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By Posted on Posted in Love No Comments

Love and in Love with are two different states of mind. It is important to know that love is totally different from in love with. Love is based on affection. You love your child. On the other hand you can be in love with a girl. There is a lot of difference between the two experiences.

Loving the child is based on affection. Falling in love with somebody is based on infatuation or physical appeal. This is the main difference between love and in love with. It is interesting to note that being in love with somebody is based on romance.

On the other hand to love somebody is not associated with romance but it is based on pure affection. Love is universal and would last long. In love with is not universal and may not last long. It may last till the desire gets fulfilled or romance gets completed.

When you love somebody it only means that you are affectionate about him or her. On the other hand if you fall in love with somebody it only means that you are passionately thinking about him or her. It also means that you have given your heart to him or her.

In love you need not give your heart to somebody. It runs on understanding. In love with does not run on understanding. On the other hand it runs merely on infatuation. The goal of in love with is to realize materialistic pleasure. The goal of love on the other hand is to realize spiritual pleasure. This is one of the main differences between love and in love with.

Love does not brake under any circumstance for that matter. On the other hand in love with has the tendency to break at times. Hence the two states of mind are different from each other.

Love is based on affection.
In love with is based on infatuation or physical appeal.

Source: http://krix.me/gFe4Vx

By Posted on Posted in Q&A, Quora, Venture capital No Comments

Why do people tend to think that VCs are arrogant?


J-David Chamboredon

Because a VC firm funds only a very tiny percentage of the projects it gets pitched by and because a large majority of projects having tried to raise money is not funded by any VC firm, the VC community which says “no” so often is naturally considered as arrogant.

Post-investment, some VCs are actually arrogant and some aren’t at all but this assessment is reserved to the funded guys and concerns only the individual VC backers they have convinced to get on board !

I often compare the post-investment role of a VC to a professional golf caddy. No particular reason to be arrogant in this supporting role but some good reasons not to accept to be the caddie of a guy who has no chance to win ever any big competition !

Eric Wiesen

Truthfully, I think VCs have this reputation as a group because it’s unfortunately true in a number of cases. There are a lot of VCs that mistake their role as a buyer in the equity market for startups with superior judgment or knowledge. A good VC recognizes that just because s/he is constantly on the receiving end of pitches it doesn’t mean that the VC actually knows more than the entrepreneurs on the other side of the table. Quite the contrary.

And that’s the fundamental tension of the VC business – it is literally the job to exercise judgment about which companies one thinks will make good investments, but at the same time it is usually true that we have the last specific knowledge about a particular business. Thus an intellectually curious humility is the only way to do the job properly. This is part of why being a (good) VC is harder than it looks.

Shafqat Islam

When we raised our last round of financing, we met and spoke to more than 20 investors – VCs, seed funds, and so-called super angels. I can honestly say that I did not find a single one to be arrogant. I went into the process with a lot of misconceptions and was also under the impression that many VCs are arrogant. However, reality was very different from perception, so I’d encourage entrepreneurs to go in without these preconceived ideas and base opions on their actual experience. In our case, we found every single investor to be respectful, intelligent (to varying degrees) and willing to help and learn about our business.

Dion Lisle

VCs are in a rarified position to play God with entrepreneur’s ideas and their companies. This is a very personal interaction to the entrepreneur and a business deal to the VC. The proverbial telling someone their baby is ugly.

This disconnect can cause VCs to seem arrogant when in reality they are being dispassionately realistic. Remember they owe their LPs a certain return and no matter how much they love an entrepreneur or an idea, they ultimately owe their LP’s good business analysis.

I would add the VCs i have interacted with have all been pretty good to great. The image of an arrogant VC tearing apart an entrepreneur’s idea is something I have heard of and never seen.

By Posted on Posted in Actress No Comments Tagged with , ,

Molly Sims (born May 25, 1973) is an American model and actress. Sims is best known for her appearances in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issues and her role as Delinda Deline in the NBC drama Las Vegas. She is also an ambassador for Operation Smile.

Sims was born in Mayfield, Kentucky, the daughter of Dottie and Jim Sims. She was raised in Murray and enrolled in Vanderbilt University for two years, but dropped out in 1993 to pursue a career in modeling. While at Vanderbilt, she was a member of Delta Delta Delta.

Sims is a supporter of “Friends of El Faro”, a grassroots non-profit that helps raise money for Casa Hogar Sion, an orphanage in Tijuana, Mexico. She has hosted the organization’s last two fundraisers and visits the orphanage regularly.

Official website MollySims.com

By Posted on Posted in Email No Comments

A nice article written by Boris on TheNextWeb website about reaching to InboxZero.
You can read the full article here also another article about cleaning your inbox.

But i like the last filter of his 1st article: If reply = ‘thanks!’

I know it is very polite to say thanks when I answer your question offline and face to face. But in email, when you ask me a question, I answer it and you are happy with it, there really is no need to send an email with nothing but “Thanks!” in it. Want to thank me? Keep my inbox clean. Really NEED to thank me? Send me a bottle of champagne or some flowers.

Also an email related hilarious illustration from The Oatmeal


By Posted on Posted in Business, Q&A, Quora No Comments

Is it ethical to share the same idea/concept or business plan with 2 VCs at the same time? And Why not?

Jon Pincus

Yes, in fact this is standard behavior. This is very much in the entrpreneur’s interest: you want to get multiple investors interested to give them incentive to put term sheets on the table — and ideally to compete on valuation or terms. A couple of caveats: you don’t want to shop an idea too broadly; and if you’re going for ‘top-tier’ VCs, it’s potentially counterproductive to be actively engaging with the weaker VCs.

Barry Hurd

Yes, it is ethical to share the same idea/concept with multiple VCs.

