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...Later this year, a marketing manager will sit down for his first day of work at HomeAway, a company that helps people rent their vacation homes online. In the firm's sleek Austin, Texas, headquarters, a glass-wrapped building decorated with travel souvenirs, the marketer will flip on his computer and do his job - a job no one has done before. This, you see, will be a brand-new job, one of the most coveted commodities of economic recovery...
...between jobs at the time, didn't understand why he couldn't go to a single website - as he would go to Expedia for airline tickets - to find a comprehensive list of houses for rent. So, with a business partner, he started such a site. Five years later, the company has $120 million a year in sales, employs 600 people in five countries and is ramping up its marketing push to grow even larger. That's why it needs a new marketing manager in Austin. (See "The Dropout Economy - 10 Ideas for the Next 10 Years...
...break for companies buying equipment. Companies that sell equipment need people to build it, and companies that buy equipment need people to run and maintain it. Many firms outside of financial services have surprisingly solid balance sheets, Manyika points out, and might be wooed into investing sooner rather than later. That would drum up sales for the firms they'd be buying equipment from...
...Delay excise taxes on various health industries, such as the pharmaceutical sector and health-insurance sector. These taxes will most certainly be passed directly onto consumers, so the later they are implemented, the later consumers will see drug prices and health-insurance premiums rise as a direct result. (Read "Who's Winning the Message War on Health Care...
...indicated that they may not be willing to make up the difference during the economic downturn. There are also signs that the initial cost estimates have been way off. Last July, the government said the total construction bill would run about $6.6 billion, but just a couple of months later, it revised that figure to a whopping $34 billion, according to the Russian news service RIA Novosti. Amid concerns that construction is running behind schedule - a problem exacerbated by the workers' strike, now in its second week - political pressure is mounting for the organizers to build faster and cut costs...