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As someone who writes mostly technology-related answers, I see the following question so much it makes me want to tear my hair out:“Can iCloud Activation Lock be Bypassed?”For those who don’t know, Apple devices that have an iCloud account active on them with Find My iPhone enabled will lock the device to that Apple ID even if it is restored to factory defaults. This is designed to prevent thievery, since stolen devices (typically iPhones) are useless without the Apple ID password they are locked with to unlock it. It is incredibly common for people to sell devices without removing the lock beforehand (likely because they don’t know it exists, or how to remove it) or because it is stolen. Either way, the lock cannot be bypassed without that password… but that doesn’t stop everyone and their mother from asking if it can be done as if the rules somehow don’t apply to them.Instead of viewing the answers on an existing question, or even asking new people to answer that existing question, they make a new one. Every. Single. Time. Quora is absolutely flooded with these questions, and I get A2A requests for them more than anything else.

Since you're asking this, you obviously don't know how to code; and learning how to code well enough to build e decent website that drive sales is certainly not the fastest way to make a website.Instead, I'm going to give you the answer you are probably looking for.Step 1. Get a cheap hosting. Bluehost is good enough to get you started and it starts at $5/month.Step 2. Install Wordpress. Most popular hosting companies like Godaddy let you install Wordpress just by clicking a button. Choose a username that is not "admin" and a decent 7+ character password and you're good to go.Step 3. Buy a premium Wordpress theme from Themeforest (go to the category that suits you and sort them by sales). Here's a fun fact: you've probably just saved yourself a few hundred bucks. Here's why: if you have a small budget (for web development, a small budget means <$1000), no one will make you a decent website from scratch. So they'll just buy a theme (like you just did) and customize it for you (like you just did). And even if you do spend >$1000 for a custom developed website, the ones available on Themeforest are much better.Why? Because the best themes are made by companies with best-in-class developers who work on a single theme for 6 months and then generate cumulative sales in the tens of thousands of dollars. You can't beat that.Step 4. Get some content. Forget about SEO, if you listened to my advice you now have a theme installed that comes with awesome built-in SEO (all good ones do). So now you need to figure out who your audience is and write some good content for that audience. You could write it yourself but if you're like me, you'd probably want to outsource it and worry about something else, like you know... your actual business. Here's how to find good content topics. Go here and input your businesses main keywords. Like if you sell cakes search for cake recipes and look at the most popular content on those topics. You will need to create something similar (and possibly even better).Next step is write down the main ideas that you want to cover in your post. The more detailed, the better. Now go here, choose "authority content" and paste your article ideas. It's will cost you, but long-term it will be worth it.Step 5. Sign up to Google Adwords and collect the free sign up voucher. Depending on your location, it's anything from $50 to $100 and it might ask you to deposit and spend $10 first. But you're getting a great ROI anyway.Total cost: about $300 (including authority content)Time: 1 day (I'm assuming you've never done it before)That's it. Now you have your own business website and you're ready to start making money within a day.

Machine Learning today is one of the most sought-after skills in the market. A lot of Software Engineers are picking up ML, simply because it is a highly paid skill. So, how do you learn Machine Learning? * First things first - the prerequisites: * * Basic calculus. In Machine Learning, you’d be working on a lot of optimizations that require knowledge of Calculus. It would be highly recommended that you are aware of functions, limits, differentiation, maxima, minima, etc. * Linear Algebra. When you talk about ML, you will be dealing with matrices and vectors every day. So, knowledge of Linear Algebra is a must. However, you’d also be required to know about other important topics like Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors. * Probability. Most ML algorithms try to “model” the underlying phenomena that generated the observed data. All of this modelling is probabilistic. It is therefore highly recommended that you are comfortable with the theory of Probability. * Getting into actual ML: * * Take a great online course on ML. The most well-known course is the one offered by Andrew Ng (Coursera) [ https://goo.gl/yH1fqV ]. It is a great course and it teaches you the basics of Machine Learning - Regression, classification, various ML algorithms, etc. The course also requires you to build a digit recognition system. * Once you have the basics in place, it would be a great idea to practice some problems on Kaggle [ https://www.kaggle.com/ ]. Kaggle is a well-known Machine Learning contest platform where