Blake’s Code Studio

While scratching my head writing my business plan, reading a nitfy e-book, it recommended me this little tool which looks beautiful. The Cash Flow Calculator is a beautifully crafted interactive tool for entrepreneur and financial analyst alike. If you goto the domain at , there are lots of free business plans and resources to check out. I am pretty sure those information could be adapted for a Malaysia business plan.

It has been a long long time since I wake up at 7:30 in the morning. I watched Argentina VS Holland game on that night, so I manage to sleep for like 1 and the half hours? Luckily the workshop was informative and somewhat interesting, and I manage power nap during lunch. Malaysia is really trying to push ICT even today, I learnt about the various funding options and training available at the MDC headquarters.

I also met many people, some just started their business, some still working for their boss and one having a semester break for his 2nd year. There are around 15 of us attending this FREE workshop. Lunch and tea breaks provided!

One of the main lessons I learnt today is the CVP or Customer Value Proposition. Let me give you an example I learnt today.

*Candles*

Yes candles. It started out as an item for religous purpose and lighting. Their main market was churches, but now it is a billion dollar business with market in gift shops, department stores and etc… Well, cause now… the CVP for candles is “The candle light experience”. It is no longer use only for religous purpose or for emergency lighting purpose…. we use it for…. *the candle light experience*. Romantic candle light dinner, candles with aroma just to name a few.

So… now I have to figure out what will be my CVP….

The speaker also gave us an interesting look into big companies like HP, Sony, 3M and Virgin. I think I will continue this tmr… sleeping liao.

I have been getting free Revenue e-magazine for sometime from Zinio. Zinio will be and is the next best thing to a real magazine or book. Big publishers like Penthouse, Reader’s Digest are all using Zinio as their e-version of their publication. Open an account now and subscribe to their free business magazines. If you are into Internet Marketing and bounty hunting (which is really booming at the moment), you should really subscribe to Revenue.

The reader is really cool and user-friendly, I would say it is better than PDF reader. What I like most from this Zinio reader is the 1 click zoom in and out. For example, I view the magazine page by page, when I want to close in a particular section I just click on that section to zoom in…. then click again to zoom out. erm… what’s so innovative about that? Well, using PDF reader I have to do a couple of clicks to achieve the same thing and if I use the shortcut keys, I need *both hands*. =)

@_@ is that even possible? I was reading BBC News about a Top Microsoft Blogger who was about to resign. So I went to checkout his blog at . Yup he uses WordPress as well. From there, I saw this post about Amanda’s videoblog getting 300,000 visitors a day and getting paid like USD85,000 a week!!! And guess what? She just started it like 1.5 years ago! Btw, you will need QuickTime to view her videoblog. (she is probably getting paid by Apple to use QuickTime. hehehe).

wah…. USD85k wor…. if I could get RM85 a month from my blog I also laugh liao. <-- very Manglish =)

Are you someone who got a great idea? A dreamer… who wants to make your dream a reality? Well, one of the first step in realising your dream is to have a **business plan**. Alot of entrepreneur (including myself) is just too lazy or doesn’t know how to put those ideas into paper. The Technopreneur Development Division of MDEC will be having a FREE workshop on “Business Plan Development” and I will be there. =)

They will be providing the training on writing a sound business plan so you could get funding for your ideas. If you are lucky, maybe you will get a GRANT! The workshop will be held at Cyberjaya. If you stay around SS 2 PJ you can car pool with me.