Inc.com reports that, according to a recent survey by OPEN from American Express, “[y]ounger entrepreneurs are more willing to take risks in the marketplace than older business owners. […] The survey, which gauged business attitudes among more than 600 Generation Y and baby boomer entrepreneurs, found that 72 percent of younger business people said they enjoyed taking risks, compared to just 53 percent of baby boomers.”
In a different article on small businesses, Inc.com writes that “House lawmakers this week approved legislation that seeks to improve access to capital for small-business owners by boosting federal lending programs.”
The Washington Post reports that “[a] company representing Internet users in more than 100 countries filed a federal lawsuit yesterday seeking the identities of people responsible for collecting millions of e-mail addresses on behalf of spammers.”
The Economist has an interesting article about the H-1B quota, in which it points out that “the quota actually mostly hurts American firms.” The article also quotes AnnaLee Saxenian, “a professor at the University of California at Berkeley and author of ‘The New Argonauts,’ a book on the subject,” who says that the abolition of the quota would not lead to a brain drain in developing countries, but rather to a “brain circulation” in which foreign-born entrepreneurs “form networks that, in effect, make Silicon Valley the head office and their home countries the branch offices.”
According to Nordichardware.com, the European Parliament on Friday voted yes on the new directive Ipred 2 which makes all kinds of infringement of the intellectual copyrights a criminal offense.