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The 100 Rules for Being a First-Time EntrepreneurIf you Google “entrepreneur” you get a lot of mindless cliches like “Think Big!” For me, being an “entrepreneur” doesn’t mean starting the next “Faceook”. Or even starting any business at all.It means finding the challenges you have in your life, and determining creative ways to overcome those challenges. However, in this post I focus mostly on the issues that come up when you first start your company. These rules also apply if you are taking an entrepreneurial stance within a much larger company (which all employees should do).Just as good to be an “entreployee” as an “entrepreneur”. Either one will help you survive this world of increased economic uncertainty.For me, I’ve started several businesses.Maybe 17 have failed out of 20. I fail quickly. I fail frequently. Entrepreneurship is a sentence of failures punctuated by brief success.I’m invested in about 28 private companies. I’ve advised probably another 50 private companies. I’m on the board of several private companies and one public company. The companies ranging from $0 in revenues to a billion in revenues.Along the way I’ve compiled a list of rules that have helped me deal with every aspect of being an entrepreneur in business and some in life.Here’s the real rules:A)        It’s not fun. I’m not going to explain why it’s not fun. These are rules. Not theories. I don’t need to prove them.But there’s a strong chance you can hate yourself throughout the process of being an entrepreneur. Keep sharp objects and pills away during your worst moments. And you will have them. If you are an entrepreneur and agree with me, please note this in the comments below.B)        Try not to hire people. You’ll have to hire people to expand your business. But it’s a good discipline to really question if you need each and every hire.C)       Get a customer. This seems obvious. But it’s not. Get a customer before you start your business, if you can.So many people say to me, “I have an idea. Can you introduce me to VCs?”There is a HUGE gap between “idea” and “professional venture capital”.In the middle of that gap is “customer”.D)        If you are offering a service, call it a product.Oracle did it. They claimed they had a database. But if you “bought” their database they would send in a team of consultants to help you “install” the database to fit your needs.In other words, for the first several years of their existence, they claimed to have a product but they really were a consulting company. Don’t forget this story. Products are valued higher than services.And almost EVERY major software product company was a service company in the beginning. Don’t forget that.E)       It’s OK to fail. Start over. Hopefully before you run out of money. Hopefully before you take in investor money. Or, don’t worry about it. Come up with new ideas. Start over.F)         Be profitable. Try to be profitable immediately. This seems obvious but it isn’t. Try not to raise money. That money is expensive.G)        When raising money: if it’s not easy then your idea is probably incapable of raising money. If its easy, then take as much as possible. If its TOO easy, then sell your company (unless you are Twitter, etc).(if its too easy, sell your company)H)        The same goes for selling your company. If it’s not easy, then you need to build more. Then sell. To sell your company, start getting in front of your acquirers a year in advance. Send them monthly updates describing your progress. Then, when they need a company like yours, your company is the first one that comes to mind.Don’t be like that guy in the TV show “Silicon Valley”. If someone offers you ten million for a company that has no revenues, then sell it. Not everything is going to be a Facebook. And even the Google guys tried to sell their company for ONE MILLION DOLLARS to Yahoo before they were revenue positive.SELL THE COMPANY.I)          Competition is good. It turns you into a killer. It helps you judge progress. It shows that other people value the space you are in. Your competitors are also your potential acquirors.J)         Don’t use a PR firm. Except maybe as a secretary. You are the PR for your company. You are your company’s brand. You personally.I’ve never had a good PR company. I’ve had good PR secretaries. But they are cheaper. One time I hired a PR company and they accidentally sent me the contract for Terry Bradshaw. He was paying $10,000 a month. How did they do for him?K)        Communicate with everyone. Employees. Customers. Investors. All the time. Every day.Employees want to know what to do. And they want to know you are thinking of their overall career.Customers want to know how to keep their bosses calm.Investors want to be your friend and want to know they can count on you when time’s are tough.L)         Do everything for your customers. This is very important.Get them girlfriends or boyfriends. Speak at their charities. Visit their parents for Thanksgiving. Help them find other firms to meet their needs. Even introduce them to your competitors if you think a competitor can help them or if you think you are about to be fired. Always think first, “What’s going to make my customer happy?”Note: EVEN if that means introduce them to a competitor. If you are the SOURCE, then everybody comes back to the source.M)        Your customer is not a company. There’s a human there. What will make my human customer happy? Make him laugh. You want your customer to be happy.N)        Show up. Go to breakfast/lunch/dinner with customers. Treat.O)        History. Know the history of your customers in every way. Company history, personal history, marketing history, investing history, etc.P)         Micro-manage software development. Nobody knows your product better than you do. If you aren’t a technical person, learn how to be very specific in your product specification so that your programmers can’t say: “well you didn’t say that!”Q)        Hire local. You need to be able to see and talk to your programmers. Don’t outsource to India. I love India. But I won’t hire programmers from there while I’m living in the US.R)        Sleep. Don’t buy into the 20 hours a day entrepreneur myth. You need to sleep 8 hours a day to have a focused mind.If you are working 20 hours a day, then that means you have flaws in how you are managing your time. You can argue about this but it’s true.S)         Exercise. Same as above. If you are unhealthy, your product will be unhealthy.T)         Emotionally Fit. DON’T have dating problems and software development problems at the same time. VCs will smell this all over you.U)        Pray. You need to. Be grateful where you are. And pray for success. You deserve it. Pray for the success of your customers. Heck, pray for the success of your competitors. The better they do, it means the market is getting bigger. And if one of them breaks out, they can buy you.V)       Buy your employees gifts. Massages. Tickets. Whatever. I always imagined that at the end of each day my young, lesbian employees (for some reason, most employees at my first company were lesbian) would be calling their parents and their mom and dad would ask them: “Hi honey! How was your day today?” And I wanted them to be able to say: “It was the best!” Invite customers to masseuse day. W)       Treat your employees like they are your children. They need boundaries. They need to be told “no!” sometimes. And sometimes you need to hit them in the face (ha ha, just kidding). But within boundaries, let them play.X)        Don’t be greedy pricing your product. If your product is good and you price it cheap, people will buy. Then you can price upgrades, future products, and future services more expensive. Which goes along with the next rule.Y)        Distribution is everything. Branding is everything. Get your name out there, whatever it takes. The best distribution is of course word of mouth, which is why your initial pricing doesn’t matter.Write a blog about your industry and be very honest about all the flaws (even your own) that is currently in your industry.Authenticity is the best branding.Z)         Don’t kill yourself. It’s not worth it. Your employees need you.Your children or future children need you. It seems odd to include this in a post about entrepreneurship but we’re also taking about keeping it real.Most books or “rules” for entrepreneurs talk about things like “think big”, “go after your dreams”. But often dreams turn into nightmares. I’ll repeat it again. Don’t kill yourself. Call me if things get too stressful. Or more importantly, make sure you take proper medicationAA)     Give employees structure. Let each employee know how his or her path to success can be achieved. All of them will either leave you or replace you eventually. That’s OK. Give them the guidelines how that might happen. Tell them how they can get rich by working for you.BB)      Fire employees immediately. If an employee gets “the disease” he needs to be fired. If they ask for more money all the time. If they bad mouth you to other employees. If you even think they are talking behind your back, fire them.The disease has no cure. And it’s very contagious. Show no mercy. Show the employee the door. There are no second chances because the disease is incurable.I don’t say this because I want anyone to be hurt. But if you’ve followed the rules above then you are treating employees well already. NOBODY should spread the disease and badmouth you or your customers.CC)      Make friends with your landlord. If you ever have to sell your company, believe it or not, you are going to need his signature (because there’s going to be a new lease owner)DD)     Only move offices if you are so packed in that employees are sharing desks and there’s no room for people to walk.EE)      Have killer parties. But use your personal money. Not company money. Invite employees, customers, and investors. .FF)       If an employee comes to you crying, close the door or take him or her out of the building. Sit with him until it stops. Listen to what he has to say. If someone is crying then there’s been a major communication breakdown somewhere in the company. Listen to what it is and fix it. Don’t get angry at the culprit’s. Just fix the problem.(you don’t want your employees to be sad.)GG)     At Christmas, donate money to every customer’s favorite charity. But not for investors or employees.HH)     Have lunch with your competitors. Listen and try not to talk. One competitor (Bill Markel from Interactive 8) once told me a story about how the CEO of Toys R Us returned his call. He was telling me this because I never returned Bill’s calls. Ok, Bill, lesson noted.II)        Ask advice a lot. Ask your customers advice on how you can be introduced into other parts of their company. Then they will help you. Because of the next rule…JJ)        Hire your customers. Or not. But always leave open the possibility. Let it always dangle in the air between you and them. They can get rich with you. Maybe. Possibly. If they play along. So play.KK)     On any demo or delivery, do one extra surprise thing that was not expected. Always add bells and whistles that the customer didn’t pay for.This is such an easy way to over deliver I’m surprised people don’t do it 100% of the time. They do it maybe 1% of the time. So this is an easy way to compete and surprise and delight.LL)      Understand the demographic changes that are changing the world. Where are marketing dollars flowing and can you be in the middle. What services do aging baby boomers need? Is the world running out of clean water? Are newspapers going to survive? Etc. Etc. Read every day to understand what is going on.LLa) Don’t go to a lot of parties or “meetups” with other entrepreneurs. Work instead while they are partying.MM)    But, going along with the above rule, don’t listen to the doom and gloomers that are hogging the TV screen trying to tell you the world is over. They just want you to be scared so they can scoop up all the money.NN)     You have no more free time. In your free time you are thinking of new ideas for customers, new ideas for services to offer, new products.OO)     You have no more free time, part 2. In your free time, think of ideas for potential customers. Then send them emails: “I have 10 ideas for you. Would really like to show them to you. I think you will be blown away. Here’s five of them right now.”OOa) Depressions, recessions, don’t matter. There’s $15 trillion in the economy. You’re allowed a piece of it:FedEx, Microsoft, HewlettPackard, and many huge companies were started in recessions or depressions. Leave economics to the academics while they leave good business to you.PP)       Talk. Tell everyone you ever knew  what your company does. Your friends will help you find clients.QQ)     Always take someone with you to a meeting. You’re bad at following up. Because you have no free time. So, if you have another employee. Let them follow up. Plus, they will like to spend time with the boss. You’re going to be a mentor.RR)      If you are consumer focused: your advertisers are your customers. But always be thinking of new services for your consumers. Each new service has to make their life better. People’s lives are better if: they become healthier, richer, or have more sex. “Health” can be broadly defined.SS)       If your customers are advertisers: find sponsorship opportunities for them that drive customers straight into their arms. These are the most lucrative ad deals (see rule above). Ad inventory is a horrible business model. Sponsorships are better. Then you are talking to your customer.TT)      No friction. The harder it is for a consumer to sign up, the less consumers you will have. No confirmation emails, sign up forms, etc. The easier the better.TTA) No fiction, part 2. If you are making a website, have as much content as you can on the front page. You don’t want people to have to click to a second or third page if you can avoid it. Stuff that first page with content. You aren’t Google. (And, 10 Unusual Things You Didn’t Know About Google)UU)     No friction, part 3. Say “yes” to any opportunity that gets you in a room with a big decision maker. Doesn’t matter if it costs you money.VV)     Sell your company two years before you sell it. Get in the offices of the potential buyers of your company and start updating them on your progress every month.  