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Here’s a link to a great article written by the CEO of Twitter, the leader in real-time searching and “ambient findability”. He seems to pinpoint the real deal about entrepreneurship: a series of accidents used well. He also might serve as the poster child for the “college is a waste of time” line of thought [...]

Any address on the state of the economic soul is bound to contain a mix of optimism and realism. On the one hand, great business, infrastructure, and education developments in the area have indeed occurred over the last year and deserve attention and merit; however, the current economic climate creates an uncertainty about the future that makes many a positive statement of growth appear self-deluded or perhaps reason to go to a local sports game rather than a meeting on the state of local business.

Nov. 10, 2008| CHARLOTTE, NC. PayPal founder, Peter Thiel, said American entrepreneurship is the way out of the current economic crisis. His talk, “The Business Model of the United States” was given at the opening reception of the Collegiate Network’s East Coast Editor’s Conference held in Charlotte, NC on Nov. 7. He crafted a view of American business for the seventy undergraduate editors of independent newspapers and magazines gathered for the weekend conference. Premised on the idea that the most fundamental business principle is “not to compete,” he described the type of business which defines America on the world stage given the current political, international, and economic climate.