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How To Become A Billionaire
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Imagine seeing YOURSELF on the cover of Time Magazine or maybe YOU prefer Fortune Magazine or maybe in a future Joking Gorilla Billionaire List. It doesn't matter, the important thing is YOU imagine. Imagine YOU'RE reading about YOUR success and new billionaire status today.
“[Insert YOUR Name Here] is now one of the world's richest individuals. He/She built an empire covering the whole gamut of the computing industry. He/She is worth a cool $29 billion. He/She built an amazing array of cool products that redefined how we use computers, mobile phones and other computing devices... etcera... etcera... etcera...”
Now, snap out of it!
This is how YOU did it.
First move, be born to unknown parents. It might help if YOUR last name is hard to spell, common or unknown. (Think Gates. Allen. Ellison. Jobs. Wozniak. Zuckerberg. Page. Brin.). YOU get the point.
Second move, study until college then drop out. In the last 50 years, billionaires especially on newly-created industries like computing, software engineering, mobile communications, the Internet, etc. usually dropped out of college to pursue a great idea. (Gates. Ellison. Jobs. Wozniak. Zuckerberg. Page. Brin.). YOU do need to finish high school though. We still have to encounter a billionaire who's a high school drop out (If YOU know one, let's hear it!). This probably means YOU do need to master reading (comprehension), writing and speaking skills as well as knowing a little about history, algebra and physics.
Third, think and pursue a great idea that can change the world. Now comes the hard part. It's easy to say this. It's even easier to put this on a piece of paper and call it a business plan. But execution is key. Almost all the new-age billionaires started their startups on their own dime. They had to invest something themselves first. The best indicator if YOU have a great idea? There's none. If YOU believe in something so strongly and are willing to pursue it then YOU'D probably end up a billionaire. But that's a BIG IF. Remember, Edison did fail ten thousand times before perfecting the light bulb mechanism. And he didn't end up a billionaire but his name will live on forever. And Col. Sanders did get the door closed on him almost 2,000 times before getting the secret formula right for KFC. And even Kung Fu Panda had to fail many times before learning the secret of the dragon warrior.
Fourth and the final step, execute with uncanny precision. Gates hit it big when Microsoft licensed their software program to IBM and built in great functionality (yes guys, at that time Windows was cool and cheap) to it. Ellison when he got a big contract from the government and by focusing on the server market first. Jobs when he got fired from Apple. Sorry, that's not it. Jobs actually did it in two spades (or is it three?): with Apple, he made an amazing product (Macintosh, others) that the world adored and with Pixar, he built a different kind of movie/animation house. And with Apple again with the iPod and iPhone. Larry Page and Sergey Brin did it by creating an amazing search engine they called Google. Google continues to redefine the marketplace. Zuckerberg built a site for social interactions – he built a great one, cool functionalities, amazing design and easy sharing of files – photos, videos and links. Facebook is like the iPhone of social networking – it looks great, YOU can do almost anything with it, and it's not so expensive – it's actually FREE. Design Matters. Design in Outlook. And Design in Process.
Let's recap then:
1 FIRST MOVE, BE BORN TO UNKNOWN PARENTS. This is so true, it will motivate YOU to become known.
2 SECOND MOVE, DROP OUT OF COLLEGE. So far, that's how the current billionaires did it.
3 THIRD MOVE, DEVELOP A GAME-CHANGING IDEA. That will do it. Provided YOU succeed.
4 FOURTH MOVE, EXECUTE! Now this is the hardest part, but this is key.
There is in fact a fifth step. We'll let YOU figure that one out. There are clues in this article. But that deserves another post. We believe Guy Kawasaki has written extensively about that subject.
P.S.
If all else fails, YOU have the following choices (in no particular order):
Marry a billionaire (YOU have to be a really hot!)
Marry into a billionaire's family (YOU have to be smart.)
Marry the ex-billionaire's spouse (Make sure they got at least a billion dollars after the divorce.)
Get YOURSELF adopted by the billionaire or the family (YOU have to be cute!)
Have any other ideas? Email it to us and we'll post them.
Today's the Day!
