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September 26, 2011 — The University of Virginia's Darden School of Business and the school's Batten Institute offer the No. 3 graduate entrepreneurship program among the 2,000 U.S. schools surveyed by The Princeton Review for Entrepreneur magazine.
"Darden's entrepreneurship program is informed by groundbreaking research and is steeped in a rich, experience-based approach to creating successful businesses," said Philippe Sommer, director of Darden's Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership. "That's a very empowering proposition for students in today's challenging economic climate.
"We're deeply committed to our students and firmly support their passion to pursue entrepreneurship and innovation at any stage in their career and in any type of business environment. This mindset inspires us to continuously innovate and advance our program, and we're honored that these efforts have been recognized by Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine."
"The right education enhances and reinforces curiosity and creative thinking in entrepreneurs," said Amy Cosper, vice president and editor in chief at Entrepreneur. "This ranking provides a unique look at top schools that offer the type of training, encouragement and direction that nurtures entrepreneurial skills. It's an excellent resource for those interested in academics as a pathway to their goals, and it can help tremendously in the discovery process to finding the right program."
The Batten Institute supports and shapes the dialogue on value creation and entrepreneurship in many innovative forms, including the upcoming Jefferson Innovation Summit, a multi-event exchange of ideas about how to best encourage a society of entrepreneurs and innovators, and Darden's "Innovate. Effectuate." annual entrepreneurship conference, which will demystify the mysteries behind successful entrepreneurs and innovators and provide attendees a framework for building a successful business.
The Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, part of the Batten Institute, supports the Darden Business Incubator and the programs and resources it offers. In addition to approximately $13,000 for expenses, participants receive free office space, access to technological expertise and free legal services thanks to a new arrangement with the U.Va. School of Law and the Woods Rogers law firm.
The eighth annual ranking reveals the United States' Top 25 undergraduate and Top 25 graduate programs for entrepreneurship. Darden's ranking can be seen at Entrepreneur.com's top colleges page and Princeton Review's entrepreneurship page.
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If Christie were a Democrat and would appoint a Democrat if Menendez was forced out, Menendez would be long gone.
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With all eyes on the General Services Administration as it navigates the fallout from excessive spending on a conference held in 2010, the message many agencies are hearing is: Avoid conferences, but if you must hold one, keep expenses to a bare minimum.
There's no doubt that from now on, internal agency events and even government/industry conferences will be subject to intense scrutiny. Officials will question whether every detail of an event is worth the money or the possibility of national exposure. That approach might keep agencies out of the limelight, but the impact on collaboration and communication — particularly between government and industry — could be profound.
Since he took over as GSA's acting administrator in early April, Dan Tangherlini has said numerous times that he is conducting an agencywide review of conferences and other events that involve travel and the spending of taxpayers' money. He has already canceled some events that involved only internal staff.
"There will likely be many more austere entertainment events from now on and even less free time" built into them, said Jonathan Aronie, a partner in the Government Contracts Practice Group at Sheppard Mullin law firm.
However, Aronie and other experts say they hope the emphasis on efficiency and smart stewardship doesn't eliminate networking or training events. "They ought not to stop just because of a risk to an agency for spending money on them," Aronie said.
Bob Woods, a former senior GSA official and now president of Topside Consulting Group, said GSA had gone a bit astray by moving to bigger conferences where selling was the main objective. "They need to get back to a more personal, smaller version where expenses are managed and agency missions are the focus, not deals on wheels," he said.
Nevertheless, the concerns about any type of conference spending are clear. "There is already a typical disproportionate reaction around town," said Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners.
Congress is doing its part to make sure that concern lingers. "What has come to light surrounding GSA's activities should give pause to anyone," Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said April 16 at the first of several GSA-related hearings held that week.
Wasteful spending happens, Issa said, but Congress and the Obama administration must "mandate a culture that prevents this type of waste and mismanagement."
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At a recent acquisition conference, Martha Johnson, who resigned as GSA administrator when the scandal broke, described the agency as expert shoppers. It is ironic that both Johnson and her predecessor, Lurita Doan, were brought down by procurement irregularities (although Johnson was not directly involved). If GSA is going to sell its procurement expertise and services to other agencies, it will need to stamp out rogue spending.
The biggest danger now is that all internal training will be cut and conferences that bring together buyers and sellers of many GSA services, such as GSA Expo, will be at risk.
