Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Emerging Entrepreneurship/Innovation in US Cities

Ateneo Innovation and Entrepreneurship "New ideas create more and better new products and services; create more wealth."

From Entrepreneur.com by Sarah Max 

Two major cities are finding their entrepreneurial groove.  After the 2008 debacle Washington DC and Houston Texas, start ups are finding their niches.  There has been a wave of accelerators, VCs  incubators and other resources to help entrepreneurs.  

Such organizations are:  

Accelprise 

Endeavor DC 

1776 

Fortify ventures 

In Houston, this organization is supporting startups:   

Mid Atlantic Ventures Association  an association of 100 investment firms with assets of over $90 billion
 

New Immigration Laws Needed for More Innovation in USA

Ateneo Innovation and Entrepreneurship "New ideas create more and better new products and services; create more wealth."

From Innovation.com 

This site is going to do a virtual march to USA capital, Washington DC to enable the brightest and the best immigrants to come to USA.  The current immigration laws create barriers to entry of immigrants (the consul in Manila discouraged me from having wild dreams about USA)

Facts:

l.  28% of businesses started in 2011 was started by a migrant founder;

2.  40% of the Fortune 500 companies was started by migrant or child of migrant worker;

3.  $775 billion in revenues were generated by companies owned by migrant workers in 2011;

4  1/4 of the American Nobel prize winners were migrants, despite just being 1/8 of the total population;

5.  l out of 10 workers in US working in private companies is owned by a migrant 

 

Small Business Brief For Feb. 25 - Mar. 3, 2013



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Here are the top 10 things you MUST know this week:
1.  Billionaire Investor Warren Buffet And Partner 3G Capital Are Buying Heinz For $23.3 Billion, Making It The Largest Deal In The Food Industry

Billionaire investor Warren Buffet and partner 3G Capital are dipping their money into the ketchup business. Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital will be a part of a $23.3 billion deal to acquire the Heinz ketchup company. According to Heinz, this is the largest deal ever in the food industry. Buffet told CNBC that his company would be putting $12 to $13 billion into the deal. What does this all mean to you? It means that there is opportunity for you to grow your business if you jump on the right opportunity instead of sitting back.
  


2.  Honest Toddler May Be The Funniest Tweeter On Twitter

Over the past several years, Twitter has become a powerful way to send out quick story updates without having to be in the newsroom. You can also send out, or "tweet" a quick link to your newest blog post, article, video, photographs, and so on. What you may not have also realized about Twitter is that you can find quick comedy while on the go. One tweeter in particular that personifies this is Honest Toddler. In the article above, you can see some of Honest Toddler's hilarious tweets on Blue Ivy, VHS tapes, Target, etc.




3.  Google Retail Stores Could Make The Search Engine Giant Even Bigger

Google is reportedly opening physical retail locations that will give consumers the opportunity to get their hands on the latest Google products. If rumors are true, it will be coming just in time for Google Glass, a program by Google to develop an augmented reality head-mounted display. It may also help customers get a better understanding of a product since they could test it in person. All in all, I think this potential move by Google would make them an even bigger company, giving us another reason why we shouldn't ignore them despite their continuous changes in SEO and power to take your site off of their search engine.



4.  If You Have A Strong Attachment To Hotmail, You Have Until This Summer To Say Farewell Forever

Move over Hotmail because here comes Outlook.com. On Tuesday, Outlook.com officially launched, marking the end of its predecessor, Hotmail. Microsoft said in a statement that all Hotmail users should expect to see this change take place this summer. For those of you who have a Hotmail account, don't worry. Your email address, password, messages, folders, contacts, rules, vacation replies, etc. will stay the same.



5.  Crowdsourcing Content, Ideas, Or Services Can Save You Time And Money

Have you ever had trouble getting content finished on time or coming up with new ideas for a company logo, marketing strategy, or content ideas? You can fix that problem by using crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing lets you obtain new ideas, services, and content from a large group of people, such as an online community like 99designs.com. In the article above, Inc.com writer Peter Gasca gives you six reasons why you should consider using crowdsourcing for your business.



6.  Become A Successful Online Marketer

Do you have trouble getting leads, sales, conversions, or traffic from your company website or blog? Does it have something to do with not having enough time in the day to work on search engine optimization and sales funnel management? It's OK because I have a solution to your problems. In the article above, Success.com gives you a '10x10x4' formula that can help you become a brilliant online marketer.
  