you can compete with others in training ML models on various datasets. * Take up ML projects. This is the most important point. Ideally, you’d want to have not only ML experience but also some great projects on your resume that you can showcase. These projects will help you distinguish yourself from other candidates. After searching a lot for courses that teach ML through projects, I found the one by Eduonix [ https://goo.gl/fzLQ4D ] quite relevant. The best way to learn Machine Learning is to actually apply it to real datasets and solve real problems. Machine Learning is as much of an art as it is a science. You will learn it from experience. Your focus should be on attempting multiple ML projects so as to gain experience and build a strong profile. You may also want to read these answers: * Aman Goel's answer to Which are the best online courses for machine learning? [ https://www.quora.com/Which-are-the-best-online-courses-for-machine-learning/answer/Aman-Goel-9 ] * (ignore the title of the question. Focus on the answer) - Aman Goel's answer to How do I compete with the students studying in IITs while studying in a mediocre college? [ https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-compete-with-the-students-studying-in-IITs-while-studying-in-a-mediocre-college/answer/Aman-Goel-9 ]

I find the best way to effectively prep for an interview is to have answers to the below five questions. Having good answers to these questions will ensure that you have done your research adequately.1. "Walk me through your resume."Have a succinct answer to this (2-3 minutes). You can start with the "headline". e.g., "If you look at my experiences to date, you'll see that I'm very focused on building exciting, user-focused products in a scalable way."  Make sure your answer has some interesting stories.2. "Why do you want this job?"A good way to structure this answer is to answer in two parts. "So first let me talk about why I am passionate about [company] and then I'll explain why I think [role] is an ideal gig to set me up to make a massibecinrricutiom."Major point of advice:  Do NOT play too-cool-for-school. be passionate about the company. I've seen a lot of talented friends get dinged by not showing a sincere level of enthusiasm. Why is this so important to get right? First, it's flattering to the interviewer (who already works there). Second, it is absolutely going to be a check mark in the process. It doesn't matter if the company is pursuing you every step of the way, you need the interviewer to like you and most often the person interviewing you won't know all that context. 3. Why should we hire you?Once again, they won't ask you this, but helps you tell your story. With examples.One effective structure for an answer goes something like this: "From what I understand about the company and role, it seems you are looking for someone with x, y, z. If you look at my experience and interests, I think you'll find strengths in all three of these areas. For example..."4. Give me some example of when you have done [exactly the skill they are looking for] in the past.People are so skewed to wanting someone who has done this before. Like exactly this. It hugely decreases the time you'll need to get up to speed, and decreases the chance that you'll completely suck.Prepare 2 or 3 interesting stories about when you've demonstrated a similar  project in the past. Make sure they are interesting. People see past success as a huge indicator.5. How would you go about doing [thing you need to do]? Eg for a PM: tell me some product ideas? How would you change feature x?) (eg 2 for a Brand Marketer: "how would you write a creative brief?") (eg 3 for BD;: What's the most impactful BD we can do next year? How would you get it done?" 5. Do you have any questions for me?If you haven't already, get the interviewers background. Have two or three insightful questions about the company, which demonstrate why you are passionate about the place. Then end with one of these "what are you most proud of since you've started working here?", "where do you see this team/company in 5 years", or the best: "how would you describe the ideal candidate for this position?" (if they remotely like you they will describe you.)The Night Before Listen to 2-3 videos of the CEO talk about the company. You'll pick up verbiage unique to the company (for example- do they call the people who use their service users? Customers? Riders? Pinners?) which will make you seem like you speak their language. Subtle but powerful. How to Dress? Dress comfortable and when in doubt look at the executives on the about me page. Dress like that. Things to remember (before, after, and during the interview):- Be passionate about the company. This is so important. Resist the urge to be aloof and cool.- Be interested in the interviewer. - Be positive.- Be honest. (I've often asked candidates for BD: "I noticed you were CEO of [blank], but did you actually do deals?" "Yes, definitely." "So you drove the deal and signed if?" "Yes." "What's an indemnity?" "[stunned silence]"- Relax and have fun.- Be thankful for people's time.- Write thank you notes. I know, I hate those too. Most people don't care, but 1/10 is offended. Not worth it, just write it. That night or <23 hours.- Remember that all you can do is give it 100%. If you try as hard as you can and still don't get the offer, that's life.

