A British web-millionaire is to launch a social networking site to help raise awareness about malaria worldwide.
Tom Hadfield set up Soccer.net when just a teen and sold the site for $40 million to to US sports network ESPN when he was just 17-years-old. He then managed to raise millions to setup Schoolsnet.com
However, he has now […]

Ex-offender Ira Brownlow, 31, did not let his past of drugs, poverty and violence  dictate his future. In 2002, while serving a four-year prison term for gun possession, Brownlow sat in his cell at Maryland Correctional Training Center in Hagerstown, Md., and filled out papers to register his cleaning company — Shyyning Path.
“Other inmates would […]

When life throws you some failure, turn it around!
Florist Moya Topsom was upset when she lost her job as manageress at a florist in Wymondham, but she then branched out on her own.
The 21-year-old had been working at Jasmine florists for three and a half years when the owners shuttered the business because of soaring […]

 
Execution is king!
Take this story of a struggling entrepreneurs story as inspiration: Baker tells her story and how she dealt with Wal-Mart
I became an inventor while working two jobs and taking night classes in Columbus. Every Monday, to reward my efforts, I’d treat myself to barbecued Buffalo wings - extra-saucy ones - for dinner.
One night, […]

 
If Michael Whelan’s dream comes true, the Atlantic ocean will soon help keep the lights on in Ireland. And if it does, it will complete a circuit for Whelan: 30 years ago he was a commercial diver working on North Sea oil and gas installations. Returning to Ireland in the 1980s, he started a marine […]

Neurosurgeon and entrepreneur James Doty, MD, was feeling generous when he agreed in 2000 to give a multimillion-dollar gift of stock to Stanford University School of Medicine, but he didn’t realize at the time that he would end up giving away his entire personal fortune.
Doty, who had planned to retire on his stock earnings and […]

 
As his mother tells it, Cade Larson was a lively 15-month-old who loved playing peekaboo and chase with other children and was quickly adding to his vocabulary of more than 50 words, including “fish,” “bowl” and “shoe.”
But then, said his mother, Jennifer VanDerHorst-Larson, Cade got vaccinations for measles, mumps and rubella, influenza and chicken pox on […]

 
Amy Rees Lewis was 24 when she started her first business, a reseller of medical software to doctor’s offices, from her home near Salt Lake City. “My daughter was a baby and my son was three and both of them had little desks in the office,” she says. After 10 profitable years running a series […]

 
I was very sad to learn of the news that Dame Anita Roddick had passed away yesterday evening, she was a great inspiration to many people, including myself and touched many peoples lives.
Her husband, Gordon, and daughters Sam and Justine were with her when she died at 1830 BST on Monday at St Richard’s Hospital […]

 
Mark Mills has to be one of my favourite and inspiring entrepreneurs of the times. From a young age of six Mark was making money selling boxes of broken biscuits to his mates that his aunt brought home from the factory she worked at. He then moved into crisps using his fathers cash and carry […]