From the monthly archives: June 2008
Houston technology entrepreneur Eric Pulaski is hoping his new software venture ends as successfully as his last one. In October 2005, Pulaski sold the company he founded a few years earlier, BindView, to computer security giant Symantec for $209 million. He’s been flying under the radar for the last two and a half years, [...]
I have been working with a youth group from a local church over the past two months and we had a talk one Sunday from a 19 year old entrepreneur that spent 4 years in prison! He got out on his 18th Birthday and started a business providing debt advice from his bedsit in Nottingham. [...]
A BIRMINGHAM man whose invention turns fallen leaves into fuel has been backed by millionaire Ben Way. Peter Morrison, based in Hockley, has created Leaf Log which converts dead leaves into coal substitute. The 43-year-old inventor has caught the eye of Channel 4 Secret Millionaire entrepreneur Way, who offered an undisclosed amount to the [...]
The death has been announced of Manchester entrepreneur and philanthropist Mohammed Ameen Marfani. Marfani, who was 75, emigrated from Pakistan in 1953 and set up a number of companies including Tarameen Ltd and Marfani and Co, with interests in textiles importing and property. He co-founded Manchester’s Pakistani Resource Centre in 1966 with his wife Maureen, [...]
Negar Ehteshami just paid the equivalent of $6 million in rials in cash for a luxurious apartment. But it is not in New York or London. It is in the capital of the Islamic Republic of Iran. “I am a millionaire because of this 300-square-metre apartment,” said Ehteshami, a 56-year-old interior designer from a rich [...]
Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama made a total of $4 million from book royalties last year, according to the Illinois senator’s financial disclosure report released Friday. That dwarfed the book royalties of his Republican opponent Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who earned about $175,000 in combined book royalties over the last year. The reports, which [...]
MOTHERWELL FC chairman John Boyle got married in a £250,000 ceremony in the sun yesterday. The 55-year-old millionaire owner of Zoom Airlines flew 150 guests to the Atlantic tourist island of Bermuda where they saw him tie the knot with accountant Donna Barrie, 44. The Proclaimers were the wedding band and the guest list [...]
A company that promoted a “miracle cure” for dyslexia has gone into liquidation. Thousands of parents and staff may have been left out of pocket by the collapse of the company, which was taking advance payments until the day it closed. Dore, named after its founder Wynford Dore, had set up clinics around the world offering [...]
Paul Ramsey of private hospital operator Ramsay Health Care comes in at number 32 this year, with a $1.1 billion fortune that started with a 16-bed psychiatric facility he created in the 1960s. And in 2008 Primary Health managing director Dr Ed Bateman has again shown there’s money to be made in general practice [...]
The fact that more women are choosing to start their own business is ‘really good news’, says the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB). According to the organisation, the number of women running their own start-ups is ‘increasing rapidly’. A spokesperson for the FSB says that women tend to found their own firms later in [...]
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