From the monthly archives: March 2010
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 [...]
Megan Hurley is quite the force on her soccer team. She is taking acting classes at Off Off Broadway, an acting school for kids in Phoenix. She has even started her own business and clothing line. All of this, and she’s only 8 years old. About a year ago, Megan approached her dad Daniel with an [...]
Becky Stockbridge McKinnell is young, in a hurry and knows what she wants. She was too busy growing iBec Creative, her startup web and graphic design firm in Portland, to apply to be considered a top entrepreneur under age 25 in BusinessWeek’s annual competition — something else she’s long wanted to do. On the cusp [...]
It took only a few weeks of research for Romanian entrepreneur Emi Gal to decide to base his digital media firm in London, and his choice confounds a fairly enduring set of stereotypes about Britain’s global appeal. International experts agree there has been genuine progress in the country which a few decades ago was fast [...]
At a time, when teens are glued to the computer screens playing games in the virtual world, there is a new breed of Indian Indian teens who are busy managing their own ventures in the real world. For example, Mohnish Nagpal runs a blog ‘Sensonize.com,’ through which he makes money online by advising people [...]
We just love stories like this at UKpreneur – keep them coming and do let us know about your venture. A high school freshman from Holland is making a name for himself in the cyber world. 14-year-old Zachary Collins sold his second Web site in less than a year to a company in California. [...]
For Art Koff, who had a successful career in advertising and communications for more than 40 years, just because he was beginning a retirement lifestyle lifestyle didn’t mean that he was ready to give up his passion, according to the Wall Street Journal. The entrepreneur knew that he needed something to do to occupy [...]
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