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How to incorporate a US Corporation from outside USA ?

2011-03-18T20:38:00.000-07:00

When we started Freshdesk,we decided to incorporate in the USA because that seemed to be best option for a SAAS company that wanted to handle recurring payments from international customers from day 1. Our preferred payment gateway will work only with US bank accounts and it is easier to get a US bank account if you are a USA corporation.We are based out of India and the options for accepting dollar payments with recurring billing were seriously limited and expensive.The only option seemed to be Paypal but again we were not sure if we could link Paypal with our Indian bank accounts for USA payments.

Since there were not many resources available on the web for incorporating a US corp from abroad I thought I will share our story for the benefit of future entrepreneurs.

Ofcourse there are many other ways to do this - but this is how we did it.

1. Incorporation - in the State of Delaware as a Delaware C Corp.

If you ask "Why Delaware" ? - We couldn't find anything convincing for "Why not" ?

Total cost for incorporation - $1278

Ten Rules for Web Startups

2010-01-07T05:57:00.000-08:00

My favorite Entrepreneur - Evan Williams

Five Greatest Hedge Fund Farewells - Deal Journal - WSJ

2009-08-12T09:53:00.001-07:00

Atticus Shuts Down: Five Greatest Hedge Fund Farewells - Deal Journal - WSJ

Five Greatest Hedge Fund Farewells

10 Things Your Real Estate Broker Won't Say

2009-07-08T18:12:00.001-07:00

10 Things Your Real Estate Broker Won't Say (Page 10 of 10) at SmartMoney.com

0 Things Your Real Estate Broker Won't Say

Michael Lewis on A.I.G.

2009-07-08T03:50:00.001-07:00

Michael Lewis on A.I.G. | vanityfair.com

The Man Who Crashed the World

Things You Didn’t Know About Steve Jobs

2009-06-01T15:06:00.001-07:00

11 Things You Didn’t Know About Steve Jobs

11 Things You Didn’t Know About Steve Jobs

Hedge fund managers name long, short bets

2009-05-30T08:30:00.001-07:00

FACTBOX: Hedge fund managers name long, short bets | Special Coverage | Reuters

FACTBOX: Hedge fund managers name long, short bets

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law. Pablo Picasso

2009-05-25T17:30:00.001-07:00

Pablo Picasso Quotes

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
Pablo Picasso

About $1.4 trillion in real estate debt is set to mature over the next four years, with some $204 billion coming due this year alone

2009-05-25T17:28:00.001-07:00

NO NEW LEASE ON TRILLIONS IN DEBT - New York Post

About $1.4 trillion in real estate debt is set to mature over the next four years, with some $204 billion coming due this year alone

The Asian economies are likely to be the first to pull out of the global recession @ The Economist

2009-05-17T17:30:00.000-07:00

How far will Asia's tiger economies rebound? | Crouching tigers, stirring dragons | The Economist

The Asian economies are likely to be the first to pull out of the global recession

Invisible Oil Traders

2009-05-16T19:06:00.000-07:00

Invisible hands: The secret world of the oil fixer—By Ken Silverstein (Harper's Magazine)

Invisible hands:
The secret world of the oil fixer

Canary Wharf Real Estate Rental Price 1991 level

2009-05-14T08:19:00.000-07:00

Rents Crashing in London to 1991 Prices Le Gavroche Shows Gone - Bloomberg.com

Rents Crashing in London to 1991 Prices Le Gavroche Shows Gone

Thrifty reads Warren Buffets License plate

2009-05-12T12:57:00.000-07:00

How I Spent A Million Bucks And Ended Up With These Two Chairs. — Mixergy.com

How I Spent A Million Bucks And Ended Up With These Two Chairs

Rahman and Pussycat Dolls - Jai Ho

2009-05-11T18:36:00.000-07:00

YouTube - The Pussycat Dolls - Jai Ho (You Are My Destiny)

The Pussycat Dolls - Jai Ho (You Are My Destiny)

India Entrepenurs - One of the best conference I attended

2009-05-08T09:41:00.000-07:00

Perseverance and a 'Thick Skin': India's Next Wave of Entrepreneurs - India Knowledge@Wharton

Perseverance and a 'Thick Skin': India's Next Wave of Entrepreneurs

India calling- Brain Circulation

2009-05-08T09:25:00.000-07:00

The World - India Calling - NYTimes.com

India Callin. Thanks to Rahul for this link

Big Real Estate Listings

2009-05-07T20:04:00.000-07:00

Celebrity Real Estate Homes Big Time Listings

Big Real Estate listings.