Ask their advice on a regular basis in the guise of just an “industry catch-up”WW)    If you sell your company for stock, sell the stock as soon as you can. If you are selling your company for stock it means:a.         The market is such that lots of companies are being sold for stock.b.         AND, companies are using stock to buy other companies because they value their stock less than they value cash.c.         WHICH MEANS, that when everyone’s lockup period ends, EVERYONE will be selling stock across the country. So sell yours first.XX)     Execution is a dime a dozen. If you have an idea worth pursuing, then just make it. You can build any website for cheap. Hire a programmer and make a demo. Get at least one person to sign up and use your service. If you want to make Facebook pages for plumbers, find one plumber who will give you $10 to make his Facebook page. Just do it.Fail quickly. Good ideas are HARD. It’s execution that is a dime a dozen.YY)     Don’t use a PR firm, part II. Set up a blog. Tell your personal stories (see “33 tips to being a better writer” ). Let the customer know you are human, approachable, and have a real vision as to why they need to use you. Become the voice for your industry, the advocate for your products. If you make skin care products, tell your customers every day how they can be even more beautiful than they currently are and have more sex than they are currently getting. Blog your way to PR success. Be honest and bloody.ZZ)      Don’t save the world. If your product sounds too good to be true, then you are a liar.ZZa) Your company is always for sale.AAA)  Frame the first check. I’m staring at mine right now.BBB)   No free time, part 3. Pick a random customer. Find five ideas for them that have nothing to do with your business. Call them and say, “I’ve been thinking about you. Have you tried this?”CCC)   No resale deals. Nobody cares about reselling your service. Those are always bad deals.DDD)   Your lawyer or accountant is not going to introduce you to any of their other clients. Those meetings are always a waste of time.EEE)    Celebrate every success. Your employees need it. They need a massage also. Get a professional masseuse in every Friday afternoon. Nobody leaves a job where there is a masseuse.FFF)     Sell your first company. I have to repeat this. Don’t take any chances. You don’t need to be Mark Zuckerberg. Sell your first company as quick as you can. You now have money in the bank and a notch on your belt. Make a billion on your next company.Note Mark Cuban’s story. Before he started Broadcast and rode it to a few billion, he sold his first software company for ten million.GGG)   Pay your employees before you pay yourself.HHH)   Give equity to get the first customer. If you have no product yet and no money, then give equity to a good partner in exchange for them being a paying customer.  Note: don’t blindly give equity. If you develop a product that someone asked for, don’t give them equity. Sell it to them. But if you want to get a big distribution partner whose funds can keep you going forever, then give equity to nail the deal.III)       Don’t worry about anyone stealing your ideas. Ideas are worthless anyway. It’s OK to steal something that’s worthless.IIIA) Follow me on twitter.Questions from ReadersQuestion: You say no free time but you also say keep emotionally fit, physically fit, etc. How do I do this if I’m constantly thinking of ideas for old and potential customers?Answer:  It’s not easy or everyone would be rich.Question: if I get really stressed about clients paying, how do I get sleep at night?Answer: medicationQuestion: how do I cold-call clients?Answer: email them. Email 40 of them. It’s OK if only 1 answers. Email 40 a day but make sure you have something of value to offer.Question: how can I find cheap programmers or designers?Answer: if you don’t know any and you want to be cheap: use Hire Freelancers & Find Freelance Jobs Online, Elance, or craigslist. But don’t hire them if they are from another country. You need to communicate with them even if it costs more money.Question: should I hire programmers?Answer: first…freelance. Then hire.Question: what if I build my product but I’m not getting customers?Answer: develop a service loosely based on your product and offer that to customers. But I hope you didn’t make a product without talking to customers to begin with?Question: I have the best idea in the world, but for it to work it requires a lot of people to already be using it. Like Twitter.Answer: if you’re not baked into the Silicon Valley ecosystem,  then find distribution and offer equity if you have to. Zuckerberg had Harvard. MySpace had the fans of all the local bands they set up with MySpace pages. I (in my own small way) had Stock Market - Business News, Market Data, Stock Analysis - TheStreet when I set up Stockpickr! Your Source for Stock Ideas. I also had 10 paying clients when i did my first successful business fulltime.Question: I just lost my biggest customer and now I have to fire people. I’ve never done this before. How do I do it?Answer:  one on meetings. Be Kind. State the facts. Say you have to let people go and that everyone is hurting but you want to keep in touch because they are a great employee. It was an honor to work with them and when business comes back you hope you can convince them come back. Then ask them if they have any questions. Your reputation and the reputation of your company are on the line here. You want to be a good guy. But you want them out of your office within 15 minutes. It’s a termination, not a negotiation. This is one reason why it’s good to start with freelancers.Question: I have a great idea. How do I attract VCs?Answer: build the product. Get a customer. Get money from customer. Get more customers. Build more services in the product. Get VC. Chances are by this point, the VCs are calling you.Question: I want to build a business day trading.Answer: bad ideaQuestion: I want to start a business but don’t know what my passion is:Answer: skip to the post: “How to be the luckiest person alive”. Do the Daily Practice. Within six months your life will be completely different.Question: I want to leave my job but I’m scared.Answer: same as above question.  The Daily Practice turns you into a healthy Idea Machine. Plus luck will flow in from every direction.Final rule: Things change. Every day. The title of this post, for instance, says “100 Rules”. But I gave about 70 rules (including the Q&A). Things change midway through. Be ready for it every day. In fact, every day figure out what you can change just slightly to shake things up and improve your product and company.Your business is not your life. When you start a business you also get a cognitive bias that makes you think your business is GREAT.Every day make sure you are not smoking crack. The most important thing is your health so you can be persistent. If you smoke crack you can die.I hope you succeed. Because I really need that smart toilet that sends my doctors text messages after doing urinalysis on my pee every day.Good luck.

I would agree with the answers given by Pierre Len and Robert Lopez related to how this is largely based upon preference.  To answer the question in more detail, it is helpful to provide a bit more context on the overall path of GSB classes and how students typically differentiate in the classes they choose.As Anneke Jong wrote in a blog post (http://annekejong.blogspot.com/2...), the first year is quite challenging for a number of reasons, and few students look back on it as academically inspiring.  Most complain incessantly about it, sometimes with good reason and sometimes due to lack of perspective (I count myself in the latter group).  It is the year where you take the classes that any MBA would be expected to take.  As I reflect on it now, I wish that I had been less negative on it in the moment, as many of the classes were quite good and / or will serve me well, particularly finance, accounting, economics, and data and decisions (i.e., statistics).  Though it is painful, the administration is wise in packing these into the first year.  By the end, you are done with the "required" courses and the second year is wide open.  As long as you complete a grand total of 105 course units, including 93 at the GSB and 93 graded (vs. pass/fail), you can graduate.  By the end of the first year, most students have ~60 units completed, so in addition to a lighter course load, the classes are completely of your choosing.  During the second year, students end up splitting down a number of tracks.  As would be expected, some focus on finance / investment classes, others on general management / entrepreneurship classes, others on product design / marketing classes, and others on leadership / soft skills (NOTE: this is my rough categorization for the purposes of this answer, not an official categorization of the Stanford GSB).  Still others venture "across the street" whether on a one-off basis or through joint degree programs,  taking classes at the law school, medical school, E-IPER program (environment and resources), design school, education school, public policy / administration program (whether Stanford or Harvard Kennedy), etc. These are rough lines, and many students take classes across several of them.  From what I have seen though, you can generally see each person allocating his / her time in 1-2 tracks more than the others.  I personally focused on general management / entrepreneurship and leadership / soft skills, so I can only really speak to those.  I will try to reference other highly rated classes as well.The "signature" classes:  While there might be some differences of opinion on these, there are a couple of classes that are notable across generations of GSB students.  This is with good reason too, these classes end up being described as life and / or career changing.Interpersonal Dynamics (OB 374) -- This is probably the most famous of them all.  Commonly called "touchy feely," over 90-95% of the class takes this and many (including me) describe it as transformational.  The premise of the course is that communication and connection between you and others is one of, if not the most important factors related to your personal and professional success.  Furthermore, most of us aren't really all that good at it.  We tend to speak and respond to others, especially during times of stress, in ways that are counterproductive and prone to hurting, rather than building relationships.  There is a lecture portion of the course, but the real action takes place in T-group (i.e., training group), where a group of 12 students and 2 facilitators sit in a circle for 3-4 hours at a time.  There is no agenda.  The group just talks, going deep on topics relevant to each student.  Disagreements and conflicts arise.  Real-time feedback ensues.  