10 things for a first time entrepreneur! by - How I Braved Anu Aunty and Co-founded a Million Dollar Company.

Ten things for a first time entrepreneur!
 by -  How I Braved Anu Aunty and  Co-founded a Million Dollar Company.

 

The above line is a "Famous Book" that has beg a national best seller, recently published, and authored by Varun Agarwal, the co-founder of Almamater. His company is based in Bangalore. He is busy running his other two companies too. The said book, is all about his encouraging personal life story that led to the journey of his successful entrepreneurship.
 

And here , the below, is what he has to say to the young enthusiasts. Please go through...

• Don't be an entrepreneur just for the heck of it. There's no point in getting into a business that everyone else is already doing. Like the the guy who wanted to get into the soft drink business but then he invented the straw.

• Don't just start a company. Start a whole new industry. Remember Post-Its.

• Never give up. The guy who started Victora's Secret sold his company and jumped off a bridge before it became Victoria's secret.

• Don't be afraid. Ron Wayne was so afraid of starting a new company that he backed out of his partnership contract. He is now living on his pension. Oh I forgot to mention, the contract was for Apple Inc.

• Good artists copy, great artist steal. The entire Macintosh idea was stolen from Xerox. and then Microsoft copied it from Apple.

• Sell yourself shamelessly. Branson is probably more popular than his own company - Virgin.

• Be creative . Very creative. There's this guy who took a circle, put a price tag on it , patented it and made billions. It was called the hoolahoop.

• Dont wait. Jobs, Zuckeberg, Gates we're all billionaires before they were 25. You dont wanna wait to be 35, with a wife and 2 kids and then start a company.

• Improvise and move along with the times. Nokia started as a rubber product company. Apple now  makes phones. And Microsoft, err, they'll probably be getting into home appliances soon.

• Print your business card with a dummy company name and CEO written below. Distribute this among all your friends. After 6 months you better start your company or you'll be the laughing stock of the entire town. Micheal Dell did this when he was 16. One of you reading this must be probably working for him.

I don't know what you would think about this pretty advices, but as to me, it really encourages me. Thank you Varun. Keep shining . And I wish you a better and more achievements in your corporate career.

Varun Agarwal is 25 years old, a first-generation entrepreneur, film maker and author, and has 3 companies to his credit: Alma Mater, a memorabilia company for schools and colleges in India; Reticular, a Social Media Marketing Agency that has worked with some of India’s top brands, and Last Minute Films, an independent production company founded in 2008.

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Most important and useful Keyboard shortcuts !!!

Useful keyboard shortcuts..Please make use of it to save time and money.

Using keyboard shortcuts helps you to work faster and efficiently. This means that you don't have to keep your other hand busy handling the mouse all the time. Some of the most important shortcuts are listed below. Please make use of it. It will help you to work with ease and utmost efficiency without much handling the mouse.

• ALT is used to point to the active window menus ( File, Edit, Tools, etc)
• ALT + CTRL + DEL is used to show Windows task manager.
• ALT + F4 is used to close the active window/program.
• ALT + Tab is used to switch between the active items, tabs or sheets.
• ALT + Print Screen is used to take a snapshot of the active screen.
• ALT + Space + M is used to move the active window. (The Window should not be in maximized position).
• ALT + Space + N is used to minimize the active window.

• CTRL + A is used to select the all documents, text or items.
• CTRL + B is used to make the text bold.
• CTRL + C is used to copy the file/text.
• CTRL + F is used to find a character/a word/a line in a document.
• CTRL + P is used to Print a document.
• CTRL + S is to save/save changes.
• CTRL + I is used to write the text in italic mode.
• CTRL + U is used to underline the text.
• CTRL + V is used to paste the copied file/text.
• CTRL + X is used to cut the file/text.
• CTRL + Y is used for REDO (brings back what you undid by mistake).
• CTRL + Z is used to undo the last command.
• CTRL + Tab is used to switch between tabs in your browser . For example in your internet browser, you have opened lots of tabs & if you want to operate the tabs without the help of mouse then this shortcut is very useful.
• CTRL + N is used to open/re-open the last/recently closed tabs of your browser. This is very useful when you accidentally closed a window/tab.
• CTRL + Delete is used to delete the entire texts  instead of letter by letter.

