Free Courses on Starting your own Business

Some of the best things in life are free and so are the courses being conducted by a co I really respect.I love McGraw-Hill and the magazines it publishes.

The venerable Business Week has free courses on entrepreneurship and business planning and related stuff and yes it does help if you are a subscriber to the print magazine as you have access to all the archives free! and you do have bonuses like the neatly hidden ones below:

See www.bwcourses.com

LifeStraw

"Interesting device. I've passed it on to about a dozen people. You should probably start a thread in a forum if you really want to get the idea out tho... that will get even more people seeing it."

http://www.index2005.dk/Members/dafude/bodyObject

Send the link to as many people as possible.It will help save lives.

Above is an actual comment from a very influential person who has the interest of people and I am really happy to know I am making a difference to the lives of people.

Do the needful and at the earliest.I am trying my best and so should we all-whatever we do we should not crib later and should enjoy doing the same.

On making a real difference

“If you come only to help me, you can go back home. But if you consider my struggle as part of your struggle for survival, then maybe we can work together.”

I hope all who read this blog understand me and work with me and make my struggle to make real difference their own struggle too and that is before I give up!

Make Poverty history and Ryan's Well Foundation

I am all for it and am doing the least I can to make a difference - popularizing the website and the movement on this blog which full of interesting info and websites.

I also want to add here that I have been able to make a difference in trying to make a difference in increasing the sugar production of the world as I am sure people will use the information I provided to an influential Yahoo Group of which I am a member.

Giving information about tried and tested products and solutions is the least we can do for benefiting everyone we know and in a way I am doing it and writing about it here.Today I also found the website of Ryan's Well foundation - I had read about the story in Readers Digest when I was a youngster and had always admired the courage and tenacity of Ryan who set out to make a difference by providing drinking water to an entire community by digging a well in Africa.

Both the websites are mentioned here and will urge all of us to do something more for everybody we know and do not know as well.Why I have not bothered about really popularizing this website-well because I use it as a personal reservoir of websites and information that my friends,well-wishers and I care about & not every one has these same interests.I know if people like the info presented here the info will spread and make a difference and one life made easier is a big difference.

Think and do something more is my only request.

1) http://www.makepovertyhistory.org/

Every single day, 30,000 children are dying as a result of extreme poverty. This year, 2005, we finally have the resources, knowledge and opportunity to end this shameful situation.

That's what this website is about. Join the band of people who are taking action to make poverty history. It only needs to take you a matter of minutes every month, but it will help us to literally change the world.

If this is your first visit to the site these are the 3 things you should do - join us now, get a white band & find out more.

2) http://www.ryanswell.ca/index.php

Ryan has always been a very sensitive boy. His parents and those around him have tried to nurture this characteristic. His grade one teacher, Mrs Prest was able to inspire Ryan. He decided that raising money for wells for people who didn't have clean water would be a good thing. He worked for four months in order to earn his first $70.

It grew from the $70 collected by doing simple household chores, to the support of non-profit organizations such as WaterCan, CPAR, CIDA and Free the Children. It grew to over $1,000,000 in support of people in Africa who need clean water.

"I'm just a normal boy," Ryan says when anyone asks about his achievements. Although many people would disagree with this statement, it is very true. He plays soccer, basketball and hockey. He enjoys reading, playing Nintendo and swimming as well. He has friends in the elementary school he attends, including dedicated volunteers like Jack who, like Ryan, plans to be a water engineer when he grows up. He loves to visit his Nana and his cousins in Ontario's Niagara region and his Grandparents near Deep River, Ontario. Ryan plays with his brothers Jordan and Keegan and with dog Riley. He has been writing to his African pen pal Jimmy Akana, who you may have seen with him on the cover of Reader's Digest.

Throughout, Ryan's family has been very supportive of his efforts to get clean water to Africa. Older brother Jordan sets up most of Ryan's audiovisual presentations and little brother Keegan has licked hundreds of stamps for thank you letters and notes that have been sent around the world. The Hreljacs live in a country home in North Grenville, just south of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Helping out Start ups - in the hardest step!

First identify the hardest step - the idea stage idea to business plan writing to the forming of the company.

Then comes the hardest step - finding the first client and adding real value to the client so that all come back for more!

I have found a company that actually does the same and it invests mostly in computer-related ideas. It does it because it is full of technology and net savvy people, it prefer groups that have a lot of technical depth. It actually cares more about how smart a person is more than how old the person is, and more about the quality of your idea than whether a formal business plan exists or not.

Yup such a dream company exists and I honestly wonder when individuals especially the ones who really want to help start doing more and talking less!

www.ycombinator.com

The link is given only to prove such a company exists and we should do more.I am doing my bit my writing this blog and giving examples - why?

It is only in the hope that good people come forward to help me out!

Anyway ... with or without help I will always try to do whatever I can to help out people by giving examples and doing what I can and Inshallah I will succeed sooner rather than later!

I hope the example has inspired readers of this blog to do whatever they can and now!

Madagascar Technology: Proven method for boosting rice yield

I am actually being able to help people try out ideas and measure results!.