However, on a positive note, Aronie said such scandals inevitably make other agencies take stock of where they are spending their money and ensure that common sense prevails. And Brian Miller, GSA's inspector general, told the House committee that another positive outcome is the knowledge that oversight does work, however slowly.
Furthermore, the scandal might finally help the Senate and White House understand how important it is for GSA to have a confirmed administrator at the helm. Johnson, who resigned as administrator as the scandal broke, said the lack of a permanent leader for nearly two years hurt the agency's customer service and left it without a clear strategy for the future. In the midst of an election year, the agency is not likely to get a confirmed leader for at least another year so the best interim hope is for a decisive acting administrator.
Rebuilding confidence and restoring employee morale will be a challenge. "If GSA can get someone who appreciates all the workings of the agency, then it has the chance to come out ahead in the long term," Allen said.
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Let's grow up and share with your employee's and quit building your own little nest.
Not to beat an old dog to death, but is it legal to put a punch in/out clock on salaries employees and just because we are goverment employees does that make it legal. OPM really needs to take a look at this. If you work over the 8 hours for that day should you not be able to claim comp time since we are not allotted overtime pay cause we are goverment employees. They are making it sound like IT is not allowed comp time saying it is part of your duties, never heard of such of thing as part of your duties when you work over the 8 hours of work. Someone change the contracts or legal part of it.
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ViroPharma Inc. is going to use up to an additional $200 million to buy back some of its shares. It may also use the funds to purchase some of its 2 percent senior convertible notes due 2017.
The biotechnology company said Thursday that it has also mostly completed a $150 million securities buyback announced in March. ViroPharma said it has used $149 million to buy back about 8.1 million shares through the program.
The Exton, Pa., company had approximately 70.8 million outstanding shares as of Tuesday.
Earlier this month, ViroPharma announced that it received European approval of the liquid medication Buccolam for the treatment of epileptic infants, toddlers and children under age 18.
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A new rumor has spilled the beans on what could possibly be one of the most powerful tablets we've ever seen. Known as the Sony Xperia Z4 Tablet Ultra, the tablet will apparently break cover next year sporting a gargantuan hardware specs sheet.
If this report from a Chinese site is to be believed, the tablet will pack a whopping 12.9 inch display sporting an insane resolution of 3840 x 2400 pixels, which is more than what we've seen on any device this size.
The tablet is also expected to be packing an octa core Snapdragon 810 SoC, an 8-megapixel camera on the back, 64GB of internal storage and a rather odd 6GB of RAM. We're taking that last bit with a large portion of salt as it won't make sense for Sony to have a tablet with more than 3 or 4GB of RAM. The device should be packing Android 5.0 by default.
Other hardware details of the tablet are scarce at the moment, but it certainly sounds too good to be true. This could very well be a fan's imagination of an ideal Sony tablet, so we're going to treat this as a rumor until there's evidence to prove otherwise. What do you make of a potential Xperia Z4 Tablet Ultra?
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Albertsons Starts Shoe Drive to Benefit Disaster Victims
The chain is asking San Diego residents to clean out their closets and donate footwear for the needy in Myanmar and China.
In the wake of the recent natural disasters in Myanmar and China, San Diego area Albertsons stores will begin collecting shoes June 1-7 for the Nashville-based Soles4Souls, which facilitates the donations of footwear to aid the needy worldwide.
Supervalu-owned Albertsons said consumer can drop off shoes in San Diego, Ramona, Fallbrook, Temecula, Murrieta, Lake Ellsinore, Corona, Sun City, and Hemet.
"Albertsons is passionately committed to serving our neighbors in need," said Charla Giles, area v.p., San Diego for the chain. "We are partnering with Soles4Souls for the third year in a row to enable our customers to get into the spirit of giving back to those less fortunate."
Albertsons' Southern California Division operates 286 Albertsons and Lucky supermarkets in Southern California and Southern Nevada, from its headquarters in Fullerton, Calif.


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Wireless music system manufacturer Sonos has announced a new software update to give Sonic Wireless HiFi users more music and greater control. Called Sonos System Software 3.6, the update is offered free to Sonos customers who only have to click a button on their HiFi system to update.
With the free update, the Sonos Android controller extends its support for Android-powered tablets and smartphones. From any of these two devices you can now control the Sonos Wireless HiFi system. You can surround yourself with music by wirelessly streaming it in any room. The Sonos system can also be wirelessly controlled on a bigger screen through any Android 2.2 or a higher version running tablet, and this would include products such as the Amazon Kindle Fire, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Motorola Xoom and HTC Flyer.
