Tuesday, April 27, 2010

100 Modern Day Geniuses

Interesting List with some heavy hitters. Some might find Osama Bin Ladens appearance on the list a little controversial, but with people like Paul McCartney, Prince, Quentin Tarantino, Rick Rubin, George Lucas, Matt Groening, Bill Gates, you find something for everyone.


1=
Albert Hoffman
(Swiss)
Chemist
27
1=
Tim Berners-Lee
(British)
Computer Scientist
27
3
George Soros
(American)
Investor & Philanthropist
25
4
Matt Groening
(American)
Satirist & Animator
24
5=
Nelson Mandela
(South African)
Politician & Diplomat
23
5=
Frederick Sanger
(British)
Chemist
23
7=
Dario Fo
(Italian)
Writer & Dramatist
22
7=
Steven Hawking
(British)
Physicist
22
9=
Oscar Niemeyer
(Brazilian)
Architect
21
9=
Philip Glass
(American)
Composer
21
9=
Grigory Perelman
(Russian)
Mathematician
21
12=
Andrew Wiles
(British)
Mathematician
20
12=
Li Hongzhi
(Chinese)
Spiritual Leader
20
12=
Ali Javan
(Iranian)
Engineer
20
15=
Brian Eno
(British)
Composer
19
15=
Damian Hirst
(British)
Artist
19
15=
Daniel Tammet
(British)
Savant & Linguist
19
18
Nicholson Baker
(American
Writer
18
19
Daniel Barenboim
(N/A)
Musician
17
20=
Robert Crumb
(American)
Artist
16
20=
Richard Dawkins
(British)
Biologist and philosopher
16
20=
Larry Page & Sergey Brin
(American)
Publishers
16
20=
Rupert Murdoch
(American)
Publisher
16
20=
Geoffrey Hill
(British)
Poet
16
25
Garry Kasparov
(Russian)
Chess Player
15
26=
The Dalai Lama
(Tibetan)
Spiritual Leader
14
26=
Steven Spielberg
(American)
Film maker
14
26=
Hiroshi Ishiguro
(Japanese)
Roboticist
14
26=
Robert Edwards
(British)
Pioneer of IVF treatment
14
26=
Seamus Heaney
(Irish)
Poet
14
31
Harold Pinter
(British)
Writer & Dramatist
13
32=
Flossie Wong-Staal
(Chinese)
Bio-technologist
12
32=
Bobby Fischer
(American)
Chess Player
12
32=
Prince
(American)
Musician
12
32=
Henrik Gorecki
(Polish)
Composer
12
32=
Avram Noam Chomski
(American)
Philosopher & linguist
12
32=
Sebastian Thrun
(German)
Probabilistic roboticist
12
32=
Nima Arkani Hamed
(Canadian)
Physicist
12
32=
Margaret Turnbull
(American)
Astrobiologist
12
40=
Elaine Pagels
(American)
Historian
11
40=
Enrique Ostrea
(Philippino)
Pediatrics & neonatology
11
40=
Gary Becker
(American)
Economist
11
43=
Mohammed Ali
(American)
Boxer
10
43=
Osama Bin Laden
(Saudi)
Islamicist
10
43=
Bill Gates
(American)
Businessman
10
43=
Philip Roth
(American)
Writer
10
43=
James West
(American)
Invented the foil electrical microphone
10
43=
Tuan Vo-Dinh
(Vietnamese)
Bio-Medical Scientist
10
49=
Brian Wilson
(American)
Musician
9
49=
Stevie Wonder
(American)
Singer songwriter
9
49=
Vint Cerf
(American)
Computer scientist
9
49=
Henry Kissinger
(American)
Diplomat and politician
9
49=
Richard Branson
(British)
Publicist
9
49=
Pardis Sabeti
(Iranian)
Biological anthropologist
9
49=
Jon de Mol
(Dutch)
Television producer
9
49=
Meryl Streep
(American)
Actress
9
49=
Margaret Attwood
(Canadian)
Writer
9
58=
Placido Domingo
(Spanish)
Singer
8
58=
John Lasseter
(American)
Digital Animator
8
58=
Shunpei Yamazaki
(Japanese)
Computer scientist & physicist
8
58=
Jane Goodall
(British)
Ethologist & Anthropologist
8
58=
Kirti Narayan Chaudhuri
(Indian)
Historian
8
58=
John Goto
(British)
Photographer
8
58=
Paul McCartney
(British)
Musician
8
58=
Stephen King
(American)
Writer
8
58=
Leonard Cohen
(Canadian)
Poet & musician
8
67=
Aretha Franklin
(American)
Musician
7
67=
David Bowie
(British)
Musician
7
67=
Emily Oster
(American)
Economist
7
67=
Steve Wozniak
(American)
Engineer and co-founder of Apple Computers
7
67=
Martin Cooper
(American)
Inventor of the cell phone
7
72=
George Lucas
(American)
Film maker
6
72=
Niles Rogers
(American)
Musician
6
72=
Hans Zimmer
(German)
Composer
6
72=
John Williams
(American)
Composer
6
72=
Annette Baier
(New Zealander)
Philosopher
6
72=
Dorothy Rowe
(British)
Psychologist
6
72=
Ivan Marchuk
(Ukrainian)
Artist & sculptor
6
72=
Robin Escovado
(American)
Composer
6
72=
Mark Dean
(American)
Inventor & computer scientist
6
72=
Rick Rubin
(American)
Musician & producer
6
72=
Stan Lee
(American)
Publisher
6
83=
David Warren
(Australian)
Engineer
5
83=
Jon Fosse
(Norwegian)
Writer & dramatist
83=
Gjertrud Schnackenberg
(American)
Poet
5
83=
Graham Linehan
(Irish)
Writer & dramatist
5
83=
JK Rowling
(British)
Writer
5
83=
Ken Russell
(British)
Film maker
5
83=
Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov
(Russian)
Small arms designer
5
83=
Erich Jarvis
(American)
Neurobiologist
5
91=.
Chad Varah
(British)
Founder of Samaritans
4
91=
Nicolas Hayek
(Swiss)
Businessman and founder of Swatch
4
91=
Alastair Hannay
(British)
Philosopher
4
94=
Patricia Bath
(American)
Ophthalmologist
94=
Thomas A. Jackson
(American)
Aerospace engineer
3
94=
Dolly Parton
(American)
Singer
3
94=
Morissey
(British)
Singer
3
94=
Michael Eavis
(British)
Organiser of Glastonbury
3
94=
Ranulph Fiennes
(British)
Adventurer
3
100=.
Quentin Tarantino
(American)
Filmmaker
2