• F1 key is used to display the help window.
• F3 key is used to search a file or folder.

• Shift + Delete is used to permanently delete the selected item.
• Shift + Home is used to select a whole line of texts , provided the cursor is at the end of the sentence to which you wanr to select.

• Window + D is used to display the desktop.
• Window + L is used to lock the keyboard.
• Window + R is used to open the Run Dialog Box.
• Window + U is used to open the utility manager.
• Windows key + E is used to open MYCOMPUTER directly.
• For mouse Right_Click using keyboard, use the KEY just next to right side CTRL key.

• And many more missing shortcuts are there. If you know give a comment :-)

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I hope you might enjoy reading it --- inspirational story.

Here are some of the Email messages that I managed to gather last weekend.. I hope you might as well enjoy reading it.

                                      THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THE BODY

My mother used to ask me, "What is the most important part of the body?" Through the years, I would take a guess at what I thought was the correct answer. When I was younger, I thought sound was very important to us as humans, so I said, "My ears, Mommy." She said, "No. Many people are deaf. But you keep thinking about it and I will ask you again soon." Several years passed before she asked me again. This time I told her, "Mommy, sight is very important to everybody, so it must be our eyes." She looked at me and told me, "You are learning fast, but the answer is not correct because there are many people who are blind." Stumped again, I continued my quest for knowledge. Over the years, Mother asked me a couple more times and always her answer was,....
"No, but you are getting smarter every year, my child." Then last year, my grandpa died. Everybody was hurt. Everybody was crying. Even my father cried. I remember that especially because it was only the second time I saw him cry. My Mom looked at me when it was our turn to say our final good-bye to Grandpa. She asked me, "Do you know the most important body part yet, my dear?" I was shocked when she asked me this now. I always thought this was some type of game between us. She saw the confusion on my face and told me, "This question is very important. It shows that you have really lived in your life. "Today is the day you need to learn this important lesson." She looked down at me as only a mother can. I saw her eyes well up with tears. She said, "The most important body part is your shoulder." I asked, "Is it because it holds up my head?" She replied, "No, it is because it can hold the head of a friend or a loved one when they cry. "Everybody needs a shoulder to cry on sometime in life, my dear. I only hope that you have enough love and friends that you will always have a shoulder to cry on when you need it." Then and there, I knew the most important body part is not a selfish one. It is sympathetic to the pain of others. People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel.

-Author Unknown

                                                         

                                                                THE EAGLE 

Did you know that an eagle knows when a storm is approaching long before it breaks? The eagle will fly to some high spot and wait for the winds to come. When the storm hits, it sets its wings so that the wind will pick it up and lift it above the storm. While the storm rages below, the eagle is soaring above it. The eagle does not escape the storm. It simply uses the storm to lift it higher. It rises on the winds that bring the storm. When the storms of life come upon us - and all of us will experience them - we can rise above them by setting our minds and our belief toward God. The storms do not have to overcome us. We can allow God's power to lift us above them. God enables us to ride the winds of the storm that bring sickness, tragedy, failure and disappointment in our lives. We can soar above the storm. Remember, it is not the burdens of life that weigh us down, it is how we handle them. The Bible says, "Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles." Isaiah 40:31 Just one more spices... WAS IT THE COFFEE YOU WANTED? A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups--porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal; some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite--telling them to help themselves to the coffee. When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. "What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and were eyeing each other's cups. "Now consider this: Life is the coffee, and the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and do not change the quality of Life. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided. "So, don't let the cups drive you .... enjoy the coffee instead."

Source:Allworship.com

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