Interesting video about other countries disclosing their ufo info.
7/09/2010
How We Can Encourage Female Entrepreneurship
The reasons behind women not jumping into entrepreneurship like their counterparts men.
Peace and Social Entrepreneurship through Mobile Phones in Afghanistan - Your Olive Branch News
Peace through community cooperative Entrepreneurship? This is a certain way to change the world.
Cogswell College Creates BA Degree for Entrepreneurs in Digital Media
Cogswell Polytechnical College, in a nod to the importance of entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley, the US and the world, is offering what may be the first targeted and intensive program to create and launch entrepreneurs in the digital media field.
Cogswell’s new undergraduate Bachelor of Arts program in Entrepreneurship & Innovation (http://www.cogswell.edu/program_ent.htm), with an optional specialty in digital media, meets the needs of those who want to lead in the business of video games, film, animation, sound or other areas of digital entertainment. Courses begin in the Fall 2010 term pending final WASC (http://www.acswasc.org/) approvals.
“The Digital media industries are among the fastest growing in the world and are a veritable hotbed of entrepreneurship. Almost all of the companies, both large and small, in these industries were created by entrepreneurs a relatively short time ago,” said Dr. Chester Haskell, Cogswell President. “Our graduates have made major contributions and continue to find or create outstanding opportunities in these exciting fields. Cogswell is ideally positioned to help educate new generations of entrepreneurs who will be the ones to take the digital media industries into the future.”
Meshing the digital arts and entrepreneurship provides Northern California students a unique opportunity. The program focuses on creating an immersive, hands-on educational environment that offers students an inter-disciplinary and collaborative approach to creating new ventures.
“Students in our Entrepreneurship & Digital Arts bachelors degree program will be prepared to create opportunities, even their own ventures, in an area that they love – video games, iPhone apps, digital music and animated films,” said program Founder, Trish Costello. “Isn’t this a dream we all share – creating successful opportunities in an area of our personal passion.”
Although new to the Bay Area, Costello is globally recognized in entrepreneurship education having created and led the prestigious Kauffman Fellows Program in venture capital for twelve years. “Cogswell’s entrepreneurship program will be ‘best in class,’ with students creating digital studio ventures their first year, participating in digital internships, creating entrepreneurship forums and embarking on their own innovations and ventures in a Cogswell Digital Media Incubator.”
Cogswell also looks to launch an on-line BA program to meet the needs of its students as well as various post-graduate certificate programs and a Masters Degree to prepare all audiences for business opportunities in digital media. All are pending WASC approval.
“As the way we communicate and relate changes, some jobs go away and new ones are formed,” said Professor Michael Martin, Dean of the College. “We’re glad to be in the forefront of creating new opportunities for our students.”
To apply to the Bachelor of Arts in Entrepreneurship and Innovation program go to Cogswell’s webpage (http://www.cogswell.edu/program_ent.htm). The College will waive application fees for the first year. Join our Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/cogswellcollege) page to get the latest updates.
About Cogswell Polytechnical College
Located in Silicon Valley, Cogswell offers bachelor degree programs in Digital Art and Animation (with majors in Game Development, Animation, Entertainment Design and 3D Modeling, http://www.cogswell.edu/program_daa.htm), Digital Audio Technology (with majors in Audio Production, Audio Engineering and Sound Work, http://www.cogswell.edu/program_daa.htm) and Engineering (Digital Arts, Computer and Software, http://www.cogswell.edu/program_eng.htm). As one of the Bay Area’s premier colleges, its novel academic approach offers an integrated model that emulates the industry environment – a collaborative, project-based, learning environment that uses multidisciplinary teams to take projects from concept through the delivery pipeline.
Contacts
Cogswell Polytechnical College
Bonnie Phelps, 408-541-0100 ext. 145
Dean of Institutional Advancement
bphelps@cogswell.edu
Anybody interested in the video game industry?
Startups | Entrepreneurship more attractive to today’s youth
Check out this website I found at startups.co.uk
We are in the Entrepreneurial era
Giving is great, but lemonade stand should teach entrepreneurship :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Terry Savage
Giving is great, but lemonade stand should teach entrepreneurship
Making more lemonade
July 9, 2010BY TERRY SAVAGE Sun-Times ColumnistMy recent column about teaching children how to run a lemonade stand seems to have caused quite a furor. In case you missed it, I explained to the young girls -- who were giving away their product -- that the whole idea of having a business is to figure out your costs and then set a price that gives you a profit. In fact, that's the basis of our American entrepreneurial, free-enterprise system.
I regularly write a personal finance column, explaining investing, financial planning and the economy. However, that "lemonade stand" column triggered a barrage of complaints accusing me of destroying the children's charitable spirit of giving. The e-mails I received from around the world were anything but charitable, accusing me of being Scrooge, ignorant, selfish, arrogant -- and a lot of other words I couldn't put into print.
Three girls giving away free lemonade isn't cute, it's indicative of the lack of economic responsibility we're passing on to future generations.
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RELATED STORIESThere is no 'free' lemonadeClearly there is a great misconception that entrepreneurship and generosity are incompatible. But that's far from the truth. Just look at Bill Gates and Warren Buffett -- two of our country's greatest entrepreneurs, who are in the process of giving away hundreds of millions of dollars to causes they think are worthwhile. But first they had to earn that money!
My column was intended as a lesson on entrepreneurship -- not as a criticism of charitable giving, which I value highly on a personal basis. And the lemonade stand was not only a lesson for children, but a metaphor for our financial troubles today. We need entrepreneurs to create jobs and keep America growing out of this recession.
Only a growing society can afford the resources to take care of those who cannot help themselves. Whether you regularly tithe a portion of your income, or just drop a coin in the Salvation Army bucket , whether you leave your entire fortune to charity or give financial aid to your elderly parents -- you need to make the money first.
Our economy is in the midst of a great financial crisis. Many of us are lamenting that consumers did not have the financial literacy to understand those crazy mortgages they were offered, or to resist the lure of credit cards that led Americans so far into debt.
It's important to start teaching those financial lessons at an early age. These little girls, around age 7 or 8, are already targets of consumer marketing -- for everything from toys to videos, from fashion to food. Certainly, it's also the right time to teach them the value of the money they spend, and how difficult it is to earn it.
Whether these kids were charging money for the lemonade in order to make a profit or to give it to a charity, the lessons of working to earn the money would be memorable.
The children weren't rescuing people from the heat, since it was a temperate day. They were just looking for something to do -- and there was no one around to teach them how a lemonade stand should really work.
For many years, I've been on the board of Junior Achievement in Chicago and have been an adviser to the Women's Business Development Center. Both are organizations dedicated to teaching about the opportunities of our free enterprise system. This is especially important for girls who might otherwise grow into young women still earning only about 73 cents on the dollar compared with men -- an average pay discrepancy for jobs in large companies. Surely, we want to help them do better.
Empowering children to learn about the value of money and the importance of being hardworking and entrepreneurial are values we should all share -- along with a respect for the genuine needs of others and the values of giving. The laws of economics in an incentive society are not on a collision course with charity. They need to work hand in hand. And that's The Savage Truth.
Terry Savage is a registered investment adviser and a co-host of "Monsters and Money in the Morning" on WBBM-Channel 2 from 5 to 7 a.m. weekdays. Post questions on Terry's blog: terrysavage.com and blogs.suntimes.com/savage.
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Great article about Entrepreneurship in relation with the lemonade stand.
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