Digital Jewelry

October 15, 2013 by ·
Digital Jewelry

Digital Jewelry

This product was invented by an international violinist who has performed for multiple famous personalities including the president of Israel. He has contributed to causes like the earthquake relief in China in May 2008, and the Tsunami relief in Japan in March 2011, and that’s what got me so interested in working with this product. I love when people don’t just store up their money, but they give some of it away regularly.

Product Features: USB 2.0 w 8GB storage Dimensions: 4.7cm x 2.1cm x 0.6cm Material: aluminum + plated gold Usability: bracelet Packaging: soft pouch

It’s meant to be a beautiful jewel you wear around your wrist or neck, that’s also musical and digital storage.

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Social QR Tags for Networking

September 12, 2013 by ·

Okay, so you meet a group of people at an important meeting, and you want to gather their personal information (phone, e-mail, Facebook,  LinkedIn, etc.) quickly and accurately. What if each person had their own personal/customizable QR tag that you could scan with your phone?

What’s a QR Tag? You have seen them! Those curious little square barcodes seem to be everywhere now, including on transit advertisements.

But why shouldn’t a QR barcode be a tool that everyone can use? Well, now it is! The creators goal is to create the first QR code that is fun, flashy, and wearable. Wear it around your neck, or put it on your keys and keep your professional or personal info close, secure, but accessible with the touch of a button.

The goal for this project is to launch the first pieces of the wearable QR tags — a staple piece that can be worn around the neck or on your keys. It is has a 100% surgical silicon base, with slick designs and a durable epoxy layer so your QR code never fades or scratches. The owner wanted to raise $4,000 to launch the project, but raised only $1,000 from backers.

Asif Zamir

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The World’s Smallest and Simplest Activity Tracker

August 20, 2013 by ·

San Francisco, California
Wearables

This is an elegantly designed, 100% waterproof, smart activity tracker with new LED light syncing technology. It improves lifestyle through a non-intrusive way. “Wear-ability” is the utmost goal.

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Paper-Mache Project in Haiti

August 10, 2013 by ·
Haiti can be healed

Haiti can be healed

Port-au-Prince, Haiti is a very poor place, and as a result, there is no developed banking or venture capital marketplace for small business or new business owners (not that Canada is much different LOL). This new entrepreneur designs and creates beautiful paper-mache sculptures using mostly recycled materials. The project’s goal was to raise $9,000 USD, and actually raised slightly more from several different investors! Yay! (Yes I was one of them).

The money was used to pay for initial inventory and freight shipping from Port-au-Prince to Albuquerque, NM where the items could be sold at a higher price (the marketplace in Haiti is non-existent).

In total, around 20 artisans are employed including, family, friends, and local youth.
Creating sustainable work is one of the most effective ways to help the Haitian people as they rebuild and recover.

Paper-mache is one of the oldest traditional arts in Haiti. The response to the products have been very positive. Buyers are asking for more, and in a few years from now, I’d be glad to see this project expand. (And yes, the people in Haiti are receiving fair wages for their work).

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Great entrepreneur, great invention, great results

July 2, 2013 by ·

So this project needed to raise about $4,000 but raised $8,000+ instead. This happens VERY often, especially when

1.) the entrepreneur / inventor is a great person and not a dope smoker
2.) the idea is loved by the investors in the room
3.) the project / business is undervalued

I can’t give complete details because I don’t have permission to do so in this post, but the project involved a selling an intuitive graphical programming environment for physical computing devices and educational robots. (I know, it’s a niche product but has a big market).

One of the inventors main goals was to bring this platform to primary schools, kids and beginners which is something brand new, you usually wouldn’t see this kind of thing until you got into college. – Asif Zamir

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9 meetings a day. Living off of protein shakes to save time.

June 9, 2013 by ·

Are you working to gain money, or to gain time? Are you investing your money to gain more money or to gain more time? Are you investing your time to gain more time or more money?

Today I got to sit and chat with some of my clients who are simply rich. But they don’t have time for anything. No time for their family, no time for themselves. They barely have time to look up at me from their smart-phones. Talking to me, and typing a text. Taking a phone call, while I’m sitting there smiling.

It’s not just the rich, it’s almost everyone. Everyone, even bums seem to be too busy. I myself am drinking protein shakes instead of eating food, to save time so I can squish in more meetings. But what’s the positive result of that? Nothing. – Asif Zamir

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Homework never ends (for successful people)

May 3, 2013 by ·

If you want to do really well, read books. Don’t start with online articles, don’t start with podcasts, don’t start with seminars or classes. Start with books. Go to your local library and read at least 10 books on a subject.

Business, investing, real estate, the film industry, the book industry.

When I was in high school I thought “one day I won’t have homework anymore.” Actually that’s not true. The homework never ends. There is always more room for improvement, for learning new skills, for acquiring knowledge. But more importantly than that, is this – why should you have to do things “hit or miss” style when you can learn from someone who already succeeded?

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Think

April 9, 2013 by ·

There are these 2 restaurants almost side by side in the same plaza. I don’t know how that happened, usually landlords of commercial real estate don’t allow that to happen for obvious reasons.

They both have the same theme, same food. Two different atmospheres though, one is a grungy dark bar type style and the other is a bright family friendly style.

One has no clear hours posted, and is usually out of food (the chef is usually at the bar). The other has hours and website clearly posted, menu clearly posted and (expensive) prices clearly posted.

Of course the second one, the family friendly one with great customer service is doing very well, they can barely keep up, and the business is expanding. The first one that never seems to have FOOD to sell…they aren’t doing so well.

There are plenty of customers on planet earth…what 7 billion? So please spend some time thinking about your business and what you can do to make it better. – Asif Zamir

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Dragon’s Den and Shark Tank

March 12, 2013 by ·

Since around 1998 I’ve watched a smart engineer in Santa Rosa California make millions of dollars in profit every year, and then spend it all foolishly. He can build just about anything mechanical, get it manufactured, sell tens of thousands of them at a high profit.

But he can’t manage the money or the business end of things, and so whatever he makes he loses or mismanages. I’m talking about millions of dollars every year for over 10 years. He’s not better off today than he was 10 years ago.

This is the story of most business owners. Just because you are a great baker doesn’t mean you can own your own bakery, just because you are an amazing handyman doesn’t mean you can run your own real estate business.

There are two fantastic business reality shows – Dragon’s Den and Shark Tank. If you are a business owner you need to watch every episode. There are business owners who pitch great products but they can’t be trusted to execute the business plan because they suck at business, and there are others with great business skills and poor products – the people who have good business skills and poor products usually do better than the person who has a great product and poor business skills.

Ideally you’ll have both a great product and good business skills.

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You Didn’t Break Up With Me

February 8, 2013 by ·

Los Angeles, California
Film & Video

This fun film project is about a comedy show where a man gets dumped by a woman but wakes up the next morning with her beside him and she acts as good as rain. She doesn’t let on like anything is wrong and decides she wants to marry him, talk about confusing and mixed signals. This funny comedy sounds like it should definitely be seen and heard and I hope it will be a great success.

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