A. Becoming a better writerWhat makes a writer great?How do you give yourself the space necessary to create?I am new to poetry and have been trying really hard to understand what constitutes a good poem. How do I become a good poet?How can a moderately good writer learn to write compelling prose?What's the difference between good writing and great writing?How can I help my 12-year-old son to dramatically improve his expository writing in the next two months?A.1. Writing adviceWhat is the best writing advice you have received?What should every aspiring writer know about writing?How do I learn to write long sentences that will not be subject to criticism?I work on English vocabulary every day, but I have found that I can't write sentences correctly. What should I do?I know everyone is a good writer, but how do I stand out?Is it possible for writers to write about an emotion authentically without ever experiencing it directly?What's the hardest part of writing fiction?How do I move beyond using overused physical descriptions in my writing?There are a lot of answers to questions on the line of 'how to start writing'. What should I write about? I am not an expert in any field, though I know a little of many.A.2. ResourcesWhat are some websites every writer should know about?How does someone increase their fluency in the English language?What are the best books to read for someone who wants to write a nonfiction book?What are the best blog posts? What blog posts make you think, laugh, or cry?A.3. Grammar training/tips/adviceIs it grammatically correct to start a sentence with 'And' or 'But'?What are the trickiest rules in English grammar pertaining to commonly used words?What are the must-know English grammar rules?Is it more correct to say 'you and me' or 'you and I'?What is the cultural impetus for ending text messages with a tilde ("~")?A.4. Augmenting and polishing your vocabularyWhat can I learn in the next ten minutes about English vocabulary which will always be helpful in my distant future?What is the most effective and efficient way to expand your vocabulary?What words can be used instead of awesome and cool?What are great underused words?What is the most beautiful word in the English language and why?How does someone increase their fluency in the English language?What are some common English words that every professional or student must know?What are some differences between the vocabularies of British English and Indian English?Which English words are most often mispronounced by non-native English speakers?What are some everyday things we do/practice that you never knew there were names for?What words or phrases drive people crazy?A.5. Overcoming the writer's blockWhat are the best ways to overcome writer's block?What should I do with all my half-finished stories and novel ideas?How can I deal with writer's block when I have so many ideas in my head, but no way to write them down? I don't feel confident enough to write and I suppose I am not literate enough in TV and film. How can I get more confident to write?Do writers ever run out ideas of what to write about? And what do they do to overcome this?B. Different types of writingB.1. Fiction WritingHow do you learn to write a novel? How do you get started? Is there a format or a set of rules and procedures to follow?How do you write a believable female character in a story?How do you start a story you’re writing? How do you structure your writing as a task?Writing: How do you name the characters in your books?Storytelling: How do you ensure characters in fictional writing have unique "voices" and don't all sound the same?How do you create your own universe for a fictional book or fictional book series? I'm on my second novel in a series, and I find myself constantly having to refer to my first novel, and find myself ultimately limiting an expansive world.What are the advantages of writing fiction in the present tense?When writing fiction, do you picture in your mind how the story would play out in a movie or television series, and does that curb your decisions while writing?B.2. Academic WritingWhat are some good tips and strategies for writing an academic paper?What are the signs of a well-written scientific paper?B.3. Creative writingB.3.1. Flash FictionWhat are some three line stories, where the story changes dramatically with each line?What is the best story that you can write in 140 characters (the maximum length of a Tweet)?What are some two-line stories where the story changes dramatically in the second line?What is the best short (less than 200 words) love story you can come up with?How do I learn the art of writing witty one-liners?What is the best story you can write in only one sentence?What is the shortest sad story you can come up with?What is the most intriguing original story you can write in just five words?What is the best 25 word story that you can come up with?What is your original, creative 26-word story, where each word begins with a different letter of the English alphabet? The words do not need to be in alphabetical sequence.B.4. Screenwriting*(*taken partially from Screenwriting FAQs)What is the best software for writing a movie script?How much longer will there be screenwriters?How much longer will screenwriters use Final Draft?What are the best resources for script writers on Internet?In movie credits, when there is more than one writer, how can I tell which writer did what?Which screenplays should aspiring screenwriters read?What screenplays were rewritten, in order to be a sequel to an existing franchise? For example, I heard that "Die Hard 2" was first written as an original film, but was then rewritten as a sequel to the first Die Hard.What are the essentials of a script?What is the difference between a good screenplay and great one?What advice would you give to someone pursuing a career as a screenwriter? My brother is exploring a career in screenwriting. What advice would you give him? What books and resources should he read? How should he go about breaking into the industry?On average, how long does it take to write a movie script?What is "naturalistic dialogue" in screenwriting?What did most screenwriters do or study before they became screenwriters?What are some basic tips for writing a screenplay for the first time?What's it like to watch a movie as an experienced screenwriter?How can Quora be used for writing a screenplay?What is the best theory of story structure for screenwriting, and why?In a movie or screenplay, what does it mean to “raise the stakes?”Who is the best screenwriter in the film