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Don't Ever Stop Bootstrapping

Great respect is due for anyone starting a venture. A tremendous undertaking in leadership is entailed. Here are some ideas in bootstrapping which have been helpful to me, and which I hope will help anyone growing their own organization.READ»

Europe Plans 45% Boost To Science Investments, Funded By Slashing Farming Subsidies

Screw austerity: Science spending in the European Union is about to get a huge boost, at the expense of farming subsidies. The move is an acknowledgment that only by spending money on innovation and future tech can income growth be assured. READ»

GOP's Paul Ryan Goes Hollywood to Sell Federal Budget

To explain the complexities of his plan, the House budget chairman and his filmmakers found inspiration in a BBC documentary by a Swedish global health professor. For real. READ»

The Most Exciting 0.003% of Obama’s Budget: Social Impact Bonds

Buried deep within President Obama’s $3.7 trillion budget is a tiny little item that might just change public finance forever...if it works.READ»

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Moon Men to Obama: Your NASA Plans Suck Asteroids

Not everyone's pleased with NASA's future, as defined by the Obama-led new fiscal plans for the space agency...and three particularly significant chaps would just assume tell him to shove it up Uranus. They're names are Armstrong, ...READ»

NASA Seeks Ride Into Space, Can Offer Gas Money

Ahead of the imminent "space summit" next week, and in the wake of some very dramatic rumors about its future, NASA's revealed how some of the proposed restructured government funding would be spent. It's NASA's future, folks.NASA ...READ»

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Infographics of the Day: Obama's 2011 Budget, Cut Three Ways

Three major newspapers take a crack at visualizing Obama's new budget.READ»

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Obama to Kill Moonshot, Make the Space Race a More Private Affair

All pointers say that in the next budget from the Obama government, NASA's moonshot Constellation program will be axed. It's not necessarily the end of the dream, though: The plan is to involve private space companies much ...READ»

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NASA's Too Broke to Reach the Moon, What's Next for the Constellation Program?

NASA's ambitious Constellation human space exploration program has been under an Obama-steered spotlight to see how it's going. That investigation has come to a stunning conclusion: NASA can't get to the moon if things stay as they ...READ»

California Architectural Sites Threatened by Closing of State's Parks

California residents are fighting for their right to hike as yet another of the state's institutions is threatened by its ongoing budgetary woes. After a weeks-long standoff between lawmakers and Governor Schwarzenegger over ...READ»

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The Top Benefits to Selecting a Pay for Performance PR Agency

We’re Dying Out Here …one hourly rate at a time. It’s no secret that recessions, big old nasty deep ones like what we’re currently experiencing, are particularly hard on public relations budgets…which in turn is bad for the hundreds of PR firms in receipt of the shrinking largeness of those budgets…which in turn sends thousands of PR folks (often the young good ones, unfortunately) out on the street looking for new employment. But does it really have to? READ»

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Sacraficial Lambs No More

During budget reviews, you may want to think twice before cutting your marketing team, or budget, at the point of non-function. READ»

Obama Funds NASA's Return to the Moon

Just the other day, an influential group of ex-astronauts--including Buzz Aldrin--publicly called for a new direction in the U.S. space effort, demanding more human space flight and even a Department of Space. And it's just possible ...READ»

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Who Gets "It"? Only A Few Industrial Manufacturers - Part II

If many manufacturers and their sales teams sell products and not solutions, does that mean that their customers buy products too, and not solutions? They buy both of course, but it depends on what level in the hierarchical ...READ»

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Dell Releases Budget Inspiron, Studio Hybrid Computers

While no one would call Dell's [NASDAQ:DELL] machines "good looking," exactly, their prices certainly have appeal. So it is with two new Inspiron models the company released last night: one desktop and one laptop, both ...READ»