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.

Chartsbin is a site dedicated to providing users with the one of the largest database on charts in the virtual world.

The site is an open source site where you can find and study charts on different aspect of certain domains such as environment, people, religion, social or even drugs & crime among many other.

The main page presents you with all you need. It offers you the “Last updates” as the first filter option or you can choose between “Most viewed”, “Most discussed” or “Highest Rated.”

If you are interested in a certain category, then you can select it from the right and select the domain of interest which most closely resembles what your search theme.

Also you have significant data from a report or government conducted research then you can submit it yourself so that others could use it in other related circumstances.

Every report page has a colored graph and a legend explaining what is the graphs all about and the numeric distribution, usually around the world Also for all countries where information is known, data is inserted below. The countries are usually in alphabetical ordered. Not all the countries have information, but all that is related to the topic is presented be it present or past.  The data on which the graph is created is valid as you can see the multitude of references below. Also, if you fond that interesting or useful you can vote the graph thus making it more popular and more people will see it.

Also, for reference, related topic graphs are presented in the bottom of a selected graph so that it can help you on the topic of research.

NotAPipe is a website that provides a service which is very often sought after but very rarely found in a form and manner satisfactory to the party looking for it. That service is text file editing. NotAPipe allows its users to edit text files in real time and in a collaborative environment. That means if you and your co-workers are grouping together to better pull your resources in order to tackle a particularly difficult project, the services this site offers you will prove invaluable in the long run. The web service allows users to edit the same document simultaneously and the changes that are made to that document are instantly communicated to every user connected to it.

You and your friends and co-workers should really visit this site because it offers you a way to circumvent the usual routine of editing the same document and sending it around via emails. This is a very time consuming process and as we all know, time is a very valuable commodity. NotAPipe is a tool that facilitates online document collaboration among a group of users. It is a real time collaborative text editor in which more than one person (on different computers) can edit a text document in real-time and changes appear instantly on the document for all the connected users.

Mulaboration is a site which can provide you with a solution for interoffice or even inter-business communication.

Mulaboration offers you the possibility to create you own social network with you colleagues at work or even in projects.

The menu is user friendly, having sections like Workgroups, Profiles, Messages, Events, or Tasks so you can have easy access to your workgroup and colleagues. To personalize your appearance you can edit your profile. Also you can interact easily by the live conversation board.

The conversation editor has three main functionalities and these are: Your status which you can edit to show to you colleagues what you are doing or feeling, the possibility to post an event and the possibility to post a task with the name o the task, some brief information about it, a due date and the priority of the task.

You can also share or delete feeds from your colleagues which in turn can be edited or replied to.

Also the site offers you the possibility to keep relations with other companies, by creating a profile of the company and interacting with members that particular company in the same manner as your colleagues.

The price for this kind of service is gradual, depending on the number of people in the social network.  For a 2 person plan it is free, for 50 people it’s $4.50 / month and for unlimited is $9.98 /month. The difference in services between the packages is mainly in the bandwidth and data storage per users, which is understandable.

Orgitt wants to organise all your most important personal information in one place and does a pretty good job of it.

We have a lot of disparate bits of data nowadays to remember:  social security number, credit card number, bank account number, health service number, insurance number and so on. Information which you do not need on a day to day basis but which you have to remember given the circumstances. Also, to easy access them, as you can not possibly remember them all, is also difficult.

Orggit.com represents the solution for this predicament. It is your personal virtual,  library in the cloud where you can store all the information you need. Also the information is organized and most importantly securely protected by firewall, antivirus and strong encrypted passwords.

To help you better organize your life essential data, every account has four sections: Wallet, Medical, Accounting & Codes and File Cabinet.

The Wallet helps you keep information about you Credit Cards or Identity Cards; it’s basely the related information of your wallet.

The Medical section is a storage base for your or the people you care for medical history, this section being itself structure to meet your needs.

Accounting & Codes is a database of all your passwords and financial information numbers. This site is special encrypted so only you can see what you want to see.

File cabinet is the way to storage up personal or family data into categories and folders with a limit of 5 GB.

By using Orggit.com you can easily access the information you need in the precise moment you need it only by an internet connected laptop or an IPhone.

The price for the service is fairly reasonable at $ 49.99/year.