophysics.
Frohlich specializes in the study of Texas earthquakes.
That area (around Timpson) is not very seismically active, Frohlich said. It is possibly human activity-related.
Timpson, in Shelby County, is in the Haynesville shale formation a hotbed of activity for natural gas exploration and extraction.
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Fri May 18, 2012, 08:18 PM
ananda (17,925 posts)
2. A geologist says it was a fault line.
I'm never sure how much I trust news stories that come out fast in order
to let a bad company and practice off the hook, but here's the link:
One of the comments also suggests that injection wells might be at play here as another possibility.
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Fri May 18, 2012, 08:24 PM
derby378 (30,208 posts)
3. I'm gonna go with the fault line on this one
Fracking does enough damage to the environment without us having to blame it for earthquakes. But I could be wrong.
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Fri May 18, 2012, 08:30 PM
arely staircase (12,482 posts)
5. see my post above - geologist believes it very well could be human activity nt
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At the Tel Aviv headquarters of the Center for Educational Technology, an NGO I'm very fond of because of its simultaneous dedication to improving education and its embrace of innovative technology, I got to try an Oculus Rift.
They put me on a virtual roller coaster. My real knees went weak.
Holy smokes.
Earlier, I gave a talk at the Israeli Wikimedia conference. I was reminded — not that I actually need reminding — how much I like being around Wikipedians. And what an improbable work of art is Wikipedia.
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Citing concern over the killing of Trayvon Martin in central Florida, Attorney General Eric Holder said stand-your-ground laws, which allow people who believe they are in danger to use deadly force, should be reassessed.
Former neighbourhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman was acquitted over the weekend of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges in the 17-year-old's death last year in Sanford, Fla. Holder said the Justice Department has an open investigation into the case.
"Separate and apart from the case that has drawn the nation's attention, it's time to question laws that senselessly expand the concept of self-defence and sow dangerous conflict in our neighbourhoods," Holder said Tuesday.
The country must take a hard look at laws that contribute to "more violence than they prevent," Holder said during a speech before an NAACP convention in Orlando, about 20 miles from the courthouse where Zimmerman was cleared of the charges three days earlier. Such laws "try to fix something that was never broken," Holder said.
Martin's shooting shined a light on Florida's stand-your-ground and similar laws around the nation. Most say people have no duty to retreat if they are attacked in a place they have a right to be and can meet force with force if they fear death or great bodily harm.
Civil rights activist Al Sharpton echoed Holder's sentiments in a speech Wednesday at the NAACP convention. He said he would lobby Florida to change its law and move on to other states.
"Until we can overturn stand your ground, we risk more Trayvon Martins," Sharpton told the crowd. "We cannot have our sons and daughters lives on the line for anybody who wants to pursue them and shoot them and say it was self-defence."
Sanford's police chief at the time — since replaced — had cited the law as his reason for not initially arresting Zimmerman in February 2012. Zimmerman told police Martin was beating him up during the confrontation and he feared he would be killed.
Though stand-your-ground was never raised during trial, Judge Debra Nelson included a provision about the law in the instructions that allowed jurors to consider it as a legitimate defence.
"But we must examine laws that take this further by eliminating the common-sense and age-old requirement that people who feel threatened have a duty to retreat, outside their home, if they can do so safely," Holder said.
Sharpton said the effort in Florida was just a first step. Sharpton said he believes the key to changing that law and those in two dozen states around the country is by attacking them legislatively.
"In the 60s our fathers would go to Alabama to change some of the state laws and then go to Mississippi and then go to Georgia," Sharpton said. "We're mindful of the fact that there is an election here next year, and a lot of people are going to need a lot of votes and a lot of people are gonna have to make a lot of decisions."
The defence skipped a chance to ask that Zimmerman have a stand-your-ground hearing before trial. If the judge had decided there was enough evidence that Zimmerman acted in self-defence, she could have tossed out the case before a jury heard it.
"Stand-your-ground laws license vigilantism and we should all worry about that," said Benjamin Jealous, the NAACP's president and CEO, after Holder's speech.
Holder on Tuesday only briefly touched on a possible federal civil rights case being brought against Zimmerman. And legal experts say such a case would be a difficult challenge.
Prosecutors would have to prove Zimmerman was motivated by racial animosity to kill Martin. The teen was on his way back to his father's fiancee's house after going to a store when the neighbourhood watch volunteer saw him and followed him in the community of 50,000, which is about one-third black.
Civil rights leader Al Sharpton, who has been one of the most vocal champions of a federal investigation, acknowledged Tuesday there are possible legal hurdles. Still, he said "there is also a blatant civil rights question of does Trayvon Martin and the Trayvon Martins of this country have the civil right to go home."
Saturday's acquittal has inspired "Justice For Trayvon" protests around the nation. Most have been peaceful, although vandalism and violence happened in Los Angeles.
Dozens of protesters carrying signs demanding justice for Martin crammed into the lobby of Florida Gov. Rick Scott's office Tuesday and refused to leave until the governor either met with them or called lawmakers back to Tallahassee to address issues like the state's stand-your-ground law. Many planned to spend the night in the Capitol building.
Despite the challenges of bringing a federal civil rights case, some NAACP members said they wanted swift action.
Tony Hickerson, an NAACP member from Seattle, said he would be disappointed if he doesn't see the Justice Department take action within a month.
"I heard what he (Holder) said, and I don't question his sincerity, but I'd like to see swift action in this case, and I haven't seen that yet," said Hickerson. "His words were eloquent but I need to see some action before I get enthusiastic."
Added Hickerson, "This is a very obvious case. How much thinking do you have to do?"
In his comments referencing the Zimmerman case, Holder offered a story from his own personal experience — describing how when he was a young black man, his father had told him how to interact with the police, what to say and how to conduct himself if he was ever stopped or confronted in a way he thought was unwarranted.
"I'm sure my father felt certain — at the time — that my parents' generation would be the last that had to worry about such things for their children," Holder told the NAACP convention. "Trayvon's death last spring caused me to sit down to have a conversation with my own 15-year-old son, like my dad did with me. This was a father-son tradition I hoped would not need to be handed down."
Yost and Associated Press writer Shaquille Brewster reported from Washington. Associated Press writer Kyle Hightower in Orlando contributed to this report.


