Don’t even think about starting a business or in fact anything if you are guilty of the following:
1. Do you ever ask “Why should I try to be successful?”
2. Do you consider money dirty , un-cool , or pretentious?
3. Do you have negative opinions about wealthy people?
4. Are you afraid of making more money than […]
Mothers at home are getting busy making a fortune with a kitchen table business, over this week UKpreneur features three women from Ireland making a start:
Women often face a tough decision after having a baby – should they return to the workforce or should they forget about their career and concentrate on being a stay-at-home […]
Nick Boehle, the entrepreneurial 27-year-old killed last week in a Mesa plane crash, launched his medical diagnostics business with a well-worn desk in a Phoenix hospital eight years ago.
The Scottsdale man told a friend he needed “an office so people would think I was reputable.”
“He had this dinky little office in a hospital, a ‘Sanford […]
From a database of nearly 21 million companies reviewed by Entrepreneur magazine and research provider CentrisPoint, Simply Self Storage was distinguished as one of the nation’s “Hot 100, The Fastest Growing Businesses in America” for 2008. The company ranked No. 1 on the list for its rapid sales and job growth, among other select criteria. […]
Bilha Maina could not have ignored the chance to invest Sh500,000 of her savings on a Jatropha plantation in Matuu where her family owns 40 acres of land.
Ms Maina is the CEO of Adopt a Village an enterprise that grows Jatropha trees and trades them to farmers, and industries that are seeking alternative energy sources.
Lately, […]
At age 10, Seth Davis would go door-to-door offering his lawn mower service to any neighbor who would give him a chance.
Back then, the child showed a budding chutzpah, said Mel Kornbluh, the father of one of Davis’ childhood friends.
“He was never afraid of a challenge, never afraid to try anything,” Kornbluh said recently.
That same […]
If the men are doing it so are the women. From opening restaurants to starting hotels, actresses are also blurring the lines between the worlds of Bollywood and business.
While actors like Mithun Chakraborty, Shah Rukh Khan and Suniel Shetty are thriving in the business world, their counterparts Sushmita Sen, Aishwarya Rai and Preity Zinta are […]
Ron Sim is an entrepreneur at heart. As a child, he sold noodles on the streets of Singapore for pocket money. In the early 1980s he set up a trading company selling household goods and appliances. Over time, that evolved into Osim, which today generates most of its 380 million dollar annual revenues from high-end […]
Company: OpenDNS
Funding: $2 million from Cnet (CNET) Founder Halsey Minor
Ulevich wants to change the way you call up Web sites. So his company, OpenDNS, has come up with what it considers a faster, smarter, and more secure method for translating requested URLs into corresponding sites. It helps companies guard against phishing schemes and bar employees […]
Company: FriendFeed
Funding: $5 million in February 2008 from the two co-founders and Benchmark Capital
Taylor and Norris left Google (GOOG) last July to start FriendFeed, a startup that’s tackling the thorny issue of helping people organize the growing array of social networks and services they use. FriendFeed lets subscribers pull together on a single Web site […]