My CAN-I Thought Process!: August 2006 Archives

August 31, 2006

Google Philanthropy in India ???

I saw this article Google: Doing Good in India in Business Week:

The search engine is helping to overcome the scourge of blindness in India, and its philanthropy may presage a growing business presence.

The Aravind Eye Hospital performs 240,000 eye surgeries a year, making it the largest hospital of its kind in the world. Management guru C.K. Prahalad hailed it as a "gem at the bottom of the pyramid" in one of his management books. Brilliant, who joined Google in February, 2006, is a patron of the hospital and is also a close friend of Aravind's founder, Dr. Govindappa Venkataswamy.

Well, I don't know if I have to applaud the efforts of Google philanthropy division or just wonder why they don’t invest all those millions and billions in promoting education. I totally understand that Government of India must be responsible for providing proper education and education policies. Today India has become the back office of the world and increasingly becoming a destination of worlds research, is mainly due to the availability of few millions of highly educated Indians. There are still hundreds of millions of Indians who don’t have access to proper primary education, let alone quality education. What if these Googles of the world plough their philanthropy millions in promoting quality primary education? The education landscape will start transforming rapidly and may be tens of millions of Indians will become more productive and resourceful to the world.

Google think about it........., you may be instrumental in building Literacy Everywhere World.

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 07:52 AM Perma Link | Write A Comment (2)

Well said ram, myself working in the field of primary education feel that there is lots to be done in the field of primary education.

Sometimes wonder why depend on Google and other companies to support us in Giving a good primary education in india. Why cant NRI's come together and help , if they pool their resources together and contribute a little to indian education system, lot could be improved.....

Posted by hemu.

Well said ram, myself working in the field of primary education feel that there is lots to be done in the field of primary education.

Posted by hemu.

August 29, 2006

$100 Mil in VC Funding

VCs are back again with loads of money. CNN Money has a post about the VCs who are looking to invest $100/- in start up companies.

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 11:46 AM Perma Link | Write A Comment (1)

Hi,

We run a B2B-B2G e-Marketplace on our proprietary software. It has an e-Sourcing, e-Procurement, e-Selling Engine embedded on it based on Bidding System. It is the first stage of our work. Later Auction, Reverse Auction and other features could be added.

The Portal and e-Marketplace focusses on the Defence Industry & Uniformed Community.

It is listed on the EU's Official website as one of the nine credible defence e-Marketplaces ; out of these six are from the US, two from Europe and this one outside USA and Europe. We have India focus with global orientation.

Our Company, www.svipja.com, is listed amongst 11 ICT Consulting Cos. fromIndia on the US Dept of Commerce's portal.

We need VC funding to commercialise our portal, and grow beyond our present stage.
We wish to go direct to VCs bye-passing Angel Investors , if need be.

Request support.

Regards,

Brigadier Sukhwindar Singh (Retired)
Founder www.FreeMarketsDefence.com ,
www.IndianDefenceIndustry.com

Posted by Sukhwidar Singh.

August 18, 2006

Mahesh - Dancing Without Legs

Watch this truly phenominal dance by Mahesh, who has no legs what so ever.

A Symbol of Possibilities---------

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 02:44 PM Perma Link | Write A Comment (0)

Rules for Leaders

AskMen.com has an article written by Mr. Mafioso.

5 Rules for Leaders:

If you want respect, give respect
A wrong decision is better than indecision
Don’t smack bottlenecks unless you have to
Take chances and call the shots
Work harder than anybody else

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 06:53 AM Perma Link | Write A Comment (0)

August 17, 2006

Free Text Books from http://www.freeloadpress.com/

http://www.freeloadpress.com/ a publising company is giving away numerous text books in the form ebooks for free. This free download is available only for Instructors, Students and Life-Long Learners, meaning if you have enthu to read the book is free. They also provide print versions for a small fee.

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 12:18 PM Perma Link | Write A Comment (2)

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Posted by Vinod Bopalia.

Do you have any Braille Books to donate to a blind student for college? Unfortunately a lot of private colleges can't accommodate Blind students. Would appreciate hearing from someone. This student that is blind has 148 I.Q. and is a straight A student in every area of study in high school.

Posted by Sylvia.

August 11, 2006

Sweet CVS Client

I have come acrosss this sweet CVS client Tortoise CVS. The best part is that this tool seamlessly integrates with windows explorer and its a free sourceforge download. I also think that the tortoise is really cute.

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at 07:44 AM Perma Link | Write A Comment (0)

August 09, 2006

Things that Entrepreneurs must do

Rhonda Abrams writes in Citizen Times:

1. Talk to an attorney and/or accountant.

2. Objectively check out the competition.

3. Get a domain name and/or e-mail address.

4. Get all necessary business licenses, permits and certifications.

5. Contact an industry trade association.

6. Get a business bank account and set aside one credit card just for business use.

7. Develop at least a simple budget.

8. Get bookkeeping software.

9. Develop a business plan.

10. Develop a marketing plan and go to it!