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Global Business Networking: Accessing High Tech Talent Jann Scott’Journal
Nov 12th
The conference I attend was on immigration. (Boulder Chamber event, Global Business Networking: Accessing High Tech Talent Live at 5:30 tonight, Nov 10, 2011) Specifically why the American government make it is so hard to hire foreign engineers for technology firms. The USA has a shortage of high quality engineers. Tech firms have to look elsewhere to find them but the government won’t allow American companies to hire foreign engineers. Some Boulder companies survival depend upon it. Some have gone broke.
In a nutshell when you have a highly competent foreign engineer working for a tech firm, you can build a division around him and thereby hire a whole slew of less competent American engineers to do the production. So it is a job creator. The problem is that the Bush administration screwed us and congress is too stupid to figure out that we have fallen behind.. They think every immigrant wanting to work here is either a Saudi terrorist or an unskilled illiterate.
To make matters worse we’ll give out education visas like candy but once we graduate a Korean engineer, we won’t let him back in the country to work for us, so he goes to China and works for them helping to build their economy. How dumb is that?
Anyway we televised this conference and you will be able to see it on my 22BOOM Show next week. If you want to see a crappy video stream version of it you can see that on Justin TV Boulder Channel One .
Now, I like going to business events but the business community is divided here in Boulder. The Boulder Chamber is big and old school. But they are very inviting and open too. They will let any community member play. They are the most equal community oriented business group. Downtown Boulder is more selective, elitist and discriminating. They hurt themselves and local business’s continually….. I have beaten them up pretty hard here too for it. They whole Boulder Start Up community headed by Start-Up Boulder and their ilk is by far the most elitist, censoring, divisive, discriminating business group in Boulder. Of course they don’t think so. Most of them are 21 to 32 and they think they invented business and everyone else is stupid.
“This is both a problem and part of Boulders nature” a Chamber Economic Vitality staffer told me. “It is also what makes Boulder a successful business community”. Maybe so, but I hate snot nosed elitist kid know it alls and they make terrible employees.
I did have fun at this event though. It had a mix of old farts ( my people and young punks..them)
Jared Polis was there to speak about how stupid the American congress is. Jason Mendelson was there to help Jared uphold the the “super rich” end. Actually I dunno how much money he has. It’s millions and millions. Jared of course is a billionaire.
I put the tap on them both to help me sell channel One Networks to Google or Face book. A 30 second pitch was too long. I needed a ten second one for Jared. He was like, What can I do? I dunno anybody.” Mendelson was a little more targeted… “Why should I”? he asked. Good Question. Because Jason, C1N is designed to have ad, print, TV offices in every city and is self sustaining. It is a multi billion dollar company and you can make millions right now off of it. It works.
But they ran away from me. I’ll keep you posted on my pitches. But this is the year.. actually 2012 is the year we have large capitalization and plan to plan to open a 2500 person facility in Boulder.
Mark Zuckerberg on on Charlie rose was a show alright: Jann Scott’s Journal
Nov 8th
I know I am not supposed to criticize the holy grail “ technology “ here. OMG what would people think? I contend that most people caught up in the social media world of twitter and Face book don’t think. They think they think about critical issues, but they’re limited real world experience about money matters leads me to believe, Mark Zuckerburg’s individual users, investors and advertisers are sheep. They drank the “Jim Jones” cool aide somewhere along the line . They are true believers. They are dumb followers and have been mass hypnotized on a global scale. Lets look at what happened.
Mark Zuckerburg starts Face Book by stealing the idea from some other people at Harvard. So he’s a thief from the outset. Then he proceeds to steal every University student admission record list in the world to create Face book. He does this by illegally hacking . Is he arrested for this ? Investigated? Charged? Jailed or convicted?? No. No? What.
He some how is made into a folk hacking hero. And hacking is borne into American culture as a legitimate form of criminal activity. You can see in some ways how this happened. All of Zuckerberg’s users were predominantly college kids. To investors it looked like he had a captured audience. To advertisers it looked the same. Law Enforcement let him get away with it when none of the universities wanted to prosecute him.
But what does Face book actually produce? As a business what is their model? What is their end product? How about nothing. They don’t produce a thing. Okay maybe gossip. They don’t manufacture a product. They don’t produce news, events, music or anything of value.
They collect young people and try to sell them shit…poorly …through advertising. They are essentially an electronic ad rag. They pretend to be anti advertising while they figure out how to rule the world. Rule the world?? That is a thesis George Hunt puts forward in TheBigBadBank.com.
But to me Zuckerburg is a shrewd adman crook who talks out one side of his mouth while he is about to get his ass kicked by a failing world economy. He is competing with every advertising venue in the world and if he can’t produce results , he is dead. Short and simple.
I know this because I am in the same business. I compete for the same ad revenues as Mark
Zuckerberg. Except I don’t lie about it.
The difference between Channel One Networks and Face book is that we turn a profit, don’t need investors and don’t need an IPO to stay alive. Mark lies about that too. We produce news, video, websites, commerce, trade, in store displays and more. Face book has a list of stolen names and is a terrible advertising platform.
From Americas most famous small city
Jann Scott
Boulder Colorado