There is a lot of discussion about how EB-5 visas are needed, in order to encourage entrepreneurial immigrants to start businesses. But here is a recent article that describes the potential for fraud:
http://www.cis.org/north/dhs-silent-while-50-million-eb-5-funds-stolen-over-seven-years
… but East Texas is still getting a lot of play in patent litigation. (This article is 3 years old, but contains some interested information nevertheless.)
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/east-texas-courts-are-back-on-top-for-patent-lawsuits/
… are not obvious. (Sorry, couldn’t resist.)
http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2012/04/29/ksr-the-5th-anniversary-one-supremely-obvious-mess/id=24456/
Since we’ll be discussing patent law over the next couple of weeks, here is an article from IP Watchdog, with its assessment of the most important patent cases from last year:
http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2015/12/31/the-year-in-patents/id=64342/
I thought this was worth a read …
http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/8/8914817/tivo-spamming-aereo-customers
… since I could not display it in class yesterday.
There is a dark side to the personalities closely associated with entrepreneurial success, and it contains depression and even suicide.
Very sad story about the founder of Cambrian Genomics.
http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/10/technology/silicon-valley-depression-austen-heinz/index.html
Some of the observations that “Financial Samurai” makes have questionable merit. (For example, he sings the praises of Singapore, which has a record of fairly serious restrictions of human rights.) In addition, simply speaking from the standpoint of entrepreneurial thinking, institutions, associations and organizations that are closer to the problems tend to be better at solving them than very large institutions or organizations, which cannot quickly pivot in response to errors, changing circumstances or new information.
That said, here you go:
Again, these data are from 2014, but it breaks down the $358B in some interesting ways! (There is also a link to a chart that shows charitable giving by state – although this dates back to IRS data from 2011.)
http://nccs.urban.org/nccs/statistics/Charitable-Giving-in-America-Some-Facts-and-Figures.cfm