Note : This is a rant so you can skip it if want.

Or at least that what they make you believe with all their advertisement. First a disclaimer I have at times lied to my parents or at work while being late or hanging out with friends I have done that all. But I am uneasy with the fact that an organization bases a complete product and is spending millions of rupees to promote this unethical things,

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We covered Feline Frenzy by white rabbit few days ago, seems there are more startups than I had originally thought who are working on facebook   domain.

Web Sketchers a very young startup of Recently graduated Fast students have launched 3d Flash based game for Facebook named Fly By.

Ohh and I must take time to appreciate their website, its wonderful, flash based but really well thought out. I have liked a site (flash based) after a long time so do go over there too.

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If you have had an idea you wanted to test, seeing all mobile phone apps sprouting around you and thinking that you might have missed the bus, here is a chance for all of you.

Nokia is holding an Innovators Contest 2010, and best of all there only three countries get special allocation for generating local content. and Pakistan is one of them. So if you had a great idea you were itching to try out this is your chance and if you have an idea which caters to local needs it will get its own place. Top prize is a lucrative 1,000,000 and you can still be a winner in the global categories as well. So in it will be “Killing two birds with a stone” or in local language you can say “Aik teer sey do shikar ”. Make an application which caters to local needs and you have two chances to win one in the special Pakistan category and other in Global one. Deadline for submission is 18th May so that leaves you about 3 months, for trying out your idea, OVI Store is a newer playing field who knows if this click you get a head start and then there is no looking back. And even if you fail you can still go ahead and place your app in the OVI store so as i see it there is noting to lose and its never to late to have a fresh start.

Details are here for Pakistan

http://www.callingallinnovators.com/pakistan.aspx

And for Global Entries.

http://www.callingallinnovators.com/default.aspx

And if you do enter do let us know

This is the first post from Asim Shehzad, He is an undergraduate student of Electronics Engineering at Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, I welcome him into green and white and am excited that we have people in the community who can voice and present ideas on behalf of the student community. I am not editing on this post as this gives a great opportunity for the senior members of Green and White to analyze the beliefs and understanding of our Students hold their hand and guide them where their assumptions are in correct.

First develop business model from concept and then write your business plan. Before you model your business plan, first do brain storming, then develop financial model and embed this model in your business plan. Investors usually read financial ratios before they read body parts of business plan, so include investor analysis in your Business plan and executive summary. It is recommended to develop business model first, financial model second and business plan at end.

Second thing that Investors usually address are market risks. So we should accurately determine company’s strategic position in market and then write it in Business plan. If you fail to effectively communicate this part, Investors will not read other parts. This part is intensely scrutinized by VC firms.
Write your executive summary at end. Best sequence of paragraphs in executive summary is written below;

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Every once in a while we receive or get to review some thing which makes Green and White so much worth for the time and effort that we put in to keep this thing up and running.

Yesterday was another such day, I received this link to review a side project that Mr Ghulam Akbar had developed based on google tools and in his spare time. What this does I will quote from his blog here

Dynamic Language Tools lets you type Urdu, Hindi, Arabic, Farsi and many other languages on any web-page, plus it also converts any of the these roman languages words on any web page to the corresponding phonetic language words. With this tools you can type comments or write blogs in your native language. You can also convert any existing contents like poems, comments and stories on the web pages to the your language

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When i read looked through how rasta.pk solved the issue of finding out traffic congestions immediately in my mind I remembered the saying “focus on the solution instead of focusing on the problem”.

The problem was to identify sources of traffic congestions, providing blocked road info to any medium to road users, solution

“Get the traffic police personal deputed at signals to report congestions through sms”

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