Content about Entertainment

Title
“Just Start: Take Action, Embrace Uncertainty, Create the Future”

Authors:
Leonard Schlesinger, Charles Kiefer, Paul Brown

Synopsis:
Written by a trio of seasoned business leaders, the authors share their own deep and varied experiences and draw from a source where striving amid constant uncertainty actually works: the world of serial entrepreneurship. In this world, people don’t just think differently—they act differently, as well.

There are small businesses run by families, and then there are large, rapidly growing, double-family, family-run companies.

Celebrating its 10th anniversary in September, AMS Fulfillment has grown to some 500 full and part-time employees and is, in part, responsible for the lack of industrial space available in the Santa Clarita Valley. In April, the company opens its 13th warehouse in the Valencia Industrial Center. And it has more than doubled the number of people it employs in the past year.

During the great recession, a group of community leaders had a new vision for Santa Clarita Valley — that vision was to increase job creation, strengthen existing companies and unify our region’s approach to economic development.

It’s no secret that businesses are leaving California. Our companies are finding better opportunities in other states that understand the value of the tax revenue they generate. The business community warned our elected leaders for years that California’s beautiful weather was not enough to overcome a stormy business climate. Instead of heeding this advice, business owners were met with more stringent regulations, higher taxes and restrictive labor laws.

There will be no quick fixes to the nation’s housing’s woes, but one outcome already appears certain: The United States will not become a nation of renters.

It will remain a nation of owners for good reasons: There simply are too many benefits — social, emotional, financial and otherwise — to own versus rent.

While long-time Santa Clarita Valley resident Daniel Veluzat is generally busy operating the Veluzat Motion Picture Ranch for outside film and television productions, from time to time, he also steps into the role of executive producer.

Veluzat said he recently served as executive producer for the film “Yellow Rock,” which garnered recognition for the local movie ranch owner and operator.

Some economists and politicians call for bold, sweeping action, yet the Santa Clarita Valley housing market would get a big boost by simply increasing lending to already creditworthy homebuyers.

Throw in more loan modifications and faster decision-making on short sales, and we just might begin reducing the number of foreclosed homes, thus stabilizing home prices and bolstering the economy along the way.

With the recent volatility in our financial markets as of late, I have more and more concern for people and the decisions they make. People are struggling to discover what the correct strategy is for them.
What’s interesting is that people are still shying away from professional help or leaving their current advisers to go it alone. Many people are also, as usual, gobbling up “self-help” financial books.

Boston Scientific reached out to the William S. Hart Union High School District on Friday, forming a bridge to the future for black high school students interested in entering the ever-growing biomedical field.

Inspired by employee Stephen Settles, operations program manager II with Boston Scientific, the biomedical firm made a long-term commitment to students launching its Bridge to the Future program in the Santa Clarita Valley.

Employers in the United States are desperate to find ways to reduce health care costs.

The UCLA Anderson Forecast reported Tuesday that the nation’s economy is “far worse” than it was just three months ago.

The forecasters revisited the concept of “stall speed,” in which an economy grows so slowly that any modest shock can trigger a full-blown recession.

Economists, however, remain firm in their analysis that there is not a second recession forecasted through 2013 in the United States.