I followed the marks to the front lawn and there to my mild surprise were two Canadian Geese padding around. One was pecking at some dead geraniums leaves draped with icicles. The other bird was arching its neck and turning over the garbage that my wife had put out the night before.

I figured that the birds had flown back early to watch the Olympics but the larger of the two geese set me straight. “Sure, we Canadians love our hockey, “the goose hissed. “ But that’s not why we are back north in February. The plain truth is we have had enough of flying south every season. We getting old and are tired of the long lines in the air, the lack of food and water en route and these days the weather at the other end is no different from here. It was snowing in Dallas so hard we thought we were still back on the plains of Saskatchewan. “

The smaller goose arched her neck and unfolded her wings and pulled at the stuff in the recycle bin. “Take a look at this,” she advised politely. “I walked over and brushed snow flakes off the crumpled soggy newspaper. The headline in last Sunday’s New York Times read “Snowbirds Come Home to Roost. Goodbye Florida retirement…Hello Detroit.“ The story, written by Toby Barlow reported on the new trend among senior citizens moving back to their northern roots.

“I have read it,” I advised my avian friends. “The fact is human migration patterns may be changing because our economy is in bad shape and baby boomers have seen their wealth melt like, well, snow in a very late Michigan Spring. With the economy in a mess many retirees figure that it makes sense to stay in Detroit where house prices are at their lowest, the quality of life is gradually improving and the cost of living is likely to allow them to eek out their savings.”

“We haven’t noticed,” hissed the larger of the two snowbirds, who I decided had all the attitude of an irritable old gander. “For years now we have been flying over land that was once rich farmland and good feeding grounds for us on our journeys. Gradually you have spread out and poured concrete over the landscape.

“If you are talking about the suburbs and exurbs that trend may be changing..,’ I explained defensively.” There are some mega trends that are altering human habits. The world population is set to double to 9 billion in the next few decades and we are running out of oil and other important resources such as water, farmland and space. In the future humans may be concentrated in big cities so that we don’t have to fly long distances to work or play. You must had a bird’s eye view of big houses with gardens are overgrown. That’s a sure sign that the supersized human nests are really empty.  So your old feeding grounds may be returning.

Check out high end suburbs like Bloomfield Hills where you find more food in the grounds of empty mansions than on my modest patch of garden.”

The geese took my advice and flew off. So I went back inside and pondered my conversation with them over a bowl of hot oatmeal. The growing world population has to live somewhere…its just that more will rent than own…New development will be clustered in walkable urban areas, linked to other centers by high speed trains and high class electric buses…

Even in a down economy there are business opportunities and that includes real estate. At Techtown, the business incubator where I work one of the fastest growing start-up businesses is Nevar Realty, a company that specializes in low cost housing in Detroit….. The financial institutions all over the country have thousands of empty houses on their books that they are not set up to deal with. Somebody has to sell them on behalf of the finance companies…. Foreclosed properties have to be cleaned up, maintained and rented out to the millions of people who will no longer be able to buy a home…senior citizens will need people to take care of their houses, gardens and their health…. flying in the future will left to the birds. ..

My wife interrupts the business plan that is taking shape in my head. “Why don’t you fire up the snow blower,” she suggests. You can sign up for a FastTrac or SmartStart business class on Monday. ‘Right now there is a pile of snow in the driveway and the geese have left their usual mess.”

So the separatists – as they were called – decided to leave the country and they slipped out of England on any boat that would take them and landed in nearby Netherlands. The group, numbering no more than a few hundred, made their way to Leiden where they settled for several years and pondered their next move.

Imagine the conversations that took place by candlelight in the long cold winter evenings.

“It’s not much better here. The Dutch are more accommodating and the tulips are beautiful in spring but there is little work here and if we want to be free of the tyranny of European royalty we have to travel to a new continent.”

“And pray where would that be?”

“I was thinking about that new place out west, to the vast land that was discovered by the Italian adventurer, Columbus.  It is a land that has not been settled.”

“Are you out of your mind? It is a perilous journey across a wild and dangerous ocean, besides, were would we get the money to finance a voyage like that?”

“Well, we could seek finance from merchant adventurers in London.”

“English venture capitalists?  They will demand a massive return on their money. This would be a deal fraught with risk for both the backers and those who took part.”

“Pray, tell me, how’s that different from any start-up business?”

