America’s Ex-Im Bank Is Needed To Compete
With all the barriers stacked up against American entrepreneurs, a bright spot has been access to working capital through the Export-Import Bank, which is essential if American exporters are to compete in the global marketplace. Ex-Im provides working capital guarantees, insurance and direct loans to American manufacturers, helping to open new foreign markets that allow the U.S. economy to grow, while creating good-paying jobs. Yet some in Congress are leaning toward not... Read More
The Faster the Patent – The Greater the Theft.
As I have maintained through the years, no other country can out-think and out-innovate American entrepreneurs. There is a reason that the rest of the world looks to the US when they want the latest, greatest inventions and technological breakthroughs. The trouble is that America also has a propensity for red tape that puts obstacles in the way of these innovative developers. Now comes word that the US Patent and Trademark Office is looking at a way to fast track the granting... Read More
Conscientious Equity
On March 15, 2010, Peter Miller, President of PMA Literary & Film Management, Inc., announced the sale of the world English rights to Conscientious Equity: An American Entrepreneur’s Solutions to the World’s Greatest Problems by Neal Asbury to Palgrave Macmillan. Miller negotiated the sale with Laurie Harting, Executive Editor. The book will be published in hardcover in October 2010. In Conscientious Equity, Asbury argues that moving away from intransigent political ideologies... Read More
Tough Enough
Are you tough enough? As an American Entrepreneur and small business owner I have asked this question of myself countless times over the past twenty-five years. I still do. I equate this toughness with the concept of “conscientious equity”. “Conscientious” because it is right. “Equity” because we all have ownership in doing the right thing. Yet, through some selfless mentoring by people who practiced conscientious equity by tapping into their mental toughness the hard... Read More
