Creative Entrepreneurs "Michelle Ward" Share Their Business Struggles

"Michelle Ward"In the beginning stages of my business, my biggest struggle was my full-time job! I knew I couldn’t cut off my income stream and strike out on my own before (a) I was certified as a life coach (b) had some savings in the bank to live on so I wouldn’t have to execute Plan B (something like working retail/waiting tables) for a good 6 months (c) I felt confident that people in the world knew I existed.The first thing I did was to get out of my full-time job that expected me to be on...

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Entrepreneur Sabeer Bhatia "HOT Mail"

Sabeer Bhatia is one of the poster boys of Indian success story at Silicon Valley. He is better known as the man who co-founded Hotmail. He later sold it to Microsoft for $400 million and today Hotmail is the world's largest e-mail provider, with over 50 million registered users. Sabeer Bhatia was born in 1969 at Chandigarh. He comes from a humble background. His father was an army officer and his mother worked with the Central Bank of India. Sabeer Bhatia had his earlier schooling at Bishop Cotton's...

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Entrepreneur Sameer Gehlaut " Successful Entrepreneur "

Young entrepreneur Sameer Gehlaut established Indiabulls in 2000, after acquiring Inorbit Securities, a stock brokerage company in Delhi. The group started its operations from asmall office near Hauz Khas bus terminal in Delhi.The office had a tin roof and two computers.In less than 10 years the group has become one of the leading financial services and real estate company in India,they have a land bank of 4000 acres.Sameer Gehlaut is India’s youngest self made billionaire at just 34 years of age. According to Forbes (2008), he has a net worth...

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The Greatest Entrepreneur - Dhirubhai H. Ambani

At the age of 17 went to Aden (now part of Yemen) and worked for A. Besse & Co. Ltd., the sole selling distributor of Shell products.In the year 1958 returned to Mumbai and started his first company, Reliance Commercial Corporation, a commodity trading and export house.In the year 1966, as a first step in Reliance's highly successful strategy of backward integration, he started the textile mill in Naroda, Ahmedabad.In the year 1975, a technical team from the World Bank certified that the Reliance...

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(Business and Innovation )Fact's of Twitter "Twitteeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr"

Almost 200 million users worldwide. About 460,000 new Twitter accounts are opened daily. More than 140 million tweets are sent daily. That’s one billion weekly. In 2008, Twitter had eight employees; today it has more than 400. And they’re hiring (twitter.com/jobs)WHY 140 CHARACTERS?At the heart of Twitter are small bursts of information called tweets. Each tweet is 140 characters in length, maximum. Initially, there was no limit to message length. When it went public, the 140 character limit was adopted.Why? Because 160 characters was the SMS carrier...

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Brilliant Ideas "DropBox"

Drew (CEO) graduated from MIT and wrote the first lines of code for Dropbox while at a train station in Boston. These days he's usually out and about running Dropbox's business affairs, but he still contributes a lot to Dropbox's client software. In the little free time he has, Drew can be found jamming on his guitar. Arash (CTO) took a break from MIT to work on Dropbox. He has his hand involved in every aspect of the product, but spends most of his time making sure Dropbox and its servers run as fast as possible. He's a fan of the Kansas City...

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Investors "Make your dream success"

The Aavishkaar India Micro Venture Capital Fund (“Aavishkaar”) is a venture fund founded to promote development in rural and semi-urban India. Aavishkaar believes entrepreneurs can be a powerful force for development. To this end, the firm provides micro-equity funding (Rs. 10 lacs to Rs. 2 Crore), approximately USD $20 thousand to USD $500 thousand) and operational and strategic support to commercially viable companies increasing income in or providing goods and services to rural or semi-urban...

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History's 10 Entrepreneurs

1.  King Croesus. A pick by our veterans committee, Croesus, who ruled the Asia Minor kingdom of Lydia in the sixth century B.C., is owed a huge debt of gratitude for minting the world’s first coinage, thereby creating in a single stroke the lifeblood of every business: liquidity and cash flow. Moreover, his opulent lifestyle has given entrepreneurs throughout history something to shoot for. Is there a greater distinction for the commercially inclined than to be deemed “as rich as Croesus”?2.  Pope Sixtus IV.  Sixtus...

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Business Web Site Marketing Tips

Many small business owners struggle with the seemingly overwhelming task of managing their web site. There always seems to be so much to do, yet no time to do it all (something we know all too well). This brief primer should help to highlight the key aspects of web site management that will help them gain the most from their web site with the time that they have available. The following ten tips are key to maintaining a successful web site. Follow these and your site will do better. Nothing will guarantee that a web site will be successful...

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NRI Entrepreneurs

Indian entrepreneurs have not only proved their mettle in India but abroad also. Battling immense odds and alien conditions they have emerged triumphed and done proud to India. Their success has changed the way the world looks at India and has gone a long way in redeeming India's image abroad. Here is a brief profile of famous NRI entrepreneurs. Amar Bose ProfileAmar Bose is the founder of Bose Corporation and is known for his pioneering work in the field of acoustics. Bose speakers are world-famous for giving high-end performance despite...

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Indian Enterpreneur

Indian entrepreneurs are making waves all across the world. Indian business firms are making acquisitions abroad and spreading their tentacles in various corners of the world. Indian Entrepreneurs have proved all doomsday prophecies wrong and on the contrary have flourished under globalisation. Here is a brief profile of famous Indian entrepreneurs. Dhirubhai Ambani JRD Tata Jamsetji Tata Adi Godrej Anil Ambani Dr. K. Anji Reddy Azim Premji Bhai Mohan Singh B.M. Munj...

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