We need to get people to focus on creating new value, not only on creating new jobs.
I'm not against corporations, but if we just focused on creative value, we would come out of the recession. We are so much on the grid, meaning, we derive all our value from ideas given to us in the
media by big corporations. If we dug up our lawns, planted fruit and nut trees, vegetables and herbs, we would be thinking in the right way. A people have to create value. I become a millionaire when I create enough value for the largest amount of people.
Gary Neumann
Orlando, Florida
3/16/10
4:03 PM
The only way out of this recession is through the growth of small business. They are the one's who create jobs in this country. I have been an entrepreneur for over 25 years and have the scars to prove it. The last 10 years I have been working with start ups and small business as a marketing consultant. Two years ago I came to the conclusion that were missing the boat big time in the way we help entrepreneurs succeed. We all know they need money. That is a given. But what a lot of them also need is engineering help, marketing help, management help and so on. Well today location is no longer a problem. Therefore a new medical device start up in Idaho could use the help of a medical device engineer in South Florida. The problem is they don't know each other. The facts are it's not what you know sometimes it's who you know. I hear it all time time from my clients. They ask me if I know someone in their business who could help them out. America is great at helping out other countries and people and that is great. We have a huge resource of people in this country who could help our entrepreneurs succeed including the 75 million baby boomers with over 30 years experience.
People helping people is what it's all about. When that happens you get back ten fold and all kinds of opportunities open up. It is my passion to help Grow America by connecting up experienced professionals who can help our entrepreneurs succeed.
CURTIS SCOTT
Florida
2/09/10
1:02 PM
I am an entrepreneur. Unlike most of the US population, I was not caught off-guard when the recession came -because I am also a student of Austrian economics & subscribe to the writings of Dr. Ron Paul & Mr. Peter Schiff. So, despite having my own personal financial crisis involving an unscrupulous business associate in 2007 (who is now in jail); -I managed to leverage over +3000% return from my humble savings -that I diverted into a specific investment when I saw the writing on the economic wall. I am all about risk-taking & delayed gratification. I also know from years of personal study that government is generally the problem --a severe one. Not only do government policies get in the way due to the backdoor agendas built into them, --but the rhetoric of government taints the minds of the public & generally blinds people to alternative ways of thinking about issues -even discouraging such talk. Earth shaking ideas always change society & it's the result of the paradigm-shift that spawns new innovations. But what happens in a society resistant to change (so resistant that government policy has indirectly locked in place the status-quo)? Just reading over the posts here -it's obvious to me that many of the contributors have been mesmerized by government-speak; --But I can tell you (law being a hobby of mine) -that much of what I read about taxes, regulations & things like patents are spoken from ignorance of the actual law about such matters and that DC does not have nearly the level of control that many people imagine it does. It's like watching a dog -held captive without a boundary by a collar that emits a sound when the dog gets near the boundary-line. And the irony is that all the other dogs bark frantic warnings when they hear rumor of the collar's sound --providing merely the peer pressure of fear to keep the dog inside an intangible fence. Let me cue you in on a secret: +90% of the time -the collar only makes a noise & can do nothing else. And having said that +90% of those reading won't believe it. And when those +90% of people -held in a mental prison set down by a matrix of misleading legal-language are also those who are "investors", -they will choose not to invest because some barking dog is freaking out about a boundary line that in reality -is an illusion (does not exist). There is an old saying -that "The truth will set you free."; --BUT ONLY the truth you KNOW. I just wanted to preface with that commentary. My invention (that I am seeking a QUALITY industry partner to venture jointly with) -reduces the energy wasted by the conventional clothes dryer -some 50-80%. The savings figures are quite impressive. The installation (via contractor) is very affordable. And the payback to the home owner is roughly 2-4 years based on use. My background in energy-management & control systems dates back to 1986 when I was doing computer-based, state-of-the-art system design. Fundamentals never change. My ideal partner would be an existing business with a solid personnel connection to the electricity-generation industry (which, -I'm told, -has the most to gain from innovations that can reduce the demand on the grid by GIGAwatt hours). - Good day.
Thompson
New York
2/02/10
11:02 PM
The best thing for entrepreneurs will be the collapse of the Big Monopolistic Coercion Machine: the state. The best thing we can do to hasten its overdue demise is to simply ignore it. Business owners, start producing and trading off the books and off the Record. Individuals and employees, offer to work and make more purchases OTR! The less the state consumes in its insane bureaucracy, the more we're left with - and the more in turn we can produce next month. The cure for this recession is not before our eyes but behind them.