So I am beginning to make a difference and so can you-if I can do it through the net so can you.I found tenants for my flat through the net and I did not have to pay a real estate agent and now I am getting a decent rent for the flat I have in Bangalore.

The only things you need are confidence and a smile.For more info on this topic send me an email.You all do know my email address by now and it is there in the archives also so make it a point to search the blog or the net and I am sure you will find stuff you can use.

Madagascar Technology: Proven method for boosting rice yields

Thanks dear, for providing such imp. note on SRI (SYSTEM OF Rice Intensification) method.
I will try to agree some farmers of Madhya Pradesh to adopt this method and
result sent to you.

Yellow pages,ideas and VC Ball

1. www.vcball.com
2. www.insiderpages.com
3. www.springwise.com
4. www.venturewiki.com

Hop you all benefit and yes I do keep using technorati tags (www.technorati.com) to keep upto date.The key words I use Startups,technology,ideas and Venture capital.

Think about doing the same and yes you too can be successful few tips here are:

1. Built trust in your family and friends and persuade them to help out.Ask and thou will be given.
2. Always be frugal with money and use it ony when absolutely essential.
3. Be willing to give up equity to the right people.
4. Find out as much info as possible about the business you want to enter into from friends/colleagues/consultants etc. and learn by yourself.

Use tools to save time and money and enable others to do the same - charge for the same and you are in business.For example you can always request your friends who use Windows 2000 to download an internet accelarator from Google-it works.That is how one can save time.

get paid for your job search

You have been taken for a ride for too long. Recruiters, online job sites and middlemen make millions of dollars, selling your Resume. It's not fair! You do all the work. You deserve a piece of the action.
For the first time, Employers pay you to contact you. Make money selling your resume... whether or not you take the job!

yes such a firm exists and these are types that will make a difference in my opinion.Do not say later you did not find my blog useful.

www.g2bay.com

This is no joke!

Even if I knew that the world would go to pieces tomorrow, I would
still plant a tree today!

I am genuinely trying to get an innovative power company to India which promises to increase the efficiency of existing thermal power plants by 20-25% using wasted heat..

For more details please email me.My email is ahmedparvez@yahoo.com

Ndiyo-means yes in Swahili

www.ndiyo.org

This is an awesome effort.Support the same by doing whatever possible.I have shown my suppot for this by writing about it on my blog.
I have shared it also with my audience on Stumble Upon too-I think it is awesome.

solutions for existing problems

this post is just to remind and draw attention towards the basics and build on that foundation by informing of innovative solutions to existing problems which are also mentioned here:

1. Problem : Infrastructure is under a great strain to meet the demands for oil security, roads are inadequate, ports are not really being modernized, power situation is horrible Solution : The spending has to be done by government and private companies and people alike and merelip service is just not going to satisfy the ordinary people as everybody wants results and sooner or later.A difference has to made and progress needs to be seen A cartel that sort of fix prices for coal and ntural gas will be formed and if the money comes from governments and individuals after a little grumbling well so be it..These things have been seen earlier and we all know what the cement companies and oil companies did earlier in the name of progress and coming together to improve technology and all that crap.
   
2. Power: Technology and companies exist that can reduce costs of energy.Sooner rather than later cartels. Solution: Use innovative services for minimizing the cost of power by really helping out people who are doing a lot for energy conservation-these are basic in nature:for public lighting find out about the use of LED's.These indeed consume a lot less power than ordinary lights or CFL's.Architects have to be told to design energy efficient buildings that use less energy (see www.thevospad.com for a model).Computers need to be switched off when not in use. (see www.verdiem.com). Using a motor of the correct size for the application will reduce consumption by almost 20%.Compressors and pumps which have variable speed drives are available today or they can be made-we need to use the same. Transmission losses in India can be reduced by changing over to 400 KV transmission voltage.

I want to end here by saying by hook or crook we will end up paying the government or private players the money which we can rightly save and keep as our legitimate income-private people use asset recovery agents and we all know the type of people they are and the governments just tax the citizens and do not act adequately in the interests of the people.There will be more on these problems and a few innovative solutions will be suggested however all solutions should begin with a will to implement the same an for this a change in the attitude of people is need and for this ideas have to be presented and executed well-the best idea is to increase the morale of a failure by facilitating and making the failure believe that it is possible to do wonders and then even if the failure is ditched after sometime (making the failure a true believer)-the fire in the belly will be there to make a difference and that is going to get a lot of innovation and will spread it to ordinary people-the process will become irreversible.
This is what the cricket series played between India and pakistan have done and people to people contact has indeed increased by leaps and bounds and no person is in a position to reverse this trend.The warmth between people seen on both sides of the border during the test and one-day cricket series had to be seen to be believed and reflected a gfenuine desire for peace and cooperation in helping the region grow.
More will follow on these topics later.

Yet another 3D company-Ya3DC

www.lightspacetech.com
is yet another 3 D company I have found on the Internet.The co has been featured in the latest issue of IEEE Spectrum.

what makes Silicon Valley so conducive to creating startup companies

what makes Silicon Valley so conducive to creating great startups?

