Reaffirmation!

Imagine you are traveling on a very, very long road. Before you started you knew that the road was going to be hard. But now your family and friends are worried that you are so obsessed, so focussed and maybe too proud to admit that you are getting tired. Most encourage you but some are not sure whether you will reach your destination. Then someone who has travelled the same road and has been to the other side shows up and asks you a lot of questions and afterwards, says - you are on the right track! Your quest is noble and it does take time. Keep moving forward! And by the way, here are a few things you can do to survive and not get lost. Keep the faith! Bhade Chalo!


And as a result, on the 4th of July we plan to launch the next version of the Majamba.Me platform together with a multi-media campaign at the Paléo Festival starting on the 17th of July. 


My dear friends, keep the faith, you will be proud of Majamba.Me soon.

Majamba Web Agency: Powering Good.

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Today we have accomplished a major goal - launch a web agency that is focussed on providing really high quality web strategy, web design and web development to start-ups, high growth companies and turnarounds. This is the world's first fair trade web agency created to support good people and organizations change the world.

This is the foundation for the next step - the new Majamba.Me - which will go head 2 head against some of the biggest companies in the world with a very unique offer.

Check out our web agency site at - www.majamba.com

I believe in Good

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Whenever, I am in doubt I remind myself that Good always wins. Then I look for evidence. And then I thank everyone good for reaffirming my belief.

Yes, I believe in good.

I believe that the world can benefit from a platform that promotes good. That's why we are working on Majamba.Me. We will be launching a new version of Majamba.Me soon. And in the next few weeks we will be recruiting the team for the launch at Paléo Festival.

I believe that supporting good people and organizations with a fair trade web agency is a good thing. That's why with a few very kind and good friends, we will soon be launching Majamba Web Agency.

I believe that money comes and goes but what gives me the most pleasure is when I help someone achieve something good and what gives me the greatest pain is when I am not able to help a person in need because I am incapable.

The next few months are going to be crucial. I believe they will be good.

Get Rewarded for doing good

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Our new poster design is ready. Here is the first cut. Thanks to Diego for taking the time to incorporate the feedback. Thanks to Wen, Fed, Mattia, Enea, Fiamma, Maya, Seth, Jeannine & Alex for your valuable feedback.

Majamba will be launching at Paleo'12

Now it's not everyday you get a call - inviting you to launch your start-up at one of the biggest festivals in Europe that welcomes 230,000 fans every year! That's exactly what happened on Tuesday and today we signed the paperwork. It's official, we will be launching Majamba at the Paleo.

We have done the Majamba technical launch, the commercial launch, and other test launches to see whether the platform holds up. Now this is the real thing. We are ready for the BIG TIME. We will be going live with the Swiss launch of Majamba. The festival will start on the 17th of July 2012 and we will be there rocking with the fans.

If you are lucky enough to have a ticket already, we will see you at Paleo. We are cooking something special with Enea, Mattia, Maya, Fed, Diego, Nico, Rajiv and with Jeannine and Alex's guidance. We will be announcing something new soon...Free Hugs and Much, Much More...

An Awesome Sense of Accomplishment

Compassion: Norbulingka Institute, Dharmsala, India 

We have just completed a giant roller coaster trip of Northern, Central and Western India. Here is the route we followed - La Sarraz-Geneva-Zurich-Delhi-Dhramsala-Delhi-Jabalpur-Delhi-Mumbai-Ahmedabad-Delhi-Zurich-Geneva-La Sarraz. We met new friends, thanked old friends, received blessings from elders and reconnected with cousins. Overall, we are blessed with an awesome sense of accomplishment and here is why?

1. In every city, we received re-confirmation that what we are doing is something good: Building a global market for handmade goods is clearly seen as a positive thing. And building a platform where anyone can discover good people, projects and products is very challenging because creating the human network of social enterprises, advertisers, Majambassadors, developers, designers, marketing experts and support teams (lawyers, accountants) and early adopters takes time & perseverance.

2. We met with three incredible people in Dharmsala, Mumbai and Delhi, who have agreed to become Majamba Ambassadors (Fellowship Track). We will be announcing their names soon.

3. We met with five social enterprises in Dharmsala and Ahmedabad that will be publishing a part of their catalog on Majamba.Me

4. We thanked the development team in Ahmedabad for their hard work and valuable advice.

5. We were blessed by our family in Delhi who took the time to visit us for a dinner honoring my mother who also enjoyed the first of a kind party.

6. And we sat down with my Uncle in Mumbai who advised us to tweak the business model; create a sharper value proposition and complete the foundation (team and platform) before launching the marketing campaign. Currently planned for October 2012.

Wandering in India

Wandering in India!

In the next three weeks, we will be meeting people who are doing good around the world and are based in India. Looking forward to sharing some good stories with you. Our goal is to boost our fair trade catalog with more products. As well as meet people who can provide leadership to build a community of members who do good and get goodies.

Who are the thinkers behind Majamba?

Part of the Majamba team (who showed up for the photo shoot)

Thanks to Enea, Maya, Fed, Jeannine and Mattia (who are in the photo) as well as Nico, Diego, Shyam, Chandan, Deepak, Aslam, Narendra, Chirag, Anil, Jaldip, Nandini, Rahul, Fabrice, Bhaskar, Chris, Jeff, Damien, Timm, Marc, Tom, Noel, Joe, Mathias, Alex, Ramakrishna, Manish, Mike, Simon, Sebastien, Laurent, Dipankar, Caroline, Thomas, Sandy, Didier and many months of research, planning, development, user testing, partnership management, integration, more development, launching test campaign and polishing - I am pleased to report that Majamba.Me is fully functional. In the process I have invested all my life's savings, received recognition and investment from the Swiss Government, made some very good friends and found a way to end global poverty. 

What is Majamba.Me?

Majamba.Me is an innovation that turns social interaction into social good. Majamba.Me is the world's most rewarding way to introduce yourself. As a member you create a visual profile page. You select a photo that tells your story. You can add a few words and your social links. Your visual profile is the front page of your world on the Internet. Its your social resume, your social card. And the more views your profile on Majamba.Me gets, the more Majamba Hugs you get and you can use your hugs to get fair trade gifts for free. Thus creating jobs for the hardest working people on the planet. 

What is the Goal?

Once we achieve 100M active users, we will be able to have a direct impact on lifting 100M from poverty in a dignified way. The Majamba.Me platform is in open beta and I am inviting a few selected friends and family to try the platform, create a profile, share with friends. Our lead social enterprises is SEWA.ORG and our goal is to sign up hundreds of social enterprises. 

Why do this?

Today, 3,260,000,000 people try to live on less than $2.50 a day. Today, most of the ways of supporting them (donations or micro-loans) either destroy their dignity or burden them with a cycle of debt. Moreover the Internet revolution is passing them by because most of the 3.26 billion people living around the poverty line cannot read, write and most of them do not even have electricity. Sometimes, the only skill our friends have is to produce handmade goods. However, most of the time, they do not get a fair deal for their efforts, hence the cycle of poverty persists. I want to leverage my MBA, my business experience, the Majamba.Me platform as well as all my energy to make a dent on global poverty.