Wednesday, January 27, 2016

TWO TECHIE BROTHERS:

TWO TECHIE BROTHERS: 

 India's youngest CEO Sharvan and Sanjay Kumaran...
 two brothers from Chennai... 

have launched their own mobile application firm.
Aged only 14 and 12 respectively !!!

 Sharvan is the Co-founder and President of "GO DIMENSIONS" while his brother is Co-founder and CEO. 

When most adults have trouble in understanding Java code, 

these two kids have used the code to build mobile apps.

The brothers have developed 11 apps for the Apple Store
(eg:Catch me cop, 
Alphabet board etc.) 

Which have been down loaded more than 35,000 times from 20 countries !!! 
Their role model is Steve Jobs.

 Let's Salute these LITTLE STARS for their incredible achievement.

Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Some interesting facts and figures

  • In 2002, the most popular boat name in the U.S. was Liberty
  • One out of 20 people have an extra rib
  • 44% of kids watch television before they go to sleep
  • In 1865, the U.S. Secret Service was first established for the specific purpose to combat the counterfeiting of money
  • Istanbul, Turkey is the only city in the world located on two continents
  • In 1967, the IMAX film system was invented by Canadian Ivan Grame Ferguson to premier at Expo 67.
  • Approximately 40% of the U.S. paper currency in circulation was counterfeit by the end of the Civil War
  • Every three days a human stomach gets a new lining
  • In 1873, Colgate made a toothpaste that was available in a jar
  • The Kodiak, which is native to Alaska, is the largest bear and can measure up to eight feet and weigh as much as 1,700 pounds
  • The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley
  • Mars is the home of Olympus Mons, the largest known volcano in our solar system
  • The Gastric Flu can cause projectile vomiting
  • The second best selling game of all time is Jenga. Jenga is a Swahili word, meaning "to build."
  • Cinderella is known as Rashin Coatie in Scotland, Zezolla in Italy, and Yeh-hsien in China
  • The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
  • The fur of the binturong, also known as the "Asian Bear Cat," smells like popcorn. The scent is believed to come from a gland located near the tail

True story

P C Mustafa 

( Coolie’s Son who Set Up 100 Crore Company with just 25,000 )

musthafa_coolie_son_croresThis is the story of a man who failed in Class 6, but went on to join the Regional Engineering College (now the National Institute of Technology), Calicut and the Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore.
This is the story of a man who decided to become an entrepreneur and employ people from rural India.
Today, fresh idli and dosa batter made by P C Mustafa’s company ID Fresh reaches homes in Bengaluru, Chennai, Pune, Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Mangaluru and even Dubai.
Today, we produce around 50,000 kg in our plant. The total investment must be around Rs 4 crore (Rs 40 million) and our revenue is Rs 100 crore (Rs 1 billion).
When we became a Rs 100 crore company in October 2015, we celebrated in grand scale. We have grown from producing 10 packets a day in 2005, with just my cousin managing the kitchen, to 50,000 packets a day with 1,100 employees in 10 years.

The Surprising Thing That's Holding Young Women Back


When I was in my 20s, I always thought that if you worked hard and aced your assignments, you'd naturally move up in the workplace.
For a while, that's exactly what transpired. But one day, something happened to me that inevitably happens to almost everyone in the workplace. My old boss left and a new one came in. And even though I tried harder to impress him, putting together a special project that won lots of praise from people outside, he was ... indifferent. Looking back, I realize none of it was personal. I wasn't his hire and we just didn't have much chemistry. When you click, you click, but when you don't, well, someone moves on. I did, and I've never looked back

The whole episode was a huge lesson for me. You can work as hard as you can and you can still feel like you're going nowhere. That's when it began to dawn on me how critical it is to not only be talented at your job, but also talented in "winning the room." Nurturing the connections above and around you is essential to your success, whether you're in a big company or striking out on your own. Could I have done more to "win the room" when the changeover happened? Absolutely. Did I? No. I just buried my head in more work and hoped my new boss would notice how great I was.
I see this a lot with young women, too. They put their heads down, do the work, socialize among themselves, and think, somehow, nurturing connections outside matters little in landing the next job or promotion. Sallie Krawcheck, the chair of Ellevate, a network that empowers women to expand their careers, says some young women have told her networking for your next job felt like "cheating."
As Sallie explains in our interview for my podcast, Radiate: "For some reason, particularly young women, when I talk about [networking], they say, 'Well, that's cheating. I want to do this on my own. I don't want to do it through my contacts and connections ... You would be shocked by the number who say that ... I'm like, 'Well, how do you think the guys are doing it?'" (You can listen to the podcast episode on iTunes here and SoundCloud here or download the RSS feed.)
Sallie, who's just raised $10 million to start a new digital platform, Ellevest, to help women close the gender investment gap, says for all her own expertise, she also fell victim to the same affliction I described above. (Watch the video below for tips on starting a company from legendary venture capitalist Alan Patricof). 
It happened at her last big corporate job on Wall Street, in which she ran Merrill Lynch's wealth-management business, part of Bank of America. Despite making billions in profit, she was sacked two years after taking the job. "It was a random act of violence," she says. "You're like: 'I work hard. I'm excelling. What the heck?'"
So take it from two people who've been there. "Work it" with the connections and never look back.
If you like this article, you'll love my new podcast, Radiate, featuring interviews with CEOs, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders. You can click on new episodes on iTunes, SoundCloud, or on my website, www.betty-liu.com. Here is the RSS feed, too. And please don't forget to REVIEW the podcast or contact me atbetty@betty-liu.com.