Author: yazdi

Training

3 Best Practices of Entrepreneurship

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Being an entrepreneur is a tough job. You will find that suddenly all the comforts of a structured environment is gone! You are all alone instead a team of people waiting to execute your orders. You are the Chief Operating Officer as well as the Chief Plumbing Officer. In this video Arun Jagannathan, Founder, CrackVerbal, shares his experience that will help you deal with this new role more efficiently.

Arun Jagannathan , Over the past decade has worn multiple hats as tutor, entrepreneur and a technology manager. He has taught and mentored over 4000 students, teaching topics ranging from hard-skills such as software engineering to soft-skills such as time-management. His main focus however has been test preparation — teaching at major test prep companies in India such as IMS, Career Launcher, Kaplan, and Princeton Review

 

Innovation

Could a smartphone be the future of medicine?

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One of the world’s top physicians, Dr. Eric Topol, has a prescription that could improve your family’s health and make medical care cheaper. The cardiologist claims that the key is the smartphone. Topol has become the foremost expert in the exploding field of wireless medicine. Dr. Nancy Snyderman reports.

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Finance, Resources

Raise your own funds online – Crowdfunding

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GoFundMe personal online fundraising websites are perfect for individuals, groups & organizations!
You create your own microsite, tell your story and share it with the world around you, including your friends on Facebook, Twitter, etc. The entire process is totally free, except that when you receive funds, GoFundMe deducts 5% and remits you the balance 95%. You have nothing to lose !

An innovative way of raising your own funds for your projects, studies, NGOs, Business Ideas, Donations, and more !

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Here’s how it works.

 

Innovation, Motivations, Networking, News

Encouraging innovation

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For one week, lakhs of people across the country will come together to celebrate Entrepreneurship Week India. Designed to build public awareness and support for entrepreneurship, E Week India focuses public attention on today’s biggest opportunities and encourages participants to reflect on their role as leaders and innovators. The campaign is led by the National Entrepreneurship Network and supported by the Wadhwani Foundation.

By far the largest entrepreneurship activity in the country, E Week’s dramatic results in the past – building support for entrepreneurs – is encouraging ever more participation. This year’s E Week is set to engage over 7,00,000 participants. The campaign will see active involvement of more than 30 organizations that support entrepreneurship; corporate entities; industry captains, experts, non-profits, and faculty leaders to inspire, encourage, and guide students.and faculty leaders to inspire, encourage, and guide students.

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News, People / Stories

Jantakhoj offers background verification with a single click

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JantaKhoj aims to simplify People Search and Background Checks.

  • India is a country with 1.21 billion people.
  • India is now a major IT power too.

However, when it comes to the area of People Search and Background Checks, there is a lot of work to be done. JantaKhoj is dedicated to bridging this gap.

To achieve these, JantaKhoj has brought together a great team covering the diverse areas of data engineering, online business, and background checks. This team is passionate about applying the data aggregation technologies to solve the complex problems in People Search and Background Checks that are unique to Indian scenario.

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Innovation, People / Stories

Fleximoms – Sairee Chahal

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Sairee Chahal is Co-Founder, Fleximoms (www.fleximoms.in).

Fleximoms is a work-life and career destination for women in India. Fleximoms works towards creating, enhancing and co-creating workflex opportunities for women professionals. It also helps organizations harness flexibility as a value driver. Seen as a change leader and pioneer in the women and work conversation, Sairee is an ardent workflex advocate.

Sairee has worked in start-up mode as well as in large set-ups in research and consulting capacities. This includes setting up Russia and CIS practice for Heidrick & Struggles HSII http://www.heidrick.com and Confederation of Indian Industry.

Sairee started her career as a journalist with Advertising & Marketing magazine and quickly moved on to set-up world’s first daily for mariners — http://www.newslinkservices.com.

Sairee is a finalist for the Cartier Women’s Award Initiative for 2012 and has been featured on shows like Young Turks, Pioneering Spirit and What Women Want and is an industry influencer shaping the future of work conversation.

Management, Marketing

How to build a low-cost brand

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How to build a low-cost brand

By Ronald Williams and Peter Keen

Bharti Airtel’s growth strategy shows that:
●You can use relationships to gain new capabilities, flexibility and capital efficiency.
●You don’t have to remain tied to standard industry practices and metrics.
●You should not lock yourself into an ethos of core competences: you can source the best.
●You don’t have to own it to brand it.

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Management

8 Business Lessons Your Mom Taught You Better than Business School

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You need a new philosophy. The one your mom taught you many years ago.

Here are a few of those business lessons:

1. What goes around comes around.

2. No one likes a “know it all”.

3. Stop being a whiner.

4. Life isn’t fair.

5. Just because everyone else is doing it doesn’t mean you should too.

6. Learn from your mistakes.

7. Say “I’m sorry…” when you’re wrong.

8. Grow up.

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Finance, Resources

Kickstarter – Funding for Creative Projects

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  1. What’s Kickstarter?

    Kickstarter is a funding platform for creative projects. Everything from films, games, and music to art, design, and technology. Kickstarter is full of ambitious, innovative, and imaginative projects that are brought to life through the direct support of others.

    Since our launch on April 28, 2009, over $350 million has been pledged by more than 2.5 million people, funding more than 30,000 creative projects. If you like stats, there’s lots more here.

  2. How does Kickstarter work?

    Thousands of creative projects are funding on Kickstarter at any given moment. Each project is independently created and crafted by the person behind it. The filmmakers, musicians, artists, and designers you see on Kickstarter have complete control and responsibility over their projects. They spend weeks building their project pages, shooting their videos, and brainstorming what rewards to offer backers. When they’re ready, creators launch their project and share it with their community.

    Every project creator sets their project’s funding goal and deadline. If people like the project, they can pledge money to make it happen. If the project succeeds in reaching its funding goal, all backers’ credit cards are charged when time expires. If the project falls short, no one is charged. Funding on Kickstarter is all-or-nothing.

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