So a few men from the group slipped quietly back to London and pitched their business enterprise. They went from investor to investor and eventually found a group of substantial bankers replete from a long lunch of roast beef and claret and in the mood to take a chance. These merchant adventure capitalists financed the  “Mayflower” and in 1620 a number of the most entrepreneurial separatists plus a few others landed in North America at a place that became known as Plimouth.  Before they landed however, the leaders – including the first elected Governor, William Bradford – wanted to ensure that the bankers in England got their money back with interest. Every man was persuaded to sign his name to a “Mayflower” compact. This was a document which committed all aboard to repaying their investors with furs and other riches that were waiting to be discovered on the new continent even if it took several years – which it did.  Those separatists also, known as Pilgrims, were the first entrepreneurs in a country that was to become the United States of America.

Last week another Governor, Jennifer Granholm of Michigan, announced a similar compact with a group of bankers as she met with a few dozen modern-day separatists to explain her plan. The Governor’s audience included people that had been separated from their jobs in the auto industry as well as manufacturing industries; others had been separated from their houses – all were ready to embark on a new business adventure.

In the last six months 1,600 individuals have attended events organized by TechTown in Detroit to hear of the opportunities and challenges of setting up a new business. Over 1,200 have signed up for short courses called FastTrac to the Future, over 700 of these have graduated through FastTrac start-up business classes and nearly 100 of these aspiring business men and women have committed to two years of follow-up training and mentoring in a program called SmartStart. These adventurous men and women have all faced the same problem that the first settlers encountered – how to finance the first part their journey towards building a new future.

Now Gov. Granholm has come up with one important answer. She has persuaded the Credit Unions of Michigan to invest $43 million in new enterprises in the state. In some ways the pledge Governor Granholm has obtained from the Credit Unions is even more remarkable than the backing that Governor Bradford obtained from the London-based merchants. In the 1600s the economy was humming along and merchant adventurers were very bullish. Today the economy is suffering and Credit Unions have been the most conservative sector of the American banking industry.

Under the plan announced by the governor each new business owner that has enrolled in the FastTrac training can apply to their local Credit Union for up to $20,000 to get their enterprise started. The FastTrac program that was launched last summer at TechTown is now being taken across the state by Michigan Small Business Technology Development Center – MI-SBTDC – a free service headed by Carol Lopucki. The people of Michigan like the first Mayflower adventurers are embarking on a voyage to discover their business future.

At the end of one day last week, it was all gone; everything except the memories.

Doug Dalgleish, his brother Charles and their family are one of several hundred dealers who have seen their livelihoods disappear with the GM bankruptcy. When the family emigrated from Scotland in the early part of the 20^th century they had been auto manufacturers. They built and sold 12 stylish, brightly colored roadsters sold under the Dalgleish-Guillame brand. One of these classic vehicles was recently bought by a collector in Switzerland for $80,000. The Dalgleishes loved their automobiles, but when one of the top brass from GM walked a couple of blocks down from GM’s headquarters, the family was persuaded to transfer their affections to GM and, specifically, to the top of their line, Cadillac. They became premier dealers in GM’s backyard and did much to help the auto giant understand what the customer was looking for.

Over the years, Doug’s office became a mini museum with models from every year occupying every available piece of space in shelves, atop cabinets and all over his desk. Last week, for the first time in half a century, Doug’s office was empty.

But it will not stay empty for long. Wayne State University has acquired the building and is making it available to TechTown to house the next generation of new, passionate Detroit entrepreneurs.

Within months, several startup companies are expected to move into the old building which, like much of the rest of TechTown, was designed by the great industrial architect Albert Kahn. These 12 city blocks just three miles north of downtown Detroit will soon be home to new companies in the arts, alternative fuels, life sciences, education, information technology and automotive spinoffs.

These entrepreneurs are being trained through the Kauffman Foundation’s prestigious FastTrac programs, which are designed to give new businessmen and women insight and armor against the challenges they are sure to face.

When they graduate, they can then apply for entry to our two-year SmartStart program. In addition to regular coaching, SmartStart candidates receive assistance in fundraising, access to interns (our green army) and our volunteer mentors (the grey army). The mentors are men and women who have built successful businesses and know what it takes to overcome the inevitable obstacles.

Doug and Charles Dalgleish may have gone, but they will always be welcome at the building they turned  into a landmark and where we intend to make history in a new way, for a new generation of  21^st century entrepreneurial dreamers.

