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Got $25 Million? Buy This Mansion With 18-Hole Golf Course |
You probably won’t find an extra $25 million laying around after doing all that Christmas shopping, but if you do, there’s one last gift you should buy. Trust me, it’s worth it. |
This monstrosity of a house in Carmel, Ind., is up for sale for $25 million and you will never — I mean never — find a house more suited for a golfer than this one. It features an 18-hole course on the property, fully equipped with a 7,000-square-foot clubhouse. Seriously. |
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There are a total of 36 rooms in the 51,267-square-foot house, which includes seven bedrooms, eight full bathrooms, and 16 half-baths. But we all know 51,000 square feet isn’t enough. |
Thankfully, there’s also a 6,000-square-foot guest house. I mean, what would you possibly do without it? |
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Also under the massive roof of this house are a workout room, home theater, and indoor pool. Name something, and this house probably has it. And that’s exactly why it’s listed at $25 million. |
Just look at the course … it has a freaking island green and fountains in the lake! |
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There’s a slight chance that whoever buys this house will never leave the property. If you’re fortunate enough to spend $25 million on a house-golf course combo, you’re probably wealthy enough to pay someone to do everything for you, too. |
If you’re wondering what the inside looks like, yes it’s incredible. See for yourself: |
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Crowdfunding: Figure Out What Success Looks Like And Plan Backwards From There | National Crowdfunding & Fintech Association of Canada |
Crowdfunding: Figure Out What Success Looks Like And Plan Backwards From There |
TechCrunch | Sam Beck | December 19, 2013 |
Blueshift 300x149 - Crowdfunding: Figure Out What Success Looks Like And Plan Backwards From ThereThis is a guest post by Sam Beck, creator of Helium, a super capacitor-powered speaker, as part of our ongoing coverage of crowdfunding in real-world situations. |
This is what happened during my first crowdfunding project, which is currently sitting at 97% of its goal with two days left on the clock. Our campaign’s goal was to cover the launch cost of our first product, a supercapacitor-powered portable speaker which would cost about $8,000 in compliance & overhead costs. The next time I do something like this, I’m going to make a giant poster of that baseline number – $8,000 or whatever it is – and hang it right in front of my face. The biggest mistake I made during this campaign was forgetting that number. |
Here’s how I messed up. |
About 90% of my planning was very realistic. I built a simple, conservative model, and set the variables so that if things went according to plan, we would make a bit of money on top of covering those costs. And then, I started imagining what it would be like to make two times the goal, or ten times. We almost failed because while there was a definite goal, I was thinking about a different number. That is my biggest takeaway from the whole project. There is only one goal; your objective is to meet it. Everything else is gravy. |
View: 5 behavioral lessons we can learn from successful crowdfunding campaigns |
So that’s the first half of success in crowdfunding: know what success looks like. So this is how to plan once you know what you’re planning for. |
The first thing is to see what your market looks like. 4 First Names has built an awesome set of open source tools to see the shape of your potential market – a very pretty Unity 3D visualization of the data from Kickstarter. They also scraped all the data from every Kickstarter project to make it work. Each dot is a project – the bright diagonal is the fact that projects that get close tend to meet their goal. |
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The visualization is cool, but having the data from every project is awesome. For our working data set, we took the whole list and filtered it down to only Product Design and Technology projects that had raised over $2000, of which there were 2085. We were pretty sure we’d get over $2000 in pledges from friends and family on day one – if you can’t hit 5% of your goal within your private network, you are probably in a bad spot. |
Now, with this list of similar projects, we used simple statistics to think about our funding goal. 45% of these projects with goals $25-$35k were successful vs. only 35% of projects with goals $36k-50k. Getting even more specific, within audio projects, only 21% of projects aiming for over $30k have been successful. |
