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Advice From A Nobel Prize Winner On Human Capital Management An Interview From The Line Zine e-Newsletter Gary S. Becker, the winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize for Economic Science in 1992, is a Professor of Economics and Sociology at the University of Chicago and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and University. He is recognized for his expertise in human capital, the economics of the family, and economic analysis of crime, discrimination, and population. Becker: I would start out with some obvious things that are still sometimes forgotten: the basic resource in any company is the people. Remember Bill...

 Reprinted from the Red Herring: https://www.redherring.com I don't republish a lot of content from other people, but this article is just too good not to pass on to my followers.  It's a great checklist to hold up against your company no matter where you are today, big or small.  So, I suggest you ask yourself these 16 questions, and even have your management team print this entire article out and check off the ones they think your company may be in danger of committing.    Identifying just one of these deadly problems could save your company, or make or save you millions....

Ten Mythsand Realities of VC   By Lawrence Aragon Redherring.com Bill Reichert's brother is a doctor. His father also was a doc. So were his grandfather and his great-great-grandfather. So how could it be that Mr. Reichert is sitting and talking about venture capital over a plate of bacon and eggs at the Peninsula Creamery coffee shop in downtown Palo Alto? As I join him in the high-cholesterol meal, I can almost see the family of physicians staring down, wagging their fingers. "I'm the first Reichert male not to be doctor," he says, munching on a piece of bacon. "We figure...

10 Keys To Copy That Sells! By Alexandria K. Brown, "The E-zine Queen" Whether you're selling a product or service, the 10 tips below are your keys to writing great copy that communicates and persuades ... to get results! These guidelines can apply to Web copy, e-mail, sales letters, brochures, direct mail, and more. As long as your goal is to elicit a reaction from your reader, you've come to the right place.1. Be reader-centered, not writer-centered.Many ads, brochures, and Websites talk endlessly on and on about how great their products and companies are. Hello? Customer, anyone? Think of your...

Venture capitalists are not known for their humility, so take note of the following confession: Venture capitalists are chickens. Compared to entrepreneurs, they're spectators in the great game of small business hardball. They would no sooner personally guarantee a corporate bank loan than they would jump off the cliffs of Acapulco. Contrary to popular opinion, however, they are not totally worthless - they work long hours, sift through more garbage than a trash collector, and have to get used to disappointing 99 entrepreneurs for everyone they please. They are veteran roller coaster riders, but never get used to those big...