How To Set Up eSign in Oracle

Register and pay on the Pearson VUE website using the following steps:Step 1. Go to www.pearsonvue.com/oracle/ (you will be directed here if you click the first option from Oracle Certification page). Click on “Schedule online” in “Schedule an exam” section.Step 2. Select "Sign In." Click on “proctored” in the “what type of exam you are planning to take” section. Select this exam as "Information Technology (IT)" ä "Oracle" ä "Proctored." Then you'll be asked to sign in. Step 3. Log in to your web account on the Pearson site. If you don’t have one, create one; you will get the user name and password by the e-mail you provide. When you log in first time, you need to change your password and set security questions and their answers. When you are done with this, you’re ready to schedule your exam.Step 4. Once logged in, you'll get the list of Oracle exams to select from. Select the following exam: · For example, 1Z0-809, Java SE 8Programmer II(aka OCPJP 8 exam)These exams are in English (You can choose another language if you wish and if it is available in the list). This page will also show you the cost of the exam. Click Next.Step 5. Now you need to select your test location. Choose Country, City, State/Province, and you'll be shown test locations close to you. Each center will have an icon for information: click it for the address and directions. Select up to four centers near your location and click Next.Step 6. Select a test center and select a date and time for appointments. The page will indicate the available dates and time slots; choose the one most convenient for you. If you have an exam voucher or Oracle University coupon or Oracle promotion code, enter it here. Step 7. Select from the available payment options (the usual way is to pay using your credit card) and pay your exam fees. Make sure that you have selected the right exam, appropriate test center, and date/time before paying the fees.Step 8. Done! You will get an appointment confirmation payment receipt by e-mail. You will find useful links, articles and presentations which helps you in preparing for  OCPJP 8 exam here http://ocpjava.wordpress.com

I’ve noticed that a lot of people have asked this question in various ways and, through research and experience, I’ve found out why.Quora API can find your profile details from your existing accounts like Google, Facebook and/or other places and automatically make you an account on Quora without you ever consenting to it or realizing it.When you finally ‘join’ Quora officially, you log in to an account that was probably made ages before you even actually joined.It is likely that you searched up something on a search engine that associated to Quora somehow and you logged in with one of your social media accounts, generally speaking, Facebook.Many of Quora’s website traffic is from people searching things on the internet and to find answers, looked in Quora.To disconnect social media accounts that have connected, you can go to Your profile picture > Settings from the drop down menu > Account from the side menu > and scroll down to see Connected Accounts. Disconnect all or some as desired and done! Those accounts now have no connection to Quora whatsoever.You can also completely delete your Quora account : Your profile picture > Settings > Privacy > Delete Account.