While it sounds unstructured, it is very often a tremendously powerful experience, changing how you communicate and connect with others.Managing Growing Enterprises (STRAMGT 355) -- Another extremely useful class, this might be better titled "Managing Difficult Situations."  The most famous professor is Irv Grousbeck, but all the professors (including Joel Peterson, Jim Ellis, Kevin Taweel) are experienced practitioners who engage students in challenging role plays related to common management situations involving complex decisions and tough conversations.  Each class typically revolves around a real-life case study, and the protagonists are present.  After about an hour and a half of role playing the various situations, the protagonists address the class about how they handled each situation, what worked well, what didn't work well, etc.The rest of the "super round" classes:  Each year, first year students go through a registration process where they can "super round" classes that are typically very high in demand.  The above two classes are always on this list.  The classes below are as well.  Typically, each student will only get two of these (including the "signature" classes above)Leadership Perspectives (OB 363) -- A relatively new class, this has become incredibly popular in recent years.  It is taught by Joel Peterson (former CEO of Trammel Crow, current Chairman of JetBlue, Managing Director of Peterson Partners, etc.) and Charles O'Reilly, a really excellent research professor focused on leadership.  The format of the class includes one session per week where a prominent leader addresses the full class and a second session where small groups break out to discuss and reflect on what was learned from the leader.  During my class, we heard from CEOs / board members, former athletes, a city mayor, a military general, and a nonprofit leader, among others.  Each gave us 15-20 minutes of background on his / her life and path, then the next 1 hour+ was open for questioning, where we could ask just about anything (and questions / responses were guaranteed confidential within the class).  It is fascinating to see the similarities and differences among leaders as they honestly discuss their personal and professional successes and failures over time.Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital (STRAMGT 354) -- While I didn't take this class, it is also extremely popular.  It is taught by long-time venture capitalist Peter Wendell and Eric Schmidt.  The guest list is phenomenal.  This class was referenced in the recent New York Times article on Stanford (http://www.newyorker.com/reporti...).Investment Management and Entrepreneurial Finance (FINANCE 321) -- While I didn't take this class, it is extremely popular among  students with interest / focus on the finance / investment space.  It is  taught by Jack McDonald, a long-time professor and investor guru.  I'll  leave further description to an alum / student who has actually taken  the class.Other interesting (and popular) classes that I did takeLeadership Fellows (OB 330/331) -- Each year, ~66 second year students take part in the Arbuckle Leadership Fellows program.  While one purpose of the program is to help facilitate the Leadership Labs class taken by every first year student, there is also a heavy "coaching" component to the experience.  Through this, the students in the class are trained by professional executive coaches to be coaches themselves.  The point is not that most of us will actually become executive coaches (though some might), but rather that coaching is a critical part of managing, and something that many managers are not actually that good at.  During the class, each student has ~3 first year students that he / she coaches for two quarters both to practice what is learned in class but more importantly, to help the first year student improve in whatever areas of life the student so desires.  Lives of Consequence (OB 383) -- A small seminar class, this is focused on giving students time to reflect on what sort of life each student wants to lead.  The class includes some study of individuals who have been thought to have led a "consequential" life.  More importantly, the class asks each student to complete several exercises focused on his / her own life, including writing his / her own obituary and eulogy (though unusual, writing my own and listening to what others wrote about themselves was an amazing experience).  Few people find the time for such structured reflection, which is exactly what this class allows.Becoming a Leader (GSBGEN 571) -- Many students coming out of MBA programs will become managers within a few years, and becoming a manager means working not just for those to whom you report, but those who report to you.  This is often a difficult transition.  This half-quarter class uses the experience of recent GSB graduates (classes 2000 and later, more or less) as a tool to expose us to common challenges faced by first time and young managers.  Some of the examples are highlighted in short videos, but there are also two panel sessions.The Paths to Power (OB 377) -- Taught by Jeff Pfeffer (http://jeffreypfeffer.com/), this class is about the power and, as he says in his book, why some people have it and others don't.  It is often described as a controversial class, with rationale being that it just teaches tools that allow one to accumulate power.  I did not find it to be particularly controversial, but rather thought that it just highlighted a set of very basic but important considerations -- whether others know about the good work you're doing, what your network looks like and how central you are as a node within it, how you say what you say, how much social and professional capital you have, how unique you are in your organization, etc. -- that can lead to gaining and sustaining power within an organization.  Throughout the course, case studies are used, and at least once a week, case protagonists and / or professionals related to the topic at hand guest teach.Formation of New Ventures (STRAMGT 353) -- This is a survey course that uses case studies to introduce challenges and considerations across the new venture lifecycle, from idea and team formulation through IPO or M&A (at which point the venture is presumably no longer new).  Each class, the protagonists of the case being taught are present to comment on the discussion and what they actually did, why, how it turned out, etc.  There are several sections of this class.  I took a section with Andy Rachleff (Benchmark, Wealthfront) and Mark Leslie (Veritas) that was focused entirely on information technology companies.  Other sections are taught by Jim Ellis (Asurion), Jeff Chambers (TA Associates), John Mortgridge (Cisco), Charles Holloway, and George Foster (Stanford).Building and Managing Professional Sales Organizations (STRAMGT 351) -- Where Formation of New Ventures is a survey course on many topics related to starting a company, this class focuses on precisely what the name implies.  You're either building product or you're selling it.  I knew shockingly little about the latter step before this class, and found it to be among the most practical during my whole time at the GSB.  Similar to above, this class is taught with case studies, and the protagonists join each class to share their experience and learning.  Additionally, there are projects and simulations used to apply the class materials.  Mark Leslie, an amazing sales CEO for decades in Silicon Valley conceived of the class with James Lattin on the academic side.  They are now joined in different sections by Peter Levine (A16Z), Kirk Bowman (Accel), and Mark Stevens (long time Sequoia).Conflict Management and Negotiation (OB 381) -- This is about exactly what the title suggests.  Conflict and negotiation can be uncomfortable or even painful, so the course is more than 50% focused on simulations between classmates where you practice effective tools and then reflect on the outcomes.  And it does get more natural with practice...Sports Business Management  (GSBGEN 360), Sports Business Financing (GSBGEN 561), and Sports  Marketing (GSBGEN 562) -- The GSB has a number of courses and course sequences that focus on particular topics of interest for students.  I have some interest in sports and took two of the three courses above with George Foster.  You do have to be interested in sports for these classes, but if you are, it is a real treat.  Aside from the annual Billy Beane visit, Professor Foster manages to get the biggest names in Bay Area, and sometimes national sports, into the room discussing just about every topic related to business and sports.  As you will see below, there are many other courses delving into different verticals, such as philanthropy, real estate, and entertainment.Other interesting (and popular) classes that I did not takeAligning Start-Ups with their Market (STRAMGT 359) with, Andy Rachleff, which delves deep into another topic introduced in Formation of New Ventures, product-market fitCreating a Start-Up (STRAMGT 356/366) with Haim Mendelson, whereby teams of students (often across graduate programs) create a company plan and sometimes, take the product to market during and after a two quarter course togetherBiodesign Innovation (OIT 384/385) -- some similarities in process to above, but where product is focused on healthcare technologiesEntrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability (OIT 333/334) -- some similarities in process to above, but where product is focused on technologies that benefit people and communities in developing countries (through Stanford SEED program)Corporate Financial Modeling (FINANCE 350) with Peter DeMarzo, who wrote our book on itMergers and Acquisitions (ACCT 332), guest taught by Safra Catz (President of Oracle)Understanding the Recent Financial Crisis (GSBGEN 340), Fiscal Policy (GSBGEN 363), and Contemporary Economic Policy (MGTECON 381) with User-13808067191255951908, former Economic Policy Advisor to President George W. Bush and Director of the US National Economic CouncilDesigning Happiness (MKTG 355) and Social Brands (MKTG 353) with Jennifer Aaker, author of The Dragonfly EffectReal Estate Investment (GSBGEN 306)Leadership in the Entertainment Industry (OB 388)Strategic Philanthropy (GSBGEN 381)

CREDITS: Anurag kumar S (अनुराग कुमार एस), Students at Chandigarh University (2017-present)40 ACHIEVEMENTS OF CHANDRABABU NAIDU IN 4 YEARS AS CHIEF MINISTER OF ANDHRA PRADESH.4 Years as Chief Minister of the new state of Andhra Pradesh !Did he live upto the expectations of the people of Andhra Pradesh ?Did his vision translate into something quantifiable ?Here are the 40 major achievements of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Mr.Chandrababu Naidu.1. MAKING VIZAG AND VIJAYAWADA AS ONE OF THE CLEANEST CITIES OF INDIA.Vizag and Vijayawada have amazingly transformed into India’s one of the Cleanest Cities. The Cleanliness of Vizag has been attracting tourism from Across the country and from beyond.2. DECIDED THE CAPITAL AT THE CENTER OF THE STATE SO THAT IT IS ACCESSIBLE TO EVERYONE AND NAMED IT“AMARAVATI – THE PEOPLE’S CAPITAL “As Andhra Pradesh is a very long state, Capital should be accessible to everyone, so he decided the capital to be in the center.Amaravati Started as an Idea that way.3. CONVINCED FARMERS TO DONATE 35,000 ACRES OF LAND IN LAND POOLING SCHEME WHERE BOTH FARMERS AND GOVERNMENT HAD A WIN WIN SITUATION.A master stroke of all is the Land Pooling scheme of Amaravati which is a role model for the whole nation. There are instances of Governments changing for land acquisitions of around 1000 Acres. In this case farmers volunteered to come and join the land pooling.In land pooling, Farmers get 1/3 of the land back in the developed area of Amaravati City. Farmers are the biggest supporters of Amaravati and are being made the front face for their love and sacrifice for building a Future City for the 5 Crore Andhra Pradesh people.4. BIGGEST ACHIEVEMENT, THOUGH UNDERPLAYED IS MOVING EMPLOYEES FROM HYDERABAD TO AMARAVATI.Andhra Pradesh’s revenue crisis was making it worse and people were not happy spending their taxes in a different state, Also for people of Andhra Pradesh, going to Hyderabad to meet their government wasn’t feeling great.Instead of waiting for whole of amaravati to be ready, Mr.Naidu built an Interim Capital with 6 Lakh Sft of Office Space in a record time of 4 Months.20,799 employees of the Andhra government’s secretariat offices and 89 departments spread across Hyderabad have moved to the new capital Amaravati bringing new activity in the capital, new taxes and new businesses as these employees spend their salary in the new state of Andhra Pradesh and not in Hyderabad, so would be people who will be coming to meet them for work.5. UNIVERSITIES