Other enhancements have also been included with Sonos 3.6 such as the useful music library management, Android Twitter support for tablets and smartphones, and alarms. Another great upgrade is the free availability of Slacker Radio music service for users in the US and Canada. Slacker Radio gives access to more than 150 stations programmed by experts, and users can also create their custom stations selecting from tons of songs. Another bonus of the radio service is that you get artist biographies which you can read as you listen.
For an ad free radio experience though, you need to get Slacker Radio Plus or Slacker Premium Radio both of which you can access on Sonos. Slacker Premium Radio also offers on-demand access to countless songs, artists and albums. You can also create custom playlists.
Sonos 3.6 software also features the introduction of the Beta environment called Sonos Labs. Typical to what a "lab" stands for, Sonos Labs offers users the opportunity test the various music services before they're launched officially on Sonos. Sonos Labs will be keeping on adding new music services.
Another improvement with the Sonos 3.6 update is the better integration of Spotify. Sonos users, who've signed up with Spotify, can access the Spotify Inbox on their Sonos Wireless system and also play music from popular tracks and new releases on Spotify. Sonos 3.6 also offers AAC+ codec support.
Sonos, Inc. founder and CEO John McFarlane say that the objective behind the update is to give Sonos customers a better and infinitely more satisfying and adaptable music experience. The idea is to provide better control of the Sonos Wireless HiFi experience in the home for users, and offer them a more exhaustive collection of music.


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Research Breakthrough: Time Cloak Is Created
A group of physicists have recently created a time cloak that is able to hide an event from time itself. One of the researchers had a breakthrough, at Cornell University. The researcher, Moti Friedman led the pack.
The cloak works in part of a duality between space and time in electromagnetic theory, and although the explanation is rather long winded, I am going to try to give the basics in a digestible format.
The system uses a time lens that is made of an electro-optic modulator that can magnify and compress in time. The cloak uses two lenses in where a beam of light is sent through both lenses.
The first lens acts as a compressor for the light and the second lens quickly decompresses it. What the end result is to the human eye is viewing a single beam of light that appear undistorted as if a compression never happened.
The overall effect, scientifically, is the deletion of an event in a short period of time. This prototype time cloak only lasts 110 nanoseconds but the researchers believe that they can extend it to 120 microseconds.
The science/technology is much too immature to tell how we can use the applications in the future, but it may leave skeptics to pause before they laugh at what is now considered science fiction.
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Corey Seymour is utter White Trash and gives new meaning to the word "shithead." Hopefully this violent asshole is caught soon and sent to prison.


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Mr. KING of Iowa. The folks that are buying food in McDonald's are going to pay the tax if we try to get it from McDonald's. So we know corporations don't pay taxes; they are aggregators of taxes that are paid by individuals, by consumers on the last stop. And so they're efficient aggregators of those taxes. They are actually the tax collectors on behalf of the Federal Government. The corporations that collect taxes don't pay them; they transfer it through them by the way they charge us for the $152 billion a year that it costs to comply with the Federal Tax Code.
And so I find it an act of frustration to seek to try to collect taxes from corporations when what I'm really doing is adding to the administrative costs for corporations so they add the taxes and the administrative costs on to the cost of the goods that have to be competitive in this marketplace, and that makes it that individuals pay taxes. But it also means that jobs go overseas because corporations that are taxed in America are at a disadvantage to the corporations that are overseas who aren't very good aggregators of America's tax dollars, and so they have to raise the taxes here more.
That's kind of the vision that I see that I would lay out here for the gentleman from Georgia. And we've got a long ways to go before America embraces the concept that I think will solve this problem.
Mr. KING of Iowa. Just to explore that a little further and that would be, looking at the corporate tax structure, there's corporate income tax, and then there are all of the wages that are paid out in payroll taxes to the employees. And of course one of the most regressive taxes we've is the payroll tax. And so one might argue that, well, those taxes are paid by the corporation, that half of the payroll, that .0765 that I have multiplied so many times with my employees that I've had over the decades. And of course that .0765 which is half of the 15.3 percent in payroll tax, half comes out of the employer, half comes out of the employee.
However, the half that comes out of the employer would be wages for the employee because it is a cost of doing business, it's a cost of competitiveness. And so when we add into the price of the goods and services provided by corporations, and I don't mean just corporations, they can be LLCs, they can be partnerships, sole proprietorships, you name it, a business entity that hires employees and/or provides goods and services for retail market or supplies to those who do, all of that structure of their taxes is built into the price.
