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Re: $500,000 Business Plan Competition

Edwin — Tue, 27 May 2008 12:41:26 -0000

I went to the webpage of the global security challenge and they are giving out the winning money as a cash-grant, sponsored by the US Government. Think thats great, compared to so many competitions that ask for equity in return for such big wins.

Re: Rice Husk Startup Provides Electricity To Rural India

funnybrahmin — Tue, 27 May 2008 09:19:27 -0000

i have never seen a bigger idiot than you. When you tie up with rice mill, you lock in the price of the input rice husk. These guys r paying 12 bucks a unit for diesel generator and cost comes to 2 rs a unit using this system. How much you think is there to be made?

Re: Entrepreneurship at Harvard University

Adam Miller — Mon, 26 May 2008 23:57:07 -0000

I will!

Re: Obsidian Launch: Accelerate Your Business

Scott Bradley — Mon, 26 May 2008 20:40:37 -0000

Mike is an awesome guy! His company is top notch! I would like to echo the points above in Mikes quote as well.

Re: Obsidian Launch: Accelerate Your Business

Mike Michalowicz — Mon, 26 May 2008 18:32:53 -0000

Alex,

Thank you for the blog love. I so much appreciate it, and truly believe it what we are doing.

I also want your blog vistors to know what an impressive entrepreneur you are. It always amazes me how success people are when they start young. And you are clearly one of them. Can't wait to see you on the cover of Inc.

- Mike

Re: CoCubes: Campus Recruitment Moves Online

Rahul — Mon, 26 May 2008 10:53:42 -0000

Hats Off to CoCubes.. this is simply a great move started by two intelligent IITians. Being a post graduate I know what kind of problems i have faced to get placed in a good company and problems that my TPO has faced to reach out good companies with the bundle of CVs of students. As far you are signed with CoCubes sending across the bundle of CVs to companies is no longer required. its just a matter of clicks.. and u just reached the company.
All the best to CoCubes.. Wish them good luck.

Re: CollegeHumor Grows Up, Sorta

Mike Michalowicz — Wed, 21 May 2008 10:54:46 -0000

I love the mock-trailer they did for Minesweeper. Hysterical!!!

Re: DFJ Gotham 250K (Live)

naveed — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:15:15 -0000

So I was completely off base with my predictions: Ecovolve did not reach the final round and Yan Engines placed last among the finalists, according to the eventual rankings. Good thing I am not a venture capitalist. Also, I blame a lack of information, i.e. actual business plans. Presentations only can be misleading. Yeah, that's the ticket.

Re: Constructive Failure: The Difference in Silicon Valley

David Weisburd — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:02:54 -0000

Excellent video!

Re: Best Graduation Gift Ever? A Clean Carbon Slate

John — Sun, 11 May 2008 00:47:39 -0000

Selling carbon credits to individuals is blatant exploitation of the recent "going green" fad. This idea is almost as worthless as the "Carbon Footprint" facebook app, but hell at least that's free.

Re: Mark Cuban’s 12 Rules For Startups (Or Anyone, Really)

Scott Bradley — Sat, 10 May 2008 17:52:10 -0000

Thanks for the list Miles. These are some great tips

Re: Best Graduation Gift Ever? A Clean Carbon Slate

Rick — Sat, 10 May 2008 14:38:59 -0000

I think its a great way to do our bit for the environment. I presume all the money is used in the research and for promotion of green solutions. So really 6k is not much at all!

Re: Best Graduation Gift Ever? A Clean Carbon Slate

Dan — Sat, 10 May 2008 14:10:37 -0000

What a sham. Who in their right mind would want to shell out $6k+ for some intangible gift such as "carbon credits".

Carbon credits are best left to the world of corporate pollution, trying to cash in on them at the personal level is just a way to profit off the recent "go green" explosion. I really feel sad for anyone who buys/receives this type of gift. Really want to help the environment? Save that $6k/$7.5k/$25k and put it toward a hybrid.

