• Rules from the BABY’s Book on Becoming a Billionaire
  
  

  • Rule #20 : If a really big wave is coming, putting a finger in the dyke does nothing nor does building a bigger wall. The lesson to be learned is how to surf the big wave and ride it all the way to your successful safe landing.

  • Rule #101: It’s what you don’t know that you don’t know that will kill you.

• "The End" is the beginning: Author Susan Diamond claims the real work starts when the book is finished, and encourages fellow writers to develop a marketing gene.

• Come to America…and stay. Immigrants continue to bring passion, work ethic and tremendous innovation to this country. Their results benefit both sides of our borders.

• Entrenauts…rev your engines! Laid-off auto workers are shedding their blue collars and investing lump sum payouts in businesses of their own.

• Patent (un)pending. Public policy forced a review of the University of Wisconsin’s stem cell patents, and attorney Randy Broberg contends that we may see other examples of patents being denied when they deter scientific advancement.

• Making dollars and sense: Don’t be afraid to develop relationships and share ideas with senior executives, advises corporate intrapreneur Stephen Malaster.

Susan Diamond, the author of What Goes Around, graduated from Harvard/Radcliffe and has a masters degree from the University of Iowa. Diamond started her writing career in fiction as a fellow at the Iowa Writers Workshop, but has spent most of her time since as a journalist, always writing as S.J. Diamond. First a magazine reporter, she then became a feature writer and columnist at the Los Angeles Times, where she wrote front-page features on subjects ranging from gospel music to no-fault divorce. Her weekly column on consumer affairs ran in the business section, exploring such challenges of everyday commerce as credit cards, airline tickets, and the safety, costs and crowds at amusement parks.

Stephen Malaster, the founder of StreetIQ.com, is an amalgam of several industries, positions, and life experiences. A true jack of many trades, Malaster has knowledge in semiconductor, finance, retail, and a number of other sectors. He lives in San Mateo, California with his wife Mercedes and a French bulldog pup named Boris.

The mission of StreetIQ.com is to create a marketplace of compelling audio content that empowers investors and businesspeople. StreetIq.com contains an enormous range of audio content produced by both large media companies and independent podcasters that includes everything from the latest business news to stock talk and from CEO interviews to earnings calls. The audio programs are organized into channels, updated frequently, and tagged for categories, sectors, and stock ticker symbols. Users can listen to the audio programs online or download them to media players as podcasts. StreetIQ.com is a wholly-owned subsidiary of FinancialContent, a publicly-traded company traded on the over-the-counter market under the ticker symbol FCON

Randy Broberg, recently named one of the best transactional intellectual property attorneys by the San Diego Daily Transcript, is a partner at the law firm of Allen Matkins. His diverse clients have included representing General Atomics in a manufacturing agreement against a Korean company, representing tennis player Serena Williams to acquire the domain name, www.serenawilliams.com, and trademark representation of Directed Electronics which makes the Viper car alarms.