News, Portals

DARE – because Entrepreneurs do

What is DARE?

DARE is a media platform for the Indian Entrepreneur and the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem.

Dare IS NOT just a business magazine. It is an interactive platform for enabling entrepreneurs to start and run their own business. It analyses what businesses (and those who want to start their own) need to do, rather than report on what businesses are doing. It identifies business opportunities and success mantras for others to follow.

Dare seeks to enable aspiring entrepreneurs to start their own businesses, and enable the established entrepreneurs to take their business to the next level. Dare also seeks to enhance intrapreneurship among senior managers in large organizations.

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Motivations

Born to Climb

Michael Gerber, author of E-Myth, is a phenomenal speaker.  As an entrepreneur, you’ll appreciate what Michael has to say in this video.  Please take a few seconds to watch.

Michael proclaims that “you were born to climb”.  The entrepreneur in you is striving for the top of the mountain.

Social Entrepreneurship

Light Up the World

Light Up The World Foundation (LUTW) is the first humanitarian organization to utilize renewable energy and solid-state lighting technologies to bring affordable, safe, healthy, efficient, and environmentally responsible illumination to people who do not have access to power for adequate lighting.  LUTW remains the world’s leader in this endeavour: globally active and setting standards in the field.

Through generous support from interested individuals, corporations, host country organizations, international foundations and industrial partners, LUTW has lit up more than 17,000 homes in over 50 countries throughout the developing world from Afghanistan to Zambia.    (read more…)

Business Plans, Motivations

10 rules of successful trading

Unlike investors who need markets to move up in order to profit from their investment, traders don’t depend only on bull markets. They can profit even in down trends.

This is a crucial advantage traders enjoy over investors — the ability to make money whether the market is moving up or down. This fact should not, however, lead you to believe that trading is easy; it requires both a skill-set and rigorous discipline.

Many people take to trading in the mistaken belief that it is the simplest way of making money. Far from it, I believe it is the easiest way of losing money. There is an old Wall Street adage, that ‘the easiest way of making a small fortune in the markets is having a large fortune’.

This game is by no means for the faint hearted. And, this battle is not won or lost during trading hours but before the markets open but through a disciplined approach to trading.

Click above to read the 10 rules.

Motivations, People / Stories

Entrepreneural Learnings – Rajesh Jain

Last Saturday, I gave a talk for TIE on “The New Internet”. The presentation, while showcasing the opportunities for the future, ended with some of the lessons I have learnt in the last 10 years as an entrepreneur.

  • Importance of Vision: Dream the future
  • Think 2-5 years hence; near-term opportunities are gone
  • Best way to raise capital is by being profitable (B-n-B biz)
  • Need to Stay Alive long enough to aim for Gold
  • Our biggest strength is Passion — “infectious enthusiasm”
  • Be prepared to fail – and learn; Experiment and Explore
  • When building, don’t think of exit; Build to Keep
  • Forget the stock markets – they are irrelevant
  • Our First Mistake can be our Last
  • Read-Think-Write
  • Faith in God