The things that makes any area conducive to business creation (the Bay Area or Boston or Austin or wherever) are an entrepreneurial culture and a supportive ecosystem of institutions and professionals.

While it is certainly possible to create great businesses without those things, it is far more challenging. Places like the Bay Area tend to have a disproportionate number of individuals who are willing to bet on risky ventures. And they have a disproportionate number of lawyers, bankers, investors, accountants who have an expertise in business creation. In combination, all these things are self reenforcing and create an even stronger startup culture, which in turn creates a stronger drive towards business creation, which in turn fuels an economy of startup-focused service providers, which in turn lubricates the funding process, which in turn promotes startup growth, which in turn creates an even stronger startup culture, and so on.

Bangalore too has many people but many if not all have a stupid herd mentality and nobody gives a damn to people who have failed earlier in their previous ventures.To be a true winner really take a bet on a large number of companies and invest small sums only.A small sum of US $10,000 gets a lot of work done here (in Bangalore or a good city in India) and the fact is people here normally charge only on actuals (I am not talking of the big companies here).

The best type of people exist here too but these are really well hidden and one has to really search a lot and maybe these type of people will think of helping out-unlike in Silicon Valley where say a KPCB will offer you a check to just try out your concept.The check will be just enough to meet your expenses but hey it comes without the delay and immediately trust is established.It is this faith people show that spurs on these entrepreneurs who have spotted an opportunity and have had the guts to present their idea to a VC fund or Angel fund.

That said what further needs to be emphasized here is recognize the potential of an idea when you hear it and act after the same and not keep an entrepreneur waiting-the waiting period destroys whatever little trust an entrepreneurs has in an investor.

Tips to build a company are:

1. Listen to the idea patiently
2. Help the entrepreneur build a team
3. Incorporate the company
4. Write a business plan with the help of all stakeholders
5. Cut down costs to the barest minimum
6. Give visibility to the idea by giving a freebie
7. Use the net extensively to promote
8. Win the trust of team members and potential clients.

All this is done in Silicon Valley and the atmosphere there is a state of mind and people actually teach others what they do not know-it does not happen a lot here however it is changing and it is for the better.

The link I have seen today is www.innovations-report.com
Some credit for this article goes to www.ventureblog.com and to Dr Sadagopan's blog.

An enterprise accelaration company

If you have a special server-based application with a half-second response time in the United States, and a five-second response time in India, it's a big problem. Companies that can optimize the performance of WAN-based applications to make acceptable response times without costing more will do well.

Swan Labs, a company that participates exactly in enterprise-application acceleration. It designs and builds appliances to perform these services for large enterprises.

I am beginning to like the talk about such companies with innovative products and services.When will people learn to love saving time better by using better technology.I think companies in the Enterprise accelaration space will do well.What needs to be done is see how we can use technology better.

The URL www.swanlabs.com

Become better and faster and differentiate yourselves if you can afford it or barter-it still works,just find out the pain points of the other company/person whose need you can aticipate and complete.

NewsBurst

I love www..newsburst.com an excellent way to get the news you are interested in and the sources that have been recommended too are among the best news sources for techies.
ww.NextAris.com too is good and gives you great results

A link for skin specialists

The link below is for skin specialists and I found it and it has been appreciated by a really good skin specialist.

http://rms.nelh.nhs.uk/skin/

I am getting approvals for my website findings and this information is being used by real people in real places.

Free Internet hotels

such hotels exist and the site where you will find them is below and the number is growing all the time.

http://chainhotels.com

Know your hotel better.

C++Reference

the 2 sites below are among the best for C++ and C programming and a very good programming magaine is Dr Dobbs Journal (www.ddj.com)

www.cppreference.com
www.cuj.com

I hope you readers like the websites and more importantly use them well!

The Power of Dreams

Believe in yourself-in the power that you have to control your own life,
You know yourself best & the fact is the situation at home and at work is full of strife

What is there in front of you is a very big task
Breaking it into doable bits is not a very difficult ask!

Day by day, believe in the strength that you have deep inside
Your faith will show the direction forward and do it with pride

Believe in tomorrow and the joy it will bring,
Show you are making a difference by doing your own thing!

Matters will get sorted out so keep your dreams alive
Things always work out and in tough times only do tough people thrive!

There is absolutely no limit to what an individual can do
So go confidently in the direction of your dreams and make the same true
I want all to take inspiration from these words and chart their own success stories too!

Have fun blogging

The golden rules for blogging and gaining popularity in the blogosphere are written below for reference.

• Post consistently
• Post frequently
• Write about what interests you--within reason
  
• Share and give credit
• Have a point of view
  
• Listen to everything--and everyone
• Have fun

Not to mention that whatever you do have fun,be helpful and be productive,try not to hurt sentiments of people and see how things can be done most effectively at the least cost to yourself and it is nice to indulge in some ego-surfing once in a way.One should try to find out why one is popular and what is the real reason behind the same - and a bad name is also a name as the saying goes in Urdu

Nafrat hi Sahi -Ulfath Na Sahi - Usko bhi Mohabbath kehte hain

Translated

People hate me - Cetainly do not love me - That is also love (of a different type)

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