Want to start a business and earn loads of money? Have no money to get started, then read and be inspired! Ingvar Kamprad Net worth: $31 billion World’s richest retailer and founder of furniture store Ikea. Kamprad began to develop a business as a young boy, selling matches to neighbors from his bicycle. He [...]

  Brazil is a country with a foot in two camps – part rich, mainly poor, so it’s a good place to take the financial pulse of a global phenomenon like the internet. Brazilians love the web. Not everyone has access, but those who do spend an average of 70 hours a month online, which [...]

  Cyrus Adkisson doesn’t have a business plan for Trubz, doesn’t know if he’ll make a dime off it. And he’s proud of that. At the very least, Adkisson figures his Internet application will bring him exposure in the technology start-up community, and that’s a good thing. Making money off the application would be a [...]

  CARDIFF entrepreneur Shazia Awan has been named the UK’s best female Asian entrepreneur. The 28-year-old took the prestigious title at the annual Asian Women of Achievement Awards at London’s Park Lane Hilton on Wednesday night. Ms Awan was nominated following the success of her start-up company Peachy Pink. Its ladies anti-cellulite and body-shaping underwear [...]

Ben Terrill is bringing the milk man back to Middletown — and he’s extending the job description. The 34-year-old father of two said he got the idea for his new business, Go Grocery Express, after working as a grocery store manager for a year. Seeing elderly customers struggle to shop for groceries and also finding [...]

  Mark Bowness is a creative old chap – successfully founding Tribewanted.com he is now about to launch a new concept here in the UK called Rock Control. Kicking off in two weeks the website is calling for talented musicians an singers to upload a 60 sec video demonstrating their talents. The public will then [...]

  A UNIVERSITY student has set up a new business to bring the gadgets of the rich and famous to a wider market. Tom Kadwill, 19, is in the early days of an online venture called Tekrux, supplying automated technology for lighting and other electrical appliances around the home. He has two suppliers, one in [...]

THE husband of millionaire businesswoman Kavita Oberoi has started a new business – in the same building as his wife. Deven Oberoi said Oberoi Grand Interiors, at Pride Park, was fast becoming the third successful business created by the entrepreneurial family. His wife is the boss of Derby IT company Oberoi Consulting and appeared on [...]

  Don’t tell Rebecca Ramos she can’t do something, because she’ll start learning it right away. She has taught herself how to build Web sites, design graphics and make jewelry. Now she’s learning to weld.“I just never thought there was anything I couldn’t do,” Ramos said. Such spirit has propelled her through five start-ups. Ramos, [...]

  Launching a company need not be daunting. Just ask serial entrepreneur Maria Elena Ibañez. While in the beauty parlor one Saturday, Ibañez got to chatting with a woman experienced in the Hispanic food business. That’s when she decided to launch Intermark Foods and hired that woman to start the following Monday. Ibañez moved so [...]