A startup founder with plenty of wisdom do impart to those of us with only one, two or even three successful startups to our name as opposed to Branson’s dozens of successful startups.

The entrepreneur has just answered some user submitted questions over at Livemint.com. His biography is also worth a read for those seeking entrepreneurial inspiration.

“Q: If you were 24 today, and you were given a budget of $3,000 (Rs138,300) to start a business, what kind of business would you choose? What if the budget were around $25,000?

Alex Bodislav, Bucharest, Romania

A: That’s an easy one. It would definitely be some kind of Web-based business, and I’m not sure it would make a difference if I had $3,000 or $25,000 to start out.

I began my career in the late 1960s with my first business venture, Student magazine. I started by selling it one issue at a time, and soon moved to selling records from a phone booth. The publishing and music industries are struggling today due to the changes brought about by the Internet—but where there’s upheaval, there’s opportunity.”

Link to the rest of the Q&A

We just saw this great expose of multi level marketing by Penn and Teller on Seobook.

You can see how these regular people get sucked into what seems to them to be a great business.

A reminder to everyone to employ a bit of critical thinking and cynicism, as there is no such thing as easy money. These people who are sucked into multi level marketing are busing their guts, but are essentially being scammed out of their money and hard work.

The video contains some nudity and is NSFW.

When money is scarce but we still need to make the weekly groceries round we often fall back on the trusty coupons. These babies can save you a whole lot of your hard earned money so it’s well worth taking them into serious consideration before you go out to the supermarket. Before you do that though, you will want to turn on your computer and check out couponmeup and look up its great deals on coupons and online stores.

Because when you think about it, would you rather busy yourself to the supermarket and back what with all the noise and traffic and lines at the check out counter or would you like to be doing your shopping from the comfort of your home by simply clicking on a button couponmeup gives you exactly that opportunity, to save time and energy, but it ups the ante and makes the deal even sweeter by helping you find great deals on coupons and online stores.

The site contains a huge database of information on just about any type of online store you might be interested in and also the coupons that can be used to get discounts there. On top of it all, the site also contains a section that explains the basic premise of using a coupon for those unfamiliar with it. The services provided by couponmeup and the attention to detail with which its designers approached the issue are definitely one of the strongest points of the site.

Rootein is a free website which can help you to improve your life by helping you establish certain habits by reminding you to do certain activities on a schedule which of your desire on a daily basis, thus creating a routine.

To access the service provided by the site you have to have an account. The sign up for the account is free.

After you log in you can create the routines you desire.

Create a calendar for your routine, then opt to have your “rootein” remind you at set times for the day.  You can create numerous tasks, each of them with their own individual calendar. The calendar is useful as a reminder of all the days which you have fallowed through with the task.

There is a manage tool which offers you the opportunity to activate or deactivate a reminder and to set a certain time you want the reminder to activate.

You can receive your alert messages via email or twitter. The twitter integration is one of the most useful features as it integrates the reminders into your daily stream of updates, you don’t have to actively check back to any account to be reminded.

A great service, we’ll be using it.

Koego is a website which can rank the quality of your blog posts on a personal formula.

If you have a personal blog, as most of us have, then you want to express yourself to the world, and the world to be interested in what you want to say. But you do not have the certainty that your writing style is the one desired by the others, or if the topic and your ideas are clearly present and represent an interest to the virtual community.

So, for you to have the opportunity to asses the quality of your blog entries you should join Koego.com. Koego.com offers you the opportunity to measure and improve your free speech. As the name of the site states it is the measure your co-ego, the ego formed by other people who read your blog. This is done by a cumulus of a series of factors, each of them with different weight, according to the web traffic. The ego formula is formed by two elements: the main rank and the extra rank which in sum will give you a rank in the top 100.

By using Koego you also have access on a large spectrum of web reports, which have as an element of analysis your blog.

Also with Koego you can analyze your activity on two major social networks, Twitter and Friendfeed.

So if you want to have a quality blog and to boost up your virtual ego then Koego.com is the solution for you.

Givv.org is a nonprofit site which helps you give to any organization you want the amount you want

The site is membership based, and the information required are those necessary for your account.

You start by creating a monthly giving amount which you will split between the Non Profit Organizations (NPO) as you see fit. But first you have to know to whom you are giving, as each of us has its own principles and support different ideas and causes.

Givv.org is a site where you can read about different nonprofit organization. It has a filter: Most Recent, Most Popular, Newest or A-Z where you can find different (NPO) and read about their activity. You can also search for a certain NPO or even propose one you know which is not on the list and it will be added.

When you decide on certain NPO you will click on the add icon and that organization will appear in you to give account. You can add as many non-profits as you desire.

Then you can decide the amount of money you want to give to the NPO, provided that the sum of all donations does not pass you limit.

Also, the site offers you complete anonymity; you can see where other users are giving, but not how much.

So you can donate to all the organizations, all in one place without the hassle of meeting a member of the organization personally or the amount of emails you receive for fundraises when you give directly.

It lets you give the amount you desire to each organization and helps you fallow with your budget and to give it all at once, thus resulting in less credit card transactions between you and the organizations so smaller financial fees.

The payments are done by PayPal so are easy and secure.

The site is completely free, but if you want to support the site, you can also donate.

So if you want to support different organizations, according to your own beliefs, Givv.org is a way for you to get in touch and support them with as little as you want because in the end even that builds up.