Dear friends, Today is the day! This Saturday Aid Africa received one of the first Peace Corps Volunteers in Northern Uganda. We’re looking forward to getting to know Steve Worrell. His interests are in water and sanitation projects – perfect for Aid Africa. He is also interested in stoves and agricultural projects (think reforestation). He has made a two-year commitment to Aid Africa. What a wonderful opportunity for us! Steve’s Peace Corps training has been in Uganda and has lasted ten weeks. He has been taught the basics of what being in the Peace Corps is all about. He’s received some cultural training and learned some Acholi, the language used in the Gulu area. Steve has come to help us do our work and we are happy to have him. The work Aid Africa does is essential and important to you because together we save and improve the lives of people in dire need. Even though these people are strangers to us on the other side of the world, we are one with them because we share the same hopes and dreams they have. We are all linked together. In our three years in the villages outside Gulu, we have done an amazing amount of good work. Our staff there has gotten to know other organizations in town, many much bigger than ours. They are very proud of themselves when they see how much more work they accomplish than some of the “biggies.” We’ve built about 75,000 stoves, saved about 2000 babies’ lives and distributed about 10,000 trees. This year we started repairing broken wells and have fixed about 25 of them so far. That means thousands of people have clean water, people who were likely to become sick from drinking contaminated surface water. Steve is putting his life out there for you to bring people hope in a practical way. However, Aid Africa has an urgent problem. July, August and September have been very short on donations. To make the most of Steve’s talents, we need money to keep our programs going. Aid Africa needs to raise $5000 by November 1st to drill more wells and buy pumps to bring clean water. To support our tree farm, – to buy trees, and to pay local people for watering and caring for them. To build our efficient stoves – where Aid Africa began. To buy fuel to take sick babies and their mothers to the hospital. And to support our orphanage, Pearls of Africa, Rosette’s Kids. Open your hearts to help Steve help Aid Africa. We need your help now. Please donate soon. These are exciting times for Aid Africa – challenging, too. The world economic crisis is hitting charities hard, including Aid Africa. Thanks for your attention. Sincerely, Peter Keller
My feet in corset boots
Mr Paris bought me these sexy corset ankle boots by Steve Madden. Hot! They zip up the side and the laces up wrap around the ankle.
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Why HungryPeople? Answer: Because of Steve Jobs mantra - Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish
One of the most celebrated CEOs of all time is Steve Jobs. Together with Steve Wozniak, he built Apple Computer many years ago and redefined our concept of computing.
Together with other like-minded individuals, they unleashed the true power of computers and invented something that any ordinary man or woman can easily use. At age 30, he was fired by his board. But after a few years, he bought Pixar and turned it again into one of the most successful movie studios in the world. He was asked to return to Apple, Inc. and has now revolutionized consumer electronics as well with the launch of such ubiquitous and cool products such as the iPod, the iPod Nano, and the iPhone.
Here, I post the video of his most talked about commencement speech when he addressed the 2005 graduates in Stanford University.
You can find the whole text of his speech here: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/grad-061505.html
To summarize, Steve talked about:
The first story is about connecting the dots... Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
My second story is about love and loss... I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.
My third story is about death... Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
"Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you." - Steve Jobs, CEO and founder, Apple, Inc.
Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005
I just read on a friend's blog the commencement speech of 2005 en la universidad de Stanford given by Steve Jobs, he never graduated at the university but it's still an interesting story.
Spanish translation on my friend's blog
iPhone 3.1=Fail
Note: I've emailed a copy of this post to Steve Jobs in hopes Apple would address this issue and support Apple's loyal user base.Over the past few days I've had the experience of restoring\erasing data and or updating my iPhone at least 8 times.
Why? To simply put it: because I'm paying the early adopters- Apple tax. (Yeah now there's more than just one kind of Apple tax). So what basically happened is that after installing the 3.1 update which was suppose to bring many bug fixes and features such as:
Well yeah I admit I am an early adopter, gotta have the latest bleeding edge stuff as its out, but in the past few months Apple has really disappointed me, these kinds of screw ups are the kind I'd expect from the big folks at Redmond. What's even worst is that Apple stopped signing any updates but the newly 3.1 so iTunes wouldn't let me downgrade,(Officially, without Jailbreaking) hell I've tried like 3 times. I've heard of people who have Jailbroken their iPhones to downgrade just to discover their iPhone is still very much WiFi-less even with OS 3.0. I think the reason that this is so frustrating to me on a personal level is because I love the iPhone so much, I want to love it just as most people who ever used one.