STARTED TO OPERATE IN THE VERY FIRST YEAR OF INCEPTION.Due to fast follow up from Andhra Pradesh state and due to the Union Ministers TDP had in the NDA govt, some of the non fund involved processes moved very fast.IIT Tirupati, IIM Visakhapatnam, NID Amaravati, NIT Tadepalligudem, etc have Started Classes the first year of forming the government.Sadly due to not enough fund support from Center, They are all still running from Temporary campuses.6. PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES RALLIED TO AMARAVATIDue to the good relation Mr.Naidu has with the universities like SRM and VIT, they all liked the idea of Amaravati, the people’s capital and rallied to Amaravati.They bought land at around Rs.2 Crs per acre from Government and started their universities.SRM Amaravati and VIT Amaravati campuses are ready and operational for over two years now with their campus buildings constantly growing.Amrita is yet to start the construction.7. ATTRACTED AND GROUNDED THE KIA MOTORS, INDIA’S LARGEST FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT (FDI) EVER !Kia Motors is one of the Biggest Success Stories of CBN Government. $2 Billion has been invested into Andhra Pradesh by Kia Motors, Its the Largest FDI Investment in India.8. HERO MOTORS DITCHED NEIGHBOURING STATE TO COME TO ANDHRA PRADESH.How Hero Motors came to Andhra Pradesh saying no is Telangana and Maharastra is a huge lesson for all the Entrepreneurs and Leaders.Mr.Naidu Asked Munjal, CEO of Hero Motors for a meeting over dinner and flew to Mumbai to meet him and convinced him to set up the Hero Motors manufacturing unit in Andhra Pradesh.Apollo Tyres, Isuzu Motors, Cadbury, Asian Paints and many more Industries have rallied to Andhra Pradesh considering the 24*7 power, abundance of water and good governance in Andhra Pradesh.9. RIVER INTERLINKING OF RIVER KRISHNA AND RIVER GODAVARI.First time in India Ever, Two major rivers got integrated with Pattiseema Project giving water to farmers across the state. The surplus waters in River Krishna due to the River Integration were used to give Water to Rayalaseema which was a huge win.160 TMC of water has been lifted from Godavari to Krishna which resulted in a farming yield of 18,000 Crores in Krishna Delta in 3 years and 7,400 Crores in Rayalaseema over 2 Years.10. LOAN WAIVER OF 24000 CRORESDespite the rough economic situation, Farmer Loans of 24,000 Crores are Waived.11. PENSION INCREASED TO RS.1000.Old age and physically challenged Pension was increased to Rs.1000 from Rs.200. This money deposited into accounts on the 1st of every month without any mediator intervention.12. REAL TIME GOVERNANCECM’s CORE Dashboard is one of the World’s Best MIS with all the data from around the State, kept open to public in real time. CM and his team use this data and help deliver service better.13. GREAT PROGRESS IN POLAVARAM.When NDA Offered 3 Central Minister Positions to TDP, CBN asked we will only take 2, for the third, we want full support to Polavaram Project which is a lifeline to Andhra Pradesh.7 Mandals of Telangana were merged in Andhra Pradesh on demand of Mr.Naidu and Polavaram construction was given to the State for a speedy process.Any major project of that size would take 15 years in India but Polavaram has made tremendous progress in the last 4 years where 56% of the project is completed. Its currently in slow progress due to Fund deficit by Central Government.CM Chandrababu Naidu renamed Somavaram ( Monday ) as Polavaram where he reviews the project status either through Live streaming or by personal visit.14. SUCCESSFULLY FACED HUD HUD ALONG WITH THE BRAVE PEOPLE OF VIZAG AND TRANSFORMED VIZAG INTO INDIA’S ONE OF THE CLEANEST CITIES.If we look back at the 4 years, Hud Hud had the biggest need of leadership. Mr.Naidu rose above everyone and helped Vizag recover at jet speed.He lived out of a bus, did surprise visits around the city, summoned the communication company heads, prepared neighbouring state to send supplies right after the cyclone passes, recovered power, recovered normalcy in record time.Won Hearts.!15. FRANKLIN TEMPLETON, FINTECH VALLEY, SIGNATURE TOWERS, INNOVATION TOWER TO VIZAG.One of the first big companies to step into Vizag is the prestigious Franklin Templeton. Fintech Valley in Visakhapatnam has been attracting many more companies to Vizag, the City of Destiny.P.S: Meanwhile Pawan Kalyan thinks that Franklin Templeton is a person who lives in US.16. MAKING RAYALASEEMA THE ELECTRONIC MANUFACTURING HUB.Xiaomi, Foxconn and many other Electronic Manufacturers made Sri City and Rayalaseema their home.17. NEW TERMINAL TO VIJAYAWADA AIRPORT AND INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS TO VIZAG.An amazing new terminal is built in Vijayawada in record time and has made it comfortable for people to fly from Vijayawada.Direct flights to Singapore, Malaysia, Dubai and Sri Lanka have started from Vizag to make it more accessible to the world. So to be done in Vijayawada too.18. MAKING VEHICLE REGISTRATION PROCESS ONLINE.Andhra Pradesh is the only state in the country to fully automate the Vehicle registration process removing the middle men. Vehicles are registered automatically at the time of sale and there is not contact between RTA and the Consumer removing any chance for Bribes.19. FIBERGRID – CHEAPEST INTERNET EVER !AP FiberGrid is World’s cheapest internet service rolled out by the government where Internet and TV are provided at INR 149 Only making people access the information across the globe.20. LED AND IOT-FYING STREET LIGHTSLEDfying the Street Lights has made AP stand as role model by saving millions of Units of Power.8 lakh 30 thousand Street Lights have been transformed into LED and IoT enabled.You can check which Street Lights are on and which are Not from CM dashboard and any one with repair has to be back into action within an SLA of 24 hours.21. E CABINET. FIRST AND ONE AND ONLY.Cabinet meeting have turned Paper Free, making it efficient and smart.22. DIGITAL CLASSROOMS. GOVERNMENT CLASSROOMS THAT ARE MORE SMART THAN THAT OF PRIVATE SCHOOLS.Class rooms are Digitalized by providing internet, screen, audio system, computer and digital content to make children learn more efficiently.23. BIKE AMBULANCES FOR TRIBALSBike Ambulances were launched to make medical care accessible to the remotest parts of the State. This has been a boon in the Tribal Areas where the access by road is limited.24. SOLAR PUMPSET FOR FARMERSSolar Pumpsets were given to farmers at subsidised prices making them access power for free and anytime they wish.25. HIGHEST GDP GROWTH IN THE NATIONAndhra Pradesh under Mr.Naidu has achieved Double Digit Growth rate, highest in the Country.AP has been growing at an average of 10.5% Growth Rate while India’s Avg growth rate is about 7%.26. NTR SUJALANTR Sujala has been implemented in various places across the state where clean water is made accessible at very low cost of only Rs. 2 for 20 Litres of Water.27. ANNA CANTEENAnna Canteens have been rolled out to make food accessible for cost as low as Rs. 5.28. 24*7 POWER.Power Cuts were a very common scene until Mr.Naidu took over the government. Andhra Pradesh since then been having 24*7 Power even in the Peak Summer where the demand is very high.Thanks to the LED conversion of Street Lights as well as Lights at home, Millions of Units have been saved reducing the demand. Also, Additions of 2000 MW of Solar Power and 3000 MW of Wind Power in the last 4 years has been a huge add on making Andhra Pradesh one of the most Efficient and Green states.29. CII PARTNERSHIP SUMMITCII Partnership Summit was held successfully in Visakhapatnam for 3 times in a row, which is very rare as PS happens in a new state everytime.This attracted thousands of crores of investment to AP and with it JOBS.!30. COLLABORATION WITH BILL GATES FOR AGRI GROWTH.Bill Gates came down to Andhra Pradesh to collaborate with the growth of Agriculture in Andhra Pradesh.31. NTR HOUSING SCHEMEApartment styled homes were built for the low income group across Andhra Pradesh to help them have a home.32. JOBS JOBS JOBS !An investment of 15,95,157 Crores was attracted and which will trickle down into 36,58,280 Jobs, of which 2,97,370 Jobs have already gone live.Kia has started hiring in ananthapur, IT companies started to hire in Vizag, Amaravati and Tirupati.33. WATER TO RAYALASEEMA FOR THE FIRST TIME AFTER MORE THAN 4 DECADES.Many rivers and lakes have seen water after more than 4 decades. This was possible by saving water in Srisailam as Godavari water was pumped to Krishna. Then the Water in Srisailam was diverted to Rivers and Canals across Rayalaseema making Rayalaseema see Irrigation Water after Decades.34. CHANDRANNA BHEEMA HELPING FAMILIES OF WORKERS IN UNORGANIZED SECTOR STAND BACK ON THEIR FOOT.An financial help of 5 Lakh INR is being given to families of workers who face sudden demise to make their families stand back and kids continue their education when they lose the bread earner of the family.35. PEOPLE FIRST. 1100 RESPONSE CENTER.1100 Call center was launched and a ticket number is created for every complaint and is tracked till closure. CM directly monitors the performance of the number of issues being resolved.A total of 80, 213 complaints are received as of Sep 2017 and of which 44919 cases were resolved, other being pending and work in progress.Next time you have an issue with a government service, Call 1100.36. FINALISING WORLD CLASS DESIGNS FOR AMARAVATI.Norman Foster group has given some amazing designs for Amaravati Assembly building, High Court and other Structures.AMARAVATI CITY SCAPEVIEW OF ASSEMBLY BUILDING.VIEW OF HIGH COURT BUILDING, AMARAVATI37. AMARAVATI TO ANANTHAPUR EXPRESS WAY.A Straight line Highway that will cut down the travel time from Rayalaseema to Amaravati which is 10 hours now is planned, Land acquisition is close to complete, but due to unavailability of Fund from the Center, this project is waiting to get implemented.Once implemented this Express Way will stand as a Benchmark for the Nation and will be a Pride of South India kicking off Economic progress in new areas of Andhra Pradesh.38. RENOVATION OF BUS STANDS USED BY MILLIONS OF PEOPLE.All the bus stands across the state are renewed and maintained the cleanest ever. Bus Stands this summer also got huge coolers to keep the Passengers at Comfort making APSRTC a got to Travel Partner.39. ANDHRA PRADESH STOOD NO.1 IN INCREASE IN FOREST COVER.Andhra Pradesh Stood No.1 in Increase of Forest Cover between 2015-2017 with 2141 sq km, followed by Karnataka with 1101 sq km and Kerala with 1043 sq km.40. KICKING OFF BUILDING THE MEGA CITY, AMARAVATI.The Roads are even clearly visible on Google Maps8 Line Roads Across Amaravati are close to Finish. MLA Quarters are under construction. Other major constructions to start soon.Andhra Pradesh is also a model state in Open Defecation Free with 37,01,615 Toilets built in the last 4 years.17,000 Kms of Cement Roads have also been laid across towns and Villages of Andhra Pradesh, 6000 Kms of Roads in last year alone.Considering that Andhra Pradesh is a newly formed state left with no revenue and a Capital City to operate from, First 4 years of Mr.Chandrababu Naidu Government have definitely set a vision for the progress to come and has brought the state from Revenue losses to a Stable Economy with a Capital in Making.Andhra Pradesh has also achieved No.1 status in multiple areas like Cleanliness, Good Governance, Ease of Doing Business, Usage of Technology in governance, Best Water Management, etc.Wishing Andhra Pradesh a Progressive Future and Amaravati a Happening City Soon.Achievements…source:-N. Chandrababu Naidu - WikipediaAt 28, the state's youngest assembly member and ministerLongest serving Chief Minister for the combined state of Andhra Pradesh (1995–2004)First Chief Minister of the newly formed state of Andhra Pradesh from 8 June 2014.Longest-serving leader of opposition in the Andhra Pradesh assemblyVoted IT Indian of the Millennium in a poll by India Today and 20:20 MediaHe was named "SOUTH ASIAN OF THE YEAR" by the TIME Magazine, USAHe was described as one of the Hidden Seven working wonders around the world, by Profit, a monthly magazine published by Oracle Corporation, US.Business Person of the Year by Economic TimesHe calls himself as "CEO of Andhra Pradesh".The Pune-based organisation, Bharatiya Chatra Sansad, in partnership with MIT School of Governance, has honoured him with "Aadarsh Mukhyamantri Puraskar" (Model CM Award) in its 6th annual session on 30 January 2016.Transformative Chief Minister Award’ in May 2017Source: http://www.southreport.com/4yrs-...Read more: king of my own kingdom!Hope you liked them.!Thanks!!!