7.  Microsoft Missing Out On Over $2 Billion In Sales By Not Selling Office On The iPad

Microsoft Office is software that you'd think would be offered on the iPad. Disagreements with Apple on pricing and discounts, however, have delayed its availability. The question is how much revenue is Microsoft missing out on. According to Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Holt, Microsoft is missing out on approximately $2.5 billion in revenue by not offering Office on the iPad. It may not be a big deal since Microsoft's Business Division, which is home to Office, is on pace to bring in $22 billion. It is a lesson for you, however, to not waste profit opportunities when it is right in front of your face, especially when you're a smaller company that can use every cent you can get.
 


8.  Everything You Need To Know About The "Mobile Wallet"

Are you one of those people who still don't know a whole lot about how mobile wallets work? In the infographic above, Statista tells you everything that you need to know about mobile wallets.
 


9.  President Obama Wants Penny To Go Because It Is Inefficient

President Barack Obama would like nothing more than to get rid of the penny. He says it has come to represent one of Washington's many inefficiencies and that "anytime we're spending money on something people aren't going to use, it should be changed." As of right now, it looks like Congress will take its time to grant President Obama the right to stop penny production. This is something we should all keep an eye on, however, because if penny circulation stops, we have to round up our prices to the nearest 5 cents. For example, instead of selling an item for $19.99 or $97.00, we'd have to sell it for $20.00 or $100.00. It may seem like a little change, but when you think about all of the updates that businesses and government tax agencies would have to make to implement it, you'll understand why the penny probably won't be eliminated any time soon.
 


10.  Veteran Goes From Unemployed To Owning His Own Meineke Car Care Center Franchise

Tom Perez spent a decade being a police officer in the Navy, serving four tours in Iraq, working his way up to supervisor, earning numerous medals, and getting a degree in business. Yet when he comes home to look for a job, he gets rejected time and time again. Perez decided to take a different approach- apply for a franchise opportunity. This decision led to a drastic change in his fortune. He was awarded his own franchise with the Meineke Car Care Center with a 25% discount on his franchising fee and financing lower than bank rates. Perez then hooked up with Boost A Hero, a crowdfunding platform for veterans seeking to buy franchises. Through Boost A Hero, Perez raised the $10,000 he needed to complete his purchase. As of 2012, Perez was expecting sales of $500,000 and created six jobs through his franchise. What does this mean to you? It means that you should never give up on your goals no matter what obstacles are put in front of you because you will be rewarded if you put in the time and effort.



(This issue was written by staff reporter Steven Ward, with input from Denise Gosnell and Jynell Berkshire.)
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  1. Zubrin on Green Antihumanism and Paul Ehrlich repeats call for more Abortion and Birth control
  2. Quantum Hypercube Memory will Enable Parallel Small Quantum Computers to Provide Exponential Speed up over Classical Computing
  3. Saudi Arabia, China, Kuwait Pakistan and Azerbiajan competing for the Next Worlds Tallest Building
  4. Search for Modifications and Alternatives after the NIF fusion laser missed key milestone
  5. Google Expanding the Googleplex
  6. Hint of 150 MHz radio emission from the Neptune-mass extrasolar transiting planet HAT-P-11b
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Zubrin on Green Antihumanism and Paul Ehrlich repeats call for more Abortion and Birth control

On February 11, 2013, the Denver Post ran a guest commentary of great clinical interest. In the piece in question, Colorado State University philosophy professor Philip Cafaro advanced the argument that immigration needs to be sharply cut, because otherwise people from Third World nations will come to the United States and become prosperous, thereby adding to global warming.

Cafaro says "And make no mistake: Immigrants are not coming to the United States to remain poor," warns the philosopher. "Those hundreds of millions of new citizens will want to live as well and consume energy at the same rates as other Americans. . . . What climate change mitigation measures . . . could possibly equal the increased greenhouse gas emissions we would lock in by adding 145 million more new citizens to our population?"

Robert Zubrin notes that according to Cafaro's liberal argument, the wretched of the Earth must be kept poor wherever they reside, because otherwise they will ruin the weather for the rest of us. Following this logic, the United States should adopt the role of the world's oppressor, enforcing the continuation of poverty around the globe.

The argument has always been the same:

1. There isn't enough of x to go around.
2. Therefore human numbers, activities, or liberties must be severely constrained.
3. Those of us enlightened by wisdom must be empowered to do the constraining.
4. And having obtained such power, let's make the best of it and stick it to those we despise anyway.

All these cases were frauds. Ireland never lacked the capacity to feed its people. During the entire "great famine," the island continued to produce massive amounts of beef and grain. The Irish just couldn't afford to buy any of it due to the enforcement of rack-renting, high taxation, and suppression of manufactures. Germany never needed additional living space. It has a bigger population now than it did under the Third Reich, on much less land, yet it has a far higher living standard. Hitler just used the Lebensraum imperative as an excuse for genocide. Contrary to Population Bomb author Paul Ehrlich, the world was not overpopulated in 1967. In fact, since that time, as world population has doubled, average GDP per capita has nearly tripled. Yet, unfortunately, that did not stop population-control advocates from obtaining billions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer money to help Third World regimes stop reproduction among their poor, in general, and despised national minorities, in particular. And there is certainly no moral case for limiting carbon emissions.