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

One

Full Crate & Mar - I Said

Full Crate & Mar - I Said from Nalden on Vimeo.



from the EP 'Conversations with Her'

itunes.apple.com/nl/album/conversations-with-her-ep/id342744300

Directed by Eric3000 & Marque
Camera by Patrick Ebu-Mordi
Edited by Jin Angdoo Lee
Visuals by Reilly Donovan
Production by William P. Woodcole

Sunday, February 14, 2010

53 Ways to Become a Better Entrepreneur

by Neil Patel

Here are 53 things to keep in mind if you want to be a better entrepreneur:

1. Don’t let emotions cloud your decisions.
2. Accept criticism, no matter who gives it to you.
3. Never stop networking.
4. Learn from your own mistakes.
5. Learn from other people’s mistakes.
6. Around every corner lies an opportunity for you to sell something.
7. Don’t get too greedy… pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered.
8. Try not to mix your family life with your business life.
9. No matter how successful you are, you shouldn’t stop learning.
10. Spending money on good lawyers and accountants will save you more money in the long run.
11. Don’t pick a stupid company name and if you do, don’t change it later on.
12. Hiring employees won’t solve most of your problems.
13. Be agile because slow and steady won’t win the race.
14. Being agile isn’t enough, you also have to be scrappy too.
15. Having a good business partner will be a key factor in your success.
16. Don’t be afraid of the unknown.
17. It is easier to save money than it is to make it.
18. You don’t always have to innovate; there is nothing wrong with copying.
19. Have a marketing plan.
20. Don’t under estimate your competition; you can’t always know what they are doing.
21. Watching movies like Boiler Room, will teach you how to sell.
22. If you don’t have a business mentor, you better get one.
23. Your income will be the average of your 5 closest friends, so pick them wisely.
24. Diversifying is a good way to play things safe.
25. It doesn’t matter what you want, it only matters what your customers want.
26. When others are fearful, you should be greedy. And when they are greedy you should be fearful.
27. You don’t always have to pay for advice. You’ll be amazed with the free advice you can get pick up from the web.
28. The best chances you have of becoming rich is through your willingness of working hard.
29. Even the most idiotic business idea can make money.
30. Sex sells and it always will.
31. An easy way to make more money is to up sell to your current customer base.
32. Base your business decisions around metrics.
33. There is no such thing as a safe bet.
34. You don’t have to start a business to be successful.
35. Raising venture capital is harder than being struck by lightening.
36. Staying under the radar isn’t always a bad thing. Being out in the open is a great way to attract more competitors.
37. Learn to be a team player.
38. If you ever get screwed over, think twice before you burn the bridge.
39. Learn to manage both your personal and business money.
40. Live in a location filled with entrepreneurs.
41. If you don’t take any risks, there will not be any rewards.
42. Don’t let anything stand in your way.
43. Sometimes you have to wait for good deals to come to you.
44. The smartest route isn’t always the easiest route.
45. Being too aggressive can backfire.
46. With networking, it isn’t about whom you know, it is about whom your network knows.
47. It’s never a bad thing to know too many rich people. Whether you like them or not, they can always come in handy. So make sure you always play nice with them.
48. Use your email signature to promote your business.
49. Don’t be afraid of social media. It is a great channel for customer acquisition.
50. You’ll learn more from starting your own business, than going to business school.
51. Having a personal blog doesn’t only help build your personal brand, but it helps your business as well.
52. Your competitors don’t have to be your enemies, you can learn a lot from them.
53. You can grow your business by working for free.