But when I was young my elders stopped me. “You can’t have dessert until you have finished your meat and potatoes,” they would say without further explanation. When I grew older I would occasionally see enticing signs like “Life is short. Eat dessert first.”

Somehow my sense of what was normal, acceptable behavior always got the better of me.

Until my recent trip to Israel, that is.

We were staying in a fancy hotel in Jerusalem and there was a magnificent buffet laid out for the large party from Wayne State University and several other groups who were celebrating Friday evening in the Holy City. While everyone else crowded around the meat and potatoes, I made straight for an appetizer of apple pie. I followed up with a delicious pear flan, and then had a wonderful sweet concoction with almonds, followed by something soft and chewy made of dates, and then a main course of chocolate mousse topped off with a few small items dripping with honey. It was a perfectly bizarre meal to finish a week in which I had seen the rules of life and business broken time and time again.

That day I had visited a moshav – or farming cooperative – at Nahalal in northern Israel and seen a dairy farm where the cows are milked by robots, then another farm where all the plants were growing in a field in the shape of a giant human being. The plants included sesame, sweet almond, rosemary, chamomile and Bulgarian lavender. The farmer was producing these and a wild range of other exotic plants for his cosmetic factory. Inside the factory outlet a busload of health conscious visitors were buying pomegranate facial scrub, anti-aging cream and special soaps to deal naturally with everything that ails you including foot wrinkles.

Earlier in the week I had found other startling endeavors in the countryside including a laboratory that was up to the exacting standards of the U.S. Federal Drug Administration. This facility was producing media to culture stem cells and was producing and marketing other laboratory resources around the world.

The urban side of Israel revealed just as many surprises. In Haifa and Tel Aviv, gleaming new buildings carried the names of Microsoft, Intel, General Electric, e-Bay, Hewlett Packard, Google, Cisco Systems and other high technology world brands. Even the successful but conservative investor Warren Buffet has bought into a country so tiny,  a fighter jet can fly over it in 90 seconds or less.

What were they doing in a Middle Eastern country that has been either at war or preparing for war ever since it was founded in 1948? The answer lies in the unique environment that produces new ideas and new businesses as naturally as an English meadow produces daisies and buttercups. Everyone, except conscientious objectors, spends several years in the military where a unique atmosphere is fostered. Problem solving through teamwork is at a premium and decision making and leadership is thrust upon low level officers. Dissent is encouraged and every action is open to post-event review including those made by high-level generals.

After the military, Israelis take their capacity for analysis, innovation and teamwork to universities throughout Israel where new approaches and patents lead to new start-up companies.  Venture capital companies hover around university visitor centers and business incubators looking to finance the next big thing. Many of these companies end up as public entities on the Israeli, U.K. and U.S. stock exchanges.

So what did I bring back from Israel apart from an extra pound or two on my waistline?

We have a wealth of under appreciated assets in Michigan, Detroit and TechTown, the business incubator where I work. These include returning veterans from the American military. Trained soldiers are a sought-after resource in Israel by universities and start-up companies. We need to do more than hang banners at our airports thanking returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan for their service. We need to encourage them to use their training in decision-making under stress, leadership and innovation to help build a raft of new companies to help make Detroit a place where it’s no big deal to eat dessert first.

For more about the Israeli approach to innovation, read Start-Up Nation, published by Twelve Books. Go to www.TwelveBooks.com.

Today, everything has changed. Madras is now known as Chennai and India beats England at cricket with painful frequency. Players like Tendulkar and Gavaskar have become famous for their outstanding exploits. So, for that matter, have Indian businessmen and women. A series of pro-business Indian governments have unleashed India’s competitive business spirit in a wide range of new industries, and now several cities in India have become famous for their business focus–Chennai ( for automotive and health care), Bangalore (information technology), Mumbai (finance and movies) Pune (automotive, IT and education) and Hyderabad (movies and IT).

I have been fortunate to work with many Indian partners over the years and have concluded that hard work and entrepreneurship is in the Indian DNA. They bring a diligent enthusiasm and spicey style to their life and work that is quite distinctive.

The Indian approach to business was on display recently in Detroit at the Midwest annual conference of TiE ( which stands for The Indus Entrepreneurs ). TiE was founded in Silicon Valley in 1992 and now has more than 13,500 members in 12 countries on five continents. Many members are recognized as among the world’s leading entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and bankers.