What are the best opportunities for cryprocurrencies?Becoming a Bitcoin BrokerPerhaps one of the most obvious as well as one of the most popular ways to start a business in this industry is to set yourself up as a broker, buying and selling coins to other users.Unlike other areas of finance, digital currency users often have a preference for using peer-to-peer services rather than large companies. This preference extends to exchanges, meaning that it is very easy for a small trader to set themselves up as a broker in their local area or over the internet. In fact, one of the world’s most popular services for buying and selling BTC is LocalBitcoins, which is entirely based around peer-to-peer transactions and hosts thousands of small traders earning a living as brokers.As a broker you earn your profit from the ‘spread’ – the difference between bid and ask prices. This varies according to market conditions and the payment method you are using, but you can get a rough idea simply by visiting the buy and sell pages on the site for your local area.BTMs: Operating a Bitcoin ATMIf you have enough capital behind you then a more easily scalable, and potentially more profitable way to set up a business buying and selling coins, is by operating specialist ‘Automatic Teller Machines’ (ATMs) sometimes known as ‘Bitcoin Teller Machines’ (BTM).Fees charged by BTMs seem to start around the range of 5-10% per transaction, and in some cases are a lot higher. Operators who manage to get their machines into the best locations often report ROI for their initial capital in less than a year. These machines do not take up a lot of space, so renting locations doesn’t need to cost the earth. But with the cost of the machine itself, and the requirement to stock it with notes, the initial outlay can be quite high.There are a wide range of machines available to buy, and they usually allow you to set your own fees to the level you want. Some machines will also allow you to connect to a third-party exchange through an API in order to manage your currency risk by keeping your reserves of both BTC and your local fiat at a constant level. Most machines will incorporate some form of KYC requirements, but it is important for operators to keep abreast of local regulatory requirements and ensure that their machines comply with the law.If you are already the owner of a retail location then running a BTM may be a particularly attractive proposition, and some systems have been designed with dual-functionality for this reason. Several major BTM manufacturers have included point of sale (POS) systems into their machine, whilst at the same time POS terminal providers such as Coinkite offer exchange features that enable cashiers to buy or sell coins from the till.Here is a list of some of the most popular options:Romit: Kiosks and ATMs with point of sale app and integrated remittance options.BitAccess: Fully featuresdATM machines with note recycling, customizable compliance options and remote management.GeneralBytes: Offers a choice of full kiosk and combined POS system.Skyhook: Powered by open source software, this machine supports a wide range of currencies.Lamassu: Offers a range of 3 different machines and is the market leader at the time of writing this article.GenesisCoin: Includes the option to brand the product through their white label system, and had all the features you would expect.There is even a market out there for second hand BTM machines. You can compare products and find cheap second hand deals at CoinATMRadar.Bitcoin Vending Machine BusinessesThere are many similarities between running a network of teller machines and running a vending machine business. Entrepreneurial salespeople with a strong knowledge of their local area can do well by placing these machines in strategic locations.One of the big limitations of vending machines is that many people simply don’t carry a lot of change around with them, and may not have the coins needed to make a purchase. As the use of cash continues to decline this is likely to present an ever-expanding opportunity to replace legacy systems with new machines capable of accepting alternative payment methods.Already there are machines available to purchase which accept both credit / debit cards and Bitcoin. For example, Aeguana sells a top-spec system with digital display, which they claim has driven an average 400% increase in sales on a like-for-like basis compared to traditional coin operated machines during trials in the UK.If you don’t mind getting your hands dirty (or hiring an engineer) you can also retrofit pretty much any existing vending machine to accept BTC payments using something like the BitSwitch, or alternatively Kryptomech which runs its own installation service.White Label Business OpportunitiesA white label business is when another company allows you to take their product or service, rebrand it under your own name, and present it to the public as an independent business. Although the core product is not unique, these services often allow for a relatively high degree of customization.White Label ExchangesIf you have ever thought of running your own cryptocurrency exchange website, then there are some signNow advantages to going through the white label route.The first is that high quality exchange software capable of reliably matching and executing orders at high speeds is a complex and expensive thing to develop yourself. Setting up a white label exchange is a low cost way to get into this business, but should still allow you to select which coins and currencies you want to trade, set your own fees, and customize the user-interface to suit your brand.A second major advantage is that these services usually allow you to share liquidity with other exchanges using the same network. Building enough liquidity on a new exchange to make it an attractive choice for users can be very difficult, or very expensive and risky if you provide the liquidity yourself.Here is a list of the top white label bitcoin exchange providers:AlphaPointBTCTraderDragletWLoxWhite Label CasinosGambling has always been one of those areas in which the advantages of digital currency are most apparent. One of the reasons for this is because many countries do not classify it as being real money, which means that strict laws and regulations controlling online gambling may not apply to casinos which use BTC exclusively.If you fancy running your own casino, poker or betting site then there are many white label opportunities for you to take advantage of. These can range from a complete ‘turnkey’ website which just requires you to add your own branding (and make sure that you are complying with local laws) to individual games that you can add to your own site.Here are three of the top providers of this service:CoinGamingSoftSwissBetcoinGamingOther White Label ServicesI’m sure that there are many other white label services out there, offering services other than casinos and exchanges. This is a fast past industry, so it is well worth doing your own search if you think this is something you may like to do. But for now I will leave you with just one other service that you may like to take a look at: E-Coin offers entrepreneurs the chance to white label their bitcoin debit card service, and includes the ability to access their service through an API: https://devportal.e-coin.io/Bitcoin MiningMining is a very competitive business today, but that doesn’t mean that it is impossible for new start-ups to succeed. The key to being able to make a profit from mining is that you need access to low-cost electricity. Setting up in an area with a cold climate may also help to reduce equipment cooling costs. This is, however, a risky business that is dependent on factors which are difficult to forecast (such as the price of BTC) and which will probably require a high capital outlay for equipment, so make sure you really know what you are getting into before setting up shop as a miner.Bitcoin Franchise OpportunitiesChoosing the franchise route means that not only are you provided with a product / service to sell, but you also get access to a proven strategy and business plan, and the rights to use an established brand that may already have name recognition and may run its own advertising campaigns that you can benefit from.This can be seen as one step up from a white label in terms of the help and support you get from the company behind the product, but you do have to pay for this as there is usually a fee which must be paid to purchase the franchise. If you are considering taking this route then I would advise you to do a little research to find the latest franchise offerings yourself, but to whet your appetite and perhaps save some of you the time and effort, here are three of the most interesting franchises that I have been able to find:Coin Telegraph – One of the most well known names in digital currency news, Coin Telegraph is offering foreign language franchises in many countries around the world. A similar model is being followed by another news site called NewsBTC.Coingaia – A Bitcoin exchange which is using a franchise model instead of the white label route for anybody looking to start their own exchange.MegaBigPower – If you have been thinking about setting up your own mining business but don’t have the full capital outlay required then this is worth looking into. You provide a premises and electricity, and they will provide ASIC mining machines and technical support to help you run them.Retail BusinessesYou can buy most things with Bitcoin today, but there are still opportunities available for new retail businesses which accept digital currency payments to make a name for themselves.The low transaction costs and freedom from chargebacks makes BTC payments an attractive proposition for retailers, and if you can pass on some of those savings to your customers in the form of discounts you have a great chance to attract new business.Perhaps the easiest way to set up a new retail business and take payment in BTC is using an internet shop builder service like Shopify.Reseller & Dropship OpportunitiesIf you are already involved in retail, or if this is a sector you are thinking about going into, you may also like to consider reselling Bitcoin related products.For example, Prypto offers a way for retailers to sell Bitcoin in the form of scratch cards or vouchers. This is perfect for adding to the counter of a local newsagent of grocery store, but can also be used by online businesses.There are also many digital products unrelated to digital currency which have reseller programs. This is a great way to get into retail without a huge expenditure on buying stock, and making a product available to purchase for BTC may win you some business. You can even use a similar method to start selling physical products through ‘dropshipping’, which involves the retailer taking payment for a product from the customer, and then immediately ordering it from their dropship wholesaler, who ships the product direct to the customer.Consider selling items on a decentralized marketplace using one of our guides: Syscoin for sellers and Open Bazaar for Merchants.Monetizing Trust: Escrow Agents & OraclesIf you have built up a name for yourself as somebody that can be trusted (or if your business has), then you may like to consider monetizing this trust by setting yourself up as an escrow agent or oracle.The role of an escrow agent is the arbitrate over disputes. This may involve online purchases, freelance contracts, or other business and trade arrangements. The process is simple: payment is made to a bitcoin address which requires any 2 signatures out of the buyer, the seller and the escrow agent in order to send a transaction. If there is no problem then the buyer and seller sign and payment is made, but if there is a problem then the escrow agent must choose