And a fair amount of research brings us to a number that is generally considered to be about 22 percent of the retail price of goods and services sold in the United States as the tax component paid by the suppliers that get it into the marketplace and in the end paid by the consumer.
So those corporations that move overseas have a different tax structure, but those products that come in from overseas have a 28 percent marketing advantage over the products produced here in the United States because they don't have the burden of U.S. corporate taxes, and that includes the payroll taxes that are part of that taxing structure.
So I'd say that if we can remove the taxes from productivity in America, we end up with a 28 percent marketing advantage for U.S.-made products over those made in foreign countries.
And by the way, one more thing: I would not have picked up a nice Georgia company like Coca-Cola to use them as an example, but then that's just me.
Mr. KING of Iowa. If the gentleman would yield, I'd slip another anecdote into this that comes from just last weekend. I was over in eastern Iowa doing an event, and I happened to get reacquainted with a young gentleman by the name of Michael Dicks. Now, he is 13 years old; soon he'll be 14. But when he was 8 years old--I've told this story in the Congressional Record in the past--he saved up his money to go buy a little box of Skittles. So he had his change counted out just right in his pocket--89 cents for a box of Skittles--and had to reach up to the counter, I presume, and got his Skittles off the shelf and put them up on the counter. And he counted out his 89 cents and the checker rang it up and said, that will be 96 cents. And he said, but the price says 89 cents. And the checker said, but you have to pay the tax--that's the sales taxes in Iowa--so that's 96 cents, young man.
And he turned to his dad and he said, Dad, I have to pay taxes on Skittles? What a painful experience for an 8-year-old young man. But think of what that means if our taxes are transparent. That young man is going to grow up to be a conservative. He's going to put fewer demands on government. He's going to demand one thing--less taxes, less services. We're going to want to have more personal and individual responsibility, and we're going to let people provide for their own security in a lot of ways and achieve on their own. That is a cultural transformation that comes if you have a transparent tax and if you take the tax and stop punishing productivity and put it on consumption.
Mr. KING of Iowa. History is replete with the Founding Fathers, literary giants of the time, philosophers of the time, who looked at the Greek democracy and they were appalled at what it had produced. They produced for us a republic instead. But many of them spoke eloquently about what happens when the public would realize that a majority of them could vote themselves benefits from the public treasury. Some of them said democracy ceases to exist; some of them said that will destroy our republic. But I want to guess that most of the people that were providing the wisdom at the time commented on their fear that this country would move towards a majority voting themselves benefits from the public treasury.
So that is one of the reasons that we have a Republic instead of a democracy is because those of us who are elected as representatives of the citizens of the Republic are to have a higher responsibility than to listen to, let's say, people who want the fruits of someone else's labor and don't want to labor themselves.
And so we're at this situation now where, in the early part of this country, there was a policy that you had to be a land-owning male of age and other qualifications in order to vote because they wanted the public policy to be established by people that had skin in the game. And today we saw a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget fail here on the floor of the House of Representatives. I'd like to have seen a stronger one, but it failed here on the floor of the House. And that was a constitutional amendment with a cap at 18 percent of GDP and a supermajority to raise taxes.
Put some of that philosophy back in where it requires a supermajority to raise taxes, there is a restraint there that brings back some of that philosophy that helps offset the disadvantage that the working American has today who's paying those taxes. Your barber is at a disadvantage because some of the hair that he cuts is of people that aren't working. I'd say at least one out of every three heads of hair that your barber cuts is somebody that is in that role of 100 million Americans of working age who are not in the workforce, many of them are voting, they are voting themselves benefits from the public trough.
And I'd suggest that we take the tax off of productivity in America, stop punishing production, put it over on consumption. And I'm just looking around for a bill number that I could attach myself to because I'm drawing a blank.
Mr. KING of Iowa. And I appreciate the opportunity to be your partner in this.
And I would say to the folks on either side of the argument that disagree, they're both wrong, whether they're from the left or from the right. And the bottom line is this: the Fair Tax does everything good that anybody's tax proposal does that is good; it does them all and it does them all better. And I'm happy to take that debate anywhere in this land and have folks that will try that on and we'll finish second in that debate.
I quickly yield back because the gavel is in the air.
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Rep. Stepanek to Lamontagne: "What would you do to eliminate a $900 million deficit?"