industry?What's the process like for getting an agent as a screenwriter or TV writer? Whom do you contact? What will they expect from you? What determines whether you land an agent at a major firm vs. an independent agent?Why do studios rewrite scripts after buying them?What are some common mistakes that first-time screenwriters make?What is the most important tool in the screenwriter's toolkit?I've written my first screenplay! Now what?B.5. BloggingWhat is your best tip for content freshness in blogging?What tips & suggestions would experienced bloggers give to young bloggers?C. Book writing and publishingHow do you choose a hook to begin a story effectively?Is character development necessary for a piece of literature to be great?What's the best way to start writing a great short story?How do unknown authors achieve success with their first books?Would it be silly to blog short stories if I may want to publish them later to make money?C.1. Editing and miscWhat software do published authors use to write their books?How long does it take you to self-edit your novel?What's the best novel-writing competition for unpublished authors?How do I write a great one page synopsis that will sell my novel or screenplay?Is there a website that helps edit/improve writing?C.2. Publishing (before, during, and after)When is the best time to do a cover reveal for a new novel?How can a beginner in writing have a good book deal?How can a writer get their first book published?How do you self-publish a book on Amazon Kindle?How can a beginner in writing have a good book deal?Breaking in as a New Author or Novelist: How can amateur writers get the word out about their publishings?How do I get my book published?What is the best way to get a children's book published?Can someone provide a thorough case study of getting published as a first time author in India? Read details.D. MiscWhy is "literary fiction" thought of as better than popular fiction and is it really?Do you need to be a good reader in order to become a good writer?Why do writers (and people in general) romanticize the mundane when they recount their happenings in writing? Do they experience life more richly than me?Is it a no-no to end a sentence with the word "of"?Why do some writers get upset when people spell "you" as "u"? Both "you" and "u" serve the exact same purpose in language, except one is signNowly shorter and infinitely harder to misspell. Why doesn't everyone use "u"?E. Not questionsE.1. Blogs to followWords! Words! Words!Stringing Words TogetherWe Write Short Storiesa collection, a studyBlack HelicoptersE.2 Good blogposts33 Tips To Being A Better Writer (Plus One Key To Creativity I Forgot To Tell You About) by James Altucher on The Altucher ConfidentialA Writer's Journey by Jordan Phoenix on Uncommon Sense for 21st Century LivingMy Quora Q&A Lists: Best answers of 2014 | Best questions on Quora |Movies | Technology | Entrepreneurship | Books | Book Recommendations| Hinduism | Travel | Cooking | Google | MarketingI keep a running tracker of all such lists and resources in my post : 'Bookmarks' on Arbitrary Thoughts.

My blog is relatively young(ish). It was very frustrating at first, as I thought getting people to read it would be fairly easy - boy, was I wrong! So, I read and I read countless articles on how to drive traffic to my blog, and, honestly, I very rarely stumbled upon something actually helpful. Most of them just repeated each other, or only gave some very unadequate advice - nothing that can help you when you are just getting up to 10–20 pageviews a day. So, here I am still experimenting and finding my way. I am having some peaks here and there, with some days up to 2000 pageviews. Once I even had 10k for a day! But usually I range between 300 and 400/day. It’s probably minor for a lot of blogers out there, but for me so far it is progress.So what works the best for me so far?No doubt - Pinterest! Here’s what I learned so far:You need to be crazy patient with Pinterest - building a following there is an incredibly slow process - no matter how often you pin. But that’s fine. You don’t need a ton of folloers to create a viral pin or to have an extensive signNow. When I had about 250–60 followers, my signNow was over 1.6million - much bigger than what other people with thousands of followers have.Switch to a business account (it’s really easy) and activate rich pins for your website (there are tons of explanation out there how to do it).Create a bunch of boards with SEO-optimized titles (think: terms that people search for). Over time, keep creating more boards. Add description for each one of them. Most importantly - create a board with the name of your blog.Every time you create a pin for your new blog post - pin it on your blog board first. From there - pin on every other board that you find relevant.Join group boards. Usually, you can find directions how to join the board in its description. It’s not gonna work every time though, but don’t sweat it. Also, not all group boards are worth joining, even if they have thousands of followers, they could still have a very low repin rate.Pinterest is all about the visual appeal. You have to create very clean, beautiful, and capturing pins in order to get repined. Use only vertical pins. I use PicMonkey (paid version) and Canva (free) to create my pins and they work great. Always put the name of your website on your pins (like with small letters on the bottom of the pin for example).Pin like a madman/madwoman. Not just your stuff, but find popular, credible, and nicely looking pins that are relevant to your boards and pin them. They say that Pinterest likes team players - I guess there’s truth it that. But at the same rate - repin your own content. See what are your most visited hours and repin around those times. Repin on your own content on your own board. A.lot.There’s a lot more little details about Pinterest that you get to notice the more you use it. To be honest, I really only use it, because it’s such a great traffic provider. I actually don’t get the appeal of it at all and don’t understand why someone would waste their time on there…but hey, whatever brings me traffic..Of course, I also optimize my blog post for search engines. Thanks to that, I know get more and more visits coming from Google or other SEs.I believe that Instagram could be a big traffic booster as well but there’s a whole new algorithm to figure out and fight through and I am still not that far yet.So, in short, that’s my two ways of driving traffic to my baby blog - Pinterest and SEO.Hope that that helps someone.