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Free National Movement (FNM) Chairman Darron Cash yesterday accused the government of "political patronage" and "nepotism", claiming that an inordinate number of Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) members have been hired since the Christie administration came to office.
But PLP Chairman Bradley Roberts branded Cash's claims as a "feeble attempt to manufacture the facts, chase shadows and whip up hysteria within his party's base".
Roberts was responding to a statement by Cash which hit out at the government over perceived political appointments.
"Recently, press reports revealed what the FNM had been aware of for almost a year — that Prime Minister Christie, as minister of finance with responsibility for the Bahamas Development Bank (BDB), has appointed Mrs. Arinthia S. Komolafe, former president of the PLP's Women's Association, to the position of managing director of the Bahamas Development Bank," Cash said in the statement. "As the BDB Act clearly prescribes, and as the release clearly implies, this is the prime minister's appointment."
Cash, who was chairman of the BDB under the former Ingraham administration, said the appointment is another example of the government's belief that "only PLPs are qualified and can be trusted to hold senior positions in the government corporations and agencies controlled/influenced by the government."
Cash said this is also evidenced by the appointments at the National Insurance Board (NIB) and the Bahamas Electricity Corporation (BEC).
In his own statement, Roberts noted that Christie was elected to clean up the "mess" created by the former administration.
"Prime Minister Christie is responsible and legally empowered to make decisions in the best interest of the Bahamian people," Roberts said.
"The former administration, Cash's party, made many decisions as the government that turned out to be disastrous for The Bahamas. Left in their wake was an economy in shambles where not one job was created; our fiscal situation was left in dire straits where an additional $2 billion was added to the national debt; crime spiraled out of control as experienced and competent senior police officers were sent home, and the FNM's public works program was poorly managed and executed with hundreds of millions in cost overruns and airport terminals that cannot be occupied.
"This along with much human pain and suffering represented the mess Mr. Cash's FNM left behind for Mr. Christie and the PLP to clean up; and he has the unmitigated gall to second-guess the prime minister? Mr. Cash and the FNM should hang their heads in shame, but they have no shame."
Roberts added that Cash should be the last person to talk about the approaches to governance and its effects on the Bahamian people.
But Cash insisted that the FNM continues to be concerned about political interference at some agencies.
He called on Christie to demonstrate that he is interested in building unity outside party lines.


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San Francisco 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh returned to the practice field this Friday to oversee the team in morning walk-through drills and afternoon full contact practice. Harbaugh had been away from the team on Thursday after being hospitalized at Stanford Hospital with an irregular heartbeat. Team sources have indicated that Harbaugh underwent a minor heart procedure after he started experiencing chest pain on Wednesday. It has not yet been determined if he will indeed be on the sidelines with the team this coming Monday when the 49ers face off against the Chicago Bears.
Harbaugh, the reigning Coach of the Year, and one of the more animated coaches in the league, turns 49 on December 23. While he is not yet cleared to be on the sidelines Monday, there is little doubt that he will miss such an important game. Harbaugh, a former NFL player, is as fiery as they come as a coach. His fierce determination and competitive spirit is on display during every game. And his never quit attitude will most likely have him manning the Chicago game, whether it's against doctors orders or not.
When interviewed, 49ers linebacker Patrick Willis breathed a little humor in to the very serious situation, implying that Harbaugh would not be hindered by a mere medical condition.
"It's one of those things that, like coach Harbaugh always tells us, he's tougher than a two dollar steak"
Very kind words in relation to his coach's durability. And they will most certainly need Harbaugh on the sidelines this week for the Bears game. The Bears have a terrific team this year and are one of the bigger roadblocks to the 49ers making it to the playoffs. Not to mention, the health of quarterback Alex Smith is still a question mark at this point. If Smith does not play, the guidance of Harbaugh for rookie quarterback Colin Kaepernick becomes even more invaluable.
It's a strong probability that coach Harbaugh will not fully relinquish the nature of his procedure and his feeling of well being. Tough guy players turned coaches are like that; they tend to keep that information to themselves. Regardless, we at 49ers101.com wish coach Harbaugh and his family the best, and hope for a complete recovery.Tags: Alex Smith, Football, Jim Harbaugh, NFL, Patrick Willis, San Francisco, San Francisco 49ers


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Chris Brown Posts, Then Deletes, Photo of Himself Licking a Woman's Butt
Recent gainer-of-weight and prison releasee Chris Brown certainly knows how to generate headlines, though nearly none of said headlines relate to his music or role as an entertainer.
Early this morning, Brown posted a photo of himself licking a woman's butt to his official Instagram account. Like Justin Bieber, Brown appears to be… More »


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Stocks to Buy in June: Cummins (CMI)
Click to EnlargeDiversified machinery companies are having a good year, and although a rising tide lifts all boats, Cummins (CMI) stands out among such industrial stocks to buy. CMI stock is beating the broader market by 5 percentage points so far this year and has the technical strength to outperform in June too.
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