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- Akio Morita
- The founder of electronics giant Sony was in the vanguard when it came to building brands and anticipating the internationalisation of markets.
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- The modern business owner
- Shifting perceptions of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurialism mean people should find it easier to draw inspiration from business.
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- BusinessWings salutes: the Oracle of Omaha
- The credit crunch was no great surprise to Warren Buffett, the richest man in the world. BusinessWings pays tribute to the man whose business advice is gospel.
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- Anil Ambani
- An electricity mogul, Anil Ambani makes for an unlikely Indian MTV Youth Icon of the Year...
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- David Filo and Jerry Yang
- Filo and Yang started Yahoo so that students at Stanford could find the websites they wanted. Ten Years later the web portal is used around the globe.
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- The secrets of success
- Two economic experts have published their findings as to why some businesses have been run more successfully than others.
- See more in: LSE, London School of Economics, Body Shop, Last FM, Webvan, Dos and don'ts, BT Business, guides
- Buying friends reunited and other silly decisions
- New-media mistakes made by people who are usually surefooted.
- See more in: new media, internet, online, technology, social networking, MySpace, Facebook, Friends Reunited, ITV, Mark Zuckerberg, Rupert Murdoch, Bill Gates, Microsoft
- Maximising the value of your business
- Running a small business in the current climate, it's even more important to focus on strategy - so says Jamie Hope of Catalyst Finance.
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- Work-life balance important to women entrepreneurs
- Results from an Everywoman.com survey suggest that the cliched desire to be your own boss is not the only motivator for female entrepreneurs.
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- Tim Berners-Lee
- The inventor of a communications medium so powerful that even the combined might of Teletext and Ceefax wouldn't be able to compete with his idea...
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- Mark Zuckerberg
- Meet the business inspiration behind the social networking phenomenon Facebook.
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- Kerry Packer
- While the game's detractors would say cricket is anything but colourful, Packer literally brought colour into the sport, doing away with uniformally white kits when he set up the World Series after failing to get the Australian test cricket TV rights.
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- Larry Ellison
- The other software billionaire. The one with the beard.
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- Trevor Baylis
- How many professional inventors can you name apart from Trevor Baylis? And you can't include Dr Emmett Brown from Back to the Future. Trevor doesn't want a monopoly though - he set up a foundation to help other inventors.
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- Henry Ford
- He was nice enough to give people Saturdays off, but they couldn't make the most of it on Friday nights because he tied the profit share scheme to their lifestyle!
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