From the monthly archives: December 2008
TWO years ago, Naif Al Mutawa started up his own comic-book series, spurred by the dearth of Arabic-language children’s books in the Middle East. Now the 37-year-old Kuwaiti entrepreneur and his small company, backed by Islamic-compliant private investors, are lining up deals that could help him build a children’s entertainment powerhouse in the Arab [...]
An Austin entrepreneur plans to turn a parent’s struggle to keep up with baby gear into a new Web-based business. Jeff Chambers, the founder of two technology companies, has launched Babyslist Inc. The venture is designed to help parents save money with an online marketplace for parents to swap, buy and sell used baby-related [...]
Afzal Kahn, who purchased the UK’s most expensive number plate, F1, for more than £440,000 in January, is putting together a consortium who are preparing a bid for the club. A source close to Kahn told The Daily Telegraph last night: “Afzal has been interested in buying the club for a while now. He [...]
The economic slump may have rattled markets, but Russia’s rich showed their resilience at the weekend by splashing out on luxury goods at an annual Millionaire Fair, the organiser said in an interview.Yves Gijrath, founder and president of GMG Events B.V., said no figures for total sales at the four-day event were available, but he [...]
Robert Kiyosaki, famous author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad says: “Why climb the corporate ladder, when you can own the ladder?”
Here is a great article on hot trends for 2009 – want to start a business next year but no ideas? Star here: GREEN Decades in the making, this $209 billion market has its roots in everything from water to energy to food. Look especially to organics, clean energy, alternative fuels, and water reuse and [...]
Holed up in a loft in downtown Chicago, eight young tech wizards are flying in the face of recession woes and doing what most big businesses are finding an impossible task – growing. midVentures, a Loop-based startup, was founded in August by Geoff Domoracki, a 23-year-old University of Chicago graduate who found an untapped [...]
One of the reasons so many people don’t become entrepreneurs is because they’re afraid of failing. They’re afraid of making mistakes. They’re afraid of losing money. But if people can’t overcome these psychological fears, they’d be better off keeping their day jobs. In the early 1980s, when my first major business failed, I thought I [...]
Matt Moulding, founder of Northwich-based The Hut.com, has won the Bank of Scotland’s national £35m Entrepreneur Challenge competition. Moulding, whose £27m turnover company provides white label websites selling DVDs, CDs and entertainment products for high street retailers such as Asda, Boots and Phones4U, won the regional North West heat of the competition two weeks ago. [...]
The 26-year-old, a former Microsoft employee who helped put together the Windows Home Server product, founded a company called Esgut within months of the debut of Facebook’s developer platform in May 2007. Esgut is a portfolio of Facebook applications, and a few of them, like Superlatives and Entourage, became genuine viral hits. In April, [...]
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