http://willworkforjustice.blogspot.com/2009/02/immigrants-add-to-american-economy.html

Cheers,
Matthew

http://tinyurl.com/Gates-Immigration

cheers,
Chris

Great post – i wholeheartedly agree. I’d also mention a recent NYTimes op-ed that pointed out the enormous untapped economic potential if we loosened immigration rules for people with the resources to buy property. Could go a long way to alleviating the excess supply crushing our real estate sector right now…

hope all is well!

best,
j

I once read an article that said we already have enough underemployed and unemployed highly talented people. To my surprise I wound up going to a church where 65% of the membership had graduate degrees. I knew a couple who had scientific Ph.D.s from CalTech and couldn’t find work!

The point I’m getting at is that the U.S. has enough. We don’t need a better, richer upper class at the expense of everyone else. We need a better world. There is simply no space to address that problem here, save to say that the model you advocate is so self-centered and outdated that I’d like to suggest, among other things, and I know this sounds outrageous, but it is neo-colonial and exploitative in nature. This is the kind of thinking that makes third world intellectuals hate the U.S.

And as an immigrant, I gladly accept your thanks and return the gratitude to a country that helped bring the best out of me.

I am curious if you have re-designed your investment practices to leverage Office 2.0 tools? The core set of interactions are doubtless still face to face but it would seem that "portfolio level" coordination and communication could move well beyond E-mail as the primary transport medium.

Also, in the same way that legal agreements are getting standardized (e.g. Wilson-Sonsini's "term sheet generator" at http://www.wsgr.com/wsgr/Display.aspx?SectionName=practice/termsheet.htm ), and subsidiary reporting and management in global firms is moving to Office 2.0 technologies, there would seem to be an opportunity for standardizing a lot of the operating infrastructure for firms with less than 50-100 people.

I used to think you would be able to get a "company in a box" at the PC software store. Now it looks like you are able to lease a set of cloud-based applications to do this as easily as going month to month in an office suite.

On opportunities — I would look at any employee-facing application that is important not only to the biggest companies, but also to smaller ones. I have yet to have a great experience with enterprise applications, so there is lots of opportunity….

I agree that there are ways to get around their shortcomings, but the point is I shouldn’t have to do so if it was working properly.

I checked out your site — did your adwords campaign include the any mention of the acroymn “EGORG” as it appears in your domain name?

You’re right, “EGORG”or Electronic Graphic Organizer describes exactly what you provide… but…

Maybe you could benefit from a secondary domain name just for your Google campaigns?

I checked out some domains for you. This one is available, and I think more relevant to what you do:

VisualLearningApp.net

I’m sure this (and much more) can be done better. It would be nice to see Microsoft emerge as a real competitor in search and search advertising.

It’s a shame; it’s a good idea. But if it fails there is absolutely nothing that you can do about it.

It’ll be interesting if Bing gets it right.