Saturday, March 1, 2008
Tiger Woods
Chances are unless youre living under a rock, youve heard the name Tiger Woods a time or two. As the most famous golfer in the world, Tiger Woods is one of the most recognizable names today. If youre looking to learn a little more about him, this article will help. A brief overview of this accomplished man will put you in the know.
Eldrick Tiger Woods was born December 30, 1975 in Cypress California. He is the only child of Earl and Kultida Woods. The late Earl Woods was of African American, Chinese and Native American decent. Kultida Woods is of Thai and Chinese descent. This wide variety of national heritage has made Tiger Woods an inspiration to fans of all races.
Tiger Woods began playing golf when we was only two years old. He appeared on television and was featured in magazines as a toddler and school aged child because of his unbelievable golf skills. At the age of eight, he won the 9-10 boys event at the Junior World Golf Championships. He won the Junior World Championships six times including four consecutive wins! He became the youngest U.S. Junior Amateur Champion when he was 15.
Tiger Woods attended college at Stanford University for two years before turning pro in August of 1996. He signed deal of $40 million with Nike and $20 million with Titleist right away. In April 1997, Tiger won his first golf major, The Masters, by a record of 12 strokes and became the youngest Masters winner ever. He also won three other PGA tour events that year and on June 15, 1997, he became number one in the Official World Golf Rankings.
To date, Tiger Woods has taken first place titles at three Masters, two U.S. Opens, and three PGA Championships. He has won such awards as Rookie of the Year, Athlete of the Year and PGA Tour Player of the Year, some of these awards up to eight times. In October 5, 2004, Tiger married Elin Nordegren. They are expecting their first child in the Summer of 2007.
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How to Attract Venture Capital
Every year literally billions of dollars are put towards different projects by venture capital investors.
Have you ever wondered what makes some investment opportunities successful whilst others barely get off the ground?
Believe it or not is isnt necessarily the business idea, produce or service.
Often the vital difference between companies that attract venture capital and those that dont is preparation.
Here Are 9 Areas Your Business Plan Should Cover If You Want to Attract Venture Capital
1. Your Business Plan Itself. You would be amazed at how many business owners try to attract venture capital without having a business plan in place. Ask yourself: If YOU were a potential investor, what effect would it have on you if the business owner seeking YOUR venture capital didn't have a decent business plan in place?
NOTE: Make sure that your business plan has a professional presentation. You can get a complete corporate look and feel created for it at sites like elance.com or buy one 'off the shelf' at templatemonster.com
2. KPI's (Key Performance Indicators For All Management and Staff. According to Harvard Business School a staggering 40% of business failure is due to poor hiring decisions. Investors like tio see a business that has its bases covered in this area.
Your business will function much better when each key department and player has specific job descriptions in place.
3. A Detailed Strategy For Lead Generation and Lead Conversion. You may well have an awesome product or service but what an potential investor wants to see is how you plan to market it.
4. Business Strategy. The stronger and more laid out your business strategy is the better your chances of attracting venture capital. This is one area where hiring the right business coach or consultant can be a great benefit.
5. Research. Venture capital investors are not interested in 'We think so' or 'Our educated guess is' They want to see market research to back up your claims of a viable market.
6. Structure. I spoke with an accountant recently who told me he was facing a nightmare trying to get a company ready for investment that was a mash of about seven different trusts - each owning a different division of the core business. His exact words were that it was a 'Structural nightmare from an investors perspective' It always pays to get your business structured correctly.
7. The Offer Itself. So you want to attract venture capital ok but what will the investor receive in return?
An equity share in your business? If so what percentage? Are you looking for a passive investor or do you want someone who can provide any special skills?
8. Financial's. Investors want to see up-to-date financial's - profit/loss, balance sheet and cash flow statement. Note: This is where a business with financial control systems in place can gain a strong advantage over a competitor as they are working off recent financial and current MYOB files rather than figures that are 12 months old.
9. An Internet Marketing Plan. Being able to show a potential investor a detailed web marketing plan can go a long way towards attracting the venture capital you are seeking.
Some of the Points That Your Internet Marketing Plan Should Cover Are
1. Traffic Strategies. How you plan to get traffic to your website.
2. List Building. What will you do to build your online database?
3. Content? If you plan on creating an authority site (and you should) then you'll need to give serious thought to content. Will your website feature Articles? Testimonials? Podcasts?
These eight points, when addressed can help give you a serious advantage in your quest to attract venture capital!
Paul Wetton is an entrepreneur and venture capital specialist who helps Australian business owners prepare their businesses for potential investors with his unique 'Preparation For Investment' Audit. See Paul Wetton's Blog at http://AustralianVentureCapital.com
The Most Popular Web Scripting Program - PHP Programming
PHP or Hypertext Preprocessor Programming is a server-side Script based programming language. Server-side script means the script that the server possesses before the HTML file containing those scripts are transferred to the browser of the client. Scripts PHP Programming is software programming that is used for web hosting and web developing. However, all web platforms and web servers do not allow PHP programming to be executed in them. Win32 platform is one such web platform where PHP is not possible. Programmers having knowledge of PHP programming have a demand in IT Community.
PHP is popular amongst most web-scripting program present today.
The reason for the popularity is as follows:
The roots of PHP Programs are in C & C++ and finds similarity with C++ and C syntax. It is easy to manipulate and learn for all programmers. The back-end tool for PHP is My SQL. The interfacing property of My SQL, an online database, matches properly with PHP. Webmasters, who want to make their web sites automated, look for My SQL and PHP as the best option for making their website dynamic. Operating System like Windows and Unix supports PHP Programming Language. The output buffering of PHP language is very powerful and helps in increasing output flow. The rearrangements of buffer in internal PHP programming helps the header to be arranged before the contents of the web page.
PHP has a dynamic property and works combined with HTML to display elements dynamic in nature on the web page. PHP has the property to parse codes within its own delimiters. PHP did not parse anything outside of its delimiters and all those elements left are sent into the output.
Varying types of Relational Database Management Systems can combine with PHP programs and run on different popular web servers. The combination also works for different O.S. as well. PHP Program provides quality assurance and is a secured, fast, reliable and a cheap option for developing and hosting applications on the web.
PHP Programming is free and simple to use than their .net-programming counterpart. However, .net-programming allows use of crystals for report creation and a complex system can be easily executed by using .net.
Even SAPI or a command line interface is provided by PHP for desktop applications and shell improvement, parsing of log, daemons etc. it is increasingly being used on command lines which have been conventionally used in shell scripting, Perl, Awk or Python.
The principal focus of web designing using PHP programming has now shifted to server side scripting from the initial focus which was to create dynamic web pages. The PHP program can take out input from different streamed files containing different PHP instructions and can output them or display them in another stream of data.
PHP programming is the new revolution of the world!
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