Must read before you travel

2009-05-07T18:06:00.000-07:00

Research: The Traveler’s Best Friend - Frugal Traveler Blog - NYTimes.com

Research: The Traveler’s Best Friend

10 Things to Be Clear About Before You Start a Company - Tech

2009-05-07T17:58:00.000-07:00

10 Things to Be Clear About Before You Start a Company - ReadWriteStart

10 Things to Be Clear About Before You Start a Company

Start a Company (Private Limited) in India

2009-05-06T13:11:00.000-07:00

Procedure involved to Start a Company (Private Limited) in India « Wings of Freedom - Xpress

Procedure involved to Start a Company (Private Limited) in India

Britney Spears problem

2009-05-06T13:06:00.000-07:00

The Britney Spears Problem » American Scientist

The Britney Spears Problem

Tracking who's hot and who's not presents an algorithmic challenge.

Lehman and its real estate Saga

2009-05-03T12:17:00.000-07:00

How Lehman Got Its Real Estate Fix - NYTimes.com

How Lehman Brothers Got Its Real Estate FiX

Nice story from wall street trader

2009-05-01T12:59:00.000-07:00

American excess: A Wall Street trader tells all - Americas, World - The Independent

American excess: A Wall Street trader tells all.

How to become Bill Gates

2009-04-09T15:27:00.000-07:00

How to Become Bill Gates

How to Become Bill Gates.

Sub prime millionaire

2009-04-04T05:59:00.000-07:00

Subprime millionaire | Crain's Chicago Business

Subprime millionaire

Billionaires got richer in 2008

2009-03-16T11:36:00.001-07:00

The Wealth Report - WSJ

These Billionaires Actually Got Richer in 2008.

* Mayor Mike. Who says government is bad for wealth? Financial-data king and New York City Mayor Michael Blomberg added $4.5 billion to his fortune to rack up a net worth of $16 billion. Forbes doesn’t really give a reason, saying only that it is due to a “re-evaulation” of his company after he bought out Merrill’s stake in news and information provider Bloomberg LP.

* John Paulson. The hedge funder’s Advantage Fund rose 38%, doubling his fortune to $6 billion.

* Jim Simons. The hedge funder’s Medallion Fund surged 80% last year, using “complex algorithms,” giving Mr. Simons a $2.5 billion boost to $8 billion.

* Tadashi Yanai. Japan’s richest guy and his family gained $2.6 billion from their discount clothing business, Fast Retailing.

* George Soros. The king of gloom and doom added $2 billion to his war chest and now has a net worth of $11 billion, largely with bearish bets at his hedge fund.

* John Arnold. The fresh-faced head of Centaurus Energy is said to be up 80% this year, kicking his net up $1.2 billion to $2.7 billion. He now is moving into hard assets like power plants and storage facilities.

Top 10 Reasons to Start a Business in a Recessio

2009-03-14T05:34:00.000-07:00

Top 10 Reasons to Start Up in the Recession - Starting a business in a recession - Entrepreneur.com

Top 10 Reasons to Start a Business in a Recession

A VC

2009-03-02T04:50:00.001-08:00

I found this fascinating quote today:

3) Berkshire's two most important businesses are insurance and utilities, sectors that "produce earnings that are not correlated to those of the general economy."A VC, Mar 2009 You should read the whole article.

The Rules of an Entrepreneur

2009-02-25T07:13:00.001-08:00

Spoiled Techie | The Rules of an Entrepreneur

The Rules of an Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur resources

2009-02-05T11:25:00.000-08:00

60+ Resources For Entrepreneurs To Step Up and Take Charge | Applicant - The Advice Bank

60+ Resources For Entrepreneurs To Step Up and Take Charge

How to win discussions - ?

2009-02-03T08:21:00.001-08:00

Just a small correction. No one wins in an argument. every one loses. But the tips are great for discussion sake.

lbrandy.com » Blog Archive » How to “Win” Arguments and Infuriate Opponents (with examples!)

How to “Win” Arguments and Infuriate Opponents (with examples!)

Schwarzman about Private Equity

2009-01-30T13:33:00.003-08:00

Gardener as a referral source.

2009-01-30T05:13:00.000-08:00

You Never Know Whom They Know - Referral Networking - Entrepreneur.com

gardener can be a referral source to the rich?

The most valuable business lessons

2009-01-30T05:09:00.001-08:00

What You Can Learn From... - Entrepreneur.com

The most valuable business lessons

Paulson the man who made too much - I call him man with iron balls

2009-01-14T09:20:00.001-08:00

John Paulson Profits in Downturn - Executive Articles - Portfolio.com

Following high school in Brooklyn, Paulson moved on to New York University, which in the 1970s offered a popular seminar taught by John Whitehead, then a senior partner at Goldman Sachs. Paulson listened, fascinated, as Robert Rubin, later secretary of the Treasury under Bill Clinton and now an unofficial adviser to Barack Obama—talked about the mysterious and new (to Paulson, anyway) world of risk arbitrage. At the time, the scholarly, soft-spoken Rubin was viewed, at least by Paulson’s professor, as the smartest partner at Goldman Sachs; he was certainly the richest. Paulson graduated first in the class of 1978, with visions of arbitrage in his future.