whether to sign the payment or the refund. You can create a profile on websites like Bitrated to promote your services as an escrow agent.Another business which requires a certain degree of trust from your customers is the role of the oracle. Oracles publish information over the blockchain which can be used for betting, for financial derivatives, or for smart contracts. Take a look at our article on how to become a bitcoin oracle for more information about this.Consultancy BusinessesIf you are reading this article then you probably know more about bitcoin than 99% of other people, at the very least. So why not put that knowledge to good use by helping other businesses?Both Bitcoin itself and the blockchain technology which underpins it offer a wealth of opportunities, not only for setting up a new business but also within established businesses. Unfortunately most companies just don’t know how to take advantage of them. This doesn’t just stop at accepting Bitcoin payments, it could involve using the blockchain for low cost notary services, as an asset registry, smart contracts and a lot more besides.Although anybody looking to set themselves up as a consultant must be careful not to overstate their expertise – most general consultancies have teams of people with different backgrounds including programming, law and other areas – there are still profitable niches that anybody with a bit of experience and a willingness to research could take advantage of. For example, approaching small and medium sized retailers in your area and offering to guide them through the various point of sale options, or offering to conduct a presentation on blockchain notary services to a local law firm as a general introduction to what it can offer.Flipping Websites, Apps & BusinessesBusiness flipping is when you buy a business, increase its profitability (or turn it around entirely if its making a loss), and then sell it on in a relatively short period of time. The term is more commonly used for online businesses in the form of website or app flipping, but can also be applied to bricks & mortar businesses.There are many different websites and apps which could benefit from integrating digital currency into what they offer. It is also possible to buy websites and apps for much less than most other businesses, and to ‘flip’ them within a fairly short period of time. Integrating digital currency for in-app purchases or for user-rewards schemes, or simply converting stores to accept BTC payments, may be worth considering as ways to add value to an established business.It is not beyond the imagination to think that some offline businesses may present similar opportunities for an entrepreneur to add value in a short space of time by introducing the use of blockchain technology.Bitcoin Websites & FaucetsAt the risk of creating more competition for ourselves, another possibility is to create a bitcoin related website. When it comes to monetizing your site, there are many advertising networks and affiliate programs which pay out in bitcoin.One of the most popular categories of website in this area is the faucet – a website which pays out a small amount of bitcoin to new users for testing or just for fun.Which one is the best? Try everything and decide for yourself!

Here is a list of Cons: (From Shooting yourself in the foot in various programming languages)370 JCL You send your foot down to MIS and include a 300-page document explaining exactly how you want it to be shot. Two years later, your foot comes back deep-fried.You shoot yourself in the head just thinking about it.You find the first building you're in in the phone book, then find your office number in the corporate phone book. Then you have to write this down and describe, in cubits, your exact location in relation to the door (the right side thereof). Then you need to write down the location of the gun (loading it is a proprietary utility), then you load it, and the COBOL program, and run them, and with luck, it may be run tonight.Ada If you are dumb enough to actually use this language, the United States Department of Defense will kidnap you, stand you up in front of a firing squad, and tell the soldiers, "Shoot at his feet."After correctly packaging your foot, you attempt to concurrently load the gun, pull the trigger, scream, and shoot yourself in the foot. When you try, however, you discover that your foot is of the wrong type.You scour all 156e54 pages of the manuals, looking for references to foot, leg, or toe; then you get hopelessly confused and give up. You sneak in when the boss isn't around and finally write the damn thing in C. You turn in 7,689 pages of source code to the review committee, knowing they'll never look at it, and when the program needs maintenance, you quit.Algol You shoot yourself in the foot with a Civil War-era musket. The musket is aesthetically fascinating, and the wound baffles the adolescent medic in the emergency room.Algol 60 You spend hours trying to figure out how to fire the gun because it has no provisions for input or output.Algol 68 You mildly deprocedure the gun, the bullet gets firmly dereferenced, and your foot is strongly coerced to void.APL You shoot yourself in the foot and then spend all day figuring out how to do it in fewer characters.You hear a gunshot and there's a hole in your foot, but you don't remember enough linear algebra to understand what happened.@#&^$%&%^ footAPT You cut a perfect bullethole in your foot and shoot through it.ASP You try to shoot yourself in the foot, but the most advanced thing you can manage is to cut your wrist.Assembly You try to shoot yourself in the foot only to discover that you must first invent the gun, the bullet, the trigger, and your foot.You crash the OS and overwrite the root disk. The system administrator arrives and shoots you in the foot. After a moment of contemplation, the system administrator shoots himself in the foot and then hops around the room rapidly shooting at everyone in sight.By the time you've written the gun, you are dead, and don't have to worry about shooting your feet. Alternatively, you shoot and miss, but don't notice.Using only 7 bytes of code, you blow off your entire leg in only 2 CPU clock ticks.BASIC Shoot self in foot with water pistol. On big systems, continue until entire lower body is waterlogged.BCPL You shoot yourself somewhere in the leg; you can't get any finer resolution than that.C You shoot yourself in the foot.You shoot yourself in the foot and then nobody else can figure out what you did.C++ You accidentally create a dozen instances of yourself and shoot them all in the foot. Providing emergency medical assistance is impossible since you can't tell which are bitwise copies and which are just pointing at others and saying, "That's me, over there."C# You shoot yourself in the foot, but first have to switch to unsafe mode.You forget precisely how to use the .NET interface and shoot yourself in the foot. You sue Microsoft for damages.Clipper You grab a bullet, get ready to insert it in the gun so that you can shoot yourself in the foot, and discover that the gun that the bullet fits has not yet been built, but should be arriving in the mail real soon now.COBOL USEing a COLT.45 HANDGUN, AIM GUN at LEG.FOOT, THEN PLACE ARM.HAND.FINGER on HANDGUN.TRIGGER and SQUEEZE. THEN RETURN HANDGUN to HOLSTER. CHECK whether SHOELACE needs to be retied.Allocate $500,000 for the project. Define foot, bullet, gun. Run press_trigger. Go for coffee break. Return in time to put foot under bullet.You try to shoot yourself in the foot, but the gun won't fire unless it's aligned in column 8.Concurrent Euclid You shoot yourself in somebody else's foot.CP/M You remember when shooting yourself in the foot with a BB gun was a big deal.CSS Everyone can now shoot themselves in the foot, but all their feet come out looking identical and attached to their ears.dBase You buy a gun. Bullets are only available from another company and are promised to work so you buy them. Then you find out that the next version of the gun is the one that is scheduled to actually shoot bullets.You squeeze the trigger, but someone corrupted the index and the bullet shoots you in the eye.You squeeze the trigger, but the bullet moves so slowly that by the time your foot feels the pain you've forgotten why you shot yourself anyway.DCL $ MOUNT/DENSITY=.45/LABEL=BULLET/MESSAGE="BYE" BULLET::BULLET$GUN SYS$BULLET$ SET GUN/LOAD/SAFETY=OFF/SIGHT=NONE/HAND=LEFT/CHAMBER=1/ACTION=AUTOMATIC/LOG/ALL/GULL SYS$GUN_3$DUA3:[000000] GUN.GUN$ SHOOT/LOG/AUTO SYS$GUN SYS$SYSTEM:[FOOT] FOOT.FOOT%DCL-W-ACTIMAGE, error activating image GUN-CLI-E-IMGNAME image file $3$DUA240:[GUN] GUN.EXE;1-IMGACT-F-NOTNATIVE, image is not an OpenVMS Alpha AXP imageDelphi You try to shoot yourself in the foot but discover that the bullets you already had are not compatible with the new gun version, but Borland promises a fix real soon now.Eiffel You create a GUN object, two FOOT objects, and a BULLET object. The GUN passes both the FOOT objects as a reference to the BULLET. The FOOT objects increment their hole counts and forget about the BULLET. A little demon then drives a garbage truck over your feet and grabs the bullet (both of it) on the way.You take out a contract on your foot. The precondition is that there's a bullet in the gun; the postcondition is that there's a hole in your foot.English You put your foot in your mouth, then bite it off.Forth Foot in yourself shoot.First you decide to leave the number of toes lost on the stack and then implement the word foot-toes@ which takes three numbers from the stack: foot number, range, and projectile mass (in slugs) and changes the current vocabulary to blue. While testing this word you are arrested by the police for mooning (remember, this is a bottom-up language) who demonstrate the far better top-down approach to damaging yourself.BULLET DUP3 * GUN LOAD FOOT AIM TRIGGER PULL BANG EMIT DEAD IF DROP ROT THEN. This takes about five bytes of memory, executes in two to ten clock cycles on any processor, and can be used to replace any existing function of the language as well as in any future words. Welcome to bottom-up programming, where you too can perform compiler pre-processing instead of actually writing code.FORTRAN You shoot yourself in each toe, iteratively, until you run out of toes, then you read in the next foot and repeat. If you run out of bullets or toes, you continue anyway because no exception processing was anticipated.Haskell On a warm Saturday afternoon, sitting by the pool with a margarita, you casually sit up from your chaise lounge chair, signNow over and pick up a gun, aim at your foot, and lazily pull the trigger.You shoot yourself in the foot very elegantly, and wonder why the whole world isn't shooting itself this way.You spend several hours creating a new copy of the Universe which is identical to the existing one except your foot has a hole in it. You then hear that it can be done more elegantly with Dyadic Functile Hyper-Arrows, but the very act of reading some of the included sample code causes one of your metatarsals to explode.HTML You cut a bullethole in your foot with nothing more than a small penknife, but you realize that to make it look convincing, you need to be using Dreamweaver.HyperTalk Put the first bullet of the gun into foot left of leg of you. Answer the result.You describe how to shoot yourself in the foot, which not only happens, but you also get cool visual effects.As of HyperTalk 2.2, you cannot shoot yourself in the foot from within the stack; you must write this functionality into an XCMD or XFCN. However, we anticipate this functionality to be incorporated into the next major release.IDL You easily shoot yourself in the foot, complete with neat little graphs showing the trajectory of the bullet and the result of the impact. After twenty hours and