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Startup Opportunities

Know When to Quit Your Day Job

This year more than five million entrepreneurs will launch a new venture. Many of them believe they have the Next Big Thing. But very few startups live to see five years, and even fewer make it to ten. Even fewer still go on to become a global success stories.This book is a practical guide to evaluating your business idea and a must-read for all aspiring entrepreneurs.You'll learn:-that if your new venture doesn't follow the 10x Rule, you should not quit your day job and why-how early customer development can transform a good idea into a great opportunity-which opportunities are worth selling everything forBrad Feld and Dr. Sean Wise have been assessing startup opportunities for more than two decades. They have witnessed more than 30,000 pitches and participated in more than 500 startup launches. Now two of North America's leading minds in venture capital share how they determine which startups will succeed and which will fail.This book is indispensable for anybody who has ever thought about starting a business or fumbled their way through giving advice about starting a business.

Even fewer still go on to become a global success stories.This book is a practical guide to evaluating your business idea and a must-read for all aspiring entrepreneurs.You'll learn:-that if your new venture doesn't follow the 10x Rule, you ...

We Can All Do Better

Bill Bradley is arguably one of the most well-versed public figures of our time. The eighteen-year New Jersey Senator, financial and investment adviser, Olympic and NBA athlete, national radio host, and bestselling author has lived in the United States as both political insider and outsider, national sports celebrity and behind-the-scenes confidante, leader and teammate. His varied experiences help to inform his unique and much-sought-after point of view on Washington and the country at large. InWe Can All Do Better, for the first time since the financial meltdown and since the worst of the intensifying political gridlock, Bradley offers his own concise, powerful, and highly personal review of the state of the nation. Bradley argues that government is not the problem. He criticizes the role of money and politics, explains how continuing on our existing foreign policy, electoral, and economic paths will mean a diminished future, and lays out exactly what needs to be done to reverse course. Breaking from the intransigent long-held viewpoints of both political parties, and with careful attention to our nation’s history, Bradley passionately lays out his narrative. He offers a no-holds-barred prescription on subjects including job creation, deficit reduction, education, and immigration. While equally critical of the approaches of the Tea Party and Occupy Movements, he champions the power of individual Americans to organize, speak out, bridge divisions, and he calls on the media to assume a more responsible role in our national life. As this moving call to arms reminds us, we can all—elected officials, private citizens, presidents—do a better job of moving our country forward. Bradley is perhaps the best guide imaginable, with his firsthand knowledge of governments’ inner-workings, the country’s diversity, and the untapped potential of the American people.

that had reined them in were repealed in 1999, huge integrated financial
institutions arose to speculate with depositors' money in relatively unaccountable
ways. The share of financial assets held by the ten largest financial institutions
went ...

NAFTA, WTO, and Global Business Strategy

How AIDs, Trade, and Terrorism Affect Our Economic Future

Condon examines how NAFTA, WTO, and global business affect the major issues of our time, such as AIDS, global security, and illegal immigration. NAFTA and WTO interact in ways that can make or break a company's strategy. Business strategists must consider the impact of today's rules and how future developments will affect them. However, this book is about more than just business. The globalization of law and business affects the lives of everyone.

INTRODUCTION It is important for business leaders to watch trends in trade
liberalization and to consider how future developments may affect current
business strategies. Firms that count the use of cheap labor in Mexico among
their key ...

Civic Education and Culture

What do we teach our citizens? This great Platonic question is as crucial today as it has ever been. America and the West come to terms with this question in the context of their richly diverse, technologically sophisticated, fundamentally individualistic societies. Virtually all would agree that such diversity, sophistication, and freedom are positive political and cultural goods, but many would also argue that they militate against the coherence that all regimes and civilizations must, in some way, demand. The nature, extent, and coherence of civic education are perhaps the greatest determinants of a regime's politics and culture, and the regime can in turn do much to foster the right kind of civic education. This book presents the insights of renowned scholars and writers, including Stephen H. Balch, Timothy Fuller, and Roger Kimball, who have thought broadly and deeply about the role that education at all levels plays in promoting, maintaining, or undermining our politics, culture, and society.

"Where am I?" "What am I?" These are the twin questions that lie at liberal
education's core. Trapped in Plato's cave, liberal education is charged with
leading us out of the shadows and into the sunlit uplands of truth — discovering
our real ...

Reimagining Civic Education

How Diverse Societies Form Democratic Citizens

Rooted in qualitative research, the contributors to this text explore the many ways that notions of democracy and citizenship have been implemented in education policy, curriculum, and classroom practice around the world.

