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- High finance, complexity and disaster
  Posted by SoxFirst
  Here is the paradox of markets: they are bigger, more liquid and more lucrative than ever but mistakes by a handful of companies send shock waves around the world. All created by complex financial innovation and new fangled forms of money like derivatives.
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- 3 Guys in a Garage Launches $100 Challenge for Investor Leads
  Posted by colinmcnab
  A digital media incubator called 3 Guys in a Garage has launched an innovative social networking challenge to gain leads to potential investors. It’s banking on the power of social networks and word-of-mouth to finance its new media ideas. “Here is a way for you to get involved as a virtual venture capitalist, by using your networks to help us find investors. We’ll give $100 for each referral that leads to investment. Our goal is 100 referrals that lead to $500,000 investment.”
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- Big Media Allies With '3 Guys in a Garage'
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  "3 Guys In A Garage is doing joint ventures with traditional media companies to launch consumer Internet products within six months for $500,000 or less. Big Media needs the innovative ideas and faster speed-to-market that we have, and we need the funding and marketing resources that they have. So, it makes sense to collaborate."
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- The Year in Ideas
  Posted by Shemuses from New York Times
  For the seventh consecutive December, the Ney York Times magazine looks back on the passing year through a special lens: ideas. Editors and writers trawl the oceans of ingenuity, hoping to snag in our nets the many curious, inspired, perplexing and sometimes outright illegal innovations of the past 12 months.
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- Will OpenSocial help Google reorganize into the first Galactic Empire?
  Posted by VincebusEruptum from Scholarsandrogues
  The big news in the tech world this week was Google's unveiling of OpenSocial, a set of programming tools that will enable members of multiple social networks to share files and information across different platforms. Noticeably absent from the alliance supporting OpenSocial were the two 800-lb. gorillas of the social networking world...
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- CEOs and the future
  Posted by SoxFirst
  How can we tell whether a company will keep innovating? Check the language of the CEO, according to a new study. In their letters to shareholders, CEOs more focused on the future tend to lead their companies into more innovation.
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- SOX squashing innovation
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  Here is research showing that Sarbanes-Oxley stifles innovation in companies, large and small.
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3 Guys in a Garage Launches $100 Challenge for Investor Leads

“a solid Benjamin”?...sounds like a ponzi scheme.

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colinmcnab
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SoxFirst
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Leon Gettler is a blogger and senior business journalist at The Age, specializing on management issues. His latest book, Organisations Behaving Badly focuses on the forces that lead smart executives into making dumb decisions.
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Shemuses
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Jodie lives, plays, and blogs in Vancouver, BC. Her day job at ONE/Northwest puts her talents to work supporting social change strategies for greening our world.
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