Tapping America's Potential - Double the number of science, technology, engineering and mathematics graduates with bachelor's degrees by 2015.
In July 2005, 15 prominent business organizations signed on to "Tapping America's Potential," agreeing to work toward this goal.
The warning signs had been growing for some time. Numerous organizations were telling the same story: American students are falling behind in math and science. Fewer and fewer students are pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and American students are performing at levels far below students in competitor nations on international standardized tests in these subjects. Meanwhile, international students educated in America are facing misguided immigration policies that hamper their ability to apply their skills and knowledge in the United States. |
Decoupling social networking - October 01, 2007
Not only do I think Facebook’s $10 billion valuation is far from ridiculous, I believe their future value exceeds that of Google.
Simply put, Communication is more valuable than Search. According to Netcraft, there were just over 135,000,000 websites on the internet as of September 2007. Does that seem low to you? It did to me. It is a respectable number, but not inconceivable. I mean, the internet is supposed to be unfathomably huge, but the total number of websites has fewer commas in it than Mark Cuban’s net worth. That means that Google, for all of its tremendous value, is deriving that value by enabling people to search for a reasonably small number of websites. |
