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When it comes to starting a successful business, there's no surefire playbook that contains the winning game plan.

On the other hand, there are about as many mistakes to be made as there are entrepreneurs to make them.

Recently, after a work-out at the gym with my trainer—an attractive young woman who's also a dancer/actor—she told me about a web series that she's producing and starring in together with a few friends. While the series has gained a large following online, she and her friends have not yet incorporated their venture, drafted an operating agreement, trademarked the show's name or done any of the other things that businesses typically do to protect their intellectual property and divvy up the owners' share of the company. While none of this may be a problem now, I told her, just wait until the show hits it big and everybody hires a lawyer.

Here, in my experience, are the top 10 mistakes that entrepreneurs make when starting a company:

Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703467004575463460389523660.html

One of the best ways around this is to install Windows 7 from a USB drive, which can cut the install time down to around 15 minutes (from 30-40 via DVD) if you use a fast drive. I am constantly being asked to explain to friends and colleagues the best way to do this as many of the guides online are too complex, or require third party software which doesn’t always work. With this KitGuru guide all you need to ensure is that your motherboard supports USB booting … which is pretty much a common feature now.

Today I am going to publish a step by step guide which works perfectly and doesn’t require any additional tools – I have been doing it for some time now to create bootable Windows install drives.

Firstly, you need to get hold of a fast USB 2.0 flash drive – such as the Corsair Survivor GTR unit we reviewed a while ago. It doesn’t need to be 32GB however, all you need is a 4GB unit. The faster it is, the less time you will wait.

What you need:

• A Windows 7 DVD install disc


• A USB Drive (4GB+ and as fast as you can get)



• A Keyboard


• A Mouse


• A PC


• A running Windows Operating system


• A working set of hands and eyes


• 15 minutes of your life

Plug in your USB drive – we are using a 32GB Corsair Survivor for this, which is totally overkill but its the fastest unit we have in our offices right now.

Before continuing, make sure you have removed any important files on your drive to a safe location, what we are about to do will totally erase the contents. Don’t blame me if you accidentally erase all the naked photos of your girlfriend.

Insert your DVD of Windows 7 into the computer, no, don’t install it.

Open your ‘my computer’ and make a note of the drive numbers of both the USB drive and the DVD drive with Windows 7 files on it.

As you can see from the image above, our DVD is drive D and the Corsair USB drive is E.

Open the command prompt with admin rights. Type cmd in Start menu search box and hit Shift+Ctrl+Enter.

To keep things really easy, if you see text in THIS COLOUR, it means this is what you type into the command prompt (you don’t need to type in upper case).

Next type

DISKPART

this loads the diskpart application we need to proceed

Then type

LIST DISK

the image above shows our 32GB USB drive is listed as DISK 2

so type

SELECT DISK 2 (your USB Drive may have a different number, don’t blindly follow this text)

You will get a successful response “Disk 2 is now the selected disk”

Next we want to clean the USB drive

Key in

CLEAN

you will get a successful response ‘DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk”.

After the drive is cleaned follow the list in the image above (detailed below in list order) – you can also note the successful text responses from the OS as you enter each command.

SELECT DISK 2 (or whatever number your USB drive is)

CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY

SELECT PARTITION 1

ACTIVE

FORMAT FS=NTFS

Formatting can take a little time depending on the size of the drive, our 32GB unit took about 10 minutes to format - you will see a percentage readout until it is finished.

Next key

ASSIGN

EXIT (we need to leave DISK PART)

Type D: CD BOOT (substitute the “D” if necessary with the letter of your Windows 7 DVD drive)

then key

CD BOOT

then

BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 E: (substitute the “E” if necessary with the letter of your now ready USB drive) – we are telling the system to create a bootsector file on the USB drive.

Now you can exit the command prompt and copy all the files on the Windows 7 DVD to the USB drive.

Once this completes you are ready to boot from this drive, all you need to do is configure your motherboard bios to boot first from USB rather than hard drive or optical drive. If you don’t know how to do this, refer to your specific motherboard manual (its generally a simple one click procedure).

Hey presto, Windows 7 installation should take between 33% and 60% of the time it does from the DVD disc. This is also a great way to test the speed of your USB drives if you have a few. We have recorded gains of up to 15 minutes between various makes and models. All are certainly not created equal!

A man in my shoes runs a light
and all the papers lied tonight
but falling over you
is the news of the day
Angels fall like rain
And love, love, love, is only heaven away

Inside you the times moves
and she don't fade
The ghost in you
She don't fade
Inside you the time moves
and she don't fade

A race is on
I'm on your side
And here in you
My engines die
I'm in a mood for you
Or running away
Stars come down in you
And love, love, love, is only heaven away

Inside you the times moves
and she don't fade
The ghost in you
She don't fade
Inside you the time moves
and she don't fade

Don't you go
it makes no sense
when all your talk
and supermen
just take away the time
and get in the way
Ain't it just like rain
And love, love, love, is only heaven away

Inside you the times moves
and she don't fade
The ghost in you
She don't fade

Performed by Mark McGrath

Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am home again
Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am whole again

Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am young again
Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am fun again

However far away, I will always love you
However long I stay, I will always love you
Whatever words I say, I will always love you
I will always love you

Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am free again
Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like I am clean again

However far away, I will always love you
However long I stay, I will always love you
Whatever words I say, I will always love you
I will always love you

The wind blew the dark clouds and some people would see it went away happily. Perhaps it will bring better fortune at the other places. Yeah there could be something to think of like moving on and on.

I must say that this month has a special meaning to me, especially when I legally become a husband to a woman that I love so dearly and this could change my life significantly if not entirely. Alhamdulillah its a great story in my life and it went so smoothly.

Another month to go to complete 2009, the most difficult year (yet) in my career. I hope to get more successful in the coming years.

It exactly 12 years and 1 months since the late Grandpa left us, now it's Grandma's turn. I cried silently, remembering all the moments with Grandma. Virtually, she has left us a year ago when she lost her memory (due to sudden fever and her age). I hope I didn't sound rude for this ... but this I feel.

I remembered after Grandpa died, I've always brings her to Grandpa's grave, read the Quran for him, whenever she in needs for that, she always mentioned my name. However when she began to start losing everything, I never feel that happy to see her, because she never see me like the way she call me or see before. She could not even recognize me! I feel irritated to see how my aunties treated her and sometimes makes fun of here. I think they are hurting her, but what I can do?

Ya Allah, ampunkanlah dosanya, janganlah Dikau seksanya, tempatkanlah dia dikalangan orang yang beramal soleh. Sesungguhnya Engkah Maha Pengasih dan Maha Penyayang.

I love you so much Nek Rot. Innalillah ...

(Time of Death: 3:10AM 16 Nov 2009, She was 84 years old)

Its exactly Friday night 12 years ago about 7:10PM, my beloved grandfather, Allahyarham Haji Baijuri Sekah passed away. Until the last breathe in front of me while I hold him so tight in my arms and he left peacefully.

Al Fatihah


-16 OCT 1997-