25 Greatest Self-Made Men in History | The Art of Manliness

2009-01-13T16:11:00.001-08:00

25 Greatest Self-Made Men in History | The Art of Manliness

25 of the Greatest Self-Made Men in American History

Found it interesting - Indian in Wall Street

2009-01-09T11:33:00.001-08:00

Running With The Bulls

Running With The Bulls

How to hide 50 billion dollars ? Interesting any takers

2009-01-09T06:32:00.001-08:00

Where Has Bernie Madoff Buried His Loot? - TIME

Instead, a white-collar fraudster like Madoff could create multiple phony investment-advisory businesses in foreign countries, similar to legitimate businesses he's actually working with. Says Reich: "All he has to do is create fake invoices over the years and pay in to those fake companies, then create new phony businesses in other countries, have the monies transferred to them, and then close down the original fake businesses. It's how the mob does it; the money trail is wiped clean.

Who is a Banker?

2009-01-08T06:19:00.001-08:00

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain. -Mark Twain : business

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain. -Mark Twain

How Internet can value to you - Connect from Seth Godin

2008-11-20T07:41:00.001-08:00

Seth's Blog: How to make money using the Internet

# Connect advertisers to people who want to be advertised to.
# Connect job hunters with jobs.
# Connect information seekers with information.
# Connect teams to each other.
# Connect those seeking similar.
# Connect to partners and those that can leverage your work.
# Connect people who are proximate geographically.
# Connect organizations spending money with ways to save money.
# Connect like-minded people into a movement.
# Connect people buying with people who are selling.

John Paulson on why he like sub prime

2008-11-19T06:47:00.001-08:00

Excellent timing: Face to Face with John Paulson - Pensions & Investments

The beauty of shorting a bond is that the maximum you can lose is the spread over the benchmark; yet if the bond defaults, you can potentially make more. So it’s an asymmetrical risk-return tradeoff. In the case of subprime securities, we targeted the triple-B bonds, which are the lowest tranches in the subprime securitization.

In a typical securitization, you have 18 to 20 different tranches with the lowest … taking the first loss. The triple-B bond has about 5% subordination, meaning that if the loss is greater than 5%, the bond will be impaired. And if it’s more than 6%, the bond will be extinguished. The yield was only 1% over LIBOR (the London interbank offered rate) so by shorting this particular bond, if I was wrong, I could lose 1%, but if I was right, I could make 100%. The downside was very limited but it had very substantial upside, and we like those types of investments

Scientist prove you create your own luck ??

2008-11-18T11:39:00.001-08:00

Improve Your Luck Scientifically | Family Fun | Reader's Digest

How to Get Lucky

How to recession proof yourself for 20 and 30 some things - Harvard Business Publishing

2008-11-17T13:28:00.001-08:00

Recession-Proof Yourself: Four Tips For Twentysomethings - Marshall Goldsmith

Recession-Proof Yourself:

Hedge fund buy in to Indian firms for INR 630 million

2008-11-17T13:16:00.001-08:00

Hedge fund buys into seven Indian firms on Friday | Deals | Reuters

Hedge fund buys into seven Indian firms on Friday

JPMorgan cuts India growth forecast, sees rate cuts

2008-11-17T13:13:00.001-08:00

JPMorgan cuts India growth forecast, sees rate cuts | Business News | Reuters

JPMorgan cuts India growth forecast, sees rate cuts

China Business Etiquette and more

2008-11-16T04:42:00.001-08:00

3 Ways to Kill a Deal in China - Entering the Chinese Market - Entrepreneur.com

General Behavior

1. Keep hand gestures at a minimum. These can be distracting because Chinese rarely use body gestures while speaking.
2. Keep personal contact at a minimum--including hugging, slapping shoulders, etc., especially between a man and a woman. Shaking hands is OK.
3. Dress conservatively. Women shouldn't wear ultra-high heels.
4. In conversation, steer away from politics. If pressed for an opinion on a political or controversial issue, express your personal opinion, but acknowledge that it's not the viewpoint of the entire company.

7 reasons for current financial crisis

2008-11-15T18:54:00.001-08:00

Reason for current Financial crisis - Ref: Neel Kashkari - vijayvijay@gmail.com

I know many of you have been wondering what are the reasons for credit crunch,
These are the 7 major reasons

Reasons for Financial Crisis aka Credit Crunch
No 7 being the most important.

