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Article: Why Dyslexics Make Great Entrepreneurs

Business week picks up on the recent New York Times story, which I posted here: Article: Tracing Business Acumen to Dyslexia.

December 12, 2007
BusinessWeek Magazine:

Why Dyslexics Make Great Entrepreneurs
Ability to grasp the big picture, persistence, and creativity are a few of the entrepreneurial traits of many dyslexics

by Gabrielle Coppola

When Alan Meckler, the CEO of IT and online imagery hub Jupitermedia (JUPM), was accepted to Columbia University in 1965, the dean's office told him he had some of the lowest college boards of any student ever admitted. "I got a 405 or 410 in English," he recalls. "In those days you got a 400 just for putting your name down! Yet I was on the dean's list every year I was there, and I won a prize for having the best essay in American history my senior year."

It wasn't until years later, at age 58, that Meckler learned he was dyslexic. He struggles with walking and driving directions, and interpreting charts and graphs. He prefers to listen to someone explain a problem to him, rather than sit down and read 20 pages describing it.

Article: Protection from a Falling Dollar

Seems like the recent fall in the dollar has finally gotten people's radar screens blinking. See the following article from the April 27th edition of BusinessWeek for Merrill Lynch Japan's doomsday scenario.

Protection from a Falling Dollar
By Jesper Koll

Merrill Lynch's Jesper Koll argues that Japan, China, and Europe must focus on domestic growth and beat the U.S. at its own game

Growing numbers of analysts and economists worldwide are trying to forecast the fate of financial markets based on predictions about what will happen to economies. Unfortunately, much of this may very well be a waste of time. Often it isn't what's happening to economies that explains financial markets. Rather, what's happening to financial markets is an indicator of what will happen to economies. Specifically in 2006, the issue is not whether the economic recoveries in China, Japan, or Europe warrant a stronger yuan, yen, or euro, but whether enough has been done to cushion against a collapse of the dollar.