MANCHESTER – Today, several Republican State Representatives commented on a statement made by gubernatorial candidate Ovide Lamontagne during the WMUR-TV Republican debate in which Lamontagne said he opposed the Republican legislature's budget that eliminated a $900 million deficit.
During the debate, Lamontagne remarked, "There are items that I disagreed with in this last legislature, in particular the budget itself."
Assistant Majority Leader and Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Stephen Stepanek, expressed frustration with Lamontagne's comments.
"If Ovide disagrees with the Republican's balanced budget, then my first question to him is, what would you to eliminate a $900 million deficit?" said Stepanek. "It's easy to sit on the sidelines and cast doubt on our efforts to balance a broken budget, but at least give us something more than the rhetoric we hear from the left."
"To date, I've still yet to hear Ovide's solutions to prevent this from happening again, and his statement on the issue is strangely similar to that of the Democrats, Maggie Hassan and Jackie Cilley," said Representative Todd Smith.
Kevin Smith, Republican candidate for Governor, and Lamontagne's primary opponent, condemned Democrats Maggie Hassan and Jackie Cilley in the debate for dramatically increasing spending and taxes during their tenure in the legislature, and defended House Speaker Bill O'Brien and the Republican legislature's work to balance the budget.
"The reality is while they were in office for four years, they wracked up the largest spending increases – 25 percent spending increase over four years and 84 taxes and fees," said Smith. "What Bill O'Brien had to do, and Peter Bragdon the President of the Senate had to do, when they came in was reduce a $900 million budget deficit. Our budget is only $5 billion dollars. That was roughly 20 percent of our budget. And, through their leadership, they cut state spending by 11 percent, they made the tough choices, and they ought to be commended for doing right by the taxpayer, and bringing our budget back into balance."
"This is a perfect example of how Ovide just doesn't have the experience on these important issues. He's arguing from a standpoint of theory rather than practice," said Stepanek. "Ovide really should not criticize something that he has no experience doing."
"During this last legislative session, we had to make hard choices to restore fiscal sanity to our budget for which we took a lot of criticism," said Representative Dan Itse. "To have one of our own cast doubt upon what we did has led me to support Kevin Smith."


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Offense, Defense Click, Reserves Play Key Role in Rout of Magic in Orlando: Wizards 114, Magic 93
Saturday, January 20, 2007; Page E01
ORLANDO, Jan. 19 -- For once, the Washington Wizards dispensed with late dramatics and put away an opponent the way a playoff contender is supposed to.
On a night when first place in the Southeast Division was on the line, the Wizards played like a team that has more than a division title in mind by dispatching the Orlando Magic, 114-93, in front of a sold-out audience at Amway Arena. Indeed, with Cleveland's 110-99 loss at Denver on Friday, Washington (23-16) moved into a tie for the best record in the Eastern Conference.
The Wizards didn't require a monster scoring night from Gilbert Arenas, either. In fact, by the time Arenas reached the 30-point mark on a three-pointer from the wing with 4 minutes 33 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter, the game was well in hand and disappointed Magic fans started heading for the exits.
Arenas, Antawn Jamison (31 points) and Caron Butler combined to score 82 points, and Jamison finished with a season-high 16 rebounds. But the Wizards received contributions from the entire lineup. Their reserves chipped in with 22 points and made several timely plays at both ends of the court.
The Wizards forced 19 turnovers and converted them into 29 points. They also held a 50-38 rebounding advantage, a 26-11 edge in fast-break points and made 9 of 18 three-point attempts. The win snapped a four-game road losing streak and was Washington's largest margin of victory on the road all season.
Coach Eddie Jordan "said it the best at shoot-around today," said Wizards guard DeShawn Stevenson, who played 2 1/2 seasons with Orlando. "He asked Gilbert, 'Did Orlando make the playoffs the last two years?' And he said, 'No.' Then he asked, 'Did we make the playoffs the last two years?' And he said, 'Yes.' We said, 'Let's make this a playoff game,' and that's what we did. We sent a message tonight."
The Wizards improved to 2-1 against the Magic this season and won in Orlando for only the second time in their last 11 visits. They moved 1 1/2 games ahead of the Magic in the division, which will take on a new feel when Miami's Shaquille O'Neal returns from a knee injury that has kept him sidelined for 32 games. O'Neal could play Sunday.