1) Decade of benign economic condition resulting in low inflation & Low interest rates
2) Financial innovation acceleration
3) Investors increase in confidence to diversify and distribute risks
4) Exceeded leverage on financial systems
5) Weakened underwriting mortgage standard
6) Little or no down payment and no documentation
7) Regulators, Investors and Home owners think home prices can only go up

Please pass your comments and is welcome to share

Reference:
Neel Kashkari - Interim Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability @ Wharton Financial Conference

Manhattan real estate recent price changes

2008-11-15T17:49:00.001-08:00

» Where the Prices Are Dropping | BankersBall. Where Investment Bankers Come to Party. Investment Banking Compensation & Salary

DOWN
- Harlem and East Harlem down by nearly 20% (to $440,000).
- Midtown East and Turtle Bay down by 18.6% (to $1.197MM)
- Midtown West and Hell’s Kitchen dropped 8% (to $1.01MM)
- Lower East Side and the East Village, prices dropped 5.5%
- Carnegie Hill, prices down 7.2% (co-ops)
- Hamilton Heights and Morningside Heights down by 30%
- Washington Heights prices down 6.3%

UP
- Upper East Side (Fifth Avenue and Park Avenue from 59th to 96th Streets) prices up by 35%
- Rest of UES co-op prices up 2.3%; condos up 9.1%
- Lincoln Square co-op prices up by 18.6%; condo prices up by 25%
- Lenox Hill co-op prices up by 19%
- Chelsea, co-op & condo prices up by 6%
- Greenwich Village, co-op prices up by 3.9%
- Union Square & Gramercy co-op prices up by 3.3% and condo prices up by 2.6%
- Battery Park City prices up by 6.5%

The entrepreneur is the customer and the LP is the shareholder.

2008-11-15T17:07:00.001-08:00

The VC's Customer

The VC's Customer. The entrepreneur is the customer and the LP is the shareholder.
by Fred Wilson.

Underwater Car Loan BailOut ?

2008-11-13T13:28:00.001-08:00

I met few millionaires and none of them I know had brought new cars. People dont get rich just by making money, but also spending it carefully than they earn.

Underwater Car Loan BailOut ? « blog maverick

You all do realize that anyone who buys a new car is UNDERWATER the minute you sign the papers and drive off the lot ? That you get further and further underwater every single day ? Maybe thats why so few are buying new cars ? We havent instituted a bailout for their underwater car loans.

Hedge Fund and leverage

2008-11-13T13:18:00.001-08:00

Paul Kedrosky: Hedge Fund Leverage, Then and Now

Hedge Fund Leverage, Then and Now

A nice chart (from MIT’s Andrew Lo) of the growth of assets and hedge fund leverage over the last 20 years. You can plainly see the expanding leverage in the 2001-2005 period.

hedge-fund-assets

12 Killer Ways to Make Extra Income On the Web

2008-11-12T07:46:00.001-08:00

SitePoint » 12 Killer Ways to Make Extra Income On the Web

12 Killer Ways to Make Extra Income On the Web

End of Wall Street by Michael Lewis

2008-11-11T13:16:00.001-08:00

The End of Wall Street's Boom - National Business News - Portfolio.com

The era that defined Wall Street is finally, officially over. Michael Lewis, who chronicled its excess in Liar’s Poker, returns to his old haunt to figure out what went wrong.
Fallen bull statue in Wall Street.

C Corporation vs S Corporation vs LLC

2008-11-11T08:29:00.001-08:00

C Corporation vs S Corporation vs LLC

Sole Proprietorship vs. C Corporation vs. S Corporation vs. LLC.

Amazing business chasing story

2008-11-07T10:57:00.001-08:00

“Single?” Lawn Signs Conquer the American Landscape « The Metric System

Single?” Lawn Signs Conquer the American Landscape

Steve jobs pitching a start up - Next

2008-10-21T12:23:00.001-07:00

Venture Hacks — How Steve Jobs pitches a startup

How Steve Jobs pitches a startup

Small business to save money ..

2008-10-16T07:28:00.001-07:00

78 Ways for Your Small Business to Save Money in this Economy - Inside CRM

78 Ways for Your Small Business to Save Money in this Economy

Using 120 minutes of day effectively

2008-10-10T08:24:00.001-07:00

Fred Wilson Dot VC

2. Spend the 120 minutes doing this instead:
* Exercise for thirty minutes.
* Read relevant non-fiction (trade magazines, journals, business books, blogs, etc.)
* Send three thank you notes.
* Learn new digital techniques (spreadsheet macros, Firefox shortcuts, productivity tools, graphic design, html coding)
* Volunteer.
* Blog for five minutes about something you learned.
* Give a speech once a month about something you don’t currently know a lot about.

