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The Bizman of Qatar: Khalil Sholy
With Qatar winning the 2022 World Cup Bid, I thought it would be interesting to delve into who are some of the current entrepreneurs living in this country and also what is the status of it’s business. As one might assume, land development would probably be the countries biggest business right now. Thus I stumbled [...]
Fastest Growing Companies of 2009 by Fortune and CNBC
To anyone who has not already seen it, this is a fantastic episode below hosted by CNBC and Fortune Magazine. Interviews are conducted with CEO’s from some of the fastest growing companies of 2009. It is a top ten list, David Letterman style. A wide spectrum of businesses is covered including fashion, food, oil and [...]
Charlie Rose interviews Groupon.com CEO Andrew Mason
To anyone who did not catch it last night on Charlie Rose, below are some snippets from the Andrew Mason interview (Founder/CEO of Groupon), in which he describes the beginnings of his business and continued success. This guy must be confident that he is heading in the right direction, considering he just turned down a [...]
TAPOUT Forbes Profile: Tapping into Wealth
Below is an outstanding video on the behind the scenes rise of MMA apparel brand TAPOUT. Co-founder Dan Caldwell is interviewed and details the beginnings of the company and the various problems he faced, like credit card companies halting expansion once large amounts of orders began rolling in. Not having a business model at the [...]
Mind over Money
The below is a great in depth video which analyzes the emotions surrounding decision making regarding money. Throughout the episode, various “social experiments” are conducted, creating somewhat interesting results. There are interviews with business school professors from Harvard, Chicago Booth, Yale and Stanford. Also interviewed are economist Robert Shiller, investor Jeremy Grantham, and many other [...]
French Fries for Franchise
A friend of mine is moving forward in the process to open a franchise in his hometown back east. Obviously this endeavor costs substantial investment, but exactly how much for specific brands. I was happy to find Entrepreneur.com’s 2011 Franchise 500 list, which ranks, and gives approximate start up costs (it is not 100% accurate [...]
More Cash for Pete Cashmore (Mashable CEO)
Great Bloomberg Venture interview below with Pete Cashmore (CEO of Mashable). I recently saw Pete in Forbes’s 30 under 30 which states “with 20 million monthly unique visitors, [Mashable] is almost as large as Huffington Post was when AOL bought it for $315 Million last year” Mashable is: -One of the most profitable blogs on [...]