Paul Ehrlich wrote the population bomb and has been wrongly predicting a starvation doom since the 1960s.

Paul Ehrlich has again repeated his forecast of a food calamity and the only solution is for population control.

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Quantum Hypercube Memory will Enable Parallel Small Quantum Computers to Provide Exponential Speed up over Classical Computing

A quantum computer doesn't need to be a single large device but could be built from a network of small parts, new research from the University of Bristol has demonstrated. As a result, building such a computer would be easier to achieve.

Many groups of research scientists around the world are trying to build a quantum computer to run algorithms that take advantage of the strange effects of quantum mechanics such as entanglement and superposition. A quantum computer could solve problems in chemistry by simulating many body quantum systems, or break modern cryptographic schemes by quickly factorising large numbers.

Previous research shows that if a quantum algorithm is to offer an exponential speed-up over classical computing, there must be a large entangled state at some point in the computation and it was widely believed that this translates into requiring a single large device.

In a paper published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society A, Dr Steve Brierley of Bristol's School of Mathematics and colleagues show that, in fact, this is not the case. A network of small quantum computers can implement any quantum algorithm with a small overhead.

The key breakthrough was learning how to efficiently move quantum data between the many sites without causing a collision or destroying the delicate superposition needed in the computation. This allows the different sites to communicate with each other during the computation in much the same way a parallel classical computer would do.

Arxiv - Efficient Distributed Quantum Computing

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Saudi Arabia, China, Kuwait Pakistan and Azerbiajan competing for the Next Worlds Tallest Building

Kuwait, China and Azerbaijan had already announced their plans for the tallest tower in previous years, now Pakistan has announced new plans.

Kingdom Holding Company that has commenced work on the 1,000-metre high Kingdom Tower in Riyadh, which is set to overtake Burj Khalifa, currently the tallest tower in the world, by 2017.

With a total construction area of over 500,000 square meters, the Kingdom Tower will be a mixed-use building, featuring a Four Seasons Hotel, Four Seasons serviced apartments, office space, luxury condominiums and an observatory at higher level than the world's current highest observation deck.

The Kingdom Tower complex will contain 59 elevators, including 54 single-deck and five double-deck elevators, along with 12 escalators. Elevators serving the observatory will travel at a rate of 10 meters per second in both directions. Another unique feature of the design is a sky terrace, roughly 30 meters (98 feet) in diameter, at level 157. It is an outdoor amenity space intended for use by the penthouse floor.

The Kingdom Tower was previously known as Mile-High Tower It is a supertall skyscraper proposed for construction in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia at a preliminary cost of SR4.6 billion (US$1.23 billion). It will be the centerpiece and first phase of a SR75 billion (US$20 billion) proposed development known as Kingdom City that will be located along the Red Sea on the north side of Jeddah. If completed as planned, the tower will reach unprecedented heights, becoming the tallest building in the world, as well as the first structure to reach the one-kilometer mark. The tower was initially planned to be 1.6-kilometre (1 mi) high; however, the geology of the area proved unsuitable for a tower of that height.

Kingdom Tower

China's Broad Group is waiting for government approval to build the 220-storey Sky City in Changsha, 10 meters taller than the 828-metre Burj Khalifa. The tower will be standing tall in mere three months.


The 838-meter high Sky City is expected to have residences, offices, elementary and secondary schools, kindergarten, old people's home, healthcare hospital, store, hotel, sports and entertainment centre, 17 helipads and house nearly 30,000 people.

Sky City will use BSB modular technology which features 95 per cent factory prefabrication with a construction pace of five storeys a day.

Plans for 2000 meter 636 Story follow up to Skycity

Pinned up on the office wall of Broad Groups CEO Zhang Yue are plans for a project even more audacious building that is two kilometers high. When asked to estimate the odds of this 636-floor giganto-scraper ever being built, Zhang responds without hesitation, "One hundred percent! Some say that it's sensationalism to construct such a tall building. That's not so. Land shortages are already a grave problem. There's also the very serious transportation issue. We must bring cities together and stretch for the sky in order to save cities and save the Earth. We must eliminate most traffic, traffic that has no value! And we must reduce our dependency on roads and transportation."