For now, the division belongs to the Wizards, who have won three straight and will try to carry that momentum into Saturday night's game against the struggling Boston Celtics at Verizon Center, where the Wizards have won nine in a row.
Orlando (22-18) has a talented young player in center Dwight Howard and nice pieces such as Grant Hill and Jameer Nelson, but the Magic leads the NBA in turnovers, and its inability to take care of the basketball hurt Orlando again Friday night.
After a tight first half, the Wizards outscored the Magic 33-14 during a stretch that covered the end of the third quarter and the start of the fourth. They did it by repeatedly knocking the ball loose at the defensive end before racing the other way for a high percentage shot.
Howard made 8 of 9 shots and finished with 20 points and 10 rebounds, but committed four turnovers. He attempted only two shots and grabbed no rebounds in the fourth quarter.
"I think doubling Dwight in the second half confused him," Arenas said.
After Orlando's 18th turnover, Jamison finished a fast break with a reverse layup, giving the Wizards a 93-80 lead with 8:53 remaining. Moments later, after Arenas made a three-pointer from the wing, the Wizards collapsed on Howard and forced another turnover. Antonio Daniels turned that miscue into a 16-point lead by making a floater in the lane.
Arenas, who made 10 of 20 shots and added seven rebounds and six assists, scored the final points of the first half by driving the length of the court and making a layup in traffic, tying the game at 45. It was the 12th time this season Arenas scored with three or fewer seconds remaining in a quarter, half or game.
Hill scored 24 points on 10-of-14 shooting, but left the game with a dislocated pinkie finger with 3:27 remaining.
The Wizards outscored the Magic 69-48 and made 21 of 25 free throws in the second half after failing to attempt a free throw in the first half.
"I think it was a very disappointing loss for our team tonight," Magic Coach Brian Hill said. "I think we should be embarrassed by the way we played in the second half. I thought we were totally out-worked and out-hustled in every aspect of the game, every player on the floor."


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Wearing make-up is something commonly done by many, if not most, women in some form, depending on culture etc.
This question is open to both men and women and what they think.
A younger relative of mine said something about that she felt 'less of a woman' because she doesn't wear make-up often, if at all. I realised I too have often felt this way because I have actively decided not to wear it (unless for special occasions, where it is minimal, or in dire need, i. e. acne, bad skin), despite it being a prominent thing in media and advertisement.
So, do you think all women should be expected to wear make-up? And do you agree that it can make a woman 'less of one' if they don't?
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Honestly society prefers people without makeup. They say you should naturally have high cheekbones, clear skin, Rodney cheeks and long black lashes.
But I understand no one looks like that so I don't care if they don't have those features. I have acne an I honestly feel like it makes me less of a beautiful/pretty woman because I choose to wear makeup11|00|0
I wouldn't have thought society prefers without due to all the make-up advertisement we see and all those who do wear it. But thanks for your response.
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"Society doesn't like makeup but we like the way it makes us look"
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New Zealand's World Cup-winning captain Richie McCaw made a low-key return to action from a self-imposed sabbatical on Saturday but remained unsure whether he would play any Super Rugby this season.
The 32-year-old McCaw had invoked a clause in his New Zealand Rugby Union contract to take a break from the sport and had not played a match since the All Blacks lost to England in front of 82,000 fans at Twickenham last December.
On Saturday, there were about 80,000 less fans in attendance as the openside flanker helped his local side Christchurch to a 22-5 victory over University in a regional club competition.
McCaw, who had used his break to travel, began training by himself in May before he returned to his Super Rugby side, the Canterbury Crusaders, but has yet to play a game for the seven-times champions, who are in the playoffs that begin next week.
He played the entire 80 minutes on Saturday and said afterwards that he had felt a "bit rusty".
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McCaw has refused to state whether he would be available for the Crusaders in the playoffs, having previously said he wanted at least a three-month conditioning window before he could front up for Super Rugby or test matches.
"That's a good question isn't it," McCaw said when asked if he could step up to the intensity of Super Rugby within a week should Crusaders coach Todd Blackadder need him.
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The Crusaders, who beat the Wellington Hurricanes 25-17 on Friday and will finish second in the New Zealand conference behind the Waikato Chiefs, play in the first round of playoffs next week.
The semi-finals are on the weekend of July 26/27 with the final on Aug. 3.