As an entrepreneur looking for investment, you are responsible for reaching out to as many relevant and qualified investors to earn that investment.

In many cases VCs will talk shop with other investors and see if they have relationships with other investors in the category. If they don’t have those relationships, the VC will be a hard negotiator as they act under the idea of being the “only player at the table”

You also have to do a little dating. If you are just looking for cash, you are doomed to a bad match. An entrepreneur needs to date multiple VCs and look for budget, good terms, culture, industry experience, and relationship network.

During the due-diligence phase on the entrepreneur side, check out some of the less known companies in the VCs roster. You may get star-struck by some brand name that is at the top of the list, but the unknown start-ups on the VC portfolio are going to tell you what they got, what worked, and what didn’t. This is where you can start disproving the empty promises some VCs are known for.

By Posted on Posted in Retail, Retail Distribution, Romania No Comments Tagged with

Despite the constantly rising number of stores in Romania, Carrefour, the largest hypermarket operator in the country, did not succeed in increasing its revenues over the last two years. The company earned €1.13bn in 2010, a 0.4% reduction in comparison with the previous year and 5% less than 2008, its record year in Romania in terms of sales. With 15 stores more in 2010 than in 2008, representing an investment of about €60m between them.

Carrefour did not succeed in matching its 2008 sales level during 2010.

In 2010, Carrefour opened 10 supermarkets and one hypermarket, the latter in the city of Drobeta-Turnu Severin, in south-western Romania. On the other hand, the company closed three supermarkets in the country in 2010, one each in Hunedoara, Baia Mare and Turda, as part of its strategy of optimising its operations. Carrefour had 55 stores on the Romanian market at the end of 2010, of which 23 were hypermarkets and 32 supermarkets.

In 2011, the company plans to open two hypermarkets in Romania, one in the Botosani Shopping Center in Botosani and another in the Colosseum shopping centre in Bucharest. The latter is due to open in 2011.
The average amount invested in a Carrefour supermarket is €1.5m and that in a hypermarket €20m, according to Ziarul Financiar estimates.

Source: ceeretail.com

By Posted on Posted in Q&A, Quora No Comments


I am starting a series of postings called Quora Q&A where i will be showing questions from my Quora account and the answers I receive from other users.

Answers will be updated periodically and reposted whenever they occur.

By Posted on Posted in Politics, Social Media No Comments

Usually I avoid having any political postings on my blog, as i also avoid being trapped into any political conversations in Lebanon, because of the complexity of the issue, in a country said to be democratic where politics are automatically turned into sectarian fights.

But this post is about something i was reading a lot about lately and it is called “Social Media Revolution”, I am not the right person to analyze politics but in my opinion, I strongly believe that there is nothing as such.

It all started in Iran in 2009 during the election, where Twitter was used heavily by the supporters of opposition candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi. But social media did not change the global view of the situation, Twitter was just a communication tool, nothing more than having up to the minute news with a special hashtag dedicated to the occasion.

Social media tools are free, fast to use, can spread the word in real time and much faster than classical media and hard for the local authorities to block it easily. But also the vast body of information that circulates on social media websites is chaotic, subjective and totally unverifiable and it makes almost impossible to authenticate the sources.

Definitely the opposition in Iran made their point, but it was over before they even realized that social media did not help much and the political scene went back to what it used to be and the regime is still the same.

Then 2 weeks ago came the Tunisia story called the Jasmine Revolution which definitely spread fear in the hearts of other Arab dictators and Tunisian president Zein El Abidine Ben Ali left the country.
Many thought that this is another Twitter revolution taking place, I am really sorry to say whomever is thinking so, that you are wrong. Those who do not believe that the Tunisian president left the country based on a prepared plan are all wrong, people who think that demonstrations pushed Ben Ali to run away are unfortunately heavily wrong.

Again Twitter, Facebook and other social media tools, where just there to help people know what is going on and what to do, but these tools were never part of the real plan of Ben Ali.

And 2 days ago, Egypt arrived to the list of revolutions, where Egyptians are trying hard to change their economical situation and have a better life, but again their are fighting against a totalitarian regime where change needs a big determination and time but surely not social media.

For the last 2 days, no one could make sure if Twitter was blocked or not, until Twitter itself declared the news from their servers, some said it is blocked, others said it is accessible from Blackberry phones, some had access from proxy breaking sites and so on, it was a chaos because of the “no” control of the information flow.

Unfortunately, such regimes cannot be broken with social media tools, these regimes are so afraid of their people that they spend millions and billions of dollars not to help their citizens but to protect their dictatorships.

There is a funny story about the Egyptian president but it is almost impossible to make sure if it really happened or not, but knowing those regime, i don’t doubt.
So one of his advisers tells him: Mr. President, people are hungry. And the answer comes: if they are sated, they will start thinking.

By Posted on Posted in Armenia No Comments Tagged with , , ,

Mount Ararat is Armenian and belongs to Armenia, there is not doubt about it.
Why am I raising this issue now? First because i always wanted to do this, second because of something i saw online few days ago, pushed me to write this post.

I will not go into the details of the Armenian-Turkish historical conflict, because most of you, are aware of it and for those who are not, Google can tell you a lot about it.
I was raised in an Armenian family, where i do remember from day 1 about that Mount Ararat is a symbol for all Armenians that marks the pride of the land of our ancestors.

But seeing online that people are visiting and climbing it then having a certificate saying that they have successfully reached the summit of Mount Ararat at 5137 meters, the highest mountain of Turkey, this is really a shame for Turkey who violated and is still violating Armenian lands for centuries now.

I am not sure what I can do on the personal level about it, therefore all comments and ideas are welcomed.

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