Feel free to send this to any budding entrepreneurs out there!

I've used Score before and they were really helpful.

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Spire, the luxury condo development at 14th and Champa, is selling $100 raffle tickets and the winner can choose between $1 million in cash or a condo on the 41st floor. Proceeds benefit the Boys & Girls Club of Metro Denver.

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(source: Denver Business Journal)

I was watching my nephew play Ultimate Frisbee a few weeks ago (very cool!) at Colorado Academy, a private school in Lakewood. The grounds were impressive so I wondered how much it costs to go there. Well, just $15,350/year for Pre-K, $19,230/year (yes, per year) for K-5th grade and $20,230/year for grades 6-12. After I caught my breath, my wife and I wondered if sending your kids to a private or prep school really pays off. According to Forbes, it does...

"...On average the 20 schools that top our latest annual ranking of prep schools sent nearly one-third of their graduates to the Ivies, MIT or Stanford. In contrast, less than .01% of all US high school graduates ended up in those schools in 2008...

(source: Forbes)

Good tips from one of the best business/sales writers out there, Harvey Mackay.

"When I scrolled through the unemployment data recently, one number stood out for me head and shoulders above all the rest. More than a quarter of our young people are out of work.

What young adults need to worry about is not how to shine on their first day on the job. It’s about learning to excel your first day on the job market. If you’re a young person entering today’s job jungle, it’s a little like suiting up for an episode of “Survivor” in the outer reaches of Borneo.

Here are some tips that can help drain the pain from your job-market debut:"

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(source: Newsweek)

"$1.2 billion... The amount that Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein told Congress the bank lost from its activities in the residential-housing market in 2007 and 2008. Overall, Goldman earned $15.6 billion during those two years."

"2.7%... The personal savings rate for Americans in March. The post-crash savings rate peaked at 6.4 percent in May 2009, and hasn't been below 3 percent since October 2008." ---Good sign that the most consumptive economy in the world is back on track??