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From the skies to the road now. several recalls. 900,000 vehicles around the world including minivans and infinity m for excessive accelerators. they can malfunction causing the vehicle to slow down and at times completely stop. toyota recalling 615,000 sienna minivans from 2004 to 2009 in the u.s. because they can shift at a park and roll away. that problem has been blamed for 21 accidents including two minor injuries. mcdonalds might ask you want a side salad with a big mac? they will start giving customers a choice of a salad fruit or vegetable. they plan to make the changes in the 20 big...

Farm but in the infrastructure of food and making sure that infrastructure of food stays in your community. we provide jobs. we provide healthy jobs. it's not just how much okra are you going to get this week? it's time to answer some of your business questions. michael and colleen are with us once again. the first one is from richard. he writes. i have created a series of educational dvds. i would like to start a business that among other things would sell these educational dvds to schools as part of their lesson plants and to retail outlet's in box sets. how do i determine a value weighs w...

Old school. old school. i think the reality is investors are never going to -- there's going to be something in between of what they think the valuation is. accelerators are setting valuations saying we are going to take 10% of your company. regardless of selling educational dvds. it's setting the right level and floor. >> what about the idea of convertible debt? it sounds like it's a friends and family. the idea of don't set the valuation at this first round. say this is debt. when we get the next round and more sophisticated investors, we convert it. do you see that happening? >> i see it ha...

Like yours. >> right, no, it's a great program, and we've been doing similar things, as well. but we've seen this trend of accelerators over the past few years. three years ago there may have been tech stars and a few others. now there's over 500 and it's a great learning experience for students especially because, again, it speeds up the incue base process to three months or less. not like a traditional business incubator which could be a year to two years. and learn and refine and pivot and hopefully get investment. but even if they don't succeed, they will have learned the entrepreneurial p...

politics in washington could push america over a fiscal cliff and quite possibly into a recession if congress doesn't act. economists now say that the so-called fiscal cliff has now overtaken europe as the biggest threat to the u.s. economy. in other words, our homegrown storm has a bigger chance of causing a hurricane here than the actual hurricane that's blowing our way from europe. now i've been bee rat berating on this show to head off a series of tax increases and spending cuts mandated to take effect on january 1st. congress couldn't come up with a better deal to raise the nati...