Torch your ideas

Post by: Eesha on April 25th, 2008 | File Under Entrepreneurship, Misc, Startups

Its just the way you look at things and reading between lines, that matters.Most of us fail to do this.We have an idea, even in the most trivial things we come across daily. Not every one, but a person with an always ‘present mind‘ and with a ’specific goal’ ,can get it and make the most of it.This is one such story my friends…

Edward Bok hails from Holland, who as a boy was imbued with the idea that one day he would runa a magazine.Once he saw a man open a package of cigarettes, who took a slip of paper from it and later dropped the paper on the floor.Bok picked up the scrap of paper. That paper has a picture of a famous actress with a tag below saying this was one of a series and the cigarette buyer was asked to collect the complete set of pictures.Bok noticed that the other side of the paper was perfectly blank.

He reasoned that the value of the picture would be greatly enhanced if the blank side were devoted to a brief biography of the person pictured.He explained the same to the manager of the lithograph firm which printed the enclosure . The manager promptly offered to give 10$ each if Bok would write a 100 word biography of 100 famous Americans.

This way Bok got his first literary assignment.The demand for his short biographies became so great that he needed help! So he offered his brother 5 $ each if he would help him [:)]. And later , Bok had 5 journalists busy turning out biographies for the lithograph preses.Edward Bok- He was the editor!!

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MORAL

► Its that Bok’s mind which had specific goal, sensed the opportunity.

That’s how it goes pals…just BE AWAKE …OPEN MINDED…and above all…with an ALWAYS PRESENT MIND.

GOOD LUCK!!!!


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List of Institutes for Indian Entrepreneurs

Post by: Aravind Patrudu on April 25th, 2008 | File Under Indian Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs contribute to the economic growth and help implement latest technologies in the areas of production and service related industries.

Small Industries Development Organization (SIDO) was set up to incubate and encourage start ups with the help of its entrepreneurship development programmes through small industries service centres.

But the exact foundation was bid in 1983 at Ahmedabad in order to create the institutional infrastructure for entrepreneurship development, named as EDII (Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India)

Later Indian Central Government started an organization called National Institute for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development ( NIESBIID) at New Delhi with a main motto of co-ordinating activities related to Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development.

Some of the Institutes established by the Indian Government are:

  1. Rural Entrepreneurship Development (REDI) at Ranchi
  2. FICCI - Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry

The list of Organizations conducting entrepreneurship development programmes are:

  1. Institute of Entrepreneurship Development (IED) in U.P, Bihar and Orissa
  2. Management Development Institute (MDI) at Gurgaon, Harayana, near Delhi
  3. Small Industries Extension Training institute, Hyderabad
  4. Centre for Entrepreneurship Development at Ahmedabad, Hubli
  5. Wadhwani Centre for Entrepreneurship Development, ISB
  6. State Bank of India
  7. State Financial Corporations
  8. NISIET, Gauhati
  9. National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad
  10. National Council for Cement Building Materials, Delhi, Ballabgarh, Hyderabad, Patna and Madras
  11. National Federation for Industrial co-operatives limited, New Delhi
  12. Indutrial Consultancy Organizations
  13. Indian Plywood Industries Research Institute, Bangalore
  14. New Indo-Danish Tool Rooms - Jamshedpur and Bhubaneshwar
  15. Indo-German Tools rooms - Indore, Ahmedabad and Aurangabad
  16. Central Institute of Hand Tools, Jalandhar, Hyderabad
  17. Central Pulp and Paper Research Institute, Saharanpur
  18. Central Machine Tool Institute, Bangalore
  19. Central Tool Room and Training Centre, Kolkata
  20. Institute for Design of Electrical Measuring Instruments, Bombay
  21. Electronic Service and Training Centre, Ramnagar
  22. Petroleum Product Development Centre for Glass and Ceramic Industry,Ranchi
  23. PROCESS AND PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT CENTRE, Agra, Meerut
  24. National Institute for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development, New Delhi
  25. Centre for Improvement of Glass Industry, Ferozabad

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