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Project Management made easy

37signals, an internet SaaS company, provides very intuitive, aesthetic, easy to use and free online tools for personal and collaborative project management. The services are chargeable for higher online storage requirements. The site has video demos to show how these tools work; worth giving a look. List is as follows:

Basecamp – project management and colloboration
Highrise – Track deals, clients, vendors, simple CRM
Backpack – Information organizer and calandar
Campfire – Real-time group chat with file sharing

The best feature is that all the conversations, file sharing, to-do lists, etc are archived in a calendar format and can be seen as an overview or can be searched or browsed through later.

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China threatens to trigger US dollar crash

Wow! $1,330 billion “nuclear” alternative.

China threatens to trigger US dollar crash

Related: Consumerism is leading to US decline

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Business Education Finance Social

YAWN: A new breed of affluents

“In the Eighties, the yuppies brayed into their oversized mobiles and Gordon Gekko declared in the film Wall Street that greed was good.

In the Nineties, Harry Enfield’s self-made Brummies boasted that they were “considerably richer than yow”, while City high-fliers guzzled magnums of Champagne and dashed around in their flashy sports cars.

A new generation of the seriously rich has emerged, but with a difference: the ostentation has gone. The new breed is self-made, socially aware, concerned about the planet and gives a lot of money to charity. They are the “Yawns” – young and wealthy but normal.” – Telegraph

Young rich are more Yawn than yuppie

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10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job

An amazing article about why doing a job is not what you should really be doing!

10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job

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Business Education Finance India Innovation

Business Outsourcing vs Funding Startups

India and China may rule the world when bidding economic resources for information processing, however, its Central and Eastern Europe and Russia that are attracting attention from investors who look for creativity and innovation crucial for startups. – BusinessWeek
From an Indian perspective, there is a lot of raw talent and creativity out there. What needs to further develop is the environment that breeds this creativity and brings it out in the youth. Startups are being promoted in India no doubt, nevertheless, instilling such ideas at most schools and colleges (barring a few elite) is still almost non-existent. When this goes mainstream, there will be a boom in creative thinking from the Indian minds.

Where The VCs Are Flocking Now

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YCombinator Startup Notes

Some serious, useful and witty advise, pointers, questions and do’s and dont’s about start-ups from the experienced elite of the Web 2.0 startups’ world. At Scribd.

On a side note, Scribd received a $3.5 million funding from investors, adding to the ever growing list of successful Web2.0 startups.

YCombinator Startup School Notes 2007

Related Posts: Why to not not start a startup

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Microsoft Vs Apple

Here’s an interesting coincidence between the share price trend of Microsoft in the 4 years preceding the dot com bust in 2000 and the past 4 years’ share price of Apple. Both increased a little above 900% in the respective periods (see figures below). In the four years following the bust, Microsoft’s share price fell more than 50% (see second figure). What’s going to happen to Apple (and the entire economy)? It is by no means a conclusive comparison as there are a multitude of factors that have resulted in the present state of market and that will define the course of Apple in future. For now, Apple is going strong with its sales and looking hopeful with its upcoming products. An interesting comparison though.

Microsoft vs Apple pre-2000 bust:

MSFT vs AAPL pre 2000

Microsoft post-2000 bust:

MSFT post 2000

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Bollywood Inc.

New money is pushing Bollywood into Hollywood’s league. From industrial conglomerates wanting to build entertainment empires to foreign fund managers seeking to profit from individual projects, Bollywood, as the Indian film industry is widely known, is attracting new money like never before. Rise of Bollywood Inc.

Dream Factory

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Disposable credit cards

Paranoid about shopping online? Disposable credit cards will be of interest to you. Use them for a single transaction, with a limit of transaction amount to ensure you are not over-charged for any reason. Neat! Launched nearly five years ago; and has shown some success.

Disposable card numbers cutting online fraud, says Cahoot

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Business Finance India Innovation Technology

Web 2.0 in India

An impressive collection of the key Web 2.0 startups in India.

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