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Halloween this year was interesting. For the first time in I don't know when, the forecast called for snow this weekend and for Halloween evening? Rain and cold. That's ok, we are all troopers. We wore coats and carried umbrellas (well, my daughter didn't put her coat on until it started raining, about forty five minutes into trick or treating). We didn't see any snow, but I reckon we will tomorrow…er…today. It's 2am as I am posting this so…
Things were a bit different this year. My son was not with us. He was with his father, so I don't have any pictures to post of him. Also new this year is I drove. Usually, I am out walking the neighborhood with my kids while my husband drives the car. He just had cervical spine surgery to repair three herniated discs and to retrieve bone fragments (from an injury) and bone spurs earlier this week (OUCH!), so I was driving Ms. Daisy. He refused to stay home. We all love "Halloweening", and he has not missed one yet.
We started out shortly before 6pm and finished around 8:30pm. Faith's bag of candy weighed five pounds. Good thing, because mom and dad get some too!
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# Founder of 50Folds com - High-touch, global startup venture builder
# Interim COO at Taiger - Leader in AI cognitive automation for financial institutions
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# MD of Lazada - Fastest growing ecommerce site in SEA. Acquired by Alibaba
# Founder of Delivery Hero - Fastest growing online food delivery site in the world
# Launched Groupon across Australia - Fastest growing company in the history of the world
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# Associate at Lazard - Mergers and acquisitions in the financial space (Banks, insurance and asset management). $8bn of M&A and $2bn IPO
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Allow me to introduce myself. Who is the instructor?
Why should you take this course? Let's go through what the content of the course is.
What is the purpose of this course?
Who is this course for? Simply put, anyone that wants to know everything they need to know about ESOPs without being a lawyer. Regardless of how experienced you are, there will be something to learn from. A great deal of knowledge was distilled from celebrity nerds.
This course covers a whole lot! It's not a course on tax and law though. You need a lawyer.
Now we are going to get into an ESOP 101. We are going to go through at a very high level all the key parts so you know what we are going to be talking about in this course.
When you join a startup, you have the expectation of getting some ownership in the company and if the company is successful and is sold, which is the most likely outcome or taken public, that you will share in the gains that result.
Employee ownership is such an important part of startup culture. It reinforces that everyone is on the team, everyone is sharing in the gains, and everyone is a shareholder, a real part of the family
The reality though is if you don't offer it, someone else will.
Let's get into the ABCs of ESOPs; all the key terms that you need to know to truly understand the concepts in this course. It's a basic glossary.
There's a lot of types of share terms flying about and it can be confusing. The three key ones are issued, authorised also known as outstanding, and fully diluted. Not knowing the difference can cause some issues for you. So bone up!
There are four primary ways to issue equity in startups. They are founder stock, restricted stock, RSUs or restricted stock units and options. Options are the last one we will deal with, which is also the topic of this course.
What are the most important things to think about when making your ESOP?
Dilution happens. If you raise money, hire staff, engage in M&A, you are going to get diluted. But, do you know how dilution actually works... in detail?
To understand how investment rounds and ESOPs affect your ownership, we are going to go through an Excel model I made for you.
We will create a scenario where you start with 100% ownership, then hire some staff, raise a seed, series a and series b and create two esop pools which are targeted at 10% post raise. At each stage you can see how your ownership decreases from 100% to 41%.
How your staff make money from their issued shares in the ESOP is surely something near and dear to their heart! That's a big reason they are working so hard for you, right? We're going to spend a minute to go through very simply, how they make money assuming four scenarios and an acquisition happens. This way, if staff ask you questions you are prepared to answer them for most of the main outcomes.
What are you actually trying to achieve with an ESOP? Everyone else is doing it is a pretty bad answer. Giving an ESOP to attract staff who leave 6 months later is clearly ineffectual, since you aren't retaining them. Giving a lame ESOP that ends up demotivating staff is almost worst, since they effect the rest of the office negating any benefit of the plan at all. There needs to be a real point here, otherwise why bother? So what is it?
The goal of an ESOP from the founder perspective is a little different to the goal we just discussed of staff dedication, and should be thought through another lens. The lens of maximising value creation.
Learn about the 'equity equation' from Paul Graham founder of Y-combinator.
It's not very logical to pick a number out of the hat and say my ESOP is 15%. Why is it 15%? Ideally your ESOP is enough to get you from one round to the other. The logical way to size your ESOP is quite basic when you think about it. You raise x dollars, you assign y to hiring and z to things like marketing. The amount you assign to hiring dictates how many people you can hire and therefore the size of the pool you need. Let's work through that math in two steps.