I am an Online Marketer and here I am going to describe all the genuine way to earn online, and also mention online frauds to aware students and people who sometimes struck in these type of frauds.——————WARNING——————If you finding some shortcuts to earn well in short-term of the period, then sorry to say, by this tricks you can earn definitely but all your earning is depends on your efforts.Url Shorteners-Go to Google and search - “URL Shortener Paid Sites”Register on the website after reviewing the websiteChoose a YouTube Video, Website Blog and copy the URL.Short your URL and Share in social media and WhatsApp groupYour income depends on how many clicks you get.Bonus- Go to adult websites and copy the link of the video ✈ Shortner your URL ✈ create a fake id on social media ✈ share the short-links on fake id, you definitely get good clicks.Instagram-Instagram is the most used application If you don’t have patient, you can’t earn from Instagram. If you can wait for 1 year and work hard you can earn a better income.Choose a Niche(Category) where you are interested in.Create an Instagram PageUpload 5–6 Posts Daily with #hashtagIt is very hard to get 1st 1000 followers on Instagram but doesn’t be patient less.Follow more people of your categoryApproach pages to Shoot for Shoot(S4S) where you both promote each other page by uploading stories or post.Comment 15–20 comment daily on same category pages.After getting 10k followers people approach you to the paid shootout.You can also post copied content sometimes, but trying to post unique content.Nich Ideas- Funny, Cricket, Hollywood, Dancing, TikTok videos, Jokes etc.YouTube-I don’t think so, I have to need to be described this topic, you are already very well familiar with “How to make money on YouTube”.Sell Photo Online✘- Hardest way to earn money online, but if you are good at photography you can try.If you are a professional graphic designer then you can try.Content Writing-If you are a little bit good at writing, you can easily earn from your home.How To Start-Profile creation of diffrentn site and mention about your skills.Write some articles and blog and post it on Article Submission sites. (As people show your recent work)Started Writing on QuoraPeople will automatically approach you for work.Profile creation sites- Naukri . com, LinkedIn, Fiver, FreelancerArticle Submission Sites- SooperArticles, LinkedIn, TumblerYou have to be some knowledge of website designing to make money online in this way(Start Learning from YouTube)Affiliate Marketing ProgramAdsenseCPA MarketingA fresher can’t earn by this method, its hard to earn from Adsense for newbies, but you can start to learn from YouTube and create free websites on Blogger, Wix Sites, WordPress etc.Other Online Business Ideas-Domain Name TradeGraphics Designing(High Demand)T-shirt Design businessOnline Frauds-Paid SurveyDouble Paytm CashCardingDownload ApplicationsImage Source- “Google”If you want to waste your time then you can try these shits.If you want to Earn first you to put “L” before “Earn” means you have to Learn.Edit- Many people are put their affiliate link in the comment section, don’t click on these link, all are affiliates link, although i deleted many of the comments.

There maybe a missing part in this question, but it is still good, so maybe i will give you a scenario then we work on then we add the descriptive flexfield(DFF).A flexfield is a field made up of sub-fields or segments. A Flexfield is a flexible data field that your organization can customize to your business without programming.There are two type of flexfields;Key Flexfield(KFF)Descriptive Flexfield(DFF)Here we are going to see more detail about Descriptive FlexfieldA DFF appears on your form as a two character-wide textfield with square brackets[] as it's prompt.Descriptive flexfield is used to track additional information,important and unique to your business that would not otherwise be captured by the form.When opened, both KFF and DFF appears as a pop-up window that contains a separate field and prompt each segment.Each segment has a name and a set of valid values. The values may also have value descriptions.A segment is a single sub-field within a flexfield. A segment is represented in your database as a single table column.Enabling Descriptive Flexfield in Oracle AppsNavigate to the screen in which you want to enable DFFHere, the snapshots given are for enabling DFF in the Service Request ScreenClick on square brackets[],No pop-up window will open which mean that DFF is not enabled in this screen.Once the window opens,Goto Help > Diagnostics > Examine >Enter the password.A window opens displaying the System Block (Nothing but Table Name).Copy the field in the system block and Navigate as belowApplication Developer Responsibility > Flexfield > Descriptive > RegisterDescriptive Flexfield window opens. Query the copied System Block by entering in the Name Field.Now, copy the Title and Navigate as belowSystem Administrator Responsibility > Application > Flexfield > Descriptive > SegmentsDescriptive Flexfield Segment window opensQuery using the copied Title in the Title fieldClick Segments > Segment Summary window opens > Enter the segment and column. if required, you can associate value sets for the segments.save the changes and come back to Descriptive Flexfield Segment window. Click on freeze Flexfield Defination check-boxCompile the changesNow Navigate to Service Request ScreenClick on the square brackets[].Now you can see a pop-up window which means that DFF is enabled in the Service Request Screen.