Nextbigfuture has discussed what it would mean to have 600-700 story buildings

Higher density and larger cities would boost the per capita GDP of a city

Sky City Skyscrapers (200-300 stories) and robotic cars (4 times the density of road traffic) will make certain megacities (future New York, Shanghai, Tokyo etc...) one third to one half of the overall world population and they would have 75% more GDP per capita than they do today. There would be rural, regular urban then super-urban. Research shows that doubling population and increased urban density boosts productivity by about 15%.

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Search for Modifications and Alternatives after the NIF fusion laser missed key milestone

The world's biggest laser missed a key target date on the road to producing clean energy via nuclear fusion, an independent review panel says the technology holds enough promise to continue the quest – with a few modifications.

NIF's approach was to fire a 192-beam laser at a metal shell the size of a pencil eraser, holding a ball of frozen hydrogen. This produces a burst of X-rays that heats and compresses the hydrogen, fusing the nuclei in a brief implosion.

When NIF was being built in the 1990s, computer models predicted that short laser pulses delivering 1.8 megajoules of energy would create the pressures needed for ignition. The giant laser surpassed this energy level last year but still wasn't achieving enough pressure.

Until we know why NIF fell short, the panel recommends trying out other options, such as shifting to a different type of laser. For instance, firing an electron beam through a mixture of krypton and fluorine produces bright laser pulses at a shorter wavelength. This technology is less mature, but if it works it could implode the targets more uniformly than NIF's lasers.

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Hint of 150 MHz radio emission from the Neptune-mass extrasolar transiting planet HAT-P-11b

Since the radio-frequency emission from planets is expected to be strongly influenced by their interaction with the magnetic field and corona of the host star, the physics of this process can be effectively constrained by making sensitive measurements of the planetary radio emission. Up to now, however, numerous searches for radio emission from extrasolar planets at radio wavelengths have only yielded negative results. Here we report deep radio observations of the nearby Neptune-mass extrasolar transiting planet HAT-P-11b at 150 MHz, using the Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope (GMRT). On July 16, 2009, we detected a 3σ emission whose light curve is consistent with an eclipse when the planet passed behind the star. This emission is at a position 14′′ from the transiting exoplanet's coordinates; thus, with a synthetized beam of FWHM∼16′′, the position uncertainty of this weak radio signal encompasses the location of HAT-P-11. We estimate a 5% false positive probability that the observed radio light curve mimics the planet's eclipse light curve. If the faint signature is indeed a radio eclipse event associated with the planet, then its flux would be 3.87 mJy±1.29 mJy at 150 MHz. However, our equally sensitive repeat observations of the system on November 17, 2010 did not detect a significant signal in the radio light curve near the same position. This lack of confirmation leaves us with the possibility of either a variable planetary emission, or a chance occurrence of a false positive.

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Exoplanet Habitability adjusted for atmospheric pressure and seasonality

A new Energy Balance Model (EBM) provides more insight into the habitability of extrasolar planets. It also has a seasonal model of planetary climate, with new prescriptions for most physical quantities. Researchers use the EBM to investigate the surface habitability of planets with an Earth-like atmospheric composition but diff erent levels of surface pressure. The habitability, defi ned as the mean fraction of the planet's surface on which liquid
water could exist, is estimated from the pressure-dependent liquid water temperature range, taking into account seasonal and latitudinal variations of surface temperature. By running several thousands of EBM simulations they generated a map of the habitable zone (HZ) in the plane of the orbital semi-major axis, a, and surface pressure, p, for planets in circular orbits around a Sun-like star.

As pressure increases, the HZ becomes broader, with an increase of 0.25 AU in its radial extent from p=1/3 bar to p=3 bar. At low pressure, the habitability is low and varies with a; at high pressure, the habitability is high and relatively constant inside the HZ. We interpret these results in terms of the pressure dependence of the greenhouse e ffect, the effi ciency of horizontal heat transport, and the extent of the liquid water temperature range. Within the limits discussed in the paper, the results can be extended to planets in eccentric orbits around non-solar type stars. The main characteristics of the pressure-dependent HZ are modestly aff ected by variations of planetary properties, particularly at high pressure.

Circumstellar habitable zone of planets with Earth-like atmospheres and di fferent levels of surface pressure obtained with our EBM climate simulations. Abscissae: semi-major axis, a (bottom axis), or insolation (top axis). Ordinates: logarithm of the total surface pressure, p. The circles indicate solutions with mean global annual habitability h over 0. The area of the circles is proportional to h; the colors are coded according to the mean annual global surface temperature, Tm. The size and color scales are shown in the legend. The solid lines are contours of equal mean temperature Tm = 273 K (magenta), 333 K (red) and 393 K (black). Results above the contour at Tm = 333 K (red line) are tentative; see Section 3.3. Red crosses: simulations stopped on the basis of the water loss limit criterion; blue crosses: simulations interrupted when Tm less then Tmin;

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