7 ULTIMATE TIPS TO PROTECT YOUR ANDROID

 Android users can expect to run into a few problems from time to time and their device and the data in it can be stolen, spied on, and used by cybercriminals if they aren't careful.

Tips to protect your device:

Lock the screen– Enabling a screen unlock code will prevent a device thief from accessing your mobile data.

Protect your data – The Android security screen also includes an option to encrypt the device. Enabling this option will help protect sensitive information stored in the device.

Strengthen passwords and app permissions – Remember to check the features that you allow the app to access, and don't forget to use strong and unique passwords. If you re-use your passwords, hackers can effortlessly guess the passwords on your other accounts.

Install a security app – It's always a good idea to make use of security apps. An app that offers anti-theft features like remote wipe-out, tracking, and locking, as well as malware scanning and detection can help mitigate potential threats.

Connect to secure networks – Whenever you go online using a network you don't know, such as public Wi-Fi, you should be more careful because unsecured Wi-Fi networks can be used to stage man-in-the-middle attacks where data can be intercepted by a third party. Avoid online banking, financials, and purchasing over public networks. If you use Wi-Fi at home, please make sure you use a password to secure your router.

Avoid rooting your device – Before rooting your Android device, consider the pros and cons first. While it allows you more control over your device, it could also allow unsigned apps, including malicious ones, access to your data. This also makes it difficult to patch and update your OS and apps, which could leave your device vulnerable.

Download from official app stores – Downloading from third-party sites or app stores is one of the easiest ways for any mobile device to get infected with malware. Limiting your apps to those from official or trusted app stores (like the Google Play app store) can lower the risks.

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True Success at anything comes with Humanity and Taking people along

“IF YOU HELP MORE PEOPLE GET WHAT THEY WANT, YOU WILL GET 

WHAT YOU WANT”

                                                    -Zig Ziglar

After my previous post on “If You Can Dream It, You Can Do It”; which was very well accepted and largely viewed by the people I’d first of all like to thank them and hope you implement my writings in your daily life. It’s not about creating a huge following it’s about creating a change in your life that can make millions of lives better and happy altogether.

The biggest mistake an aspiring game changer can do is to become self centred, be isolated from people and avoiding interactions with them considering the fact that they are mediocre and way too low on knowledge to be with. Remember ladies and gentlemen “Proud is Good but Pride will spoil you”. In order to be successful in life you need to create an aura around you so that people will like you, admire you; adore you for how noble you are! Being humble is the biggest asset one can have, you need to take care of people around you and help them get what’s important for them. Be a good human, only then can true success come to you!

Recent example, Virgin Corp’s founder Richard Branson popularly known as Dr. Yes made a revolutionary decision by providing his company’s 140 new parents one full year of paid parental leave. What a noble stand has this amazing philanthropist & leader taken. It’s not only humane but imagine; the joy and contentment of the employees who’ll be blessed to know how much their bosses care for them. Tell me guys; wouldn’t this step encourage employees to work in a better way for the firm? Obviously yes because the more they feel at home and the better the work environment, the better sales they’d be able to produce.  Also, such an act is a punch in the face for other competitors in the market for it’s not possible for all to take such bold decisions.

Getting close to people, helping them, motivating them and taking care of them would shower blessings on you which will eventually help in later success. Noble causes never go useless because there is a higher power at work that’s viewing your everyday humbleness, gratitude towards people and how amazing a person you are. If you want to feel motivated, motivate someone else and believe me you need to do this in order to find solutions that are hidden deep inside you to problems that make you restless. Go ahead and help that old lady cross the road, lend your jacket to the homeless kid who needs it more than you, thank your sweeper for how wonderfully she cleans all the mess around, thank your security guard who keep you safe at all times, thank your Mom who loves you more than anything else in this world and thank your Dad who makes everyday sacrifices in order to keep that enchanting smile on your face alive and beaming.

The bottom line.....  Well, it’s better done than just blabbering about it; “Go out today and help someone who really needs it in any way possible however small it appears to be, believe me it’d mean a lot to them”

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Shivank Shrivastva
(Shivank is an inspirational writer, and loves to motivate people to action through his writings)

6 Important Things to know before you kick-start a start-up and make it a SUCCESS

There are various amount of think tanks that are emerging in Indian market thriving on the various opportunities eventually leading to become entrepreneurs.  Yet many startups fail despite following all the ways. Right from understanding your customer to thorough research about the market, there are few ways to become a successful entrepreneurs:-

· Unleash the Power of Technology:

Today the technology holds the bar against the rise & fall of any start-up. With time one has to keep updated with the latest technology updates to deliver the desired user experience. The future lies further into this with the use of social sharability to induce virality.

· Understand your Customer:

The new firms like that of ecommerce are all equipped with data on customer buying behaviour including what & when they are browsing. That is overlaid with social media inputs such as each user’s interest & affinities for microsegmenting of products. This helps in delivering products that are targeted along with digital mediums for reach.