Mark Cuban - I adore this guy

2008-10-06T11:36:00.001-07:00

Loving what you doing and >> Blog maverick

Investing your time in yourself and becoming knowledgeable about the business of something you really love to do. It doesn’t matter what it is. Whatever your hobbies, interests, passions are. Find the one you love the best and GET A JOB in the business that supports it.

It could be as a clerk, a salesperson, whatever you can find. You have to start learning the business somewhere. Instead of paying to go to school somewhere, you are getting paid to learn. It may not be the perfect job, but there is no perfect path to getting rich.

Before or after work and on weekends, every single day, read everything there is to read about the business. Go to trade shows, read the trade magazines, spend a lot of time talking to the people you do business with about their business and the people they buy from.

This is not a short term project. We aren’t talking days. We aren’t talking months. We are talking years. Lots of years and maybe decades. I didn’t say this was a get rich quick scheme. This is a get rich path

Now you wait for times of uncertainty and change in your business. The time will come. It may come quickly, it may take years and years. But it will come. The nature of our country’s business infrastructure is that it is destined to be boom and bust. Booms are when the smart people sell. Busts are when rich people started on their path to wealth.

You will know when that time is here for you because you will know your business inside and out. You will be ready because you will have been saving up for this moment in time

With all the change and uncertainty in the financial markets, there are people right now making more money than they ever dreamed of. They are the ones who have been living the real estate market and the financing behind it and understanding what actually what was going on. They re the one who understood the complexities of the credit markets. When everyone was following the crowd, they kept on saving their money and avoiding the temptation of groupthink.

Boom and busts happen to every industry. The question is whether you have the discipline to be ready when it happens for you ?

30 Things Every Entrepreneur Should Know How to Do

2008-10-03T09:13:00.001-07:00

The Cheap Revolution: 30 Things Every Entrepreneur Should Know How to Do

30 Things Every Entrepreneur Should Know How to Do

New York bribe

2008-10-01T12:43:00.001-07:00

IPocketful of Dough - Tips on Tipping: 2000s Archive : gourmet.com

Tips on Tipping

1. Go. You’d be surprised what you can get just by showing up.
2. Dress appropriately. Your chances improve considerably if you look like you belong.
3. Don’t feel ashamed. They don’t. You shouldn’t.
4. Have the money ready. Prefolded, in thirds or fourths, with the amount showing.
5. Identify the person who’s in charge, even if you have to ask.
6. Isolate the person in charge. Ask to speak with that person, if necessary.
7. Look the person in the eye when you slip him the money. Don’t look at the money.
8. Be specific about what you want. “Do you have a better table?” “Can you speed up my wait?” A good fallback: “This is a really important night for me.”
9. Tip the maître d’ on the way out if he turned down the money but still gave you a table.
10. Ask for the maître d’s card as you’re leaving. You are now one of his best customers

What does traders do- from Bon fire of vanities amazing piece

2008-09-28T14:37:00.001-07:00

How We Value the Super-Rich - Wall Street vs. Silicon Valley - NYTimes.com

In Tom Wolfe’s “Bonfire of the Vanities,” the investment banker Sherman McCoy attempts to explain his Wall Street job to his daughter. His wife chimes in:

“Darling,” said Judy, “Daddy doesn’t build roads or hospitals, and he doesn’t help people build them, but he does handle the bonds for the people who raise the money.”

“Bonds?”

“Yes. Just imagine that a bond is a slice of cake, and you didn’t bake the cake, but every time you hand somebody a slice of the cake a tiny little bit comes off, like a little crumb, and you can keep that.”

Being different is important than being First.

2008-09-27T07:51:00.001-07:00

Forget Being First… Just Be Different : Brad Maier

Forget Being First… Just Be Different

Bloomberg Vanity Fair Interview

2008-09-24T18:15:00.001-07:00

Proust Questionnaire: Michael Bloomberg: Entertainment & Culture: vanityfair.com

What do you most value in your friends?
Honesty. Loyalty. And, of course, sincerity. (If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.)

Buffet on saving sex for old age and keeping money

2008-09-24T11:12:00.001-07:00

Bloomberg.com: Worldwide

``It's nice to have a lot of money, but you know, you don't want to keep it around forever,'' Buffett said. ``I prefer buying things. Otherwise, it's a little like saving sex for your old age.''

Five biggest mistakes of Entrepreneurs - Stanford University Jerry Kaplan

2008-09-23T08:46:00.001-07:00

Stanford's Entrepreneurship Corner: Jerry Kaplan, Winster - Five Biggest Mistakes That Entrepreneurs Make

Jerry Kaplan, serial entrepreneur, executive, technical innovator, and author, elaborates on the five biggest mistakes that entrepreneurs make:
1) Having unclear goals and an unclear mission
2) Trying to prove that they are smart
3) Greed - doing it for money.
4) Hiring people that they like rather than people that they need.
5) Not knowing when to let go.

