Do venture capital firms have too much political influence?

There are quite a few entrepreneurs who write business plans and come up with cool new inventions and innovations and are hell-bent on finding a venture capitalist to finance them. Other entrepreneurs who have gone down that road, or perhaps have looked closely at it, have no intention of giving away such a large percentage …

Franz Joseph Haydn – From Peasant to Fame and Riches

The Austrian world, into which Haydn was born, in 1732, was beginning a new life, free of foreign Turkish oppressors, full of religious zeal and expanding frontiers, living under the talented rule of the Habsburgs. Charles VI, reigning emperor, was an excellent violinist, harpsichordist, and opera composer. The class system, especially poignant at this time, …

Cottage Cheese Diets: Why The 3-Day Cottage Cheese And Grapefruit Diet Might Be The Answer You Need

If you only want to lose weight for a special event and don’t mind losing weight long-term, the 3-Day Cottage Cheese and Grapefruit Diet may be for you. That said, if you have long-term weight loss goals, you’ll probably want to avoid it. The good thing about this diet is that you can lose up …