· Study the Market:

Doing a thorough market research is valuable. For the organization’s success or business to thrive market sentiments & acute business vision are important. Since the size of Indian market is huge so studying makes it more convincing for the business to begin or initiate.

· Crunch Data:

Strategic analysis of data is key to propel a startup to success. Crunching of data is the new stuff for the future decisions making. Analysis of data eventually allows us to determine and inventory, our marketing approaches & to manage financial targets.

· Be Passionate and remain Passionate:

No matter whatever troubles or difficult times happen Passion is a must. As an entrepreneur, your conviction in business must be unwavering. This would reflect how you lead your team in highs & lows of an enterprise. Passion must be deeply rooted in the knowledge of the domain. Lifelong learning should be part of an entrepreneur. Therefore, one must be prepared for all of this.

· Be Prudent in Acquisitions:

Although this a step later, yet it is significant to build up on your harwork and success. One should keep attention to every detail while expanding the company or during acquisitions. Be careful while evaluating acquisitions like revenues, culture, management, costs & integration.

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Just Because You Fail in School, College or in Life, Doesn’t Mean You’re a Failure

There’s a difference between failing and being a failure. I’ve met people who see each failure as a sign that they are a failure.  But everyone fails.  Even successful people.  Even your heroes.  Even the people who seem like everything they touch turns to gold.  Even superheroes.  Often we hear about people who’ve succeeded long after they’ve trudged through all those failures along the way, so it can seem like their success came easily.  Perhaps the most important difference between failing and being a failure is that “failing” is just a setback/disappointment whereas “being a failure” is a mindset.

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Being a failure is pretty simple. Give up.  That’s it.  It takes a lot more courage, guts, and heart to fail and then keep going.  As long as you’re working toward something that matters to you, then you’re not a failure.

Following are the examples of some of the greatest who failed at school , college or in life but didnt give up and kept on going inspite of people's criticism and today they are highly successful

1.  Steve Jobs: 
Billionaire co-founder of Apple Inc and Pixar; dropped out of Reed College to start Apple.
DID YOU KNOW : Steve Jobs  was actually fired from Apple Computers,  the very company that he is responsible for making it the success it is today.  When Jobs was fired from Apple, he was quoted stating “I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.”

2. Bill Gates: 

He is the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft Corporation, the world largest software company. Dropped out of Harvard to focus on building Microsoft. According to Forbes magazine, Bill Gates has held the position of the world richest man for thirteen consecutive years and he not showing a sign of letting go that position. Also, While still at high school, Gates and pal Paul Allen (his Microsoft cofounder) launched Traf-O-Data, a traffic counter, which they marketed to local governments.
Unfortunately, the business went bust when the state of Washington started offering counters to cities for free. Plus, Gates was arrested in New Mexico for traffic violations. Just sayin’.

3. Richard Branson: 
Best known for his adventurous spirit and outrageous business tactics. He dropped out of school at the age of 16 to start his first successful business venture; Student Magazine, bought his own 79-acre Caribbean island when he was just 24 and he was knighted in 1999. He is the billionaire founder of the Virgin brand and its 360 companies. His companies include the famous Virgin Atlantic Airways.

4. Lawrence J. Ellison:
Larry Ellison dropped out of college twice and was told by his adoptive father that he would never amount to anything but he went on to become a billionaire by building Oracle, the world’s second largest software company.

5.  Debbi Fields: 
A 20 year old housewife with no education and business experience started Mrs. Fields Chocolate Chippery and became the most successful cookie company owner. She later renamed, franchised, and then sold Mrs. Field’s Cookies.

6. Coco Chanel: 
Fashion magnate and founder of the Coco Chanel brand, she never saw the four walls of school.

7. Oprah Winfrey:
Hailed as the “ Queen of Daytime Talk TV” Winfrey was fired from her news reporter gig at a Baltimore news station.  Oprah went on to build a successful following from her daytime talk show “The Oprah Winfrey Show”.  Oprah’s net worth is currently valued at 2.7 billion dollars.

8. Colonel Sanders (KFC)
Colonel Sanders is the entrepreneur who founded KFC “Kentucky Fried Chicken” when he was 56 years old.  His recipe was reportedly rejected over 1,000 times before a restaurant picked it up.



So remember, Failure is just a part of the journey. Don’t ever let it make you believe that you’re a failure.  Maybe you’re failing now, but that doesn’t mean you’ll keep failing.  Show us your resilience.  It’s up to you to bring the tenacity.  You have to bring the fire.  You have to figure out how to make it happen.  You have to get up.  And you can’t let failing along the way keep you down or turn you into a failure.


"People who have never failed , have never achieved something big in their lives"


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YOU MUST READ THIS. THIS WILL OPEN YOUR EYES !!! Jack Ma: If you’re still poor at 35, you deserve it!

Jack Ma: If you’re still poor at 35, you deserve it!

You are poor because you have no ambition.

