The NFL seven high-paying coach

Bill Belichick

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Forbes magazine American sports top ten highly paid coaches, coaches from NFL teams occupy seven of them, the top of the coach of the Patriots - Bill Belichick, the annual salary of up to $ 7.5 million, followed by Redskins coach - Mike Shanahan ($ 7,000,000).

- Mike Shanahan

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Forbes magazine American sports top ten highly paid coaches, coaches from NFL teams occupy seven of them, the top of the coach of the Patriots - Bill Belichick, the annual salary of up to $ 7.5 million, followed by Redskins coach - Mike Shanahan ($ 7,000,000).

 Peter - Carol

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Forbes magazine American sports top ten highly paid coaches, coaches from NFL teams occupy seven of them, the top of the coach of the Patriots - Bill Belichick, the annual salary of up to $ 7.5 million, followed by Redskins coach - Mike Shanahan ($ 7,000,000).

- Mike Tomlin

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Forbes magazine American sports top ten highly paid coaches, coaches from NFL teams occupy seven of them, the top of the coach of the Patriots - Bill Belichick, the annual salary of up to $ 7.5 million, followed by Redskins coach - Mike Shanahan ($ 7,000,000).

 

- Tom Coughlin

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Forbes magazine American sports top ten highly paid coaches, coaches from NFL teams occupy seven of them, the top of the coach of the Patriots - Bill Belichick, the annual salary of up to $ 7.5 million, followed by Redskins coach - Mike Shanahan ($ 7,000,000).

Lowe - Smith

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Forbes magazine American sports top ten highly paid coaches, coaches from NFL teams occupy seven of them, the top of the coach of the Patriots - Bill Belichick, the annual salary of up to $ 7.5 million, followed by Redskins coach - Mike Shanahan ($ 7,000,000).

To Ken - wiesen Hunt

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Forbes magazine American sports top ten highly paid coaches, coaches from NFL teams occupy seven of them, the top of the coach of the Patriots - Bill Belichick, the annual salary of up to $ 7.5 million, followed by Redskins coach - Mike Shanahan ($ 7,000,000).

NFL official website of the new season, headed QB rankings

1, New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning

2.Tom Brady-New England Patriots quarterback

3.Ben Roethlisberger-Pittsburgh Steelers

4, Drew Brees New Orleans Saints

5, Aaron Rodgers Green Bay Packers

6, Peyton Manning Denver Broncos

7, Carolina Panthers, Cam Newton

8, San Diego Chargers  Philip Rivers

9, Atlanta Falcons,Matt Ryan

10, Philadelphia Eagles - Michael Vick

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Why The Apple vs Samsung Verdict Is A Big Mistake

When I first bought an iPhone I thought: How beautiful and sleek – in fact the phone was so sleek it kept sliding out of my hand. Like most people who do not carry a handbag, I had to buy an ugly, black, plastic cover to stop me dropping it. My iPhone resided inside that case where nobody could see its sleek, rounded edges. To my surprise those edges made up part of the recent Apple vs Samsung infringement action. I say surprised but I mean astonished – how can anybody win a billion bucks for a design error?  Or for that matter for being a trend setter?

But dare I say it – I rarely see an iPhone that is not encased.  I rarely see one that is not hidden from view because of its impractical form (and wasn’t Steve Jobs promising free covers to help overcome a mic (sorry antenna)-design defect two years ago?)  Still, it is a design icon and there is a cost of iconic status. People copy you, defects and all. Apple’s inability to deal with that should get us asking questions about its liberal arts credentials.

If Apple had really been in the design business then they’d have seen Samsung’s copy as sheer flattery (at least at the trade dress level) and moved on to the next iteration. Design is fashion, a peculiar form of intellectual property that wavers and transforms by the season.

In Brussels right now you can buy Pierre Marcolini’s autumn collection of chocolates. Since Marcolini began making single estate chocs, combining them with ingredients like Earl Grey tea, that fashion has swept through the chocolate making business. His neat idea of copying the seasonal element of fashion is also out there and copied. Marcolini is no longer alone in launching seasonal sweets.

But that’s trivial you might say…. not to Pierre though, I’m sure. And that is the central issue with ideas and designs. To a degree, they are shared property. On the bigger stage, in the fashion business, Zara is a b-school case study in how to copy catwalk design and to get them into the shop, pronto. Zara in fact has built a new retail business model around being deft enough with color and shape not to be a total copycat but to get close enough that buyers crave its goods, while the original is still fresh in people’s minds.

When the Duchess of Cambridge wears blue, knitted, shops fill with blue, knitted. Chinese car manufacturers are upbraided for copying the designs of western car makers. But take a look at the new Audis. Audi is the up and coming design house in autos but I happen to think their latest shapes are a rip off of Mercedes. 

There’s only so many ways you can do four wheels and a cabin (or cockpit I guess we should say).

Design is not invention. It arises from a common pool of creativity. I happen to think Apple’s icon designs are superlative but no more so than Chris Bangle’s designs for BMW – now take a close look at Opel, which are as similar to BMW as Audi are to Mercedes and not just because Opel designers finally know how to do curves – more importantly they have the technology to bend the metal like BMW does.

Apple deserves no kudos for taking the trade dress fight to the courts. Maybe if they were a bunch of losers whose design advantage had been unfairly appropriated and now they had no cash for the kids’ school fees, then there would be a cause for sympathy. But this is is the most valuable company in history. Mr Cook. Move on. Create.

Why Los Angeles Is Emerging As The Next Silicon Valley

    Ask an entrepreneur or venture capitalist to name the center of technology entrepreneurship and they’d probably all say the same thing—Silicon Valley. For the past three decades the region has had a lock on the creation of dominant technology companies, from silicon to search to social.

 Ask the same group to name the next Silicon Valley and you are likely to hear a variety of answers. Some will offer up New York. Others stick with Boston and New England. But if we project forward based on trends in the data and structural advantages, it is Los Angeles that is emerging as the next Silicon Valley. Over the last three years the Los Angeles region has quietly built momentum, establishing the foundation to become the next hub for technology entrepreneurship.

For the better part of the last two decades, Southern California and New England have traded roles as runner up to Silicon Valley. In 1995, before the Internet bubble was in full swing, Southern California attracted $1.3 billion of venture capital investment, second only to Silicon Valley with $1.8 billion. New England was a distant third with $0.8 billion. In this era, Southern California was a clear number 2. By 1999, the promise of the Internet attracted a new crop of entrepreneurs to Silicon Valley and investment in the region skyrocketed nearly 10-fold. During the same period, New England grew quickly and edged out Southern California as the next most attractive area for venture capitalists to invest and for the following five years, New England laid undisputed claim to the runner up title.

The baton is once again changing hands. Over the last five years Southern California closed the gap with New England and in 2012, entrepreneurs in Southern California once again attracted more investment than any other region outside of Silicon Valley. More than New England and nearly twice as much as New York.

We shouldn’t be surprised that the LA-led Southern California region is once again emerging as the next Silicon Valley. After all, the region boasts three structural advantages.

Entrepreneurial culture. Southern California has long been a place where independent minds come together to collaborate and create, where visionary entrepreneurs build lasting companies. We’ve seen it in aerospace, apparel, and entertainment and now increasingly in technology. The innovative thinking and design talent has found an outlet in the Internet to impact a new set of industries, including commerce, games, video, and data.

Los Angeles is different than New York and Boston, where professional service industries and corporate headquarters still shape the tone for the region. In those cities, big companies often overshadow entrepreneurship and creative endeavors. In Los Angeles, entrepreneurship is pervasive. New York is home to 45 Fortune 500 companies. Despite it’s comparative size, Los Angeles is home to only 5. Moreover, according to a recent Kauffman Foundation study measuring levels of new business creation across the United State, Los Angeles had the highest rate of entrepreneurial activity from the period between 2009 and 2011. Simply stated, people don’t come to Los Angeles to work for big companies, they come to LA to create them.

Significant technical talent. With a heritage of engineering and technical innovation, Los Angeles continues to develop technical talent. Universities in Los Angeles produce more engineering graduates than any other county in California—including in Silicon Valley. These graduates provide the skill and energy that is vital to the growth of technology companies. In addition, LA is increasingly attracting graduates and other experienced technologists from across the country and the world. More venture capital is invested into software in the region than any other sector—more than three times the amount invested into media and entertainment. Google’s significant presence in the region is composed of a majority focused on technical and product. And the company is rapidly growing in LA.