The iPhone is a superior device, with amazing applications that can do just about anything. (Well almost anything that is within Apple's closed system restrictions) But What's really amazing here is that most iPhone owners and people who are passionate about their iPhones would suffer and keep up with any of these issues for their iPhones, I can't think of many others devices users are willing to put out with such glitches and would still love it and has such passion for it. -Apple you have to fix such issues, I know that for many people the update was smooth and fixed a lot of earlier 3.x bugs but there are many users like myself who got stuck with a terrible WiFi less device after this update. (Just do a twitter search for: 3.1+WiFi)
Hell there's even one guy who returned his iPhone to the Apple store for that issue alone, got his iPhone replaced only to find that his newly received iPhone has that exact same issue!!The point is that Apple shouldn't ignore these things as it has done before, with many issues caused by the 3.0 update and others. I think it should address these and FIX them ASAP.
Apple's users (Often called Fanboys) let it be Mac, iPhone, iPod whatever are truly passionate about their products and have lots of love both for the Apple brand, for high end products and most importantly for the experiences around these amazing products. I think it would really be foolish for Apple to just ignore the issues and sell out their brand and loyal customers for short time profits. Even if these issues effects only 4% of the total iPhone user base.. (I bet it's more)
Note: If you are running an earlier version of iPhone OS do yourself a favor and DO NOT update to 3.1, hopefully Apple will issue a fix soon.
Why? To simply put it: because I'm paying the early adopters- Apple tax. (Yeah now there's more than just one kind of Apple tax). So what basically happened is that after installing the 3.1 update which was suppose to bring many bug fixes and features such as:
Improved syncing, Saving video from Mail and MMS into Camera Roll, Better iPhone 3G Wi-Fi performance when Bluetooth is turned on, Genius Mixes and more.The update completely messed up my Wifi, it doesn't recognize any wireless networks what so ever.. No matter what I do, restore, update, complete data wipe and settings, still the issues continue. Now I know many folks would say: "Oh come on you're an early adopter why did you had to grab that update as it went out" ?
Well yeah I admit I am an early adopter, gotta have the latest bleeding edge stuff as its out, but in the past few months Apple has really disappointed me, these kinds of screw ups are the kind I'd expect from the big folks at Redmond. What's even worst is that Apple stopped signing any updates but the newly 3.1 so iTunes wouldn't let me downgrade,(Officially, without Jailbreaking) hell I've tried like 3 times. I've heard of people who have Jailbroken their iPhones to downgrade just to discover their iPhone is still very much WiFi-less even with OS 3.0. I think the reason that this is so frustrating to me on a personal level is because I love the iPhone so much, I want to love it just as most people who ever used one.
The iPhone is a superior device, with amazing applications that can do just about anything. (Well almost anything that is within Apple's closed system restrictions) But What's really amazing here is that most iPhone owners and people who are passionate about their iPhones would suffer and keep up with any of these issues for their iPhones, I can't think of many others devices users are willing to put out with such glitches and would still love it and has such passion for it. -Apple you have to fix such issues, I know that for many people the update was smooth and fixed a lot of earlier 3.x bugs but there are many users like myself who got stuck with a terrible WiFi less device after this update. (Just do a twitter search for: 3.1+WiFi)
Hell there's even one guy who returned his iPhone to the Apple store for that issue alone, got his iPhone replaced only to find that his newly received iPhone has that exact same issue!!The point is that Apple shouldn't ignore these things as it has done before, with many issues caused by the 3.0 update and others. I think it should address these and FIX them ASAP.
Apple's users (Often called Fanboys) let it be Mac, iPhone, iPod whatever are truly passionate about their products and have lots of love both for the Apple brand, for high end products and most importantly for the experiences around these amazing products. I think it would really be foolish for Apple to just ignore the issues and sell out their brand and loyal customers for short time profits. Even if these issues effects only 4% of the total iPhone user base.. (I bet it's more)
Note: If you are running an earlier version of iPhone OS do yourself a favor and DO NOT update to 3.1, hopefully Apple will issue a fix soon.
Baby Shower
surprise baby shower.....obviously lol
Thanks everyone for your gifts and Thank you Janet, Mami and Sandra for all your hard work!!
