William Shatner to Land Helicopter on the USS Midway at Comic-Con for the Launch of Myouterspace.Com!
July 22, 2010
Tune in and Watch William Shatner’s LIVE Webcast on Myouterspace.com, July 23rd at 7:30 PST
STUDIO CITY, Calif., July 21 /PRNewswire/ — Myouterspace.com, a new Social Network created for those passionate about Science Fiction, will officially launch with William Shatner who will soar over the San Diego Harbor in a helicopter, landing onto deck of the USS Midway Aircraft Carrier at Comic Con. William Shatner’s Myouterspace.com launch will be held at the Tweet House on the USS Midway from 7:30pm-9:30pm PST on Friday, July 23, 2010.
Comic-Con is a natural magnet for the fans, as the world will be watching Mr. Shatner interview other celebrity guests and industry professionals. Shatner fans from around the world can follow the link to our live transmission page on Myouterspace.com and follow a live Twitter chat.
“I am excited about the possibilities that are happening at Comic Con,” said Mr. Shatner, host of Myouterspace.com. “The brand new platform for creativity in film, in gaming, and in animation is now coming alive on Myouterspace.com. With Tweet House on the USS Midway, and a great team of partners, can you get more with it?”
“The team at Myouterspace has worked extremely hard towards this exciting event,” said Sammy Oriti, Co-Founder of Myouterspace.com. “Bill is an innovator; a truly incredible visionary and it will a great moment when he lands his helicopter on the flight deck. All I can say is that I have the coolest job in the world…I work with William Shatner in a Sci-Fi virtual universe!”
Myouterspace.com is dedicated to providing fans with amazing content, while connecting talented users with creative opportunities in music, graphic design, entertainment, acting, film production, and writing. Myouterspace.com generates Sci-Fi projects for film, television and the web by allowing registered users to participate alongside industry professionals and connect with other users in the business. William Shatner, host of Myouterspace.com, engages with the online community by creating video messages to fans, overseeing feature productions, providing his professional critique to users, and promoting Myouterspace.com on Twitter, Facebook, and major media outlets.
With the support of William Shatner and an innovative twist on social media, Myouterspace.com is poised to be a presence in the Sci-Fi community.
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U.S. Job Growth Driven Entirely by Startups, According to Kauffman Foundation Study
July 7, 2010
New Firms Add an Average of 3 Million Jobs in Their First Year, While Older Companies Lose 1 Million Jobs Annually
KANSAS CITY, MO–(Marketwire – July 7, 2010) – When it comes to U.S. job growth, startup companies aren’t everything. They’re the only thing.
It’s well understood that existing companies of all sizes constantly create — and destroy — jobs. Conventional wisdom, then, might suppose that annual net job gain is positive at these companies. A study released today by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, however, shows that this rarely is the case. In fact, net job growth occurs in the U.S. economy only through startup firms.
The new study, The Importance of Startups in Job Creation and Job Destruction, bases its findings on the Business Dynamics Statistics, a U.S. government dataset compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau. The BDS series tracks the annual number of new businesses (startups and new locations) from 1977 to 2005, and defines startups as firms younger than one year old.
The study reveals that, both on average and for all but seven years between 1977 and 2005, existing firms are net job destroyers, losing 1 million jobs net combined per year. By contrast, in their first year, new firms add an average of 3 million jobs.
Further, the study shows, job growth patterns at both startups and existing firms are pro-cyclical, although existing firms have much more cyclical variance. Most notably, during recessionary years, job creation at startups remains stable, while net job losses at existing firms are highly sensitive to the business cycle.
“These findings imply that America should be thinking differently about the standard employment policy paradigm,” said Robert E. Litan, vice president of Research and Policy at the Kauffman Foundation. “Policymakers tend to focus on changes in the national or state unemployment rate, or on layoffs by existing companies, when, in fact, policy has little effect on net employment growth. Instead, job growth best would be influenced by focusing greater attention on policy that supports startup firms.”
Because startups that develop organically are almost solely the drivers of job growth, job-creation policies aimed at luring larger, established employers will inevitably fail, said the study’s author, Tim Kane, Kauffman Foundation senior fellow in Research and Policy. Such city and state policies are doomed not only because they are zero-sum, but because they are based in unrealistic employment growth models.
And it’s not just net job creation that startups dominate. While older firms lose more jobs than they create, those gross flows decline as firms age. On average, one-year-old firms create nearly one million jobs, while ten-year-old firms generate 300,000. The notion that firms bulk up as they age is, in the aggregate, not supported by data.
About the Kauffman Foundation
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is a private nonpartisan foundation that works to harness the power of entrepreneurship and innovation to grow economies and improve human welfare. Through its research and other initiatives, the Kauffman Foundation aims to open young people’s eyes to the possibility of entrepreneurship, promote entrepreneurship education, raise awareness of entrepreneurship-friendly policies, and find alternative pathways for the commercialization of new knowledge and technologies. It also works to prepare students to be innovators, entrepreneurs and skilled workers in the 21st century economy through initiatives designed to improve learning in math, engineering, science and technology. Founded by late entrepreneur and philanthropist Ewing Marion Kauffman, the Foundation is based in Kansas City, Mo. and has approximately $2 billion in assets. More information, visitwww.kauffman.org, and follow the Foundation on www.twitter.com/kauffmanfdn andwww.facebook.com/kauffmanfdn.
