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Blog Glob: "Entrepreneurialism Requires Risky Decision-Making"

Excerpt from "Entrepreneurialism Requires Risky Decision-Making" (Medical News Today):Whether someone will become the next Richard Branson, Steve Jobs or Henry Ford may be down to whether they make risky decisions, scientists...

Do Customers Matter? Lessons Learned from iMode, Miller Lite, Nike and OurBeginning.com

As Peter Drucker says, it’s all about customers. Without customers, there can be no business. Without satisfying what the customers want or need, there will be no customers. It’s simple, really. So, why do most aspiring...

Butanol could power up biofuel

By DIRK LAMMERS ASSOCIATED PRESS David Zalubowski Associated Press Yassin Al Obaidi, a chemist at Gevo, holds up a container of biogasoline produced in the company\u2019s laboratory in Englewood, Colo. SIOUX FALLS, S.D. —...

Delta turns to Russian broadband for growth

There is tremendous room for growth in the broadband space in Russia and the CIS countries, where broadband penetration languishes below five per cent, according to advisory and investment firm Delta Partners. The firm has also...

Entrepreneurialism Requires Risky Decision-Making

Whether someone will become the next Richard Branson, Steve Jobs or Henry Ford may be down to whether they make risky decisions, scientists at the University of Cambridge have concluded. The article, published in the journal...

Tensions running high at easyJet between founder Stelios and chief Andy

Boardroom hostilities at easyJet boiled over yesterday with founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou threatening to install himself as chairman after raising his stake from 15.6 per cent to 26.9 per cent. Stelios is flexing his muscles...

EasyJet denies Gatwick takeover report

EasyJet, the low-fare airline, has denied a report that it is teaming up with Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic to launch a joint £2.5bn bid for Gatwick airport. The two airlines were reported to be in talks with financial...

TV ratings - November 13: Sky1 has a happy homecoming on Virgin Media

TV ratings: Sky1 has a happy homecoming on Virgin Media Noel's Are You Smarter than a 10-Year-Old?: gained an additional 178,000 viewers compared with last Thursday The return of BSkyB's basic channels to Virgin Media's 3.5m...

Now that's what I call success

I don't remember the first book I ever bought or the first film I went to see in the cinema. But I do remember the first album I bought with my own money. It was Now That's What I Call Music! 5 and it was in the summer of 1985....

Business success means taking risks

Risk taking is an important aspect of being a successful businessman, says a new study. To be someone like Richard Branson [Images], Steve Jobs or Henry Ford, an individual has to take risky business decisions, which can result...