Hard work won”t pay without ingenuity.
To an entrepreneur that presents an opportunity to offer a solution in the form of sale of purified water. For us in Kenya; we have many areas of surprise – for instance some of our communities believe diseases are caused by witchcraft, that eating mangoes and getting rained on cause malaria and to some, the pawpaw fruit is food for donkeys. Kenya and Africa is ready to reward all those among us who will offer solutions facing our society with profit. Hard work devoid of ingenuity is comparable to pushing against a concrete wall with your hands, its work but may not get us anywhere! Shikwati is the founder and CEO of Inter Region Economic Network This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .
World Water Day: Global Water Challenge.
Online Competition Galvanizes Innovations
Global Water Challenge (GWC) and Ashoka”s Changemakers invite everyone to join ‘Tapping Local Innovation: Unclogging the Water and Sanitation Crisis,’ an online competition to discover and support entrepreneurs with groundbreaking approaches to the world”s water and sanitation challenges.
Also today, director of Oscar-winning films, Elizabeth and Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Shekhar Kapur launches a blog on Changemakers.net inspired by his latest film, Paani (’Water’), which will examine the daily struggle for water in the slums of Mumbai.
‘In celebration of World Water Day, we join today all social innovators from around the world who are making access to clean drinking water and sanitation a reality,’ said Ashoka”s Changemakers Executive Director, Charlie Brown.
Mygistics wants to put commuters, investors in the fast lane.
Local entrepreneur Gary Fish said he is considering investing a ’significant portion’ of the $2 million, though he wouldn”t specify the exact amount. Fish is CEO of FishNet Security Inc., which had revenue of $202 million last year and in March added a controlling investor. Fish also would take a Mygistics board seat. He expects to finalize his investment within the next several weeks, provided the remaining financing has been secured.
Prairie Village-based Mygistics plans to provide traffic updates and predictions using a rush of data bought or licensed from departments of transportation, local transportation planning agencies, cell phone companies and other sources. The ‘personal logistics’ application also has been touted as a way to lower automobile emissions.
‘Anything green right now will get a lot of attention,’ Fish said.
There”s good news for entrepreneurs who need help but aren”t ready to hire full-time employees. Between January and July 2004, the ranks of part-time workers grew from 24.3 million to 25.5 million according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It was also learned that from June to July the increase came from people who wanted to work part-time and not because they couldn”t find full-time employment.
It seems that 1.7 million part-timers hold two or more part-time jobs, and do this by choice. Such workers will be harder to convert to full-time employees because they like the diversity of different jobs.
This all translates into benefits for the entrepreneur who needs help but can”t hire full-time employees. The employment gurus don”t expect this part-time preference to pass anytime soon. It seems that the appeal of a reduced schedule is strong both for seniors and baby boomers nearing retirement. Parents who have interrupted careers to care for their children but still want to work may also explain the boom.
Entrepreneurs should eagerly look to this pool of workers and eagerly employ part-time help. A big reason is that employer-paid health insurance and other benefits add costs equal to more than 50 percent of the average employee”s gross earnings. A part-time employer can get by with a low-cost factor, and still find somebody reliable and efficient.
Looking at the boom of part-timers seems like a win-win situation for entrepreneurs and workers alike. Check the prospect out with your accountant and you may find that you come out a winner and less stressed.
Kind of similar to the Machine Man film.. I don’t know, but I obviously enjoy watching people in black suits going bananas in the wilderness.. I dont know if that’s a good or a bad thing. Hope you’ll enjoy it.. (How it’s made: Hand drawn animation (as a reference to look at for the moose’ running sequence, I actually used the original horse images taken by Eadweard Muybridge over 100 years ago!), scanned into Photoshop and colored there. Backgrounds are hand painted in aquarelle, and everything is edited together with Premiere. Music made with FL Studio. The choiring when he gets naked is actually my own velvet soft voice, hahaha. Three layers of singing of course, but I wish I could sing chords..)
Confidence wins a seat at Girls State: High school entrepreneur.
The young man is an entrepreneur. He, along with two friends, Giovanny Longoria and Willie Aguilar, own a booking agency, booking popular local and well-known national bands throughout California.
He named bands, ‘Classic Struggles,’ ‘Breathing Process’ and ‘Frozen Water Burial,’ that were promoted and booked on tours by their agency.
He”s not new to music; he plays drums in the high school jazz band and he also plays the guitar.
About the time you think you”ve heard everything from this modest young man, a high school counselor steps up and tells him to tell the reporter about People-to-People.
He is following in his big sister, Michelle Sanchez”s, footprints, and will be a youth ambassador sponsored by People-to-People, to Italy and Greece, leaving July 1.
CHS CEO leads local Entrepreneur of the Year finalists.
Four Nashville-area execs are part of the 22 finalists for Ernst & Young”s Entrepreneur Of The Year award in Alabama/Georgia/Tennessee.
Community Health Sytems CEO Wayne Smith is the most prominent name on the list. Smith joined CHS in January 1997 and has built the company into the largest publicly traded hospital operator in the country.
Other locally based finalists are Cordia Harrington, founder and CEO of Tennessee Bun Co., which makes bread products for restaurants; Joe Cashia, founder and CEO of outpatient dialysis center company National Renal Alliance; and Harold Crye, co-founder and CEO of Crye-Leike Realtors.
The locals will find out if they”re winners in late June at a banquet in Atlanta. Regional winners will then be entered in E&Y”s national competition, whose winner will be named this fall.
South Africa: Programme Puts Business On the Road to Success.
Entrepreneurs who graduated from the International Trade Management (ITM) Programme are to become emerging South African businessmen and women with the necessary skills to grow, develop and establish companies that are locally and internationally competitive.
A total of 27 entrepreneurs graduated from the programme on Friday.
Barry Shevlin, CEO of Network Liquidators, is named the.
‘I am pleased and honored to be named Entrepreneur of the Year,’ says Shevlin. ‘I think it demonstrates how dreams, perseverance and assembling a great team such as we have at Network Liquidators can poise a company for success and even greater future growth.’
As one of the nation”s largest buyers and sellers of pre-owned networking and telecommunications equipment, Network Liquidators has grown substantially since its inception in 2001. With revenues of approximately $6 million in 2004, the company grew to revenues in excess of $44 million in 2007. In 2006, the Company appeared as #95 on the Inc. 500 list with three-year growth of 895.1 percent and in 2007 was named the 5th fastest growing company in the Tampa Bay Business Journal”s ‘Fast 50′ list, increasing 163.3 percent over 2006.