• Rules from the BABY’s Book on Becoming a Billionaire
  
  

  • Rule #98: With regards to peerage, it’s ok to do business with Sirs—like Sir Elton John, Sir Paul McCartney or Sir Laurence Olivier. But beware of barons, kings and emperors.

  • Rule #102: A happy investor is a happy investor. But beyond that you’re on your own.

• Billionaire Update: Warren Buffet’s unconventional life leads to many happy returns.

• Crooks of the Week: Selling their souls…and a few Rolls. A Canadian baron awaits trial for fraud and a senior Wal-Mart executive steals over $500K in merchandise.

• Hang in there. A listener asks about expanding her purse hanger business.

• Who gives a hoot? Randy Broberg clarifies what sort of trade dress can be protected.

• Craving a slice of the pie? Over 70 percent of high school students want to start their own businesses, according to a recent survey by Junior Achievement.

• Executive samaritans. Members of San Diego Social Venture Partners pool their money, time and talent to bring accountability and measurable outcomes to San Diego non-profits.

Joanne Pastula is the president and CEO of Junior Achievement of San Diego and Imperial Counties which teaches business and economics to 34,000 students in 22 school districts. Before joining JA more than 10 years ago, Joanne was executive vice president, a principal shareholder and a director of John Burnham & Company where she worked from 1977-1995. She is very active in numerous boards, commissions and community activities including Rotary Club 33, the Ackerman Foundation, the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation, and the Dean’s Advisory Board for San Diego State University.

Darcy Bingham and Carrie Stone are the founders of San Diego Social Venture Partners, an organization of individuals with business, technology, and professional backgrounds. Partners invest their time, talents and resources in the San Diego community. SVP measures outcomes and works to help build organizational capacity. Each year, the group has a different focus, and for 2006-2007, the theme is hunger and homelessness. Organizations with whom the group has worked include the Human Development Foundation, the Sierra Club, Second Chance and San Diego Coastkeeper.

Randy Broberg, recently named one of the best transactional intellectual property attorneys in San Diego by the San Diego Daily Transcript, is a partner at the law firm of Allen Matkins. His diverse clients have included representing General Atomics in a manufacturing arrangement against a Korean company, representing tennis player Serena Williams to acquire the domain name www.serenawilliams.com, and trademark representation of Directed Electronics which makes the Viper car alarms.