ten thousand lines of code, your friend proudly announces that he has accomplished the same thing in an Excel spreadsheet.Java You write a program to shoot yourself in the foot and put it on the Internet. People all over the world shoot themselves in the foot, and everyone leaves your website hobbling and cursing.You amputate your foot at the ankle with a fourteen-pound hacksaw, but you can do it on any platform.JavaScript You find that Microsoft and Sun have released incompatible class libraries both implementing Gun objects. You then find that although there are plenty of Foot objects implemented in the past in many other languages, you cannot get access to one. But, seeing as JavaScript is so cool, you don't care and go around shooting anything else you can find.LaTeX compy$ more foot_shooting.tex\documentclass[12pt]{article}\usepackage{latexgun,latexshoot}\begin{document}See how easy it is to shoot yourself in the foot? \\\gun[leftfoot]{shoot} \\\pain\end{document}compy$ latex foot_shooting...line 6: undefined control sequence \painLisp You shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot...You attempt to shoot yourself in the foot, but the gun jams on a stray parenthesis.Linux You shoot yourself in the foot with a Gnu.Logo You can easily shoot the gun, but you have to work out the geometry to make sure the bullet goes into your foot.Mac OS (System 7) Double-click the gun icon and a window appears, giving a selection for guns, target areas, and balloon help with medical remedies. Click the "shoot" button and a small bomb appears with a note "Bad F-line instruction."Mac OS (System 7.1) Double-click the gun icon and a window appears, giving a selection for guns, target areas, and balloon help with medical remedies. Click the "shoot" button and a small bomb appears with a note "Error of type 1 has occurred."Mac OS 9 Double-click the gun icon and a window appears, giving a selection for guns, target areas, and balloon help with medical remedies. Click the "shoot" button and a window appears with the message "You need to install the latest version of CarbonLib. Should I get it for you?" You click "Yes" and your computer hangs.Mac OS X You try to shoot yourself in the foot from the GUI but the gun has inexplicably turned into a bag of Skittles.You open up the Terminal, type sudo shoot -p ~/Library/BodyParts/Preferences/foot.plist, and your kernel panics.Matlab You shoot yourself in the foot five times from the command prompt before you can put your foot in an m file.Once your foot is in an m file you shoot it fifty more ways effortlessly and then plot the results.Eventually you can't afford to continue shooting yourself in the foot this way, so you graduate to less elegant ways of shooting yourself in the foot with Excel.Modula-2 After realizing that you can't actually accomplish anything in the language, you shoot yourself in the head.MOO You ask a wizard for a pair of hands. After lovingly hand-crafting the generic gun and generic bullet, you flag the objects as fertile and then tell everyone they can now shoot themselves in the foot.Motif You spend days writing a UIL description of your foot, the trajectory, the bullet, and the intricate scrollwork on the ivory handles of the gun. When you finally get around to pulling the trigger, the gun jams.MS-DOS You finally find the gun, but you can't find the file with the bullets for the life of you.You shoot yourself in the foot, but you can unshoot yourself with add-on software.MPW Because you don't actually have a gun, you write an imitation UNIX shell and shoot yourself in the foot using Pascal..NET You can now shoot yourself in the foot with any of fourteen weapons, ranging from an antique medieval crossbow to a laser-guided Destructo-Beam. However, all these weapons must be manufactured by Microsoft and you must pay Microsoft royalties every time you shoot yourself in the foot.Objective-C You write a protocol for shooting yourself in the foot so that all people can get shot in their feet.Occam You shoot both your feet with several guns at once.Oracle You decide to shoot yourself in the foot, so you go out and buy a gun, but the gun won't work without "deploying" a shoulder holster solution, relational titanium-alloy bullets, body armor infrastructure, a laser sight assistant, a retractable arm stock application, and an enterprise team of ballistic experts and a chiropodist.The menus for coding foot_shooting have not been implemented yet, and you can't do foot_shooting in SQL.Paradox Not only can you shoot yourself in the foot, your users can too.Pascal The compiler won't let you shoot yourself in the foot.The gun is mounted such that it cannot point towards your feet, but you can swivel it round and shoot yourself in the head instead.Perl You separate the bullet from the gun with a hyperoptimized regexp, and then you transport it to your foot using several typeglobs. However, the program fails to run and you can't correct it since you don't understand what the hell it is you've written.You stab yourself in the foot repeatedly with an incredibly large and very heavy Swiss Army knife.You shoot yourself in the foot and then decide it was so much fun that you invent another six completely different ways to do it.There are so many ways to shoot yourself in the foot that you post a query to comp.lang.perl.misc to determine the optimal approach. After sifting through 500 replies (which you accomplish with a short Perl script), not to mention the cross-posts to the perl5-porters mailing list for which you upgraded your first sifter into a package, which of course you uploaded to CPAN for others who might have a similar problem (which, of course, is the problem of sorting out e-mail and news, not the problem of shooting yourself in the foot), you set to the task of simply and elegantly shooting yourself in the foot, until you discover that, while it works fine in most cases, NT, VMS, and various flavors of Linux, AIX, and Irix all let you shoot you in the foot sooner than your Perl script could.PHP Three thousand people line up on your apartment's welcome mat and demand to be shot in their feet. One by one, you oblige them, but halfway through, the http connection times out and the crowd lynches you.PicoSpan You can't shoot yourself in the foot because you're not a host.Whenever you shoot yourself in the foot, someone opens a topic in policy about it.PL/1 After consuming all system resources including bullets, the data processing department doubles its size, acquires two new mainframes, and drops the original on your foot.PostScript foot bullets 6 locate loadgun aimgun shoot showpageProlog You tell your program you wish to be shot in the foot. The program figures out how to do it, but the syntax doesn't allow it to explain.Your program tries to shoot you in the foot, but you die of old age before the bullet leaves the gun.Python You shoot yourself in the foot and then brag for hours about how much more elegantly you did it than if you had been using C or (God forbid) Perl.You create a gun module, a gun class, a foot module, and a foot class. After realizing you can't point the gun at the foot, you pass a reference to the gun to a foot object. After the foot is blown up, the gun object remains alive for eternity, ready to shoot all future feet that may happen to appear.Revelation You'll be able to shoot yourself in the foot just as soon as you figure out what all these bullets are for.Ruby You shoot yourself in the foot and then have to justify it to all your friends who are still naively using Perl.SAS You spend three hours trying to cut your way through your foot with a rock flake, only to realize that the language was invented before guns allowed you to shoot yourself in the foot interactively in one easy step with no programming.You have no idea that the gun, the bullet, or your foot exists. The gun is locked in a safe in a bank vault on the other side of the galaxy, the bullet is locked in a safe in a bank vault in another galaxy, and the people who know the combinations for the safes and bank vaults died ten million years ago. Still, the gun goes off and fires the bullet through your foot.Scheme You shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot...but none of the other appendages are aware this is happening.You vaguely remember something from your Comp Sci 101 class about shooting yourself in the foot, but why should you waste your time shooting yourself using a functional programming language?sh, csh, etc. You can't remember the syntax for anything so you spend five hours reading man pages before giving up. You then shoot the computer and switch to C.SmallTalk You spend so much time playing with the graphics and windowing system that your boss shoots you in the foot, takes away your workstation, and makes you develop in COBOL on a character terminal.You shoot yourself in the foot and your foot sends doesNotUnderstand: Pain to your brain.You daydream repeatedly about shooting yourself in the foot.SML/NJ You program a structure for your foot, the gun, and the bullet, complete with associated signatures and function definitions. After two hours of laborious typing, forgetting of semicolons, and searching old Comp Sci textbooks for the definition of such phrases as "polymorphic dynamic objective typing system", as well as an additional hour for brushing up on the lambda calculus, you run the program and the interpreter tells you that the pattern-match between your foot and the bullet is nonexhaustive. You feel a slight tingling pain, but no bullethole appears in your foot because your program did not allow for side-effecting statements.SNOBOL If you succeed, shoot yourself in the left foot. If you fail, shoot yourself in the right foot.You grab your foot with your hand, then rewrite your hand to be a bullet. The act of shooting the original foot then changes your hand/bullet into yet another foot (a left foot).SQL You cut your foot off, send it out to a service bureau, and when it returns it has a hole in it, but it will no longer fit the attachment at the end of your leg.UNIX % lsfoot.c foot.h foot.o toe.c toe.o% rm * .orm: .o: No such file or directory% ls%Visual Basic You'll only appear to have shot yourself in the foot, but you'll have so much fun doing it you won't care.You do a Google search on how to shoot yourself in the foot using Visual Basic. You find seventeen completely different ways to do it, none of which are properly structured. You paste the first example into the IDE and compile. It brushes your teeth.VMS %SYS-F-FTSHT, foot shot (fifty lines of traceback omitted)Windows 3.1 Double-click the gun icon and wait. Eventually a window opens giving a selection for guns and target areas. Click the "shoot" button and a small box appears with the note "Unable to open shoot.dll, check that path is correct."Windows 95 Your gun is not compatible with this OS and you must buy an upgrade and install it before you may continue. Then you will be informed that you don't have enough memory.Windows ME There will be too many sudden reboots to allow the bullet to get through, so your foot hangs instead.Windows XP Some teenage hacker shoots you in the foot with ActiveX. You develop gangrene and die.XBase Shooting yourself is no problem, but if you want to shoot yourself in the foot, you'll have to use Clipper.Xcode Your Objective-C and Java programs now have nifty little graphical interfaces and will run on both PowerPC and x86-based architectures, but you still can't shoot yourself in the foot unless you're the superuser.XMLYou vaporize your entire lower half with a bazooka.You can't actually shoot yourself in the foot; all you can do is describe the gun in painful detail.Z You write out all the specification of your foot, the bullet, the gun, and the relevant laws of physics, but all you can do is prove that you can shoot yourself in the foot.

