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They are a visionary; they’re always the smartest person in the room, and they drop gorgeous nuggets of wisdom without even realizing it. Elevate them! They should be blogging and Tweeting daily.

But don’t make them just shill for the brand.

Give the lowest member of the customer support team a vehicle to share his ideas with the product development team.

In a letter Mr. Villaraigosa sent to Mr. Beutner when hiring him, the mayor said, "I recognize we need a top to bottom revitalization and refocus of our economic development team here at City Hall to make certain job creation is the overarching focus at all levels and in all offices and departments."

Chief Deputy Mayor Jay Carson. "We have to view every decision we make through the prism of job creation."

Southern California's economy has been among the hardest hit in the country. The area's housing market was one of the first to collapse. And in Los Angeles, mainstays such as the film industry have suffered as other states woo productions away with rich tax incentives

Last week, the city was dealt a psychological blow when Northrop Grumman Corp., the last major firm of the region's once-dominant aerospace industry, announced it was moving its headquarters to the Washington, D.C. area

Los Angeles has slashed services as it tries to close an $80 million budget gap

His annual salary is $1.

Some major stores that sell big-ticket items have moved to neighboring cities to avoid the high cost and difficulty of doing business there, such as delays in obtaining building permits, and a range of fees and taxes higher than most other cities in the area, business leaders said.

"The hardest thing is going to be to change the mindset here," Mr. Beutner said. "For the first time in a long time the city is going to be forced to change the way it does things. The most fundamental thing is to change the mindset of those who work in the city [government]. We serve business. They're our customers as opposed to the other way around."

customers will only be able to pay for applications using operator billing when the application developer has set the price in USD

Motorola will launch its own app store for its Android based phones

Shop4Apps

This is not the first store that will offer Android applications outside Google’s Android Market

Already several independent stores for Android are available, but Motorola is the first big handset vendor to launch one.

MotoAppstore

Since Android is an open platform, it is possible to install stores besides Google’s Android Market

The problem however is that most of the new independent Android stores are not pre-installed on the device

The Orange Application Shop was launched this week during the Le Web conference in Paris

Samsung Bada applications are coming in the first half of 2010 and will very likely be distributed via the Samsung Application Store

The Nokia Ovi Store is reaching close to 1 million downloads per day

Apple promoted a set of applications in the App Store during Black Friday. This promotion greatly influenced rankings and downloads of the featured applications

Samsung is holding a launch event in London next week December 8, to kick-off Samsung Bada

promotion of role models and success stories more opportunities for mentorship better learning opportunities in educational and public policy realms higher levels of entrepreneurship literacy and access to training

23% of the respondents had marketing and sales as the biggest challenge for entrepreneurs.

Access to talent was the second most common challenge

Following access to talent was mentoring

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lack of government financing and support, and protection for intellectual property.

While many Western countries experienced negative growth last year, China registered a jaw-dropping 8.7 per cent increase. Though much of it was achieved by a generous stimulus package, it maintained jobs and, in the end, helped fuel feelings of superiority.

Economic power is inexorably shifting away from the U.S. and towards China, he says, and coming with it is power and influence. "China is stronger now. It's more influential," says Yao. "And the Chinese banking sector looks better than the Western banking system."

"Saving face matters to the Chinese," he says. "But if you slap the Chinese face once, twice, three times, four times – that's too much." That language underlines the stark differences in the two nations' perception of issues such as Taiwan, Tibet and the Dalai Lama.

"China has risen to a different place. ... It's clearly an unsettling stage in U.S.-China relations, a new paradigm. No one is really sure how it's going to shake out."

When wealth is talked about in this context, it is often described as a pie. "You can't make the pie larger," say politicians. When you're talking about the amount of money in one family's bank account, or the amount available to a government from one year's tax revenue, this is true. If one person gets more, someone else has to get less.I can remember believing, as a child, that if a few rich people had all the money, it left less for everyone else. Many people seem to continue to believe something like this well into adulthood. This fallacy is usually there in the background when you hear someone talking about how x percent of the population have y percent of the wealth. If you plan to start a startup, then whether you realize it or not, you're planning to disprove the Pie Fallacy.What leads people astray here is the abstraction of money. Money is not wealth. It's just something we use to move wealth around. So although there may be, in certain specific moments (like your family, this month) a fixed amount of money available to trade with other people for things you want, there is not a fixed amount of wealth in the world. You can make more wealth. Wealth has been getting created and destroyed (but on balance, created) for all of human history.Suppose you own a beat-up old car. Instead of sitting on your butt next summer, you could spend the time restoring your car to pristine condition. In doing so you create wealth. The world is-- and you specifically are-- one pristine old car the richer. And not just in some metaphorical way. If you sell your car, you'll get more for it.In restoring your old car you have made yourself richer. You haven't made anyone else poorer. So there is obviously not a fixed pie. And in fact, when you look at it this way, you wonder why anyone would think there was.