2006 Irish America Magazine Business 100: News Release!

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Here is the press release.

A bit of shameless self-promotion but I'm so proud of my Irish heritage that I must toot my blogger horn loud and clear! I've been named to the 2006 Irish America Magazine Business 100. The distinction celebrates the entrepreneurial and business success of Irish-Americans.

What makes me even more proud about this honor is that I am one of just 10 women to be named to the list of 100 this year ... joining the ranks of a distinguished and diverse membership roster that includes Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, Conan O’Brien, and Bono. How cool or lucky is that?!

Other 2006 honorees include James McCann, founder of 1-800-flowers.com; Alan Lafley, chairman, president and CEO of Proctor & Gamble; and Anne Mulcahy, chairman of the board and CEO of Xerox Corporation

Wisconsin Hosts Global Tournament

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Looks like an interesting program:  Milwaukee to Host Global Tournament For Jewish Youth.

Happy Holidays Around The World!

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Wishing you a joyous Holiday Season and a happy and healthy 2007!

20 Books To Get You Global in 2007

©2006 Laurel J. Delaney.  All rights reserved.

1. Start & Run a Profitable Exporting Business
2. The World is Flat
3. The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid
4. The Next Global Stage
5. The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy
6. The Box: How The Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
7. Insanely Global!
8. GODZILLA Global Marketing
9. The 86 Percent Solution: How To Succeed in the Biggest Market Opportunity of the Next 50 Years
10. The Global Competitiveness Report 2006-2007
11. Building an Import/Export Business
12. Export/Import Procedures and Documentation
13. Import/Export: How to Get Started in International Trade
14. Kiss, Bow, or Shade Hands
15. Do’s and Taboos Around the World
16. How Small Business Trades Worldwide
17. The Borderless World
18. Going Global: Four Entrepreneurs Map the New World Marketplace (by the founders of Fast Company magazine):
19. The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy
20. Entrepreneur Magazine’s Global Village Archive

Art Collecting Is Going Global

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From India to China to Russia ... collecting art is going global, and prices have room to run. Read the article here.

Martha Stewart Going, Going, Global!

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The lifestyle and media company, founded by Martha Stewart, built on tips for cooking and decorating is looking at expanding food products, retail and its magazines overseas.

Read all about it here.

2006 Irish America Magazine Business 100

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A bit of shameless self-promotion but I'm so proud of my Irish heritage that I must toot my blogger horn loud and clear! I've been named to the 2006 Irish America Magazine Business 100. The distinction celebrates the entrepreneurial and business success of Irish-Americans.

What makes me even more proud about this honor is that I am one of just 10 women to be named to the list of 100 this year ... joining the ranks of a distinguished and diverse membership roster that includes Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, Conan O’Brien, and Bono. How cool or lucky is that?!

Other 2006 honorees include James McCann, founder of 1-800-flowers.com; Alan Lafley, chairman, president and CEO of Proctor & Gamble; and Anne Mulcahy, chairman of the board and CEO of Xerox Corporation

More official news to follow.

Global Entrepreneurs Create Domestic and Foreign Jobs

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If there's ever a book to read in 2007, it's this one: The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy

From Publisher's Weekly: Argonauts, Saxenian's mythic term for global commuters employed in the high tech sector, are not the ominous invaders American economic isolationists fear-stealing jobs and ideas from Americans and spiriting them abroad. Rather, Saxenian argues, such global entrepreneurs have created domestic and foreign jobs and reduced the cost of technology for businesses and consumers.

Saxenian is at her best when describing the relatively short history of the international entrepreneur-commuter: the Argonauts, though equipped with Ph.D.s from American universities, hit ethnicity-based glass ceilings in the States and chose entrepreneurship over floundering in middle-management.

Bright, young, foreign-born entrepreneurs formed technology companies (with the help of western venture capital and management theory) in their home countries and succeeded where traditional development initiatives failed. However, when Saxenian projects the implications of Argonaut activity or their future, she sounds prematurely optimistic; some readers may have a hard time envisioning, as Saxenian does, widespread future interglobal cooperation aimed at solving humanity's problems. [Laurel here ... I don't.]

Abridged Borderbuster: 12/5/06

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CONTENTS

If you are not a subscriber to Borderbuster, here's a glimpse of what you missed this month:

1. Welcome From The Publisher
2. Feedback From Our Readers
3. Secrets, Lies, and Sweatshops*
4. Business and Cultural Tips: Have Some Fun!*
5. Oh, Canada!*
6. How I Went Global: Ongoing Series // National Defense
7. A Reader Asks: Q&A*
8. Everybody Loves a Freebie -- repeat: FREE OFFER*
9. Unique Gifts From Small Businesses*
10. A Danger in China?*
11. Language Barriers*
12. Blog World: Metroblogging*
13. Laurel’s e-Book: “GODZILLA Global Marketing!”
14. Take A Walk On The Wild Side (TAWOTWS)
15. Wind Behind Your Sail*
16. Miscellany*
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*Indicates exclusive to Borderbuster subscribers only.

Sample section:

5. OH, CANADA!
*Subscriber Exclusive*

Want to jump into the international market? Meet our friendly neighbor to the north.

To read the article, visit: Entrepreneur.com

(Remember, inaction is the worst kind of failure.)

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