Power of blogging seems to awaken the Redmond giant too http://redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=10625&hed=Bill+Gates%e2%80%99+blog+strategy

Who says a person is old enough to start a company ? 84 year old James Lawrence Toast starts a company to connect to the younger generations. The apparel are so wacky that toast shd have no problem in connecting with the current wacky generation where companies like http://littlemismatch.com/ can exist , a company started by 4 yound girls which is in to selling mismatched socks!!! Yes in this world of sanity, insanity pays I guess.

Tom Peters, the biz guru who spells out the secrets of excellence among companies says that there are Ten “Traits of Excellence” for an individual . He quotes them with reference to Gandhi, Churchill and Mandela. I have tried to put in a few words against each of these traits . An entrepreneur who wants to build a successful company should possess these qualities : 1.Dreamer-Visionary.: He needs to visualize the situation much before lot of people can and have the guts to execute it.

Google takes 2.5 word query and displays 10 results in a second, - I mean how faster can a search engine be - A whole lot of information is accessible. what next ? Come to think of it , what is needed is user interface which not only lets users remember what they have visited, it makes the search experience very personal. This is not some thing which is not already being worked on http://www.

One always tend to talk about business model , revenue model , just after looking at a site. Yes , may be we are reminded of the dreadful years that have gone by, the dot com bust years I happened to visit www.changethis.com and was surprised to see their objective and their mission. First thing that struck me, as usual was how the hell are they making money and when I read their manifesto - http://changethis.