Entrepreneur.com brings to light a survey, which is being conducted right now about how and why religion is an important or not-so important part of business. In India it is definitely one of the more important ones.
You can take part in the survey here.
Religion isn't going anywhere from this world. In the 21st century, no matter how distant and far away it seems, it is still quite amongst us.
If you are a travelling freak, you can never really forget Japan. The icon of the east, the land of the rising sun, the home of martial arts. Japan reminds us of everything non-American. And if you like watching movies, there are some people from Japan, who you can never forget. One such example is Akira Kurisawa, the legendry movie director, who became a pioneer of Japanese and American films, was a part and parcel of Japan. Besides Japan is about fast trains and beautiful women. The beauty of it all it that is gels so well together, that once you get there, it's really difficult to come out. Even though it seems far, flights to Japan can be quite cheap.
Then there is also Malaysia. Where people play badminton faster than you can blink your eye. There are dragons on the streets, and carnivals around the year. Please book your flights to Malaysia here.
Finally, there is also Bangkok. The largest city and the capital of Thailand. Other than beautiful women there are absolutely fabulous beaches, which extend from one end of the city to the other. It is also a major port on the sea route to Australia, and everything that goes down under does pass through here. So if you are thinking of heading there, this is where you can get your flights to Bangkok.
Participants in the Price-Babson Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators (SEE) program will be exploring the entrepreneurial process and the 'art and craft' of teaching and learning entrepreneurship. The program provides an introduction to case-method teaching and live, venture-based teaching methodologies.
The 68 attendees, from 33 institutions in countries around the world including the Pacific Rim, Europe, and Latin America, will be encouraged to identify, plan, and personalize their own entry (or reentry) strategy into academia, and to improve as teachers, entrepreneurs, learners, researchers, and colleagues.
Session topics will include New Venture Creation, Entrepreneurship Curriculum Design, The Entrepreneurial Mind in Action, The Quest for Master Teaching, Alternative Pedagogies, Challenges in the “Clashroom,” and Idea Lab.
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The only one thing that Canada and the US share is the border line. Otherwise it's almost like two different worlds. If you want to be rich and famous, go to USA, if you want to enjoy go to Canada.
I'm the kinds who love to enjoy, so of course, I'm planning to be off to Canada. Other than the fact that I have a cousin there, I know for sure that the place would really be amazing. At least once, in this lifetime, or the next, I want to go down to Canada, and give them a visit. Being one of the coolest places on earth, it also has it's share of don't eat this crap. But food is good, and the people better. And if like me you're in love with the place, you can get flights to Canada here.
Now if you get bored of Canada, and if you bought my shit about people being nice and all, that is all bull. People are the same everywhere. But anyways, if you're not the one meant to be going to Canada, you can get your flights to USA here, or flights to Caribbean here. If you get to the USA, enjoy the night life, and if you hit the carribbean, enjoy the cricket.
Himanshu quotes that Infosys is all set to start supporting social entrepreneurs from now on.
The initiative, called InfYi will function as the corporate chapter of the Young India initiative started by the Confederation of Indian Industry. Reflecting that charter, all its members below the age of 35 will be Infoscions.. I wonder if there are any social entrepreneurs who are looking out for it.
The stress won't be on funding but to provide guidance to the Entrepreneurs. Based on the inputs that a project or idea needs, a senior council member will contribute to it. The projects could be in youth affairs, education, healthcare, economy or any other socially-relevant area. So far, InfYi has received 13 project ideas. Three of these will be shortlisted taken from concept to execution. They will be put through the paces by a team which has worked out how to capitalise on opportunities and survive downturns.
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Credit cards have been making our lives simple for so many years. Even though I cannot say that I have had the best of experiences with it, I have in a way become addicted to Credit Cards. It's like you can't live with it, nor can you live without it.
All of us know about it, but just sometimes, when the cash is low, we tend to ignore the fact that we need to be paying the credit card monthly. This is what happens if you don't. And that's not it. Online security is becoming so much of an issue. Though if you remember general priciples it's not that difficult.
