Amen to this. I'm also a young entrepreneur who's earning very little when I could be earning a very good programming salary (50-60k) at a job I had lined up after college...In a culture that glorifies money and "more more more", it's more rewarding (and harder) to go for more/better experience than a really nice car.
And hey, that's what credit cards are for, right? It's all about finding the 0% introductory APR for 6 months with no balance transfer fees and then moving your balance from card to card as needed:-)
And speaking of employees--they are expensive and hard to manage. Harder than you'd think. But I wouldn't have learned that at my age, not at a cushy programming job.
I read a statistic somewhere (can't find where:-( that said the average refugee lives 2-4 years (or something like that) in "temporary" housing--not just a couple months. Imagine living in a tent for 2-4 years...anyways, the point is there need to be good, long term solutions that last--and tents aren't it. Buckminster Fuller talked a lot about this, and how we can do it now if we want to.
Janet Ginsberg: how many camps and average size? How long do they last?
Larry Thompson: 10,000 people is an average size. Some have up to 600,000 people. Some camps exist for around 15-20 years. In Palestine some have been there 40-50 years. We tend to put people in camps and forget about them. In Kosovo--UNHCR had plans on orderly return--the refugees all went home in a number of days. The thought is that many Afghans will go home this spring. But, unless there are demonstrated economic incentives to go home, they won't leave.
The stats that matter are market share of the video editing market--Apple controled 26% of the broadcast/cable market in 2003...imagine where they are now, 2 years later. And that doesn't count the home video market or the Film industry or porn industry (as someone else noted earlier) or video production companies or ad agencies, etc. etc. With actual Hollywood releases being made on Final Cut Pro, 4% doesn't tell the whole picture.
Statistics are as straight-forward as the Bible.
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And hey, that's what credit cards are for, right? It's all about finding the 0% introductory APR for 6 months with no balance transfer fees and then moving your balance from card to card as needed :-)
And speaking of employees--they are expensive and hard to manage. Harder than you'd think. But I wouldn't have learned that at my age, not at a cushy programming job.
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Janet Ginsberg: how many camps and average size? How long do they last?
Larry Thompson: 10,000 people is an average size. Some have up to 600,000 people. Some camps exist for around 15-20 years. In Palestine some have been there 40-50 years. We tend to put people in camps and forget about them. In Kosovo--UNHCR had plans on orderly return--the refugees all went home in a number of days. The thought is that many Afghans will go home this spring. But, unless there are demonstrated economic incentives to go home, they won't leave.
The stats that matter are market share of the video editing market--Apple controled 26% of the broadcast/cable market in 2003...imagine where they are now, 2 years later. And that doesn't count the home video market or the Film industry or porn industry (as someone else noted earlier) or video production companies or ad agencies, etc. etc. With actual Hollywood releases being made on Final Cut Pro, 4% doesn't tell the whole picture. Statistics are as straight-forward as the Bible.