It would be a mistake to ignore the potential value of TiE or the Indian market for a number of reasons. India has a population of 1.17 billion people for a start, which is approximately one-sixth of the world’s potential customers. Secondly, Indians are rapidly becoming consumers as well as producers of high technology. Thirdly, we share a common language. Finally, Indians have an attitude to life that is reflected in their love of cricket. If you want to see how Indians love to compete, just visit Belle Isle during the summer and you will see how Polly Umrigars countrymen can pursue their passion for winning at cricket.

However, a very high percentage of cricket matches end in a draw, with neither side winning and the honors shared. Although Indians like to win, they bring a sense of fairness to their business dealings which often results in both sides getting something out of the business game.

So to meet some of the best business minds in Southeast Michigan, go to a local TiE meeting or attend the next meeting of our Indian Business Forum at TechTown on December 8 from 9 to 10:30 a.m.

Inside the milking stall a camera closed the gate behind the cow and read the number 385 that was attached to a neck chain and freeze branded on Buttercups back. The information was fed to a computer that dispensed the correct daily ration of feed. As the cow began eating a robotic arm slid under the cows belly and sprayed warm water to wash her udder. Next, the robot used laser lights to figure out exactly where each teat was positioned and one by one four milking cups were gently clamped into place and the milk began to flow. A computer registered the exact amount of milk and its protein and butterfat content. At the same time the milk was tested for any impurities such as antibiotics or blood. Any contaminated milk was registered and siphoned off separately.

When the milking was finished the computer released the cow from the stall back into the covered barn where she joined the rest of the herd. All this happened without the Israeli dairy farmer lifting a finger. “I can keep in touch with my cows easily,” the farmer explained. “I just log on to my computer from home or if I am travelling I can check on the herd from anywhere. I could be visiting you in Detroit and see that my cows were OK. ”

This innovation in agriculture was just one aspect of Israel that I saw last week on a visit to the tiny country that is always in the news for its apparently intractable arguments with its neighbors. Israel may have severe difficulty in resolving its political problems but its people clearly relish the challenge of reinventing a land that has a rich history but so few natural resources that it can only survive with brainpower driven by a restless energy.

Together with a group of scientists and leaders from Wayne State university I saw the how a land that was founded on the ideals of agricultural communes has committed to becoming a leader of high technology in many of the areas that are important to America and our future- areas including life sciences, wind and solar power, water conservation nanotechnology and information technology.

I left after a week, feeling that Buttercup and the rest of the herd were the only truly content beings in the region. However hidden beneath the Middle East tension that you could sometimes almost touch are important ideas and innovations that Israelis, Palestinians and Americans can share; ideas that can help us all tackle the economic problems that, to a greater or lesser extent, we all face.

In my next blog I will tell you how a country with no home market worth mentioning is seeking to become known as Start Up Nation.

The chairman has quickly sought and obtained approval of the minutes of the last meeting and the chief financial officer has presented her dismal report on the last three months’ revenues. “There you have it,” ladies and gentlemen, she says with a weary sigh. “With gas now over $10 a gallon, air fares are sky high and no one can afford to fly to our resorts. Our customers will put with heat, humidity, hurricanes, the alligators and the recently arrived boa constrictors that now infest every part of Florida but our theme parks are just too far away from the major cities of America.”

The Board members look at each other searching faces in vain for a flicker of optimistic thought. Just then there is a knock on the door and without waiting for an answer Mickey Mouse walks in.

The chairman of the Disney Corporation snaps at the intruder. “You have come to the wrong place to audition – job applications are on the seventh floor.”

Mickey stands his ground.

”I am not an actor Mr. Chairman,” he says. “I am the real Mickey and I have come with a message from your founder Walt .”

”Get out before I call security,’’ says the chairman. “This is no time for a joke.”

“I am not joking,” replies Mickey softly. “Mr. Disney was frozen in liquid nitrogen on his death and medical experts have just figured out how to bring him back to life. He is still in recovery but since time is short he  has sent me to explain how the Disney Corporation can reinvent itself. He has a plan.”

Mickey Mouse moved to the head of the table, stroked his whiskers and addressed the Board.

