Category Archives: Entrepreneurship
For the past three years Queen's University School has been running a team-based Stage 4 project which serves as a “capstone” project, as well as a vehicle for training students in entrepreneurship. The student teams are tasked with designing and [...]
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Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is a British industrialist, best known for his Virgin Group of over 360 companies.
At age 16, Branson had his first successful business venture, publishing a magazine called Student. In 1970, he [...]
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Internet marketing, also referred to as i-marketing, web-marketing, online-marketing or e-Marketing, is the marketing of products or services over the Internet.
Internet marketing ties together creative and technical aspects of the Internet, including: design, development, advertising, and sales.
Internet marketing also refers [...]
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The iPhone, Facebook, and Google’s mobile operating system, Android, have been instrumental in developing a completely new business niche – the application, or ‘app’ for brevity.
Whilst these applications are often simple games or utilities, the growing popularity of social networks [...]
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HE is the chairman of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and co-founder of Infosys Technologies Ltd. THE CHALLENGE: The UIDAI, too, is like a start-up. My prior success in no way guarantees success in this world and if I [...]
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Many authors (refer: Swayne and Tucker, 1973; Kahneman and Lovallo, 1994; Baron, 1998; Stewart et al., 1998; Simon et al., 1999; Simon and Houghton, 2003; Baum and Lock, 2004; Mathews, 2008) have examined the traits and skills of the entrepreneur. [...]
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Barclays is a major global financial services provider. It operates in over 50 countries and employs more than 156,000 people. In 2008, Barclays had an income of £23 billion, generating a profit before tax of just over £6 billion. In [...]
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Every year thousands of entrepreneurs decide to set up their own business, anticipating great financial rewards. However, over half of new business start-ups fail in their first year. So what makes the difference between those and profitable business ventures? What [...]
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There were many hurdles on Patricia Narayan's way to become an entrepreneur. She has overcome all the hurdles and has bagged this year's 'FICCI Women Entrepreneur of the Year.' Now she is the owner of 'Sandeepha' brand of restaurant chain. [...]
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Brian Scudamore started his company 1-800-GOT-JUNK? in 1989 straight out of high school with $700 and a beat-up old pick-up truck. Today they have 95 franchise partners across North America with a true national presence — they are in 47 [...]
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