Barack Obama Loves Startups

The U.S. Commerce Department is setting up an office intended to help entrepreneurs transform ideas into companies… The plan expands on an idea President Barack Obama outlined in comments in Troy, New York, on Sept. 21, in which he said new technologies and businesses are the key to re-establishing economic growth in the U.S. Bloomberg

Lessons from Ali G the Entrepreneur

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I saw this video in a post on O’Reilly Radar.  Via AlexisBonte

Intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation

This is a great presentation by Daniel Pink at TED. I just finishing reading “The White Tiger” by Aravind Adiga, and it’s interesting to note the intrinsic motivation factors that influence the protagonist. I would bet that The White Tiger would finish the fuctional fixedness problem faster than the others.

Welcome to Madrid

A great video by timelapses.tv

South Park's view on the financial crisis

Brilliant! South Park’s view on the financial crisis

Note to self.. watch this video