Chris Knudsen on Life & Business

Watch for the announcement of a book burning party at your local Apple Store 
One can only read into this statement as a directive from the supreme leader of the Ministry of Fruit. Its a good thing the New York Times is there to set the record strait:
“…when Mr. Jobs was asked two weeks ago at the Macworld Expo [...]

• The average interest rate across all existing credit card accounts was 13.46 percent as of May 2007 (Source: Federal Reserve)
• There were 984 million bank-issued Visa and MasterCard credit card and debit card accounts in the U.S in 2006 (Source: Visa USA, MasterCard International)
• Total US consumer debt (which includes installment debt, but not mortgage debt) reached [...]

The rate cut will be great in the short term. I expect a refi boom lasting into the summer that might help the subprime situation. Long term, this will only contribute to our economic demise - inflation and a weaker dollar are going to kill us.
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I was recently tapped to judge the Westminster College business plan competition. Last Friday, a group of judges descended on Westminster to hear the presentations of the top ten semi-finalists. The top three teams will have their plans refined and sent to the UEC state business plan competition.
It took six hours to get through all the [...]

Here’s a great conversation with Glenn Beck and Ron Paul:
 
Here’s part two:

Here’s another great conversation with Glenn Beck and Comptroller General of the United States, David Walker:

I’m starting to like Glenn Beck again because he seems to be seeing the light. Wake up America.

I was born in 1973. I grew up in a small town in Oregon. I had a bb gun and a motorcycle. I rode around in the back of my dad’s pick up and waved at passing cops - they waived back. I would leave home after breakfast and return at dinner. My mom never worried [...]

Ever wonder how bad the consumer credit problem is in America?
Watch this

I just read over a press release announcing that nominations are now open for the 2008 v|Spring v|100 award. What is the V|100? According to Dennis Wood, v|Springs Director of Human Capital, the v|100 is:
“Each year, vSpring asks members of the Utah business community to nominate individuals who are most likely to lead a successful [...]

From MSNBC: Can the government turn the economy around?
Astonishingly the answer is “yes”. Here are 30 (or so) things I thought of just off the top of my head that the government can do to help turn the economy around:

Reform the federal reserve system
Cut all taxes
Cut all taxes again
Now kill the income tax, corporate tax, capital gains tax and inheritance [...]

I was having a conversation with Steve Spencer the other day about ConnectBlogs. He was surprised to learn that I was one of the guys behind ConnectBlogs. I thought I’d tell the story here for your enjoyment/enlightenment.
The first business model for 10Speed Media involved us going out and doing what we called “renegade” video. They were short videos on local [...]