Dont Blab..by P. T. Barnum

2008-09-22T11:57:00.001-07:00

ART OF MONEY GETTING

Say nothing about your profits, your hopes, your expectations, your intentions. And this should apply to letters as well as to conversation

Why did the Treasury and Fed let Lehman fail but rescue Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and A.I.G.? IG

2008-09-21T18:15:00.001-07:00

I have been asked this questions so many times during the past week. This is the closest
I can find for an answer if any. Please read the interview and it definitely touch upon
many interesting areas.

Diamond and Kashyap on the Recent Financial Upheavals - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog

3) Why did the Treasury and Fed let Lehman fail but rescue Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and A.I.G.?

Hedge Fund Manager interview - Paradigm shift.

2008-09-21T18:10:00.001-07:00

Interview With a Hedge Fund Manager | n+1

Future of Investment Banking.

2008-09-21T17:57:00.001-07:00

Is there a future for investment banking?

Investment banking
Is there a future?

Seth Godin and startups

2008-09-11T10:50:00.001-07:00

Hacker News

8 Startup Insights Inspired By The Mega Mind of Seth Godin (onstartups.com)
27 points by adityakothadiya 21 hours ago | 8 comments

Not every ones fav: I like this Guy Mark Cuban

2008-09-10T11:56:00.001-07:00

Mark Cuban: “When I die, I want to come back as me”

Mark Cuban: “When I die, I want to come back as me”

Read his interview. JC and MC have an amazing chemistry between them.

I met JC couple of times, waiting to meet Mark Cuban. It wont take much time.

25 inspiring quotes

2008-09-05T12:47:00.001-07:00

25 Inspiring Quotes For Business & Life | Nerd Business Blog

Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.

Interesting, Never raise monet if you dont need it

2008-08-27T10:51:00.001-07:00

7 Teeth-Gnashing Mistakes I Made as an Entrepreneur

7 Teeth-Gnashing Mistakes I Made as an Entrepreneur

How to get start up PR

2008-08-21T06:42:00.001-07:00

Jason Calacanis On How To Get PR For Your Startup: Fire Your PR Company

How To Get PR For Your Startup: Fire Your PR Company

Anil Ambani speech at ISB

2008-08-16T17:39:00.001-07:00

Dreams: Speach of Anil Ambani

Speach of Anil Ambani

This is Anil Ambani's speech at this year's
convocation at ISB. Quite thought provoking and
peppered with humor.

Scratch from worry lost - Controversial but true almost

2008-08-02T21:14:00.001-07:00

Findings - 10 Things to Scratch From Your Worry List - NYTimes.com

10 Things to Scratch From Your Worry List

Pretty interesting learning for every entrepreneur

2008-08-02T21:09:00.001-07:00

How To Take Criticism Like Donald Trump - Stepcase Lifehack

How To Take Criticism Like Donald Trump

The 10 Skills

2008-08-02T20:55:00.001-07:00

10 Skills You Need to Succeed at Almost Anything - Stepcase Lifehack

10 Skills You Need to Succeed at Almost Anything

Chinese Mutual Fund Manager and Subprime

2008-08-02T17:58:00.001-07:00

Bloomberg.com: Exclusive

Emerging Market Shift

The four BRIC nations increased their combined gross domestic product to $6.95 trillion in 2007 from $2.56 trillion in 2000, and their 2.8 billion people account for 42 percent of the global population, according to the International Monetary Fund. ``What we are seeing is a short-term turbulence as the power shifts to China and India from the U.S.,'' Park says.

Start up ideas.

2008-07-22T07:16:00.001-07:00

Y Combinator: Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund

Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund

The interesting point is that almost all of these area are big business bread and butter. I am wondering they are looking at huge market and growth potential.

Four reason for start up

2008-07-21T11:41:00.003-07:00

Four Reasons Most Startups Fail (And How Yours Can Succeed) - Bill Taylor

Four Reasons Most Startups Fail (And How Yours Can Succeed)

Four reason for start up

2008-07-21T11:41:00.001-07:00

Four Reasons Most Startups Fail (And How Yours Can Succeed) - Bill Taylor

Four Reasons Most Startups Fail (And How Yours Can Succeed)

Firefox 3 features you probably dont know » Feel Firefox

2008-07-09T12:37:00.000-07:00

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Firefox 3 features you probably dont know

Michael Jordan's 10 Secrets To Reaching the Top

2008-07-08T18:22:00.001-07:00

Michael Jordan's 10 Secrets To Reaching the Top

Michael Jordan's 10 Success Secrets

Reid Hoffman, Missed him till date

2008-07-08T11:19:00.001-07:00

Silicon Valley's biggest social networker - Los Angeles Times

Reid Hoffman's vision of the Web as a means to connect people, not just computers, has shaped his role in some of its most successful ventures.