Re: Rice Husk Startup Provides Electricity To Rural India

Ram Dhan Yadav, Kotamaraja — Sat, 10 May 2008 09:48:18 -0000

The issue with rise husk or any biomass power generators is the availability of raw material. Even if the raw material is available the cost of it is growing up like crazy day after day. This increasing cost of raw material is shooting the cost of power generation and supply sky high and making it unaffordable for both power companies and consumers. The only model that is tried / tested and proved viable is captive power plant. The captive power plants are established as ancillaries of raw material generation factories such as rice mills, sugar mills, groundnut mills and other biomass production factories. An ancillary power plant that depends on this biomass as raw material is established in the vicinity, the power generated from the ancillary power plant is supplied back to the parent factory. This makes the factory self-sustainable in its energy needs and makes the power affordable for the factory. The power generation using the existing technology and supplying it to residential purposes is not yet profitable and sustainable. This technology is putting burden on the governments in the form of the pressure to provide subsidies. More innovation in technology may make the power generation profitable and sustainable in future.

Re: Jurvetson Calls For “Disruptive Force”; Says Economy Won’t Hurt Startups

Mike Michalowicz — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:36:41 -0000

I have had the good fortune to have launched a company at the tail end of 1990-1993 recession and to have also navigated the .COM collapse. It was hard to have a business during those times, but it sure as hecked weeded out the compeition. I think it is a good idea to start during a recession, build strong roots and explode as the economy comes out.

- Mike

Re: Ivy Insiders: Test Prep Done Right

Nayak — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:09:48 -0000

Nice post

Re: SCORE adds new section for young entrepreneurs

Guest — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:08:14 -0000

Great find!

Re: Emerginvest: Putting Your Money Where it Matters

Avi — Thu, 08 May 2008 22:51:43 -0000

Looks great! Can't wait to give it a try :)

Re: Ivy Insiders: Test Prep Done Right

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Re: Ivy Insiders: Test Prep Done Right

Jane — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:27:47 -0000

You would think an Ivy league grad should be smart enough to know that "Game theory" is being totally misused in this instance. Besides that, who wants to sit in a boring classroom anymore?

Re: Ivy Insiders: Test Prep Done Right

Happy with Kaplan — Thu, 08 May 2008 10:10:59 -0000

I have to disagree with this article's 300 point assertation. I took Ivy and had a disappointing experience. I had to get a last minute tutor from Kaplan to try and make up for the time that I wasted with the other company. Kaplan really helped me. I think these published score increases are a big load of rubbish!

Re: YouthActionNet Global Fellowships For Young Social Leaders

masterbusiness — Thu, 08 May 2008 01:25:47 -0000

how to uply for this fellowship?

Re: 14-Year-Old Launches TeensInTech.com

Daniel Brusilovsky — Sun, 04 May 2008 23:19:22 -0000

One more correction :) My name is Daniel Brusilovsky.... sorry about all the corrections :)

Re: 14-Year-Old Launches TeensInTech.com

Daniel Brusilovsky — Sun, 04 May 2008 23:15:23 -0000

Thank you very much for this. I did not expect this to be blogged at numerous sites :) One correction.... I am 15 now :)

Re: More Than 2,000 Colleges Offer Entrepreneurship

mlsing2007 — Sun, 04 May 2008 20:40:52 -0000

Great to hear that Entrepreneurship & Creativity are being recognized as an important "assets" the youths of today need to face tomorrow's challenges.

In Singapore, we have MoneyTree Programme that prepares Kids/Teenagers aged 9 to 22 years from Personal Financial Management to Entrepreneurship.

Both my kids aged 11 & 13 years attended these courses since last year.

Seen some improvements in them, and they now taking part in a Youth Entrepreneurship Skills Competition in Singapore (YESCOM 2008). Check out our website : http://moneytree-sg.blogspo...

Inviting Young budding Entrepreneurs to come share some ideas.

Cheers.

Martin Lee
Singapore