Oh, there are a ton of ways. 1. Apply online and have a better resume than the supposedly 2,000,000 people who also applied. ( Cracking Into Google: 15 Reasons Why More Than 2 Million People Apply Each Year [ http://www.forbes.com/sites/stanphelps/2014/08/05/cracking-into-google-the-15-reasons-why-over-2-million-people-apply-each-year/ ] ) ( edit: that 2M figure is most likely all job applications not just internships ) 2. Go to a school that Google recruits from ( your best bet is Stanford, UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, ULA, MIT The Schools Where Apple, Google, and Facebook Get Their Recruits [ http://www.wired.com/2014/05/alumni-network-2/ ] ) 3. Go work at a company that Google hires a lot from. ( Google really likes Microsoft employees Charted: Where Google, Facebook, and Tesla like to poach from [ http://qz.com/342229/where-tech-companies-hire-from/ ]) 4. If your school has a Google Student Ambassador (GSA), apply for the program, get in, meet a recruiter, and ask for an interview. ( Google for Education: Student Ambassador Program [ https://www.google.com/edu/resources/programs/student-ambassador-program/ ] ) 5. Go to hackathons Google attends, and impress the googler on site enough to get a recommendation. ( Page on hackalist.org [ https://www.hackalist.org/ ] ) 6. Get an internal recommendation. ( A good trick here is to use Facebook graph search and query for "friends and friends of friends that work at Google". For the love of all things holy, please don't be a pest and just ask random people you don't know for recommendations ) 7. Have an awesome linkedin that gets you noticed. ( How to get noticed by recruiters on LinkedIn - Blog - Wysdom Consulting [ http://www.wysdomconsulting.com/blog/blog/how-to-get-noticed-by-recruiters-on-linkedin ] ) 8. Have a friend that gets contacted by a google recruiter and ask them to recommend you when the recruiter asks if they know anyone that would be a good fit to interview with Google. BONUS : This one is my personal favorite. 9. Realize you go to a school that Google doesn't recruit from, go to hackathons at other schools to try to meet a recruiter, realize your resume isn't good enough to grab their attention, build up your resume, realize you still can't get through the online filter, try to apply to be a GSA so you can meet a recruiter, find out you need a recommendation from a previous GSA, realize your school has never had a previous GSA, fly to pennsylvania to meet a GSA from another school ( shout out to Eden Shapiro [ https://www.quora.com/profile/Eden-Shapiro ]), convince them to recommend you, get recommended and finally apply, become a GSA, fly out to the Googleplex for training, meet a recruiter, tell the recruiter you have a upcoming offer deadline at their favorite competitor, ask for an interview, have an interview two days later, get internship. It's as easy as that!

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.

Use Google Location History to Find Where You Have Traveled!!(This is my recent travel on timeline) :)Google can track a lot of things. Your Timeline is a Google Maps tool that enables the users to track the places that they have visited on any given day. Your Timeline shows the routes that they took to signNow there, and the photos that they clicked on the way, which Google neatly stores away into Google Photos. The feature claims that Your Timeline is private and only you can see it. With the same technology Google tells you about the real time traffic information.You may not be aware of Your Timeline feature. Take it if you like to be tracked 24X7 or leave it if you do not want to be tracked. Maybe you are okay if you get tracked occasionally. The choice is yours! It is a known feature, we have read about it often but still not many people use it. Some are using it without being aware that they are using a feature that is tracking their every movement.Enable Location HistoryIf you have a Google account, you can use the Timeline feature on your Android mobile phone. Google tracks your location through Google Maps, which works on the Android phone and the web as well. Google also uses your search and browser information, GPS, Wi-Fi, cell towers and device sensors like gyroscopes and accelerometers to create your timeline. To access this feature, you must enable the Location History on computer or on your mobile phone.Thanks for reading hope it's helpful… :))