What Google Did.

2008-07-07T11:28:00.001-07:00

Christine: Susan Wojcicki on the Secrets of Google's Success

# Build a great product that users love
# Think big
# Solve an important problem
# Rally the company around a vision, and be focused on doing one thing well (and this is easier for small companies)
# Hire the best people you can
# Question accepted practices, and invent the right ones for you; try new things quickly and learn from the results
# Base decisions on data, and wait for the information you need to do the right thing
# Make decisions for the long term

Zakariah from from Wilson - Post American World

2008-07-01T10:27:00.001-07:00

A VC: The Post American World

1) The next 10-20 years will witness the rise of much of the rest of the world, specifically China, India, Brazil, Russia and smaller but important developing countries like Turkey and South Africa. By 2025, China will be the second most important country in the world and India may well be third.

2) Western and Eastern cultures will be combined in many ways. China will be westernized and modernized, but in its own Chinese way. Same with India and every other important eastern culture. And modernization is not westernization, although they are related developments.

3) Many developing countries will not move immediately from totalitarian regimes to democracies, in fact most will move to a middle ground, much like what exists in China today. There are benefits to centrally planned economies. When China wants to knock down a town and build a city, it does it. There is a lot of power in China's model and many will emulate it given its success.

4) Eventually, developing countries and the developed world will move to democracy, but it won't happen quickly and it won't always happen easily. This includes China.

5) America is likely to remain the biggest economy and the most powerful country in the world for some time to come, but it will continue to lose power on a relative basis. And it will need to adopt new tactics and strategies to ensure it's economy and national security remain intact. It cannot continue to go it alone. That strategy, the Bush doctrine, has failed badly and given America's weakening hand, it should be put to rest for good.

6) America is still supreme in three important, possibly the most important, areas; higher education, diversity and demographics, and creativity and ideas. These three pillars are interrelated and depend entirely on each other. Lose one and you'll eventually lose them all.

MSFT and Bill Gates four Golden Rules

2008-06-27T11:56:00.001-07:00

Bill Gates' 4 golden rules at Microsoft - Jun. 20, 2008

Gates' 4 golden rules

Kochi real estate the Hot spot. Why

2008-06-27T11:43:00.001-07:00

Kochi

Jan. 4--KOCHI -- The queen of the Arabian Sea is now a hot destination for real estate giants. What is unique to Kochi is, the city has attracted almost every domestic property developer worth its salt, and a slew of foreign companies, mostly from the Middle East.

Leading real estate developers like DLF, Sobha Developers, Ansals, Purvankara, Confident Group, Oceanus, Unitech, Nitesh Estates, Housing Development and Infrastructure (HDIL), Prestige Group, Emaar MGF and Parsvanath Developers have all descended upon Kochi, the financial and industrial capital of Kerala, during the last 6-8 months with a cumulative investment of over $2.5 billion. Prominent among the Middle East-based business groups that have forayed into Kochi are KGA Group of Kuwait, EMKE Group of Abu Dhabi and Indroyal. Some of them are also investing in the hospitality sector to set up luxury hotels chains.

Property prices in the city have appreciated by around 60 percent in 2007. During the past six months, half-a-dozen developers have announced their plans to enter Kochi; many have already acquired huge parcels of land. "Property development and real estate activities have overshadowed the state's booming tourism sector. This boom witnessed the emergence of many developers and projects," an industry observer and a former builder said.

Recently, HDIL purchased a 70-acre plot from the government-owned HMT and announced its plans to set up an IT park at Kalamassery, near Kochi. HDIL is also setting up a Cybercity in the HMT land, which will have IT space, hospitality, retail and entertainment projects. The total investment in the project is estimated to be around Rs 2,000 crore.

According to Kerala Builders Forum chairman George E George: "Till a decade ago, real estate activity of each city was driven by local builders." The bigger players acquired the financial muscle to launch multi-city operations after they raised resources through public issue route. "Even then, many of them missed the bus in Bangalore and Chennai as the rates peaked before their entry," he said. "I think they have spotted the opportunity in Kochi and are moving in early," he added.

Sobha Developers is setting up the largest township in Maradu, Kochi, called the Sobha Hitech City. Maradu is a high-potential suburb of Kochi with commercial projects, 5-star hotels, shopping malls and IT projects. The total investment in the project is estimated at around Rs 5,000 crore. Nitesh Shetty,CMD of Bangalore-based real estate firm Nitesh Estates, said the Kochi skyline has changed dramatically over the last few years and today it is one of the fastest growing cities in the country. "The city offers grand investment opportunities for real estate mainly due to reasons such as large NRI population who want to buy homes in Kochi and increasing IT jobs in the city," he said. His company recently acquired around 5 acres of land in Kakkanad near Kochi.