For some credit cards are an option, for me it's a way of life.
Here are some wise words on why don't deals get done?
Proof of concept used to be "I turn on the lightswitch, and the light goes on", post dot.com bubble, proof of concept is now "I turn on the lightswitch, the light goes on, AND SOMEONE IS WILLING TO PAY ME TO READ UNDER IT."
There are some places which you won't remember after you've left them. And there are some which you just can't forget when you see them. New York is one of the latter. The most populous city in the United States of America, is quite what the media makes it seem to be. The first time I went there, I left back a piece of myself there. Whenever I get a chance to get there again, I'll be the first guy you see running towards the flight (btw you get tickets for your flights to New York here).
Places including the Empire State Building, Ellis Island, Broadway theater productions, scores of museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Central Park, Washington Square Park, Rockefeller Center, Times Square, the Bronx Zoo and New York Botanical Garden, luxury shopping along Fifth and Madison Avenues, and events such as the Halloween Parade in Greenwich Village, the Tribeca Film Festival, and free performances in Central Park at Summerstage make it the best place to take a New York Weekend Break.
There are a few other places in the US which are as hot as New York. Though one which comes to mind instantly is Orlando. You can catch a cheap flight to orlando here. In case you don't know, it is the home of artists including Anberlin, Britney Spears, Mandy Moore, NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys, as well as Sam Rivers, Creed, Trivium, From First to Last, Matchbox Twenty, Seven Mary Three, There For Tomorrow, Mark Fenlon, DJ Icey, DJ KJ of K5, DJ Baby Anne, DJ Jimmy Joslin and DJ Scotty B. Sister Hazel, For Squirrels and Less Than Jake are from nearby Gainesville, as is superstar Tom Petty.
Andrew Fife of Entrepreneurship Blog, wonders why Techcrunch is against the very force which made it so famous - The Silicon Valley. He says
it does seem to me that TechCrunch is one of the biggest beneficiaries of the Silicon Valley startup hype cycle. More venture money means two trends that TechCrunch would seem to benefit from: 1. More startups get funded, which generate more pageviews for TechCrunch as they write about new products resulting from the funding 2. Larger marketing budgets to fund advertising and conferences. Valuation aside, I can't think of a company that fundamentally relies on the swelling interest in web 2.0 more than TechCrunch.
I just came to know yesterday that one of my friends has got admitted to the prestigious SP Jain Institute of Management, in Dubai. It took him three years in Infosys, and a score of 680 in the GMAT to be able to make it there. Though it wasn't exactly the place that he'd been dying to go to.
His tryst with MBA started way back in college, when he appeared for CAT. Then again and then again, but it isn't really to crack it. Anyways, last year he went onsite to the US and was going to stay there for the next three years. But he decided to quit that offer and complete his MBA first. So he's back here in Pune, for the last few days before he leaves for Dubai. (This is where he is getting his flight to Dubai from).
But what I'm interested in, is not his studies, but what I'll do when I go there. Dubai Holidays are going to be cool. You can go there anytime, with the A1 Grand Prix, Dubai Festival City, Dubai Financial Market, Dubai Healthcare City, Dubai Holding, Dubai police, Dubai Sevens, Dubai Tennis Championships, Dubai World Cup, Falcon City of Wonders, List of schools in the United Arab Emirates, 2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens, to be held in Dubai, there is way too much to see. Ofcourse there is even AbuDhabi. Flights to Abu dhabi can be found here, where all the cute kittens keep going. I'm sure I'll see a lot of them there.
Shot in just one day with a tiny budget of $200, "water" is the debut clip for Blue King Brown.
I keep talking about places I would like to visit is the Mediterranean. Ofcourse when you start talking about it, the first place that comes to mind is Cyprus.