“The Disney Corporation was founded in a recession,” he began.”Everybody thought Mr Disney was mad when he quietly bought vast acres of poor land in and around Orlando. At the time it was nothing more than a one stop light cow town surrounded by mile after mile of palmetto trees .Mr Disney believed that in an era of cheap travel millions of customers would be prepared to fly to his resorts and he was right.

“Now we are entering an era of cheap travel and increasing urbanization of the population. .Our customers are increasingly concentrated in 20 major cities.So now we need to shut down our existing locations and take our parks to these cities.”

“Twenty theme parks in twenty major cities,” says the chairman thoughtfully. “A bold new plan. Where would Mr Disney propose to start?”   Mickey hops up onto the Board room table, executes a twirl, pulls his tail away from the coffee cups and raises his arms in triumph.

“Detroit,” he exclaims licking his lips. “Detroit is like a Swiss cheese. It has 40- square- miles of empty space. Detroit was the birthplace of our modern industrial society. It put the world on wheels. It churned out the weapons that won the last great war. It is full of history and tales of great entrpreneurs It is the logical place for the next great attraction.”

“And what is that?”asks the chairman.

“Future World,” says Mickey arms aloft in excitement. “A park that celebrates the next generation of innovation, a park that gives us all an optimistic glimpse of a world beyond oil, a world where we conserve and preserve our environment, a world full of electric dream machines and dreams of a brighter, cleaner world come true.

Mickey jumps down from the table and makes for the door and is about to exit when he stops and turn to the eyes that are following his every move.

“You might want to contact TechTown in Detroit,” says Mickey helpfully. “They have a Soft Landing site for new businesses needing help in locating in Detroit. They will put you in touch with the Wayne County Land Bank, help you with tax credits, tell you about  subsidies for worker retraining and film making- a whole bunch of stuff that will help you get the upper hand in these testing economic times. And don’t worry there are no boa constrictors in Michigan.

With that Mickey hitched up his tail and closed the door behind him.

*The above account is entirely fictional and any similarity to real events as well as to persons living, dead or frozen in liquid nitrogen is entirely coincidental. But then again you never know whats around the corner.

In 1994 a steelworker’s son, Tom Murphy, literally ran on the scene and began the rapid process of turning the city around. Today Pittsburgh has been transformed. Among other things, new and emerging businesses can get access to venture capital to grow their operations and create new jobs. Murphy will be the keynote speaker this week at e2Detroit which is reason enough for every Detroit politician, urban planner and business man and woman to attend.

Murphy is an athlete – a lifelong runner – and when I spoke to him on the phone over the weekend he couldn’t recall exactly how many marathons he had completed. “Maybe 26 or 27,” he said. But he knew exactly how many times he had run in Pittsburgh’s annual Great Race. “Every one,” he said proudly. He is one of only 28 people that have competed in Pittsburgh’s Great Race in the 32 years since it started. Tom Murphy has also run and won a few other races in Pittsburgh, including three political races for Mayor. And when he got into that office he raced to fix things fast.

“There were over 1,000 blighted acres of land in the city,” he says. “Some of the changes were incredibly painful.” Mr. Murphy illustrates the point by mentioning that when he became mayor he persuaded the city to buy the factory where his father had earned a living as a steel worker for 51 years. “Today it’s a place where they make cheesecake. If my father were alive he probably would have shot me.”

Murphy served as Mayor of Pittsburgh for 12 years and during that period one of his key achievements was to create a climate that attracted venture capital to invest in new businesses. “There were no VC funds,” he says. He persuaded the legislature to require pension funds to invest two per cent of their assets in local venture capital funds. Private investors were offered the incentive of $1 of state investment for every $1 of private money. Businesses got the money they needed to grow and the state has got an above average return on their money.

That initiative and a few others that we will learn about this coming Thursday set Pittsburgh on the fast track to recovery.

Today Murphy is a Senior Resident Fellow at the Washington based Urban Land Institute where he researches, writes and advises on urban development. He says the solutions are usually deceptively simple.

“It often boils down to land use, money and deal making,” he says. Maybe so but Murphy has a dramatic story to tell laced with bruising political battles and periods of intense public controversy on the road to recovery.

Perhaps if we listen carefully to that story and are prepared to run as fast and fight as hard as Murphy did to change a city, President Obama will choose Detroit to host an international summit in Detroit before he leaves office.

