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Inherited or learned? Some studies show that the young people most likely to start and successfully run their own businesses are those whose parents own a business. Pretty obvious, really, given that they’ve grown up in a house where being an entrepreneur is a given rather than a dream.

But what about those who yearn to be entrepreneurs but aren’t children of business owners? We know we can teach them the skills and behaviors of successful entrepreneurs. The question is whether you can give them the passion.

Just looking for some opinions on what you think about the future of "over the air" broadcast television and radio. When is it that you chose "over the air" broadcasts v. on-line? Do you think on-line "webcasting" will catch up to and eventually pass "over the air" broadcasting? If you do, how long do you think it will take?

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Bill Gates isn’t an accident or a force of nature. Warren Buffett wasn’t spouting investment advice as a toddler. Oprah wasn’t handed a media empire on a silver platter.

What these entrepreneurs – and so many others – have in common is that they are incredibly bright, relentlessly driven individuals who created their own success, one step at a time. They recognize opportunities. They fail sometimes; and they learn from those failures. They focus on their goals with single-minded determination.

They’re young, enthusiastic and wickedly successful. And they’ll be at Iowa Western Community College on March 27 to show that dreaming big pays off – big.

Do you ever wonder where all those big ideas come from? Who dreams up new ways to use the Internet? Whose ideas become products we can’t live without? And how do the dreamers turn their ideas into reality?

Firefox is two things: a mediocre cold-war movie from the 80s starring Clint Eastwood and a modern browser that offers a number of advantages over Microsoft's Internet Explorer. I can't recommend watching the movie, but I can, and do, highly recommend switching to Firefox. You might wonder why you should go out of your way to use a browser different from IE (Internet Explorer). I mean, you have to visit a web site, download a 17 Megabyte file, install it and then configure Windows to automatically use FF (Firefox) instead of IE for web sites.

If the age-old question is whether the chicken or egg came first, the new-age question for educators might be whether entrepreneurial education stands on its own or is integrated into career curricula. The traditional model is to house entrepreneurship in the business department, and there certainly is a strong case to be made for that connection.

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, and you can find more information about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS

Have you ever wished that you could get an idea of what's going on around the world without actually having to visit twenty or thirty different web sites? For example, you could visit all of the major news providers' web sites to find out what's going on, or you could use an RSS aggregator to access their RSS feeds. This would allow you to browse headlines and/or snippets of the latest news articles from all of those providers without visiting their web sites.