Chris Reddin
Grand Junction, CO
1/25/10
8:01 PM
As a person who works with start-ups everyday though a thriving business incubation program, I am really pleased to see this focus on the most important part of economic recovery – entrepreneurship. Great data in this survey, but two more years of recession..ouch.
We need to get people to focus on creating new value, not only on creating new jobs.
I'm not against corporations, but if we just focused on creative value, we would come out of the recession. We are so much on the grid, meaning, we derive all our value from ideas given to us in the
media by big corporations. If we dug up our lawns, planted fruit and nut trees, vegetables and herbs, we would be thinking in the right way. A people have to create value. I become a millionaire when I create enough value for the largest amount of people.
The only way out of this recession is through the growth of small business. They are the one's who create jobs in this country. I have been an entrepreneur for over 25 years and have the scars to prove it. The last 10 years I have been working with start ups and small business as a marketing consultant. Two years ago I came to the conclusion that were missing the boat big time in the way we help entrepreneurs succeed. We all know they need money. That is a given. But what a lot of them also need is engineering help, marketing help, management help and so on. Well today location is no longer a problem. Therefore a new medical device start up in Idaho could use the help of a medical device engineer in South Florida. The problem is they don't know each other. The facts are it's not what you know sometimes it's who you know. I hear it all time time from my clients. They ask me if I know someone in their business who could help them out. America is great at helping out other countries and people and that is great. We have a huge resource of people in this country who could help our entrepreneurs succeed including the 75 million baby boomers with over 30 years experience.
People helping people is what it's all about. When that happens you get back ten fold and all kinds of opportunities open up. It is my passion to help Grow America by connecting up experienced professionals who can help our entrepreneurs succeed.
I am an entrepreneur. Unlike most of the US population, I was not caught off-guard when the recession came -because I am also a student of Austrian economics & subscribe to the writings of Dr. Ron Paul & Mr. Peter Schiff. So, despite having my own personal financial crisis involving an unscrupulous business associate in 2007 (who is now in jail); -I managed to leverage over +3000% return from my humble savings -that I diverted into a specific investment when I saw the writing on the economic wall. I am all about risk-taking & delayed gratification. I also know from years of personal study that government is generally the problem --a severe one. Not only do government policies get in the way due to the backdoor agendas built into them, --but the rhetoric of government taints the minds of the public & generally blinds people to alternative ways of thinking about issues -even discouraging such talk. Earth shaking ideas always change society & it's the result of the paradigm-shift that spawns new innovations. But what happens in a society resistant to change (so resistant that government policy has indirectly locked in place the status-quo)? Just reading over the posts here -it's obvious to me that many of the contributors have been mesmerized by government-speak; --But I can tell you (law being a hobby of mine) -that much of what I read about taxes, regulations & things like patents are spoken from ignorance of the actual law about such matters and that DC does not have nearly the level of control that many people imagine it does. It's like watching a dog -held captive without a boundary by a collar that emits a sound when the dog gets near the boundary-line. And the irony is that all the other dogs bark frantic warnings when they hear rumor of the collar's sound --providing merely the peer pressure of fear to keep the dog inside an intangible fence. Let me cue you in on a secret: +90% of the time -the collar only makes a noise & can do nothing else. And having said that +90% of those reading won't believe it. And when those +90% of people -held in a mental prison set down by a matrix of misleading legal-language are also those who are "investors", -they will choose not to invest because some barking dog is freaking out about a boundary line that in reality -is an illusion (does not exist). There is an old saying -that "The truth will set you free."; --BUT ONLY the truth you KNOW. I just wanted to preface with that commentary. My invention (that I am seeking a QUALITY industry partner to venture jointly with) -reduces the energy wasted by the conventional clothes dryer -some 50-80%. The savings figures are quite impressive. The installation (via contractor) is very affordable. And the payback to the home owner is roughly 2-4 years based on use. My background in energy-management & control systems dates back to 1986 when I was doing computer-based, state-of-the-art system design. Fundamentals never change. My ideal partner would be an existing business with a solid personnel connection to the electricity-generation industry (which, -I'm told, -has the most to gain from innovations that can reduce the demand on the grid by GIGAwatt hours). - Good day.
The best thing for entrepreneurs will be the collapse of the Big Monopolistic Coercion Machine: the state. The best thing we can do to hasten its overdue demise is to simply ignore it. Business owners, start producing and trading off the books and off the Record. Individuals and employees, offer to work and make more purchases OTR! The less the state consumes in its insane bureaucracy, the more we're left with - and the more in turn we can produce next month. The cure for this recession is not before our eyes but behind them.
As a person who works with start-ups everyday though a thriving business incubation program, I am really pleased to see this focus on the most important part of economic recovery – entrepreneurship. Great data in this survey, but two more years of recession..ouch.
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