Author: yazdi

Motivations

Body Language Secrets of Confident Business Women

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You walk into a room full of people you’ve never met before. Someone hands you a ‘Hello my name is’ badge and away you go. As you walk around the room deciding who to speak to first, you notice people looking at you. What do they think when they see you?

If only you could read minds it would be so much easier! When people meet you for the first time do you make a positive first impression? Do people think, “Wow, that’s a confident woman”?

People are making assumptions about who you are and what you do before you’ve said a single word. Of course they notice your hair, make-up and the way you dress. In addition to that you are sending out, like radar, subtle non-verbal cues through your body language.

Here are five ways to send out the right signals.

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Courtesy : Jehangir Bisney

Business Plans, Networking, News

The Entrepreneur Summit 2011

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The Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Bombay, is a conglomerate of individuals with a vision, a dream. It is a place for all those who shirk from taking beaten paths and believe in leaving trails in all walks of life. The Cell aims at manifesting the latent Entrepreneurial spirit of young students. Not only do we show you the doors of opportunity but we also equip you to walk through it.

India as a Nation has traversed a long way to be amongst one of the fastest growing economies in the world. The Entrepreneurs have played a major role in shaping the Indian economy. Today the Indian Entrepreneur is aiming high and big.

The Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Bombay presents Entrepreneurship Summit 2011, a conglomerate of eminent Speaker Sessions, highly efficient networking Events and nail biting pitching Competitions and much more.

Endorsing the theme of “Connecting the dots”, the 5th Edition of the E Summit ’11 will be hosting events specifically designed to facilitate efficient networking. It aims to empower you with all the necessary know-how required for you to prosper now and into the future.

Click Here for more details

Calendar, Motivations, News

SME India Outlook 2011

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SME India Outlook 2011

Through SME India Outlook 2011-Capitalizing IT & Automation for Manufacturing Excellence, INK Business Media aims to provide the SMEs an opportunity to identify the tailor-made IT & Automation solutions designed specifically to meet the demand from the SME sector, in order to bring accuracy, speed & precision in manufacturing business. Our USP being our speakers, this will be an excellent platform to meet the stalwarts from the IT & Automation industry under a single roof and understand strategies to accommodate modern technologies in available budget.

We do not wish to talk about problems, We aim towards giving you solutions

‘SME India Outlook 2011’ will not talk about the three ‘I’s viz. Issues, Importance and Ignorance. We will talk about three ‘S’s viz. Solutions, Services and Success. We are aware that Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in India do understand the importance of IT & Automation in successful manufacturing enterprises and ignorance on their part to adopt this technology can hamper the overall productivity in any business. Thus, we do not aim to recite the same old story.

Take Aways :

Your chance to network with 200 + decision makers in SME sector
Meet the stalwarts from the IT & Automation industry
Get first hand information on customized programmes specifically for the SMEs
Meet funding agencies, banks & venture capital firms on one platform
Maintain a smooth cash flow effectively & learn to put a cap on unnecessary expenditures
Hear the right business mantra from the people who have been there and done that

Click Here for the link

Finance, News

Scheme of Building Grants, including Studio Theatres

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SCHEME OF BUILDING GRANTS, INCLUDING STUDIO THEATRES
Applications are invited from voluntary cultural organizations and government-aided cultural organizations for assistance under the modified building grants scheme, reintroduced on 07.01.2011, as the “Scheme of Building Grants, including Studio Theatres”. ‘Studio Theatre’ is a new component that has just been introduced, under which small spaces for theatre and other performing arts could be created, with 60% government assistance (going upto ~ 50 lakhs in Metro Cities and ~ 25 lakhs in others).
Details of the scheme and instructions for applicant organizations can be viewed at the website of the Ministry of Culture: www.indiaculture.nic.in All applications should be addressed to “Section Officer (Performing Arts),
Ministry of Culture, Government of India, Central Secretariat Library (Ground Floor), Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi-11 0115”, and should be sent alongwith complete enclosures by Speed Post or Registered Post only. “Application
under the Scheme of Building Grants, including Studio Theatres” should be clearly superscribed on the envelope. For any clarifications, Ms Anita Sinha, Director (P. Arts) may be contacted at Telephone No. 011-23381431, or e-
maillD: anita.sinha@nic.in
There is no last date to apply, this invitation for applications shall remain open throughout the year 2010-11 and also 2011-12 until issue of afresh invitation. Applications, duly filled in and supported by all the required documents, would be taken up in batches for consideration by the Expert Committee periodically, say, once a quarter. Incomplete applications will not be entertained.

Business Ideas, Business Plans, Networking, News

Idea to Biz Plan in 48 Hours

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Entrepreneur India is the magazine partner of iWeekend – an event that has helped entrepreneurs form a team, create a business plan, a prototype and present it to angel/seed-stage investors in 48 hours. iWeekend started in Spain in 2007 and several business ideas that were developed at various iWeekend events are real companies today.

iWeekend is coming to Mumbai for the first time. 60 entrepreneurs will lay the foundations of 3 start-ups in one weekend. Join them at IIT Bombay on Feb 4-6 http://iweekend.org/mumbai

This event is for technologists, designers, marketers, business and finance professionals, lawyers, etc.with a passion for technology and the intention of founding a start-up or working in one.

At iWeekend Mumbai, you will also get an opportunity to meet and interact with our Editor – Mr Bipin Chandran who will be mentoring the participants of iWeekend. Other partners of iWeekend Mumbai include ET Now as TV partner, The Morpheus as an acceleration partner, TiE Mumbai, CIIE at IIM-A | Mentoredge and Springboard Ventures as mentoring partners, Headstart Network as the start-up ecosystem partners and a few more. All these partners will help the entrepreneurs transform the business plan and prototype created at iWeekend into real companies.

Click here to participate in iWeekend Mumbai: http://iweekend.org/mumbai/en/participate/

Motivations, Social Entrepreneurship, Startups

Creating Job Creators

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ICreateInc., started in 1999, as a non-profit, in a limited locality in India, to help the disadvantaged who could not get a job and joined the ranks of unemployed or worse, I Create has now become a major movement in India with five full centers (as of December 2009) and hundreds of affiliations. Like minded people have come to the fore to support the ideal of helping the disadvantaged become job creators instead of job seekers.

I Create has developed two main streams for accomplishing the task it has undertaken: “Creating Job Creators” and “Changing the Mindset: Entrepreneurship as a Career Option”

Click Here for their website

News

2010 in review

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The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

Healthy blog!

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is on fire!.

Crunchy numbers

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A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats.

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 9,900 times in 2010. That’s about 24 full 747s.

 

In 2010, there were 102 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 255 posts. There were 8 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 2mb.

The busiest day of the year was April 7th with 154 views. The most popular post that day was “Have Breakfast… or… Be Breakfast!” .

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were zoroastrians.net, facebook.com, mail.yahoo.com, mail.live.com, and google.co.in.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for hot breads mahadevan, sbi smile scheme, tata second career 2010, india innovation initiative, and mahadevan hot breads.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

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“Have Breakfast… or… Be Breakfast!” February 2010
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SBI launches new scheme to encourage SMEs April 2010

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Tata Jagriti Yatra July 2010
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Hot Breads Mahadevan November 2009

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India Innovation Initiative -i3-2010 June 2010