The old way of setting retainers was to estimate all the work required over a year, divide it by 12 so that you come up with a monthly fee, and then the client pays you and you do the work. I say "old" because agencies lost their collective shirts on that method, simply because the client dumped increasingly more stuff on the agency's plate.The better way of doing it is to think of it as a minimum monthly fee that includes a certain amount of hours. So each month the client gets a bill with three things on it: next month's minimum monthly fee, an overages for last month, and any out of pocket expenses (that have been approved in advance). In this system, hours do NOT rollover (like cell phone minutes) because time is not a renewable resource.There is only one good reason an agency would want a retainer: to know how much time to set aside. There is only one good reason a client would want a retainer: to have guaranteed access to a set amount of time.Keep in mind that retainers of all types are generally going away, primarily because when a relationship starts to go bad, it goes bad more quickly with a retainer, which become a lightning rod of entitlement.One good use of a retainer is a partial one to cover strategy. This encourages the client to call you up and ask strategic questions (involving you earlier in the process) without you having to search for a place to plug in the time.

Q: How do I log in my Gmail without using the phone number verification?A: You can’t.Google requires a phone number to prevent people from making spam accounts they only use to blast unwanted mail around the world. They limit the number of accounts you may associate with a single number.When an account is flagged as a spammer, it gets blacklisted; mail from it isn’t accepted as readily—or at all. The sender must create a new account or demonstrate over time that they are again sending only mail that people want.For a spammer this creates a lot of work.For the rest of us, that’s a good thing.Google makes money off of accounts that people use in the standard way—not accounts used for sending thousands of emails and never reading anything. It’s not so much that Google cares if you’re annoyed by spam, as much as they don’t make money when we stop using their mail system. Either way, their work against spam helps us little people.If you mean log into Gmail without needing a text confirmation, you can disable 2FA in your settings, but you really should keep it on.

I noticed some of the guys here mentioned blogging platforms like Wordpress, which weren't designed to be a shopping cart platform. I have actually tried to use Wordpress myself to open a webstore and found that it didn't have a lot of the features that I wanted for a store, and a lot of customization would have to go into building an e-commerce store through these blogging platforms that were meant to be... blogs.I have used Prestashop, which is a bit dated but works perfectly fine and they have a lot of free themes and works great.Magento is a very powerful e-commerce platform and you could do almost anything imaginable with it through the use of plugins and if you want to customize the hell out of it. I used Magento for 2 years, until I realized how resource-hungry this platform was. I'm unwilling to pay for dedicated web hosting to get this page down to good-enough loading speed, so I switched again!I looked into many of the paid shopping apps like Shopify and BigCommerce, etc... You just pay a monthly fee like $20/month and you have a drag/drop CMS store that's easy enough for an 8 year to use. You  just plug in your PayPal details in the backend, and you can accept payments. These sites are also hosted for you by the company you choose, which is pretty fast in my experience and I haven't had an issue yet. I went with BigCommerce, because even though it's one of those super easy to use style websites, you also get the option of customizing the codes and files in case you want to do that.

As you have said that your input data is scattered across many text files,I would like to mention that Hadoop is awfully slow for small files (less than 64 MB in size). This is because, for most map-reduce jobs, while creating map tasks, Hadoop breaks the file in 64 MB splits/chunks (by default) and each split/chunk is executed in parallel. But a split can not span more than one file. So even if the file is very small, it will create a map task for it. So, if you have too many numbers of very small files, you will end up having too many numbers of map tasks and map task execution overhead will exceed the advantage you get from parallelism. Not only that, too many small files also increase overall file system metadata size which puts pressure on HDFS NameNode and the NameNode becomes slow.There are multiple ways to get around this:As you have text files, you can run a pre-processing job to club them together in larger text files (I would suggest 128 MB or multiple of it. Depending on dfs.blocksize and mapred.min.split.size properties).Create a Hadoop Archive over the small files.Combine the small files into Hadoop SequenceFile.If you have a tar/tar.gz archives of the small files, you can convert a tar into a sequence file using the converter given here: Digital Digressions by Stuart SierraYou can write your map-reduce code such that it is aware of the underlying small files and creates splits that span over multiple files. For example you can use an input format derived from CombineFileInputFormat instead of FileInputFormat and use CombineFileSplit instead of FileSplit. But for this you need to change your map-reduce code.See also: The Small Files Problem

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.