Reserve your place at E2Detroit on Thursday October 15th.  http://www.e2detroit.wayne.edu/

In fact last week’s issue of Time depicted a tragedy that on the surface, at least, seemed as stark as that 20th century communist battle for survival. This time the citizens of Detroit are fighting an economic war in a decaying city that was once a symbol of the success of capitalism. By common agreement Detroit is in the economic front line, with one in three citizens fighting to survive without a job. So who do we throw into the front line to lead the battle for our salvation? Old folks, that’s who – men and women in their 50s, 60s and 70s and even 80s.

Why? We know that in their agonizing condition the best the auto industry can do is save itself, try to retain the jobs that it has left.  With no other major industry around there is no option but to look to entrepreneurs to create new companies and new jobs.  A recent study by the Kauffman Foundation has shown that this vital innovation will come not from baby-faced innocent geniuses but our experienced wrinkled senior citizens. In fact it is already happening as attendance at entrepreneurial events in Detroit this summer revealed.

The events called “FastTrac to the Future” were staged with support from the ten foundations that make up the New Economy Initiative. A total of 1,251 prospective entrepreneurs attended.

One in three of the attendees were over 45 years of age. Over ten per cent were over 56 years old. Put another way only 3.8 per cent of the attendees – that’s 46 people – were under the age of 25.

Already over 912 of this gray army of entrepreneurs have signed up for a total of 40 courses which have begun at TechTown, Detroit’s business incubator. And guess what, another army of senior citizens are having a major influence in helping these new mid-life businessmen and women survive and prosper.

We are recruiting another grey army of mentors to help guide the fledging businesses as they over come the early challenges. This group, known as TechTown Mentors, volunteer their services to support companies between FastTrac classes. Their advice and support for new companies is often critical to success. Many are former Chief Executive Officers of successful companies; others have expertise in finance, sales, market research, law and human resources. All represent the new reality. Americans are living longer and staying healthier and they are no longer content to hobble off to play shuffleboard in the sunshine. The grey generation once regarded as a liability may now be our greatest asset.

If you are in that asset class you may want to contact TechTown’s manager of our mentor program, Sheu-Jane Gallagher, and find out how you can join the community that is fighting the economic battle for Detroit. You can meet Sheu-Jane and some of the grey army at our next big event which is Wayne State University’s fifth annual e2 Detroit conference on October 15 at WSU’s McGregor Conference Center and Community Arts Auditorium.

There is a fee for the conference but we need your help so badly we will offer you a senior citizen discount. Get the details by contacting Sheu-Jane at 313-483-0999 or email her at sheu-jane@techtownswu.org.

Others who are helping us harness the energy, expertise and experience of senior citizens include Natalie Zappella of the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan and Tim Wintermute and Marcia Baum of Hannan House. These individuals recognize the rapidly evolving contribution of senior citizens and are supporting the TechTown recruitment drive.

For details of the Kauffman Foundations study of the importance of the aging population go to www.KauffmanFoundation.org for “The Coming Entrepreneurial Boom” by Dane Stangler.

W hen someone requests Never Let me go she will print the name and address of the person who has requested it and send it to the recipient for just $2.55 via media mail. As soon as the book arrives my wife will earn a credit to the dozens she has already earned so that she can ask for any one of  4,005,891 million books available for swap on the site from over 2,000 readers looking to swap their books.
 
It’s a great way to renew your reading material and now I have found a great way to get the best books on business practices and entrepreneurship –without spending a fortune. I have persuaded my wife to swap some of  her romance and historical novels for books about business like Good to Great and Built to Last . There is another way to get the latest in great reading material about entrepreneurship without spending a fortune- go to e2 Detroit on October 15 at the Macgregor Center on the campus of Wayne State University.

This is annual event that any aspiring entrepreneur will want to attend. Now in its fourth year e2 Detroit  always attracts great speakers, many of whom have published great books on one aspect of business or another.
 
 One of the key note speakers on October 15th is Noah Alper a successful entrepreneur who wrote Business Mensch. Another speaker Robbie Hardy produced a handy little guide for anyone thinking of starting their own business. Its called the Power of  Ten and has recently been reprinted by the Techone Business Center. There will be other books available and if there is something else that you desperately want to read but is out of print or unavailable I will make a note of the title and ask my wife to add it to her list and send it to you free of charge as soon as it becomes available. Just go to the Techone Business Center at the conference and put your name down for some bed time business reading for the lengthening winter nights. At the same time you will help me and my wife make a little more space in our living room.
 
Register now for E2