As we discussed in the last video, before you know how much to give to each staff member, you need to know the pool you can realistically grant from. You need to do some iterative calculations to understand what you can truly afford. If your prospective first 4 staff want 5% each and you only have a 20% allocation, you are out of it pretty fast. The size of your pool sets a real limit for you to consider before getting into the details of individual grant sizes. However once you have done your numbers, it is up to you to see how you can negotiate to be allowed to create a pool of that size.
Learn the 4 factors you need to know.
What ownership stake should your staff get and negotiate for? This is a really hard question to get right, and there isn't really a right answer. Whilst there isn't a perfect answer, there are wrong answers.
Let's go through the four common problems with startup job offers and why it is hard to get to 'goldilocks' numbers.
I have some bad news for you. There isn't anywhere to get really meaningful and context specific benchmarks on the grants you need to give staff, let alone at each stage and the country you are based in.
What I have done for you is collate all the heuristics and references I have been able to accumulate to help you figure out what makes sense, beyond the calculations of what you can also afford.
Once you have figured out how much you want to give to staff in total, and how much to give to individual staff, the key thing is to communicate those ESOP issuances to your staff once the plan is set up. How you do this is important and can create issues if not done properly. In this section we are going to talk about communicating ESOP grants to staff.
The reality is that there is only one number that matters to staff and them making money. It doesn't mean that it's the only way to communicate ESOP ownership though...
In the last video we discussed how to communicate ESOP grants to staff. I put forward that you should communicate the dollar based value of the grant, not the percentage they own.
The logical topic for us to get into now is of course, what information should you share if asked?
The untold truth is this; employees with decent salaries and a few options will almost never get rich at exit. The people who typically get rich with startup equity are the ones that take more risk and so own more equity; that's the founders, the investors and the earliest employees. This an be different though.
Learn to communicate how staff can get richer at exit and get them for a lower salary.
Staff, exceptional, or other are joining a startup for a reason. Either they don't want to work at a big company, or they can't get an offer from one. The later is worth being cognisant of, but not worth a discussion on. Assuming staff don't want to work for a big company, why is that?
I recommend asking staff when interviewing them to understand their motivations, then use them against them to come to the decision you know they want to take- which is joining you!
There are a multiplicity of reasons you need to understand and use to sell to get staff to join your company. Let's get into them now!
Learn how 'not' to negotiate with staff.
By now it should be clear that you need an ESOP, whether someone asks you to have one or not. Only, you will be asked to make one. By investors. Now beware of greeks bearing gifts, or asking for one. Not all is as it appears. Investors will ask you to make an ESOP for good reason. Smart VCs know founders/management need to be motivated, they also know you need to attract talent to make their investment, er, your startup grow to be valuable. However they don't mind asking for you to make an ESOP that is larger than you need all the way up to and just before the point they worry you won't be invested yourself.
There are 4 reasons why investors want a larger than needed ESOP pool.
Meet the option pool shuffle. This point was brought up in the last video and in other parts of the course. Let's dig into this sneaky trick in more detail.
Let's find out what a hiring plan is!
The option pool is a piece of the price negotiation, but it is a very important one given the potential gains for investors. We talked about the option pool shuffle and the other three BS ways investors use the ESOP to get advantage, now let's get into taking control of the situation.
In the video "the hiring plan is negotiation" i said "The way to combat a large ESOP request from investors is with preparation," I didn't say it was the best way. The best way involves more preparation.
Hi, I'm Alexander D. Jarvis, Esq!
# Founder of 50Folds com - High-touch, global startup venture builder
# Interim COO at Taiger - Leader in cognitive automation for financial institutions
# Interim CFO at Goxip - Best shopping app in Asia
# Junior Partner at Jungle Ventures - The most active lead VC based in Singapore
# Helped a bit to build 3 Unicorns, so far…
# Lived and worked in 14 countries, so far…
# MD of Lazada - Fastest growing ecommerce site in SEA. Acquired by Alibaba
# Founder of Delivery Hero - Fastest growing online food delivery site in the world
# Launched Groupon across Australia - Fastest growing company in the history of the world
# Bootstrapped a bunch of innovative businesses - Failed many times. I understand the hustle
# Associate at Lazard - Mergers and acquisitions in the financial space (Banks, insurance and asset management). $8bn of M&A and $2bn IPO
# Mentor at TechStars, StartupBootCamp and a bunch of others in Portugal, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand etc.
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