Cyprus is the third largest island in the Mediterranean and definitely the most popular tourist location in the area. Being one of the oldest places in the world, it is said that hunters-gatherers were active on the island from 10,000 BC. A flight to Cyprus is easy to get. This is also the place where the goddess of love - Aphrodite - was born. The island has two main languages. In the north it is Turkish and in the south is Greek, though English is widely understood. Here are a few places you have to check out once you go there, Paphos Harbour and Castle, House of Hadigeorgakis Kornesios, Nicosia 'within the walls', Kourion/Kolossi Castle, Larnaca Salt Lake & Hala Sultan Tekke, Agia Napa and Protaras, Cedar Valley, Panayia tou Araka, Choirokitia, Lefkara and The Paphos mosaics. So pack your bags and move on for the Cyprus holidays
The second place worth checking out in the Mediterranean is Malta. If you are thinking about your Malta holidays, this is what you should know. It lies south of Sicily and the main languages there are Maltese and English. Of course you remember about the Maltese Faction, which is the first thing which comes to mind when you think about Malta. This place is home to some of the oldest freestanding structures in the world. Eg, the megalithic temples on the islands is il-Ġgantija, in Għawdex on Gozo, dating back to before 3500 BC.
The twelfth pandora podcast is up.
It is about what you do with a sung track after you have recorded it.
Go here to listen to it.
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I started blogging about three years back. In all these three years, I never thought that I should try and start making money off the blog.
In the starting, there were not too many ways you could do this. Adsense was always there, but when you blog does not get any traffic, it is impossible to earn the first 100 dollars via adsense. The same problem exists amongst all other advertising networks.
So when I heard about PayPerPost for the first time, a few weeks back, I was elated. This was just what I was looking for. This is the easiest way to bloggers to use their skills at blogging and make some money by blog reviews. Of course if your blog isn't one of the very good ones, there is no way you are going to make much money off it.
This is why I like PPP the most. It ensures that you keep your blog up to decent standards, but if people won't come there, advertisers won't pay. And you can also start making money with it, as long as you don't get greedy.
Here is an interesting anecdote on Zoli's Blog.
Kaval Kaur, co-Founder of Virsa, a company acquired by enterprise software giant SAP is up on stage. She is a dynamic speaker, and a perfect inspiration for entrepreneurs or entrepreneur-wannabes in the crowd.
But ... what's happening? She is interrupted by a kid with a microphone in hand.
"Hi - are you looking for your parents?
No. I'm looking for funding."
The "kid" turns out to be Anshul Samar, 13-year old CEO of Elementeo, a battle-game of .. chemical elements. (Gee, I barely knew what chemistry was at his age). Anshul looks like a 13-year old, but speaks like an adult. He knows what he wants: the goal is to achieve $1M in revenue by the time he finishes high-school, which is next year.
This is why we choose to work for the whole year.
Vacations are what makes it worthwhile. One month off the job makes it possible to survive the eleven months of work. I wonder what would happen if that was taken away. I have heard that in Japan it is compulsory to take all of your leaves. Because they say the people there have a tendency to stop taking vacation because they say that the work gets affected. I can't believe that this kind of people still exist in the world.
Anyways, if you ask me, there are two places I really want to go to: Singapore and Thailand. Singapore, because it is one of the coolest places in the world. It looks modern but at the same time it is undeniably Asian. The climate is amazing and there are a shitload of places to go to. If you like it as much as I do, you can get your flights to Singapore here.
The second place is Thailand. And for just one reason, Bangkok is there :D. By the way, you can't flights to Thailand and the Bangkok flight. The last time I planned to go there was last new years. Luckily for me, I couldn't make it, because I fell short of money. And guess what happened. There was a coup. Bangkok got bombed. But my friends who were there, told me that it wasn't all that bad. So i've been saving up again for quite some time now. And this time it looks like i'm all set to go.
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All of us know the feeling.
The pay day is oh so close but you need the money now, not one week later. One week later it would be all gone, it is now or never. And then you need to call up your friend, or your family and explain how much you need, and when will you return it. And you get those glances, even though you're on a full time job.
Today I'm talking about a wonderful idea, which is going to change your life. Especially your life, in the few days before you get your pay. Payday Loan is there to give you personal cash advance online. It is the fastest, safest, and the easiest way to get the cash advance. With this you manage to stay clear of the expensive bounced checks and late payment penalty on your credit cards.