We settled on $30k as a goal, believing that our idea was in the top quartile of audio projects in terms of how much interest, media coverage, and organic traffic it would generate. |
View: How to get your crowdfunded campaign to the top |
With an idea of the goal in mind, it was time to set prices. We started out our price planning with a simple survey, run through Facebook & SurveyMonkey. It cost about $20 – but if I were going to do it again, I’d probably use SurveyMonkey’s paid audience feature instead of Facebook ads to (hopefully) get a better sample. |
Our survey used the Van Westendorp method: show potential customers the product, explain it, and then ask for four prices from each respondent, in order: |
1. Too expensive to consider |
2. Too cheap to believe in |
3. Getting expensive |
4. Great value |
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Day Trip with the Sony RX100 |
I took a day-trip with my family on the Orient Ferry to New London. You may not want to bring a big DSLR like the Canon 7D with a few lenses on a family outing. This is the perfect time for the tiny Sony RX100. Since I am still learning how to use the camera, most photos were taken in the “Superior Auto +” mode saved as Raw and processed in Lightroom 4.2 RC. Take a look at the lighthouse photo below. It shows the camera’s image stabilization at work at the zoomed in max. Even at a 100%, the photos is clear and sharp. |
The day is much lighter with a camera that fits in your pocket! |
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Heart Chakra, Anahat Chakra Significance |
Heart Chakra, Anahat Chakra – Discover & Embrace Unconditional Love… |
Every human being is a source of love for others. It is a basic human nature to love and be loved. Same is being echoed by great philosophers & poets of yesteryear – |
I see god through love – Keats |
Love is Truth – Ravindranath Tagore |
There is no God without Love – Ruskin |
In short “Life devoid of Love, is more or less a dead life”. |
Heart Chakra also called as Anahat Chakra has special significance. Not only it lies exactly in centre of all Chakras –(Muladhar, Swadhistan & Manipur below & Vishuddha, Agya & Sahasrar CHAKRA above) it also connects them all and brings balance to everything. |
In Sanskrit, the word Anahata means ‘unhurt’ – it governs heart and controls love, compassion, forgiveness, and healing from hurt and grievances. Heart Chakra rules Vayu Tatva or Air element. The beej mantra for Heart chakra is यम or “Yam” in English. |
Psychological impact of blocked heart chakra – Isolation, antisocial, feeling of closed down, difficulty in all relationships, and in general absence of Love. All the above curbs our potential to achieve the bliss that almighty has given us & enjoy the eternal joy of Love. |
How to awaken the Heart chakra or Anahata Chakra – Below we are giving 3 ways in which one can activate his heart chakra |
1. Bless everyone & Let Go – People who hold grudges against others are the ones who are harming themselves more than anyone. Whether anyone has done bad with you, it is always better to bless him & move ahead. This clears the blockages of heart chakra. It’s a simple procedure & anyone can follow it – Sit in a comfortable position & focus on your breathing, after a couple of minutes when your mind is calm & at peace think of any event/memory in the past which has given you “happiness”. Now in that moment of Joy & happiness bless the person/s & forgive with whom you have problematic relationship. |
2. Kundalini Yoga – Heart/Anahata chakra is also awakened in the sequence of Kundalini chakra Yoga, but this requires help of REAL GURU or Master. Beej Mantra to be chanted is “Yam” |
3. Gauri Shankar Rudraksha – One of the rare types of Rudraksha, Gauri Shankar Rudraksha is highly regarded as it is ‘union’ of Male aspect (Shiva) & Female aspect (Parvati) & we all know what happens when these 2 forces come together – they cause expansion & development. This Rudraksha also represents the ‘Heart Chakra’, which is center of Love. Hence for the wearer it starts to open up his/heart Heart chakra & starts to experience Universal Love. |
We are giving Gauri Shankar Rudraksha as a part of Heart Chakra Locket which comes with sterling silver heart shaped pendant & specially energized from Divine Mother’s abode Kamakhya with a very special procedure. |
Activate your Heart Chakra & become epitome of love and compassion, have empathy to the plight of others, become more forgiving and loving! |
MAA Bless All! |
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