Availability of capital. There are strong investors emerging in LA to partner with entrepreneurs building technology companies in the region. While entrepreneurs in both New York and New England can find local capital partners, entrepreneurs in Los Angeles have an advantage in their proximity to the Valley. By far the largest concentration of venture capital firms are in Silicon Valley. And as the venture capital industry has consolidated over the last decade, the concentration of capital in Silicon Valley has increased even more. According to the NVCA, of the 38 firms that successfully raised new funds this past quarter, five accounted for nearly 80% of the total dollars raised. All five were either based in Silicon Valley or had a significant presence.

Some wrote off Silicon Alley with the bursting of the bubble as investment into the region collapsed in the years that immediately followed. But New York has enjoyed a resurgence of activity over the past five years and the migration of VCs from Boston to New York indicates where they see the relative opportunities. The press has written extensively on this shift and if total mentions was the primary indicator of success, New York would be the clear odds-on-favorite to become the next Silicon Valley. But many whisper about the continuing challenges of finding enough great technical talent and competing with the cash compensation offered by the banks (underlining the defining culture).

The bottom line is this: through the cycles, the structural advantages enjoyed by Los Angeles and the surrounding region has it once again attracting more venture capital than any other outside of Silicon Valley. It is these same dimensions that create a long-term advantage. Lasting technology companies from ActivisionBlizzard to Qualcomm were built in Southern California. Amazing entrepreneurs are building the next slate today.
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The Highest-Salaried NFL Players

Dwight Freeney

Defensive End - Indianapolis Colts
2012 Salary: $19 million
  Seven-time Pro Bowler has 102 sacks since 2002. He gets a $14 million base this season as part of six-year, $72 million deal signed in 2007.  

Elvis Dumervil

Defensive End - Denver Broncos
2012 Salary: $18.9 million
Premier pass rusher bounced back from an injury-riddled 2010 season to record 9.5 sacks in 14 starts last year. Dumervil is owed $61 million through 2015, of which $43 million is guaranteed.

Peyton Manning

Quarterback - Denver Broncos

2012 Salary: $18 million
Manning launches his Rocky Mountain chapter with five years and $96 million; only the $18 million for 2012 is initially guaranteed.  

Sam Bradford

Quarterback - St. Louis Rams
2012 Salary: $15.6 million
The No. 1 overall pick in 2010 was the last top selection to sign before the new rookie wage scale. His six-year, $78 million deal runs through 2015.  

Philip Rivers

Quarterback - San Diego Chargers

2012 Salary: $15.3 million

Rivers’ passer rating dropped to 88.7 last year after three straight years of 100-plus. The Chargers hope it’s not the start of a decline - their deal with the 31-year-old runs for four more years.

Jared Allen

Defensive End - Minnesota Vikings
2012 Salary: $15.2 million
Four-time Pro Bowler led the NFL with 22 sacks last year. And talk about durable: Allen has missed just three games in eight seasons with Kansas City and Minnesota.

Tamba Hali

Defensive End - Kansas City Chiefs
2012 Salary: $14.5 million
A first-round pick out of Penn State in 2006, Hali has started 95 of a possible 96 career games.  His five-year $57.5 million contract signed in 2011 peaks in the second and third seasons (2012 and 2013).  

Michael Vick

Quarterback - Philadelphia Eagles
2012 Salary: $13.9 million
After an initial look-see, the Eagles went all in on Vick before the 2011 season: five years and $80 million, with $32 million guaranteed.  

Trent Williams

Offensive Tackle - Washington Redskins
2012 Salary: $13.4 million
The fourth overall pick two years ago out of Oklahoma signed for $60 million over six years. Williams got hit with a suspension last year for flunking drug tests - now he’s day-to-day in training camp with a bruised foot. Is this the man the Skins want protecting RG3’s blind side?

Larry Fitzgerald

Wide Receiver - Arizona Cardinals
2102 Salary: $13.25 million
  The Cards locked up the receiver extraordinaire with an eight-year contract for $128.5 million. The money peaks in 2015, when he's due $20.25 million.

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