Month: January 2011

Truth Contest

TRUTH CONTEST giving is receiving share wealth truth about drugs clean energy green technolog learning education love sex marriage the present universal truth money or life Insanity is doing what does not make you happy, over and over again. Intellectuals…

How does the US export inflation?

Most countries hold their reserves in dollars, which is a safe – haven of sorts, and that is why the dollar is known as the – reserve currency – of the world. To counter deflation’s bad effects, and to stimulate…

Why Facebook points to the next Wall Street bubble

Facebook has raised $500 million from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) and Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies, which implies that the social media darling is valued at a staggering $50 billion. This reminds me of the valuations being…

The Rare Earths Boom

Rare earths are a group of exotic elements of the Periodic Table (Lanthanides, mostly), with unique electrical, magnetic, optical and other properties. Without them there’s basically no clean tech, green tech, advanced electronics, electric cars, and much more. It’s not…

Why Healthcare Reform is Here to Stay

In her keynote speech on Monday, Nancy-Ann DeParle, Counselor to the President and Director of the White House Office of Health Reform, faced a hostile audience as she laid out the case for reform. The audience snickered when she pointed…

The Shale Gas Revolution

Just a few years ago, the energy investment idea du jour was to build liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals to handle future imports to the voracious US hydrocarbon market. Remember Cheniere Energy, once the darling of newsletter writers? Now there’s…

Jon Benson 3x VSL

3xVSL 4 elements in top performing VSL: usp, stories, tips, comparisons 5 steps in vsl process: snap suggestion, vital connection, big problem, bigger solution, grand offer Pattern Interrupt | Attention Watch This Now Benefit Formula Create Scarcity Something Completely Different…

Frank Chester

Current science concentrates on power generation through explosion and exertion. To drive your car the engine has to burn fuel…leads to depletion of that fuel and smoke through the exhaust pipe. As a martial art most popularity is focused on…

Mixergy

What’s your biggest challenge? Click the one one that feels most important to you: “I don’t know how to stay productive” “I need help launching a business” “I don’t know how to get traffic” “I don’t know how to sell”…

Tabs will dominate Chinese computer market in 2011

We call this technology the “Chi–Tab”… but in the U.S. it goes by a bunch of different names… Dell calls it the “Streak.” HP has their own version – the “Touchsmart.” Samsung has the Galaxy Tab. Apple of course has…

Shaqir Hussyin

14 tips for entrepreneurs 1. Always Be Building Your List (#1 Asset). 2. Start, Grow & Cultivate An Audience – Not just a list. 3. Start outsourcing early on. Delegate. 4. Spend 20% of your time learning. 80% of your…

Paul Graham: money and wealth

How to Make Wealth If you wanted to get rich, how would you do it? I think your best bet would be to start or join a startup. A startup is a small company that takes on a hard technical…

Paul Graham

Money and Wealth in Startups If you wanted to get rich, how would you do it? Startups are not magic. Wealth is not the same thing as money. Money is a side effect of specialization. Wealth is stuff we want:…

The New Gold Rush of 2011

The gold price soared nearly 30% last year – punctuating a spectacular decade-long run that has seen the gold price quintuple! So has gold finally reach a “bubble phase?” Is the great gold bull market on its last legs? In…

Interviewing Successful People

Stansberryradio.com/james-altucher: Blog and Guests What I Learned About Life After Interviewing 80 Highly Successful People: Podcasting, to be honest, was just an excuse for me to call up whoever I wanted to call and ask them all sorts of personal…

Ramit Sethi

2015 the year of more/ I realized that most people want you to stay exactly where you are in life — and if you explicitly talk about how you want more, they get really uncomfortable. But I also realized, ONCE…

Kickstarter Projects

Disadvantage of Kickstarter: – retail sale with high intensive presale work of hustling – get initial credibility with prototype product – efficiency of low cost production – easily to be imitated with different patented technology of big corporations Advantage: –…

Sivers

1. I miss the mob In the mob times everything was one entry cost. Now we need to pay for everything all the time. Capitalism can be worse that the mob. The most important metric how much in and out,…

Corbett Barr

There’s Nothing More Powerful than a Deadline Action is what matters, and deadlines are how action gets done. Entrepreneurship as an Essential Life Skill This isn’t about building the next billion-dollar company. It’s about the deep sense of fulfillment you…

Platform VS Pipeline

PLATFORM BUSINESS The platform thinking series The best platform thinking in 2014 How to grow like Whatsapp and instagram with network effect marketing Welcome to the age of the zero-dollar marketing. Airbnb, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Snapchat. Each of these networks…

Best Bloggers and Blogs 2015

Sebastian Marshall: clever thinking Taylor Pearson: strategy thinking, reading list. Mars Dorian: mindset, autheticity, copywriting. Corbett Barr: different ideas. Neville´s Financial: crash a party, homeless, selling water, backflip. NevKopy: uber email, nevbox, yelp b2b Matias Godoy: economia para todos explicado…

Taylor Pearson

Case Study: Growing a B2B eCommerce Business 527% in 18 Months The portable bar company Strategy: Understand Customers Focus on Building Trust and Creating Transparency Get Ruthless about Processes Tactics: Drive Traffic and Awareness by Generating Expert Content and Ruthlessly…

Sebastian Marshall

The Million Dollar Question If someone gives you an awesome blueprint to upgrade your game, would you make it happen, no matter what? Why don’t people take the large opportunities in front of them? Why don’t they allow their dreams…

Mars Dorian

How to master your craft? The key is dissection in 3 steps: 1) You break your craft into it’s single pieces. (practical) 2) You learn the principles of building with pieces(theoretical) 3) You rearrange the pieces in new, interesting ways…