It has been an ups and downs year, mainly because of the COVID-19 pandemic that swept across the globe. In India, several strong entrepreneurs have tested their ideas and taken advantage of potential business opportunities. Although some have failed, others have succeeded. The growth of startups in India is facilitated by cheap skilled labor, funding from national and international investors, and growth opportunities. As Financial Express, startup funding reached a new high in 2021. In addition to large venture capital firms, institutional investors and pension funds invest in many new online ..read more

Entrepreneurship indeed provides freedom, wealth, and the ability to build your ideal lifestyle. Still, it also comes with many challenges, which can prevent you from completing those goals and even make entrepreneurship more complicated than your previous life. The same problems and challenges of entrepreneurship always arise when we ask our audience, “What are the challenges of entrepreneurship?” So here are six of the most usual issues and challenges we’ve encountered over the years. Delegation and teamwork Entrepreneurship is most often chosen because of a particular talent. Then they bu ..read more

Yoga is one of those terms that is highly used by companies for promoting health and the main reason behind the promotion of yoga is simple and that is, this is one of those concepts that came up with so much of primitiveness and dominance that it holds between all the other modern fitness fields. Yoga is one of those physical exercises that provides physical, mental and spiritual fitness which is highly important for a person to become healthy from outside and inside as well. There are various people who actually claims the fact that yoga has changed their life on a very different standard an ..read more

I’m not vanishing completely, Dear Reader, just moving house. Call it a 7-year itch, but after that many years of writing (and more recently not writing) this blog, I’ve decided it’s time for a change. All future posts (and many past posts) will be available on my new site: https://etzone.org/ Hope to see you there ..read more

I’m not vanishing completely, Dear Reader, just moving house. Call it a 7-year itch, but after that many years of writing (and more recently not writing) this blog, I’ve decided it’s time for a change. All future posts (and many past posts), will be available on my new site: https://etzone.org/ Hope to see you there! Home ..read more

Typewriter-related bloopers: Cassette tapes were briefly used as a means of external storage in electronic typing systems, but not in this case. If you are old enough to remember cassette tapes, chances are you’ve lived long enough not to worry about the time you have left. Ah the barley computer literate younger generation. I wonder if this typewriter has a cereal number? The UK seller of this Smith Corona portable electronic typewriter is PeaceLoveTrust7. He or she must be smoking dope if they think this is an Olivetti typewriter … Another UK seller has also advertised this Nakajima Lea ..read more

This 1994 charcoal-grey USA-made Brother AX-325 portable electronic typewriter is (I’ve decided) the Official Typewriter of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. It’s a typewriter that was happily looking forward to a future that didn’t happen. It shares the same scalloped design as my UK-made Brother AX-440; the same slightly asthmatic print carrier, the same slightly arthritic wheel, the same stated top speed of 12 cps. In this case, of course, there’s no LCD screen, no eco-friendly sticker. The charcoal-grey body, in stark contrast to the white keys, is, of course, an improvement on unifor ..read more

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Unless my eyes deceive me, the “new office product” on the desk in this press photo, taken on the premises of Professional Office Products, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, circa the 9th of July 1983, is a TEC TW-1000 electronic typewriter: Until now I’d been unable to put a year of release to the one in my collection. 1983. The same TEC typewriter is, I think, advertised here as a “Pacific 1000” in The Age, Melbourne, in May 1987: “Pacific” probably on account of a sticker on the front of the typewriter, as is the case with this “Pacific 2000” (TEC TW-1100): Less aesthetically pleasing than my ..read more

Long before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, I began hoarding electronic typewriter ribbons. From disorder, I’ve now put them into some kind of order … Most plentiful of all are the Brother AX-series ribbons, including compatible Panasonic branded (Brother) ribbons. I even have an unopened box of 10 … LIke Brother AX-series ribbons, Nakajima AX- series ribbons are also relatively easy to find. In fact I believe they’re still being made for Nakajima electronic typewriters (and Nakajima electronic typewriters masquerading as Olympia electronic typewriters). Nakajima AE-series ribbons a ..read more