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Be Inspired

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1.	Genius Incubator presents Venture Lab on Getting Investment Ready at LBS on 5th May   Genius Incubator in association with The Private Equity & Venture Capital Club of London Business School invites early-stage and growth-stage entrepreneurs, aspiring entrepreneurs,...
2.	How I started my first venture as a solopreneur - by Laura Bennett Long before I became CEO of Embrace Pet Insurance, I was actually the CEO of Moosewood Products, a company that produced quality pine shelves aimed at the do-it-yourself market in Canada.   &nbs...
3.	How do you make the Venture Capitalists fall in love with you? VCs and angel investors talk about the ideas and teams they love to invest in   "To borrow an industry adage, the best venture capitalists retain the capacity to fall in love despite having had their heart broken over and over again...They are giving risky companies a...
4.	Developing countries need entrepreneurship of the unusual kind - Sam Pitroda's Selfless Mission This is a story about an unusual entrepreneur, a leader, Sam Pitroda. Stories abound of entrepreneurs who were compelled to achieve and in the process amassed wealth and glory. But S...
5.	How do you get that meeting with the investor? An excerpt from Pitching Hacks, a book on How to pitch startups to investors "VCs are generally bombarded by requests for meetings, so a warm introduction helps an entrepreneur's request float to the top of the list." - Chris Wand, Foundry Group, Investors in Zynga &...
6.	Entrepreneurship and Innovation in a global economy - Pan IIT 2009 Chicago Oct 9-11   I am so glad I made the trip to Schaumbaug for Pan IIT 2009. As weird a location as it was, the PanIIT conference was nothing I imagined it to be …and everything I wished it to be. It wa...
7.	From a Passionate Biker to Founder of Dreamriders - a thrill ride We call ourselves dreamriders. We are engaged in creating custom vehicles for dreamers who want to live, feel and ride their dream now. We believe that a desire to own such a dream has to be match...
8.	Unleash the Inspiration Already Buried in Your Everyday Life, by Simla Somturk Wickless Chances are, you live a pretty good life... but you may have a nagging feeling that there is something more. Secretly, you want to live an EXTRAordinary life, one where life seems effortlessly inspir...
9.	Tips for women to reach the top of their game - from an ex Goldman Sachs banker and successful entrepreneuress Catherine Claydon Tips for women to reach the top of their game - from an ex Goldman Sachs banker and successful entrepreneuress Catherine Claydon  ...
10.	From first-time entrepreneur to early-stage investing guru - Lessons from the life of early Robert Klein, investor in lastminute.com From first-time entrepreneur to early-stage investing guru - Lessons from the life of early Robin Klein, investor in lastminute.com and founder of the Accelerator Group     Robin built, ran...
11.	Conquer the fear : Distilled wisdom from the entrepreneurs who have been there and done that - from The HBS entrepreneurship conference 2003, by Arifa Khan Conquer the fear : Distilled wisdom from the entrepreneurs who have been there and done that - from The HBS entrepreneurship conference 2003, by Arifa Khan   How does it feel to be a &l...
12.	BlueVentus Investment Opportunity - A Revolution in Air Passenger Comfort   Trade Mark: BlueVentus Industry Sector: Hospitality, Leisure Location: UK Stage of Business: Pre-operational Funding sought : €1,200,000 by December 2009     Minimum Inve...
13.	The Royal Mile Investment Opportunity     Trade Mark : The Royal Mile (clubs) Company: The Scotch Club Ltd Industry Sector: Hospitality, Leisure Location: Bradford-on-Avon, UK; Bangalore, India Stage of Business: Pre-o...
14.	Newsletter A Warm Welcome to Genius Incubator! We are inspired to uneash the genius in you...   So, you are contemplating a leap of faith into the inviting world of entrepreneurship? Congratulations, you ha...

Inspirational Quotes

 

“For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these – ‘it might have been’. ” John Greenleaf Whittier

 

“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t. “ Thomas Edison, Inventor

 

“All progress depends on the unreasonable man. Because reasonable men accept the world as it is, while unreasonable men persist in adapting the world to them” George Bernard Shaw

 

“The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person does not like to do” Thomas Edison

 

“What you are will show in what you do” Thomas Edison, Inventor

 

“I find out what the world needs, and then proceed to invent it” Thomas Edison, Inventor

 

“There are two things that can’t be made at my laboratory – Diamonds and Pearls" Anon

 

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing” Abraham Lincoln

 

“Everyone steals in industry and commerce. I have stolen a lot myself. The thing is to know how to steal.” Thomas Edison, Inventor

 

“Mediocre people will always recognize genius, resent it, and will do anything in their capacity to decimate it” David Ogilvy, The advertising man

 

“Invention was my only chance to start with nothing and end up with a fortune.” Chester Carlson

 

“The patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius” Abraham Lincoln

 

“I hold my inventive faculty on the stern condition that it must master my whole life, often have complete possession of me, make its own demands upon me, and sometimes for months together put everyth Charles Dickens

 

“An inventor has so intense a nature, with so much in it of a wild passionate quality, that, in giving himself to a woman, he would give up everything and so take everything from his chosen field. It Nikola Tesla

 

“An invention can be so valuable as to be useless to its inventor” Joseph Wickham Roe, Yale University

 

“I would rather have 1% of a hundred men’s efforts than 100% of my own” John Paul Getty, Oil billionaire

 

“The most difficult part of any business is getting started. It takes far more effort to make your first million than your second” Richard Desmond, billionaire publisher

 

“The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one o Isaac Disraeli

 

“Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars & cents. I am not disposed to complain that I have planted and others have gathered the fruits. A man has cause for regret only whe Charles Goodyear

 

“The real source of wealth and capital in this new era is not material things. It is the human mind, the human spirit, the human imagination, and our faith in the future." Steve Forbes, billionaire publisher

 

“The two things that you have in common with the wealthiest – a creative mind and a 24 hour day” Paul Mckenna, motivational author

 

“Wealth is the product of man’s ability to think” Ayn Rand, novelist and philosopher

 

“Lack of money is the root of all evil” George Bernard Shaw

 

“The best way to come up with a really good idea is to come up with a lot of ideas” Linus Pauling, Nobel Prize Winning Scientist

 

“I do not think there is anything that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success…Such emotions make a man forget food, sl Nikola Tesla

 

“An inventor is a kind of beggar who seeks support for patentable ideas, and a beggar can’t be a chooser. Since he is, by nature, a dreamer, he often comes to the practical test with no financial reso Richard Knowles Morris, John P Holland, Inventor o

 

“However inferior in wealth I may be to the many who surround me, I would not exchange for their treasures the satisfaction I have in knowing I have done what has never before been accomplished by man Sam Colt, inventor of the revolver

 

"Eighty percent of life is just showing up Woody Allen

 

"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you pale in comparison to what lies inside of you" Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps". David Lloyd George

 

"Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but i can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead" Louisa May Alcott

 

"Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible" Saint Francis Assisi

 

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him. The unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to himself. All progress depends on the unreasonable man." George Bernard Shaw

 

"Nature arms each man with some faculty, which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other" Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"I look to the future because that's where I am going to spend the rest of my life." George Burns (said at the age of 87)

 

"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared to believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance" Bruce Barton

 

"The longer I live, the more certain I am that the great difference between the great and the insignificant is energy; invincible determination, a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory." Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton