Confusing Means and Ends and the Pathways Between Them

Jeff Cornwall of Entrepreneurial Mind offers a post on Confusing Means and Ends Annotated but only if use use diigo.

The goal of entrepreneurship is not simply to find the next big thing to lure venture capital or make a mad dash to a public offering. It is to create a venture that creates income and wealth for the entrepreneur and allows the entrepreneur to pursue other goals in life through this economic activity, be it creating more jobs in a better place to work, offering a better product to the customer, or making the world a little better place. The goal of entrepreneurship should be to build a good business -- with legs -- that will help build this entrepreneurial economy.

He also offers what he calls "one of the funniest, albeit somewhat depressing due its truth, videos I have seen in a long time: Here Comes Another Bubble v1.1 - The Richter Scale via YouTube.

At the same Entrepreneurial Mind post Anita Campbell of Small Business Trends provided the following response.

Jeff, this sures feels like another bubble. I spoke with a Web entrepreneur yesterday who is getting some good traction with his free add-on for blogs. When he mentioned that his investors were likening his product to the next Google and that it could be worth billions, I quickly ended the conversation. $50 million -- even that seems outlandish, but at least I can understand the logic of a sales price that is consistent with other sales of like Web products. But billions? What are these people thinking?

Anita Birdied by: Anita Campbell | January 15, 2008 08:48 AM

Both Professor Jeff Cornwall and Anita Campbell have been important resources in the development of my thinking during the first quarter year of my weblog, but I still feel that this only lightly touches upon some of the issues that are raised by Richter Scales video. Those issues include Fair Use and the generational divide that it invokes and Creative Destruction as envisioned by Schumpeter which is seemingly hailed by many lately. These issues that have been dealt with under the fair use posts and creative destruction posts of this weblog. I may be playing Cassandra here but it doesn't seem like a bubble to me. It's too easy a plug, but it seems like a paradigm shift to me. What is changing for me is the view that Web 2.0 is not the paradigm shift. It is simply something else riding the wave.

diigo tags: creative-destruction, entrepreneurship

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Pathways Across The Globe

Below are a list of cities from which visitors to this weblog originated according to FeedBurner. It is not a large list by any means, but I still think that it is rather cool as it illustrates connections across the globe. The list is not complete just what was reflected most recently. The links for some of the cities have been translated and some I guessed at or I couldn't find. There have been a number of visits from Spain and other Spanish speaking countries due no doubt to this blog being cited by MobusTV.

* Alicante
* Balsa
* Bangkok
* Barcelona
* Barriada Júbar
* Brentwood
* Charlotte
* Concord
* Dallas
* Deerfield
* Derby or Derby
* Dubai
* Glen Echo
* Greenbrier
* Irvine
* José León Suárez
* Kreisfreie Stadt Aachen
* Kuri
* La Grange Park
* León
* Lisbon
* Los Angeles
* Madrid
* Mc Farland or Mc Farland
* Monterey Park
* Málaga
* Nashville
* New York
* Oviedo or Oviedo
* Pais
* Pasadena
* Philadelphia
* Reynosa
* Sabadell
* Saint Johns Wood or Saint Johns Wood
* San Diego
* San Jose
* Sant Just Desvern
* Santa Clara
* Santoña
* Scottsdale
* Somerville
* Stoneham
* Tallahassee
* Tampa
* Topeka
* Toronto
* Valle De Santullán
* Vancouver
* Yüanlin

Global Health Equity From MIT World

Paul Farmer speaks about public entities being enabled to confer rights while at the same time speaking about the need for business practices like supply chains to create comprehensive healthcare and medical delivery systems for the world's poor. This is a concerted effort to address the challenges raised by Best Intentions Unintended Consequences

MIT World » : Global Health Equity

• ABOUT THE LECTURE:
  Don't foolishly advise Paul Farmer that his bold projects can't succeed. For the past 20 years, Farmer's been toppling orthodoxies concerning the delivery of health care to people of developing nations, and to our country's inner city poor. In a talk full of insights and anecdotes, Farmer brings his audience up to date on his groundbreaking work and methods.
• Farmer has written extensively about health and human rights, and about the role of social inequalities in the distribution and outcome of infectious diseases. He is the author of Pathologies of Power (University of California Press, 2003); Infections and Inequalities (University of California Press, 1998); The Uses of Haiti (Common Courage Press, 1994); and AIDS and Accusation (University of California Press, 1992). In addition, he is co-editor of Women, Poverty, and AIDS, (Common Courage Press, 1996) and of The Global Impact of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (Harvard Medical School and Open Society Institute, 1999).
• Farmer is the recipient of the Duke University Humanitarian Award, the Margaret Mead Award from the American Anthropological Association, the American Medical Association's Outstanding International Physician (Nathan Davis) Award, and the Heinz Humanitarian Award. In 1993, he was awarded a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation "genius award" in recognition of his work.

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