“Have Breakfast… or… Be Breakfast!” 
By Y. L. R. MOORTHI
[Management Views from IIMB is an exclusive column written every two weeks for india.wsj.com by faculty members of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore.]
Who sells the largest number of cameras in India?
Your guess is likely to be Sony, Canon or Nikon. Answer is none of the above. The winner is Nokia whose main line of business in India is not cameras but cell phones.
Reason being cameras bundled with cellphones are outselling stand alone cameras. Now, what prevents the cellphone from replacing the camera outright? Nothing at all. One can only hope the Sonys and Canons are taking note.
Try this. Who is the biggest in music business in India? You think it is HMV Sa-Re-Ga-Ma? Sorry. The answer is Airtel. By selling caller tunes (that play for 30 seconds) Airtel makes more than what music companies make by selling music albums (that run for hours).

Gone are the days when you had to run from pillar to post to figure out the most efficient ways to fire up your business. While starting a venture is still far from being “just a click away” the internet has certainly ensured that you literally do have enough information at your fingertips and that once you’ve sorted regulatory issues out, you can tap into several online resources to get yourself up an running. DARE takes a look at some of the best online resources, including some India-specific ones, that budding entrepreneurs can tap into.

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Greetings from Grid Consultants !

Encouraged by the good response to our  Leadership Grid seminars in the Leadership Development year 2010 , we are extremely happy to announce the following two  seminars in February 2010

  1. The Solution Selling Grid Seminar for Sales Personnel & Management  Students  -     Date: 18th-19th February 2010

  1. The Grid Works Seminar for Officers, Supervisors & Management  Students – Date: 25th-26th February 2010

Venue ; Dr.P.N.Singh Centre for HRD , 502 – 505, 5th    Floor,  Sai Chambers, Near BEST Bus Depot, Opp. Railway Stn,  Santacruz (E).Mumbai – 400 055

These seminars are for young potential  leaders below the age of 35 years

The plan is to give them scholarships so that they could attend the world famous  Grid Seminars which may be otherwise out of reach for them because of the cost. These Grid seminars are conducted in 40 countries of the world.

In India itself we have conducted over 500 seminars.

We would like to offer 2 such scholarships each to your organisation

The scholarship will get adjusted against the fee.

Please find attached herewith Brochures with all details like fee etc

Hope that you will make use of this golden oppurtunity and we assure you that this investment made in Human resources will give  excellent results to your organisation

Kindly send us the nominations at the earliest, so that we could send the  study material for pre-work which has  to be completed before the seminar.

With warm regards,

Dr.P.N.Singh

Chairman

Mobile : 9867922228

http://www.grid-india.com/gridindia.asp

Jagat Shah - Chief Mentor

“A cluster is a geographically proximate group of companies and associated
institutions in a particular field, linked by commonalities and complementarities “

Cluster Pulse , an ISO certified economic development agency is a professionally managed, self-sustaining, autonomous institution with excellence in implementation of Cluster Development initiatives as its main objective through the twin approach of market intervention & technology upgradation in SME’s.It has worked in 82 clusters in partnership with GTZ, UNIDO, USAID, IFC, World Bank, The commonwealth secretariat, Govt. of Canada, Govt. of Brunei, Government of India – Ministry Of Textiles, Ministry of MSME, Ministry of IT & communications & State Govt. all over India & in 10 other countries including USA, Canada, Brazil, Sweden, UK, Croatia, South Africa, Oman, Brunei, Turkey & Afghanistan. We have worked in 80 industry vertical like Textiles, agro, engineering, pharma, consumer goods, ICT etc.

Click Here for more information for SME training, marketing and growth

Tips.net is a great resource for quick helpful tips on a variety of topics.  Whether you are looking for household tips, cooking tips or computer tips – its all there on this comprehensive and useful resource.

Many topics which demand detailed explanations have sub-sites of their own. So we have excel.tips.net for tips on Microsoft Excel, health.tips.net for Health Tips, home.tips.net for Home Improvement Tips that you can use, and cooking.tips.net to cook up a storm !

A nifty feature is that several tips are also accompanied by videos on How To, which become very valuable when we are looking at Fixing Scratches in CDs and DVDs, Using Hair Removal Creams or even Washing Your Sneakers

We all seem to love our cars. We spend a good part of each day either driving or being driven in cars, and that is no accident. We seem to grow more attached to our cars each day. Because cars are such a big part of our lives, doesn’t it make sense to learn all you can about how to better get along with your car? You can find the tips and techniques to do just that at Car.Tips.Net.

From now on, if you are surrounded by clutter, just look up organizing.tips.net and if you love your pet and looking for ways to help – you have pet.tips.net. And, of course, we all love our families – so if you are looking for Behavioral Tips, Marriage, Parenting, Parties and Safety tips, just connect to family.tips.net

So just go ahead have a tip-sy day !

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has been established by the Government of India to assign unique numbers to all residents of India. The role that the UIDAI envisions is to issue a unique identification number (UID) that can be verified and authenticated in an online, cost-effective manner, and that is robust enough to eliminate duplicate and fake identities.

The UIDAI invites proposals from the public for the logo. If a particular logo is found appropriate and selected by the UIDAI, it would carry a cash prize of Rs. 1 lakh to the sender of the logo. Consolation prizes of Rs.10, 000 would also be provided.

Click here for the Contest Guidelines

This Indian Government Tenders Information System is the Central Source for Government and Public Sector Procurement / Tenders/ Notifications issued by the Central and State Governments and other public bodies across India for goods, services and works.

Tenders by  Products / Service
Tenders based on specific Product/Service category to which your business can respond
Civil Works, Equipment, Machineries, Support Services…
Tenders by  Agency
View all Tenders floated by a certain Government of India entity
Central Govt. Min. / Dept.
State / UT
Public Sector Units
Public Sector Banks
Other Organisation
Tenders by  Classification
Tender notifications by the Tender Category, namely
Buy
Sell
Auction
Empanelment
Work Contract

Click Here for this storehouse of the latest Tenders by the Government of India

Dharmesh Shah is the co-founder and CTO of Hubspot.  Dharmesh has held a number of technology management and development positions.  In this very interesting piece, he gives brief, focused and extremely valuable advice to startups which can be practically used in all situations. He calls them triplets ! Some Samples :

1.  Watch your cash.

2.  Pick founders carefully.

3.  Hire generalists early.

10. Never fudge numbers.

11. Encourage diverse thinking.

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