Hi Ankesh,
We acknowledge George Haylings as the inspiration for The Great Ideas Letter. He researched and put together business ideas for about half a century. I think he published his newsletter from about the 1930s until the early 1980s.
You can read a little more in our press release acknowledging this.... You can find it here
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2002/8/prweb44727.php
Terry Alexander currently has the rights to sell one of his books - where he put a number of his articles. You can find it here
http://www.infobooklets.com
Apparently George Haylings is still around, though he is quite elderly now. His contribution to entrepreneurship is immense!
- Dien Rice
Our up-to-date product - in the SPIRIT of George Haylings...