According to TechCrunch,  Commonred was essentially launched to not only help startup founders — but anyone in need of some professional networking — to more easily find shared points of interest between themselves and those they want to meet, network, or learn from. (Without the awkwardness ans without cold calling.) To beef up its offerings…

Better Place, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based developer of a network of electric vehicle recharging stations, has raised $200 million in Series C funding. GE and UBS were joined by return backers Israel Corp., HSBC Group, Morgan Stanley Investment Management, VantagePoint Capital Partners, Ofer Group and Maniv Energy Capital. The company previously raised around $750 million.…

Can anyone really create jobs? The NY Times seems to think not. But start ups are creating jobs every day…. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/magazine/job-creation-campaign-promises.html?scp=7&sq=jobs&st=cse

A very worthwhile read on marketing for start ups http://www.forbes.com/sites/85broads/2011/10/17/marketing-musts-for-start-ups/

Image via Wikipedia My thanks to the Stanford Global Supply Chain Management Forum (of which I am proud to be a co-founder)for the following insights. Note:  I hope the global Postal Services are nimble enough to be major players in these markets.   In February the Stanford Global Supply Chain Management Forum and co-host International Post…

Highways that generate electricity from the sun? Out of the box thinking that could lead to safer roads and cheap power. Check out the short video… http://www.wimp.com/solarhighways/

MIT shuts down the Billion Price Project? A big loss if so. All the reasoning is still unclear, but here is one view http://www.zerohedge.com/article/why-mit-not-willing-unleash-real-time-dynamic-purchasing-inventory-control-systems-or-true-r

The Sunday NY Times had an interesting article on Distilling the Wisdom of CEO's, based on the book The Corner Office by Adam Bryant. Worth a read. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/business/17excerpt.html?scp=1&sq=wisdom%20of%20CEO's&st=cse

want to see inflation in real time? Check out the MIT Billion Prices Project http://bpp.mit.edu/

Image via Wikipedia I have lots of younger, entrepreneurially-inclined friends who ask me if spending perhaps $300K (including foregone income) to get a degree from a top business school is worth the time and energy.  I generally tell them that "it all depends".  If you want to be an billionaire entrepreneur, you might be better dropping out…