Similarly, in 2006, India's real estate giant DLF purchased 3.78 acres in Kochi from the state government for Rs 78 crore. The DLF Group is planning to build a shopping mall, a multiplex and a 250-room deluxe hotel in Kochi. "Cochin is poised for a quantum leap. The commissioning of Vallarpadom international container terminal and numerous IT parks will make Kochi the preferred destination for highly-paid executives," a senior HDIL official said.

Though builders have been focusing on Kochi, the supply is still grossly inadequate when compared to the potential demand, according to builders. For example, in Kakkanad, the city's IT destination, the Infopark alone will create close to 30,000 to 40,000 jobs in the next 3 years. But the supply by all builders put together would be just 10,000 to 12,000 apartments by 2010. Apart from this, the Smart City Project is expected to provide nearly 90,000 IT jobs in the next one decade. Several private developers are also developing IT parks in Kakkanad and nearby areas.

By Rajesh Unnikrishnan and S Sanandakumar

Like attrackts like

2008-06-20T07:16:00.001-07:00

The secret of Bill Gates's success

I'd like to smoke what he was smoking."

How to Ask for order and Ask. Fred wilson and Red eye VC

2008-05-09T13:18:00.001-07:00

Redeye VC: How to "Ask for the Order"

I just read Fred Wilson's blog post about the need to ask for the order. I completely agree -- if you don't ask, you don't get.

10 Disruptive companies

2008-04-22T08:03:00.001-07:00

Ten Years, 10 Disruptors - Forbes.com

Ten Years, 10 Disruptors

Apples Ipod
Skype
Youtube
Wii
Google
Netflix
Blackberry

Stupidiest Business decision in Histroy, Beatles, Hersheys and others

2008-04-22T07:59:00.001-07:00

The Stupidest Business Decisions in History

The Stupidest Business Decisions in History.

Beatles, Hershey and others read here

Money makers 2007 - Hedge Funds

2008-04-18T11:06:00.001-07:00

Kiing of business models

2008-04-15T12:16:00.001-07:00

I happened to look at lot of business model during my work at early stage vc firm and in the course of working with many entrepreneurs. I couldn't stress more enough that the best business model is below. However I don't hear many people talking about the same. I liked what he said and re blogging here. Go and give a quick read you wont be disappointed.

Technical Revenue

I have plenty of opinions about business models, but to me, the best business model is one that makes your customer money.

People who make it are people who sit tight

2008-04-15T07:22:00.001-07:00

A VC: Paul Graham Tackles Two Issues In One Post

Google's founders were willing to sell early on.
They just wanted more than acquirers were willing to pay.

It was the same with Facebook. They would have sold, but Yahoo blew it
by offering too little.

Tip for acquirers: when a startup turns you down, consider raising
your offer, because there's a good chance the outrageous price they
want will later seem a bargain.

``We're going to continue to grow very fast overseas. We'll grow less fast'' in the U.S" Larry Fink

2008-04-15T06:37:00.001-07:00

Blackrock: Larry Fink Exclusive from Bloomberg

``We're going to continue to grow very fast overseas. We'll grow less fast'' in the U.S., he said.

State Street profit rises 69% - sleeping bull

2008-04-15T06:20:00.001-07:00

State Street's net income climbs 69% on record revenue - MarketWatch

State Street's profit rises 69%, beats expectations
MarketWatch
Last update: 8:56 a.m. EDT April 15, 2008

State Street Corp. reported on Tuesday that first-quarter net income rose 69% and that amid the turmoil in the markets, it expects to hit the middle of the ranges of its earnings estimates for the full year.

Trader balls and what not

2008-04-14T19:44:00.001-07:00

Paul Kedrosky: Traders, Balls and Testosterone

Traders, Balls and Testosterone

It's true: Traders with bigger balls do better, at least as evidenced by this study of testosterone levels in London traders:

Little is known about the role of the endocrine system in financial risk taking. Here, we report the findings of a study in which we sampled, under real working conditions, endogenous steroids from a group of male traders in the City of London. We found that a trader's morning testosterone level predicts his day's profitability. We also found that a trader's cortisol rises with both the variance of his trading results and the volatility of the market. Our results suggest that higher testosterone may contribute to economic return, whereas cortisol is increased by risk. Our results point to a further possibility: testosterone and cortisol are known to have cognitive and behavioral effects, so if the acutely elevated steroids we observed were to persist or increase as volatility rises, they may shift risk preferences and even affect a trader's ability to engage in rational choice.

You mean like they might go nuts and tear up the joint? Fine, but as long it's after quarter end, but before bonuses are paid.