Jack Ma: Before I founded Alibaba (阿里巴巴), I invited 24 friends to my house to discuss the business opportunity. After discussing for a full two hours, they were still confused — I have to say that I may not have put myself across in a clear manner manner then. The verdict: 23 out of the 24 people in the room told me to drop the idea, for a multitude of reasons, such as: ‘you do not know anything about the internet, and more prominently, you do not have the start-up capital for this’ etc etc.

There was only one friend (who was working in a bank then) who told me, “If you want to do it, just try it. If things don’t work out the way you expected it to, you can always revert back to what you were doing before.” I pondered upon this for one night, and by the next morning, I decided I would do it anyway, even if all of the 24 people opposed the idea.

When I first started Alibaba, I was immediately met with strong opposition from family and friends. Looking back, I realised that the biggest driving force for me then was not my confidence in the Internet and the potential it held, but more of this: “No matter what one does, regardless of failure or success, the experience is a form of success in itself.” You have got to keep trying, and if it doesn’t work, you always can revert back to what you were doing before.

As with this quote by T.E. Lawrence – “All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream in the dark recesses of the night awake in the day to find all was vanity. But the dreamers of day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, and make it possible.”

Jack Ma: People lose out in life because of these 4 reasons:

Being myopic to opportunity
Looking down on opportunities
Lacking understanding
Failing to act quickly enough
You are poor, because you have no ambition.

Ambition is living a life of great ideals; a magnificent goal in life that must be realised.

In this world, there are things that are deemed unfathomable, but there is nothing in this world that cannot be done. The depth of one’s ambition determines the potential of one’ future.


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SUCCESS STORIES @ 10 - 'BILL GATES' : From a Harvard Dropout and a failed business to World's richest man

STORY 2 : BILL GATES (Microsoft)

From a 3- year old kid to old,if there's one name that every single person knows about is BILL GATES. Bill Gates is the owner of Microsoft and been named as richest man on the planet several times. His jouney to riches has been extraordinary. Here's a look at his journey from failing several times to becoming a success.

Before launching Microsoft, Bill Gates was a Harvard University dropout and co-owner of a failed business called Traf-O-Data.

About His first Business : Traf-O-Data, a partnership between Gates, Allen, and Gilbert, needed a professional paper tape reader. Gates used $3,400 of his own money to purchase an Enviro-Labs Model GS-311 Paper Tape Reader. Traf-O-Data used the device to process the paper tapes generated by traffic counting boxes and produced some revenue. Eventually, the State of Washington offered free traffic processing services, ending this revenue. In May of 1979, Traf-O-Data sent letters to clients saying they were suspending business. Gates’ first business had failed.

But driven by his passion for computer programming, Gates built what would become the world's largest software company. Microsoft went public in 1986, and by the next year its rising share price made then-31-year-old Gates the world's youngest self-made billionaire. An investor in the initial public offering would have seen a return of 30,207 percent.

There’s definitely a stigma against failure — so much so that many people are held back by fear of it — but even Bill Gates’s first company was a failure. But he never got bogged down by it and kept on trying and ultimately became world's youngest billioniare and the richest man on Earth.





Compiled & Written by : Akshat Jain
Sources Used : cbsnews

SUCCESS STORIES @ 10 : ARIANNA HUFFINGTON

We start a series of short stories of Entrepreneurs (Success Stories @ 10) who Overcame Failure and made it big.
At nights @ 10 , one success story will be published which will motivate and inspire you to not get bogged by the rejections or failure or fears you face, but go on and make yourself what you desire to become.

STORY  1 . Arianna Huffington

DID YOU KNOW : Arianna Huffington got rejected by 36 publishers.

It’s hard to believe that one of the most recognizable names in online publications was once rejected by three dozen major publishers. Huffington’s second book, which she tried to publish long before she created the now ubiquitously recognizable Huffington Post empire, was rejected 36 times before it was eventually accepted for publication.

Rather than recoiling and licking her wounds, Huffington seemed to gain courage and wisdom with each failure to take on even greater challenges. Those book rejections only reinforced her perseverance in future pursuits. Through her failed gubernatorial campaign, which raised almost $1 million online, “I learned about the power of the Internet.” Two years later, she and business partner Ken Lerer launched The Huffington Post.

Today, we all know The Huffington Post​ continues to dominate Internet media, having reached profitability and attracting traffic that’s reportedly five times greater than its new-media competitors.


Here's Arianna advice to the entrepreneurs :
“Think differently from other entrepreneurs by accepting failure and learning from it. “There are a lot of failures along the way,” Arianna said. “I always stress that. I have two daughters, one just graduated from college, the other a junior, whom I always talk to about my failures.” Entrepreneurs need to address the possibility of failure, she said, “because so often, I think, the difference between success and failure is perseverance and not giving up after one or two or three failures. Just keep connecting to that place where failure doesn’t matter,” Arianna said. “If we become so dependent on things always being a success, then we’re in a very vulnerable position — because we’re not in control of how the world is going to receive something.”


Edited & Compiled by :Akshat Jain
Sources Used : The Success, StoryExchange