THE OUTLINE OF THE 2002 EDUCATIONAL REFORM The educational reform
of 2002 is part of the third major educational reform period in modern Japanese
history. The first reform occurred during theMeiji Restoration (1866-1869), which
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The Direct Experience of Transcendental Consciousness

A New Paradigm of Spiritual Care and Spiritual Direction for Prison Inmates

The Oregon Department of Corrections Religious Services Department's mission statement is: To provide a spiritual environment within the Department of Corrections that will model, promote and encourage individuals to develop spiritually toward a redemptive and rehabilitative end. With arguments supported by published scientific research, I demonstrate that the direct experience of a little known fourth major state of human consciousness, referred to as a "wakeful hypo-metabolic physiologic state" by neurophysiologists and Transcendental Consciousness by Yogis and Mystics, completely fulfills the ODOC mission statement. Thirty years of scientific research, some within the darkest and most violent prisons in the world, supports my assertion. In this thesis I argue that beyond the thinking mind, deep within the silent consciousness of every human being, whether we believe it or not, whether we know it is there or not, is a visceral reality that is variously referred to as "The Peace that Passeth all Understanding", Sat Chit Ananda, Nirvana, or Heaven. This state of consciousness is real and easily accessible to us with the right tool. It is considered by many progressive theologians to be unbounded Divine Consciousness, the source of all peace, love, happiness, and compassion -- all the spiritual qualities humanity seeks. In this thesis I present an overwhelming body of evidence that demonstrates that criminality, immorality and weakness in the inmate's ability to process stress in healthy ways, dissolves as the inmate repeatedly exposes his or her awareness to Transcendental Consciousness. The evidence clearly shows that exposure to Transcendental Consciousness through the practice of Transcendental Meditation, as taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, increase an inmate's spirituality, moral judgment, peace of mind, and ability to feel and give love. I show that this is the most effective way for prison Chaplains to "promote and encourage individuals to develop spiritually toward a redemptive and rehabilitative end" -- much more effective than any existing cognitive approach associated with pastoral counseling, spiritual direction or meditation available today. For my thesis application I applied for and received a grant to teach Transcendental Meditation in an Oregon state prison. I wrote and submitted a proposal to ODOC for the project. It is currently under consideration.

I show that this is the most effective way for prison Chaplains to "promote and encourage individuals to develop spiritually toward a redemptive and rehabilitative end"--Much more effective than any existing cognitive approach associated ...

Low Intensity Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy

A Practitioner's Guide

A practical and comprehensive introduction to the principles, skills and application of Low Intensity Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.

A practical and comprehensive introduction to the principles, skills and application of Low Intensity Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.

Praktische Grundlagen Biostatistik und SAS

deskriptive Statistiken, Lagetests, Tests für Häufigkeiten, Korrelation, Regression ; Anwendung in SAS

Ein praktischer Leitfaden zu dem Thema: Wie handhabe ich das Statistik-Programm SAS Dieses Fachbuch richtet sich in erster Linie an die Studenten/Doktoranden medizinischer oder verwandter Studiengänge, die eine experimentelle, empirische Arbeit durchführen möchten. Auch für den interessierten Praktiker ist das Skript gleichermaßen zweckmäßig. Die Ausführung der grundlegenden statistischen Verfahren erfolgt anhand der Statistik-Software SAS® – ein Programm, das weltweit fachgebietsübergreifend in vielen Forschungseinrichtungen und Industriezweigen zu verschiedenen Zwecken, insbesondere aber der Datenanalyse, eingesetzt wird. Sämtliche Ausführungen sind mit der SAS®-Version 9.1 durchgeführt und getestet. Der Aufbau ist modular: Zunächst wird eine statistische Methode allgemein eingeführt, anschließend an einem Datenbeispiel die manuelle Berechnung demonstriert. Schließlich wird die in diesem Zusammenhang relevante SAS®-Prozedur dargestellt und das konkrete Beispiel mit SAS® berechnet. Die Analogie zwischen manuellem Rechenergebnis und dem SAS®-Ergebnis wird beschrieben. Das Buch beinhaltet eine ausführliche Darstellung statistischer Methoden, so dass es ohne zusätzliche Lektüre eines Standardlehrwerkes der Statistik verständlich ist.

Ein praktischer Leitfaden zu dem Thema: Wie handhabe ich das Statistik-Programm SAS Dieses Fachbuch richtet sich in erster Linie an die Studenten/Doktoranden medizinischer oder verwandter Studiengänge, die eine experimentelle, empirische ...

Integrating Results Through Meta-analytic Review Using SAS Software

Finally...a book addressing the various needs, concepts, and approaches forSAS users who work with meta-analytic procedures! Wang and Bushman introduce the reader to the important concepts in meta-analysis and how to use SAS software for this specific type of analysis. The authors thoroughly describe how meta-analysis can be used in data mining projects to discover meaningful relations among variables in a collection of studies. In addition, the following concepts are covered in detail: how to present your results in graphical format, how to combine effect-size estimates based on categorical and continuous data, how to use vote-counting procedures to show the statistical significance of results, how to combine effect-size estimates and vote counts, how to deal with fixed- and random-effects models, how to combine dependent or correlated effect-size estimates using multivariate procedures, and how to report the results and conduct the data analysis portion of a meta-analysis.

Formats tell the SAS System the data's type (that is, character or numeric) and its
form (for example, leading zeros, decimal and comma punctuation). The
FORMAT procedure creates two kinds of formats: value and picture formats.
Because ...