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• A Solution to Obama’s IRS Problem
  Posted by Jeff Carter on May 17th, 2013 at 6:51 am, Comments: 0

  The President’s IRS problem gets worse every day.  It looks very much like the IRS used it’s power to quash one of our inalienable rights, [...]

• Education’s Next Stage
  Posted by Jeff Carter on May 16th, 2013 at 8:11 am, Comments: 0

  This space will be light the next few days.  My eldest daughter graduates from college this weekend.  The family is headed down to be with her, [...]

• Robotics Challenges Bring Yesterday’s Lessons to Today
  Posted by Jeff Carter on May 15th, 2013 at 6:28 am, Comments: 0

  What a great weekend it was in New Orleans.  The National World War Two Museum hosted a robotics competition for middle schoolers.   Some amazing [...]

• Bloomberg Snooping on Its Customers-Try YCharts Instead
  Posted by Jeff Carter on May 10th, 2013 at 9:40 am, Comments: 0

  Bloomberg got caught with it’s hand in the cookie jar.  On Glenn Reynold’s Instapundit blog, this story caught my eye.  Goldman Sachs ($GS) execs were [...]

• What’s The Most Important Piece of a Startup?
  Posted by Jeff Carter on May 10th, 2013 at 8:09 am, Comments: 0

  Last evening, I spoke to the DePaul University CEO Club.  They are a group of college students that are interested in entrepreneurship and leadership of [...]

• America and Startups Need Immigration Reform
  Posted by Jeff Carter on May 9th, 2013 at 7:44 am, Comments: 0

  There is a debate in the US Senate right now on immigration reform. Instead of doing what’s best for the country, it has descended into [...]

• Chicago: Hotbed of Employment Innovation
  Posted by Jeff Carter on May 8th, 2013 at 6:00 am, Comments: 0

  One of the first things I thought of when we started Hyde Park Angels was not to mimic Silicon Valley.  No other area can be [...]

• Legislating Against Education Innovation in Illinois
  Posted by Jeff Carter on May 7th, 2013 at 9:22 am, Comments: 0

  There is no doubt among rational minds that the nation has a broken educational system.  People I speak with from both sides of the aisle [...]

• Unemployment, Co-Working and The Santelli Exchange
  Posted by Jeff Carter on May 3rd, 2013 at 2:42 pm, Comments: 0

  Was on CNBC today.  Rick Santelli had me on his show today to talk about employment, the economy and we talked briefly about the future [...]

• On This Day in 1943-Operation Mincemeat
  Posted by Jeff Carter on April 30th, 2013 at 12:24 pm, Comments: 0

  One of the most daring and best executed espionage plots came to fruition.  Operation Mincemeat. It paved the way for the invasion of Sicily. A [...]

• Austerity is The Culprit; Not Bernanke
  Posted by Jeff Carter on April 26th, 2013 at 7:48 am, Comments: 0

  As the world economy slows, austerity is being blamed.  Keynesians have ramped up their efforts to skewer classical economic theories by pointing out that since [...]

• Is This Something? Bird Flu Strikes Again
  Posted by Jeff Carter on April 26th, 2013 at 7:18 am, Comments: 0

  Bird flu is in the news again. Either it’s important or there isn’t much news to report and they are searching for stories. On Agricultural websites, there [...]

• Startup In Illinois or Texas? What Should A Startup Consider?
  Posted by Jeff Carter on April 23rd, 2013 at 8:29 am, Comments: 0

  In a fight to get more jobs for Texas, governor Rick Perry came to Illinois to talk about the business climate in Texas.  Mayor Rahm [...]

• Corporations Are People
  Posted by Jeff Carter on April 15th, 2013 at 8:58 am, Comments: 0

  This is one of the dumbest things I have read.  It’s a New York Times editorial.  Clearly, the author doesn’t have a clue about modern [...]

• How Does Medicine Innovate?
  Posted by Jeff Carter on April 11th, 2013 at 7:28 am, Comments: 0

  Speakers on innovation love to quote The Lean Startup.  The book lays out sort of a template for software companies to follow so they can [...]

• The Market is Rigged
  Posted by Jeff Carter on April 10th, 2013 at 11:22 am, Comments: 0

  The Fed released minutes of their meeting early “because the U.S. central bank accidentally sent the report to congressional aides and trade organizations.”.  Remember, it’s [...]

• Can You Avoid Bird Flu in China?
  Posted by Jeff Carter on April 7th, 2013 at 9:19 am, Comments: 0

  The last time there was an outbreak of bird flu in China, there was some panic.  In Illinois, convicted Democrat Governor Rod Blagojevich used it [...]

• Time Stamp It: US Headed to Recession
  Posted by Jeff Carter on April 5th, 2013 at 10:34 am, Comments: 0

  Unemployment was interesting this morning.  In earnings parlance, it would be called a “miss”.    No doubt, the mainstream media will use the word “unexpectedly”. Bears [...]