There are Some Projects based on linux hope this will help you outDKMSDKMS stands for Dynamic Kernel Module Support. It is designed to create a framework where kernel dependent module source can reside so that it is very easy to rebuild modules as you upgrade kernels. This will allow Linux vendors to provide driver drops without having to wait for new kernel releases while also taking out the guesswork for customers attempting to recompile modules for new kernels. For veteran Linux users it also provides some advantages since a separate framework for driver drops will remove kernel releases as a blocking mechanism for distributing code. Instead, driver development should speed up as this separate module source tree will allow quicker testing cycles meaning better tested code can later be pushed back into the kernel at a more rapid pace. Its also nice for developers and maintainers as DKMS only requires a source tarball in conjunction with a small configuration file in order to function correctly.The latest DKMS version is available here. Also, you can read this Linux Journal article or this more recentPower Solutions paper or this even more recent Ottawa Linux Symposium paper about DKMS for more information. You may also participate in the dkms-devel mailing list. This project is maintained by Mario Limonciello, and was formerly maintained by Matt Domsch and Gary Lerhaupt.EDDBIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services 3.0 (EDD) is mechanism to match x86 BIOS device names (e.g. int13 device 80h) to Linux device names (e.g. /dev/sda, /dev/hda). EDD is a project of a T13 committee. Matt Domsch implemented the EDD specification under Linux. This code makes real mode int13 EDD BIOS calls very early during kernel startup to obtain the Master Boot Record signature and physical location (PCI bus/device/function, IDE master/slave, SCSI ID and LUN) of BIOS-seen disks, then exports this information through /proc (2.4.x kernels) or sysfs (2.6.x kernels). This information may then be used by operating system installers to determine which disk BIOS will boot from, thus the right place to put GRUB, LILO, and your /boot and / partitions.EDD was incorporated into the 2.5.44 kernel, and the 2.4.23-pre6 kernel. It has been included in several Linux distributions, including Red Hat Linux 9 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. It is being used at install time of Red Hat Enteprise Linux 4, and Novell/SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.Few BIOSs actually implement the full EDD 3.0 specification today. Matt Domsch created a list of BIOSsreported to be good, almost good, and those who don't try to implement the spec, though the list is not being maintained any longer. This project is maintained by Matt Domsch.DevlabelDevlabel is a program which dynamically creates symbolic links to disk/partition names. It uses the disk's and/or partition's unique identifiers to keep the symlink pointed to the correct location even if the underlying partition's name has changed. So, regardless if /dev/sdb6 becomes /dev/sdc6, devlabel figures this all out and points the symlink to your right data. This allows for:An unchanging symlink name which will always get you to the right locationA method for identifying partitions which have no filesystem on them (eg. swap) which would not otherwise be mountable by a filesystem labelIf using raw devices, a consistently named file node to point to your dataAn engine for cluster deployment in shared storage environmentsAn automounter for hotpluggable storage devices which will mount a storage device's associated symlink when its plugged inA set of consistently named symlinks to be used for a multipath device in /etc/raidtabA method to ensure correct device ownership and permissions when device renaming events occurThe latest version can be downloaded here. For more information, read this paper. Devlabel is supported on 2.4.x kernels, such as with Red Hat Enteprise Linux 3. For kernel 2.6.x-based products, we recommend using udev, included in your distribution, instead. efibootmgrThe efibootmgr project is a Linux user-space application to modify the Intel Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) Boot Manager. This application can create and destroy boot entries, change the boot order, change the next running boot option, and more.Details on the EFI Boot Manager are available from the EFI Specification, v1.02 or above, available from Intel Developer Centers. Note: efibootmgr requires that the kernel module efivars be loaded prior to use. 'modprobe efivars' should do the trick.Source code is available in the git tree. The latest stable version is located athttp://linux.dell.com/efibootmgr with older versions stored in the permalink sub-directory. The latest testing version is located in Index of /efibootmgr/testing. This project is maintained by Matt Domsch.BIOSdiskbiosdisk simplifies the process of flashing your system BIOS under Linux on Dell desktops and laptops. The purpose of this utility is to create a bootable BIOS flash image using the raw BIOS flash executable images (e.g. WS360A05.exe) available from Dell Support. An RPM, SRPM, and tarball for this project are available at Page on dell.com. A git tree is available at linux.dell.com git repositories. The project consists of a shell script that, when executed, creates a FreeDOS floppy image at a location of your choosing. This project is intended for Dell desktop and laptop customers and not PowerEdge customers, since Linux BIOS flash packages are already available for PowerEdge systems, and raw executable BIOS flash images are not.To use the biosdisk utility to create a BIOS flash image, first download the latest raw BIOS image for your system from Dell Support or ftp://ftp.dell.com/bios. You then have one of several options: create a floppy, create a dd floppy image, create a user-installable distribution-specific package (e.g. RPM), or actually install the image for your bootloader.* The mkfloppy action will create the biosdisk image and write it directly to a floppy disk. Usage is the following:   biosdisk mkfloppy [-o option] [-d device] [-k baseimage] /path/to/.exe * The mkimage action will create a floppy image on the user's hard drive. Usage is the following:    biosdisk mkimage [-o option] [-i destination] [-k baseimage] /path/to/.exe * The mkpkg action will create the floppy image, and use it to create a user-installable package specific to the distribution (example: RPM). When the package is installed, it will use the distribution's built-in tools to update the system's bootloader so that the user can boot to the image from the hard drive to flash the BIOS, without needing a floppy drive. Currently only Red Hat/Fedora RPM packages are supported. Usage is as follows:   biosdisk mkpkg [-o option] [--install] [--distro=] [--name=] [--version=] [--release=] /path/to/{.exe | .img}* The install action will create the biosdisk image, copy the image file to /boot, and then update the bootloader with an entry for the image. Then all the user has to do is boot the system and select the image to flash the BIOS; this will load the biosdisk image directly from the hard drive and flash the BIOS.   biosdisk install [-o option] [--name=] /path/to/{.exe | .img}This project is maintained by John Hull.DVD StoreThe DVD Store Release 2 (DS2) is now available from Index of /dvdstore The DVD Store Version 2 (DS2) is a complete online e-commerce test application, with a backend database component, a web application layer, and driver programs. The goal in designing the database component as well as the midtier application was to utilize many advanced database features (transactions, stored procedures, triggers, referential integity) while keeping the database easy to install and understand. The DS2 workload may be used to test databases or as a stress tool for any purpose. The code is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The initial distribution includes code for the MySQL database. Code for Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server will follow. Included in the release are data generation programs, shell scripts to build data for 10MB, 1GB and 100 GB versions of the DVD Store, database build scripts and stored procedure, PHP web pages, and a C# driver program. See the readme.txt file and readme's inside the distribution for more details. This project is maintained by Dave Jaffe.libsmbiosLibsmbios is a cross OS library intended to be used to obtain common information available in BIOS using a unified API. Currently, it can programmatically access any information in the SMBIOS tables. It also has the ability to obtain Dell system-specific information such as the Dell System ID number, service tag, and asset tag. Future plans include APIs for $PIR, and mptable mapping. Libsmbios is written in C++ and works on Linux (all flavors) and Windows (NT through 2003 SP1). There is a C API for some of the more commonly used functions, plus example binaries to show off most of the facilities. Libsmbios has some unique features. First, it is designed to be utilized at an API level by external programs. Many other programs rely on the user parsing text output rather than the easier-to-use API calls that libsmbios provides. Next, the libsmbios has an optional access method where you can retrieve SMBIOS information by the text names of the structures and fields by using an XML definition of the tables. This means that to add new table definitions, you need not modify code. Most other smbios programs have C code to decode each table. Libsmbios is extensible without having to recompile the code. Next, libsmbios makes extensive use of cppunit for unit testing to ensure a high degree of quality, valgrind for memory leak detection, and gcov for code coverage analysis. All these tools are built into the build system and run for each official release of the code. DMTF standard for SMBIOSCppUnitValgrindThis project is maintained by Michael Brown and has a public mailing list for developers. firmware-toolsfirmware-tools is an open source (dual GPL and OSL licenses) project to make it easy to flash the BIOS and firmware of your devices while running Linux. This project is maintained by Michael Brown and Matt Domsch, and has a public mailing list for developers.biosdevnamebiosdevname is a udev helper application which takes a kernel device name as an argument, and returns the BIOS-given name it "should" be. This is necessary on systems where the BIOS name for a given device (e.g. the label on the chassis is "Gb1") doesn't map directly and obviously to the kernel name (e.g. eth0). It uses data from the system BIOS to figure this out. This project is maintained by Jordan Hargrave. Issues with biosdevname should be sent to the linux-poweredge public mailing list or the udev mailing list linux-hotplug-devel@lists.source....libnetdevnamelibnetdevname is a library that helps map a meaningful name to a network device like "Embedded NIC 1" to conventional ethernet device names like eth0. This makes it possible to have alternative names based on various criteria like chassis port number, speed, etc. Applications can use this library to utilize device names in addition to the conventional names. This project is maintained by Narendra K. Issues with libnetdevname should be sent to the linux-poweredge public mailing listdell-satellite-syncDell-satellite-sync is a tool for taking Dell's official Linux software repositories, replicating them into an RHN Satellite or Spacewalk server, and subscribing any registered Dell systems to the correct child channel.Issues with dell-satellite-sync should be sent to the linux-poweredge public mailing list.

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