Applying for a payday loan is easy, just fill up the form and a representative will contact you within a few MINUTES to confirm your contact details etc, and overnight you get the money in your back. No faxing papers, no endless trips to get the loan approved. And when the due date comes, the loan amount and a small fee would be automatically deducted from your account. So you dont have to do anything.
Greg writes a beautiful post about why it is important to take a step back if you wish to jump. He refers to Christine Kane's interview, who gives us a few insights.
Not only does Christines' music reveal wisdom each answer to Ed's questions reveal a conscious, authentic lady who gets it. Her answers really do speak to the need of every entrepreneur to occasionally step back to gain perspective and look after themselves so they can be of service to others. Check out the interview on Ed's blog and make sure to check out Christine Kane. Here is a video of Christine performing one of her popular songs.
IndiaPrWire reports that Sequoia Capital has today announced that it has sold a 4.45% stake in Firstsource Solutions to SUN Group for a total sum of $42 million. Post the sale, Sequoia Capital India will continue to own around a 5% stake in FirstSource.
Speaking on the deal, KP Balaraj, Managing Director, Sequoia Capital India said, “We are very positive about Firstsource Solutions, which is one of India’s top BPO companies and is currently the largest publicly traded BPO company with a current market cap of over $1 Billion. The company is led by a world class management team and Board, and we are excited to remain a shareholder and investor here. We are also very excited that Sequoia India was an early investor in India`s first large cap BPO public company .”
Here is the biggest resource of clips about entrepreneurship, including interviews with great entrepreneurs of all time. You can read more about it here.
Students and professionals interested in social responsibility often argue that business is only about making a profit and "entrepreneurship" is a dirty word. eClips brings wisdom from Bena Burda, CEO of Maggie’s Organics who feels commerce and trade can be viable solutions and states,
Business absolutely is a change agent.
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Tired of looking through hundreds of calling cards to find out which one of them turns out to be the cheapest. Well now you can relax, because the cheapest card that you would ever find is already here. Pingo, the prepaid calling card provider started by iBasis, a public company (NASDAQ: IBAS), it intends to provide you with a cheap alternative and saving a lot of your time.
More so if you use your mobile to call up, then using Pingo allows you to save as much as 90% on international calls, if you use Pingo. They use a trademarked PIN-less dialling, so that you don't have to remember the passwords. And you also get $5 just for singing up. It is also the lowest India prepaid calling card rate(India = 7.3 cents)
Other than that there are free merchant giveaways, free fathers day calls, and an affiliate program too.
Andrew Fife links to a WSJ article, which talks about how Guy Kawasaki, of Garage Venture, started his new company truemors on just $12k and free softwares. The programming was done by a company with cool website called Electric Pulp.
It is said that it took three months to complete creating the product.
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So you are tired of the regular bidding sites, where the prices keep going up and up, and you end of paying more than the value of what you were bidding for. If that is the case you might really like this great new service which is available in the market, which allows you to make bids for objects.
But the best part is that it's not the highest bid that gets it, it's the lowest bid that wins. For example, if you are bidding for this BMW 3 series, if two people bid $30,000 and one guy bids $40,000, and you bid $30,0001 for the same, then you win the bid. Sounds interesting?
If yes then you can log into Bid4Prizes.com and start bidding for the things that you really like. I'm still stuck on the BMW Series 3, just can't get my mind off it.
Babar Bhatti talks about conferences for entrepreneurs in Pakistan.
I would like to share a new series of learning and networking opportunities for executives and entrepreneurs in Pakistan. In June, there are 2 seminars in Karachi, led by senior lecturers Ken Morse and William Aulet at MIT Entrepreneurship Center. First is “Pakistan CEO Summit” and the second is “Financing Your New Venture“. Organizers include OPEN, MDI, MIT Entrepreneurship Center and Computer Society of Pakistan.I never thought much would be happening there, but it looks like there is.
