I’ve seen a lot of documentaries on Dubai but thought this one stood out. It focuses on the 120,000 English businessmen and women who have traveled to Dubai to find fortune in the country, and its booming real estate market. Video also addresses the credit crunch. Hosted by Piers Morgan.
This below is a great brief interview from the Wall street Journal with Bo Fishback, VP of Entrepreneurship from The Kauffman Foundation (Foundation with an asset base of $2 billion) on the fundamentals of raising capital. Most interesting is to notice that before considering Angel Investors or Venture Capitalists, one might consider Small Business Innovation [...]
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 [...]
Pretty interesting background on the creator of Red Bull. Austrian entrepreneur and former marketing executive Dietrich Mateschitz actually discovered the drink in Thailand, which was previous called Krating Daeng (see below) Dietrich found the concoction to be a great deterrent against jet lag during business trips, and thus used his marketing skills to change the [...]
Whenever I’m getting a haircut I always notice all those Paul Mitchell bottles shelved up high, or in the hands of some hair stylists aggressively selling it to me. There must be a good story behind this brand which is constantly in ones face. Due to the packaging, most people know the name Paul Mitchell, [...]
John Arnold was raised in Dallas, earned a degree from Vanderbilt University in 3 years, and eventually became a trader at Enron in 1995. This alone was impressive, as getting a job at Enron in 1995 was no simple task. Back then the firm only recruited about four economics majors from Vanderbilt each year. Arnold [...]
To anyone who hasn’t seen it already, Bloomberg TV has created some excellent webisodes entitled Game Changers, profiling various entrepreneurs (Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Henry Kravis, Jon Stewart, Jay Z and Sergei Brin & Larry Page). For example, most people know that Larry Ellison created Oracle and that this is how he amassed his great [...]
This article by Worth.com in the link below is a MUST SEE! The top 100 most influential people in finance are listed with a description of their path to power. Also listed are some of the power moves they made to propel their influence. Profiles include Lloyd Blankfeind, Angela Merkel, Warren Buffet, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Rupert [...]
