Ideas Are Cheap


wealthymattersFollowing is an excellent answer from Quora, to a person’s question of how he can get on board developers cheap for his start up. In a sense this answer applies to all workers you want to join your start-up. The following logic is something I find many inexperienced, would-be entrepreneurs refuse to see.

“I am sure that you are sincere, well-meaning, and smart. But this is about the eight-millionth time I’ve heard from somebody who thinks that having an idea makes you somehow so interesting to professional developers that they will swoon for you. The first million times that was perfectly fine, but at this point the question just makes me stabby.

A good software developer is one of the most in-demand skill sets on the planet right now. And note that what you need isn’t talent, which any 12-year-old can have. What you need is skill, which is what you get when you start with talent and add years of hard work.

Anybody who has put in those years of work can do basically what they want. They could:

  • Take an interesting, pleasant, high-paying job at a place like Google with great toys, great chefs, and great job security;
  • Find a cushy telecommuting gig, where they do something undemanding from the comfort of their home office;
  • Find some interesting job that takes them to any country they want to visit;
  • Take a high-pressure job in finance to make stupid sums of money;
  • Join an existing startup that has funding and a nice office and a foosball table; or
  • Found their own start-up.

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Copy To Thrive!


wealthymatters Players in the Rs 2,400-crore ,fast-growing ,Indian,online classifieds industry are freely ‘borrowing’ listings from rival sites in a bid to become the largest in their categories and attract funding. Only a few take the consent of advertisers.Not only small classifieds but large online classifieds players are also resorting to this practice.

The trend of replicating advertiser information is rampant across industries. According to IAMAI, jobs is the largest category in the online classifieds market constituting about 60% of the market share followed by matrimony (22%), B2B classifieds (13%) and real estate 7%.

Copying classifieds means saving on-ground sales staff, so a company can manage with a small tele-calling team, using cloud technologies, which scouts for listings across other platforms. Read more of this post

Dame Stephanie Shirley


wealthymattersDame Stephanie, or Steve as those closest to her call her, is the creator of the multibillion-pound IT software consultancy,the F1 Group, from which she made her £150-million fortune.

Dame Stephanie,was born Vera Buchtal to a gentile mother and German Jewish judge in Dortmund, Germany . Her family fled to Vienna only weeks before the outbreak of the Second World War and her parents put her and her nine-year old sister on one of the Kindertransport trains taking 1,000 refugee children across Europe to London to escape the Nazis.

“I remember arriving at Liverpool Street station; it was July but it was dull and grey . There were big bags of straw all around and the air was sickly with the smell of unwashed children. We had no idea what to expect. We were tired, hungry and traumatised,“ she says.

What she found, however, was a wonderful childless family who fostered her and her sister in the West Midlands where she lived until she was 18, even though both her parents survived the war. Later she took Brook ­ from her love of the poet Rupert Brooke ­as her naturalised name. Read more of this post

Univercell SYNC – Selling An Experience


Univercell Sync

India is now truly a hot and happening place when it comes to all things internet. Internet penetration is growing at 28% and mobile internet at 55% per annum. Smart phones, tabs and apps are the new buzz words.

Univercell Sync hopes to cater to everyone from tech geeks to the layman consumer in the market looking for a smartphone paired with the best in accessories, apps and technology solutions.

The smartphone market in India, currently at 18  per cent, is set to double over the next year and Univercell hopes to cash in on this growth segment by introducing new format stores called Univercell Sync which have everything from the best of phones, accessories and services and aims to give a total technology experience to people who come to the store. Read more of this post

Improving Customer Service Platforms


wealthymattersA company’s reputation is often established through customer service. People that spend their money on products or services expect to have the chance to leave feedback. In modern times, there are several forms of communication that are used between customers and representatives of a business. Traditional phone based customer service is still quite effective. Clients enjoy the opportunity to chat with courteous agents that may answer a variety of questions and address other concerns. It is important for the agents to develop proper phone etiquette when answering phone calls.

When a customer service agent picks up the phone, he or she must use a polite greeting. For example, adult customers should be addressed as sir or misses depending upon the gender of course. Young ladies should be addressed as miss by the customer service representative. Even when a problem is resolved by phone, the agent should keep on making sure that no other issues exist. For instance, it is common to ask if the customer has any other concerns or comments about anything else. After an issue is completely resolved, a customer service agent should use an appropriate farewell. It is also customary to repeat the company’s name before a customer hangs up. This way, patrons end the phone call with a positive image of a business that has just resolved some issues. Read more of this post