Another Afro on the Net

J. Hustle from the Chub City - bigga afro! It's actualy a character toy from Jada Toys. But an afro is an afro! A toy or not, 'should give afro some respects :D

30 Under 30: America's Coolest Young Entrepreneurs

Another list of sicko entrepreneurs - this time, the top 30 entrereneurs under the age of 30. Here is the top 3 of the list:

Sicko #1. Ben Kaufman "The innovator" - Innovate lines of iPod accessories, as well as allowing customers to design them. 2006 sales: USD 1 million. *gasp* *choked* And, oh, he is just 20 years-old. *retch*

Sicko #2. Sean Belnick "The Chair Man of the Board" - At 14, he took USD 500 an start selling office chairs online. Today, at 20, he runs a USD 24 million furniture biz (bizChairs.com) whose customers include Microsoft, Google, and the Pentagon. *aargh* *blabber* *hic*

Sicko #3. Bo Menkiti "The Home Maker" - In my opinion, the most noble of all. He develops homes for teachers, firefighters, and other first-time buyers in the neglected middle market of Corporate America. Age: 30. 2006 sales: USD 640 million. *cough* *wheeze*

My favourite? the sicko #2, 20 y.o. Sean Belnick. I mean, selling chairs to the Pentagon? This guy must be the MIB of biz chairs world! Congrats to you, Sean! You really makes me re-think about opening an online biz here in Indonesia. With Indonesia's very low Internet penetration, should I have a Rp. 100 million (around USD 10.000) online biz would make me as good as you, Sean! (is it possible? hmm...)

Afro Artwork

Great artwork by Vincent Fraser... Give afro sylez some love, y'all!

i-tutor.net: Better Education For All

I've come across a franchise (license, I think), than run rampant in ASEAN countries, particularly Indonesia. Why run rampant? This fact: 500 licensees in 1,5 years - in Indonesia alone. But it's only happen in Indonesia. Others seems 'normal'... Indonesia's i-tutor.net is so 'un-normal' that investors from other countries buy the license from i-tutor.net Country Rep. in Indonesia! sicko!

The reason is that Mr. Sofian, the i-tutor.net Indonesia Country Rep. re-develop i-tutor.net original system, in such a way that it accomodates Indonesia's limited Internet access. For info, i-tutor.net original system is for students to access study materials through the Internet. In Indonesia, i-tutor.net uses offline software that looks and feels like the online version. Genius!

From educational perspective, i-tutor.net introduce cinema edutainment concept - students learn in an environment that uses audio-visual learning system through a 'movie' projected to screens - just like watching movie in cinemas. In this way, students learn 5 times more effective than conventional learning methods (proven) in an intergrated environment that promotes affective, cognitive, psycho-motoric, and EQ of the students. Moreover, i-tutor.net is relatively low in tuition fee - great value for money, considering the i-tutor.net education is endorsed by e-ASEAN Initiatives, developed by 60 professors (including 10 child psychologists), and developed according to Singapore curriculum standard.

From biz perspective, i-tutor.net is, perhaps, only one of few franchise (license) that offer investment model - with license value that tends to grow, with license term that is for a life-time and transferable (this will end soon, so join i-tutor.net now!), and with multiple source of income - not only from the increased value of the license and from the operating profit of the courses, but also from sponsorship program - through referring new licensees, promoting i-tutor.net system to education institutions and local gov't office, and through becoming a distributor - managing licensees and retaining a percentage of the managed licensees license fee, royalty fee, and merchadise sales. Sounds like a networking system? It IS a networking system, but not a pyramid system (not all can become a distributor - distributorship is only assigned to one entity per region) - so it's legit.

Interested? Please contact me for more information. Cheers!