I just finished reading How I Made It

Many entrepreneurs do not want others to how they got rich or the secret of their success, much less telling people about their failures.

How I Made It reveals the successes as well as failures of 40 successful entrepreneurs as they are making more money and continue improve life of others.

In this book, 40 successful entrepreneurs telling how they see challenges and turn their dream into reality. They will shares what to do, how they got started, how they get funded and how they went about it.

Also, you will find how they wins business as well as lost their business.

I hope, this will inspire all of us and learn from them.

Lizzie Vann - Founder of Organix brands - create food for babies children
Personal philosophy: Live life in the present. And never forget that information is power. The power of information can change the world

Darren Richards - Founder of DatingDirect.com Britain’s largest dating services
Personal philosophy: You only get one crack at a big opportunity so make sure you recognize it and grab it with both hands.

Maria Kempinska - Founder of Jongleurs Comedy Clubs - Stand up comedy, Comedy clips, Comedy tickets
Walk regularly in your customer’s shoes

Mark Mills - Founder of Cardpoint, independent cash machine deployer
Personal philosophy: Give 100 percent to everything you do and never give up

Penny Streeter - Founder of Ambition 24 Hours
Personal philosophy: Take life one day at a time because everyday is a different day with new challenges

Derek Beevor - Founder of Road Tech Computer Systems
Personal philosophy: Nothing is impossible

Rosemary Conley
Inventor of Hip and Thigh Diet
Personal philosophy: Always have something to look forward to, someone to share it with and always try to make a difference

Raymond Gubbay
Founder of Raymond Gubbay Ltd - UK’s leading classical music promoter
Personal philosophy: I never forget that there are many more important things in the world than show business.

Trisha Mason
Founder of VEF
Personal philosophy: Life is about giving other people inspiration to do whatever they want to well. I like inspiring people to achieve things

John Mudd
Founder of Real Crisps Company - Hand Cooked Crisps
Personal philosophy: You have to be straight with people and your world has to be your bond

Mark Roy
Founder of Read Group
Personal philosophy: If you don’t ask the question, you don’t get

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This entry is inspired by Yenjai’s “rosak” TV.

Yenjai said in his blog that, his TV rosak liaolast week. While searching for new TV, he is comparing a $3999 LCD TV and $1999 CRT TV.

Lucky for him, he got a good wife, because the wife choose the Samsung Slimfit TV that cost $1999. (Yenjai, you save $2000)

His post let me think of “Needs vs Wants”.

What are “needs”?

What are “wants”?

“Needs” are what we need to live.

“Wants” include everything else we would like to have, but not a necessity.

I feel that everyone must know the differences between wants and needs, no matter what is your financial capability.

This is the first step to breaking free from the materialism trap. There is nothing wrong that we want all these things. But do understand that these things do not make us happy.

I want to share this Chinese blog with you. Read the post We don’t need much, yet we want a lot, you’ll be amazed by the amount of money you can save.

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Don’t get caught by fraudster on the Internet.

The Nigerian Scam has been around for quite long time, but despite many warnings by local authority, the scam continues to draw in many victims.

The Straits Times gives the lowdown on some time-tested ploys and uncovers some newer schemes.

How it is done
First concocted by Nigerian scammer, one version has a supposed African official offering a big cut if you could help unfreeze millions in a late bureaucrat’s bank account. But there is the catch: You have to pay cash up front to cover some transaction cost. More money is requested, snags occur, and your money is gone.

Conned
Last year, 12 Singaporean were cheated of $676,400 in this way, more than double the $327,000 lost by five victims in 2005. In 2004, the figure was $78,000. Mony other victims may be too embrassed to come forward.

Tips
Be wary of get-rich-quick-scheme that offers, say Police. Contact your local Police if you smell a ruse.

Remember: If it sound too good to be true, then it is not true.

This post is extracted from The Straits Times newspaper dated May 28, 2007 (Page H5)

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I just found this site: Earthle

What is Earthle?

Earthle was created with the idea in mind to save your energy and reduce your electricity bill.

According to the creator, all white web page uses about 74 watts to display, while an all black page uses only 59 watts.

Extract from Earthle:

Take at look at Google, who gets about 200 million queries a day. Let’s assume each query is displayed for about 10 seconds; that means Google is running for about 550,000 hours every day on some desktop. Assuming that users run Google in full screen mode, the shift to a black background will save a total of 15 (74-59) watts. That turns into a global savings of 8.3 Megawatt-hours per day, or about 3000 Megawatt-hours a year. Now take into account that about 25 percent of the are CRTs, and at 10 cents a kilowatt-hour, that’s $75,000, a goodly amount of energy and dollars for changing a few color codes.

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The gorvenment will give out $4 million over 5 years in the GST Offset Package to help Singaporeans to cope with the 2% GST increase that will take effect on 1 July 2007.

This post is showing step by step to claim your money from the government.

Click on the GST Offset Package Overview to understand what is GST Offset Package and the amount you suppose yo receive.

Step 1. Get ready your One Time PIN or SingPass.

Step 2. Click Sign up for my GST Credits to start. You can login using one-time PIN which can be found at the bottom of your GST Offset Package letter or SingPass.

Step 3. Proceed to login using SingPass, because I prefer to use SingPass.

Step 4. Once you successfully login, the GST Credits amount will be shown on the screen. You can use the latest bank account on the system or specific another bank account. Other options are receive cheque or donate to charity. Double check your account number before click on Submit button.

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