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Microsoft's annual Employee Giving Campaign raises $63 million for various chartiable organizations, and receives almost no media coverage. Meanwhile search engine giant Google donates $30 thousand to Creative Commons, generating 2100 times the media coverage of Microsoft.

Investing in the stock market is not purchasing a stock at 25 dollars a share, hoping it will go to 35 so you can sell it, then hoping it will drop back to 25 so you can buy it back, so that you can sell it again at 35, and so on and so forth.

SiliconBeat looks at the overhang in venture capital because interest rates have led to a general glut of capital, and wonders if all that supply benefits demand...

Make your book stand out from the crowd! Test your book's significance, find your market before you write, and treat your book as part of your business.

If you are not re-investing your profits in your business, you are killing your business. Your profits should be put back in your business for growth, not buying your groceries.

I have faced this financial question 8 years ago and recently I have friends asked me this same question. I think I should write it up so that it may help some of you that having the same situation.

"Warren Buffett says he's disgusted' by corporate bosses who tout their companies while selling shares: These business leaders view shareholders as patsies, not partners.' Buffett has never sold a share of Berkshire Hathaway. [Forbes.com]

I don't usually recommend my clients spend any money on search engine placement, but I may be about to change my mind.