Category Archives: Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurialism

How the dream of going to the prom transformed a teen girl's life

Two themes came together for me in a post I just read by Afrocity celebrating the first birthday of her blog yesterday, April 8. One is the power of a dream to transform one’s life — the dream of going to the prom, the dream of marriage. I’ve been too emotional about the story of …

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Hayek 2010 — how personal fabrication is our newest engine of job creation and economic recovery

The caption from the February issue of Wired reads as follows: In an age of open source, custom-fabricated, DIY product design, all you need to conquer the world is a brilliant idea. From the video: The way you would shop on Amazon is not so different from the way you are now shopping for custom …

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