You can’t teach Many successful entrepreneurs — Bill Gates, Richard Branson — never attended business school, yet plenty of programs still claim they can teach it. Is entrepreneurship in the blood? And, how can big businesses harness it?
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Virgin Blue cuts the cost of survival
Virgin Blue is pinning its survival and expansion plan for the recession to much less cash than originally expected in the $231 million equity raising announced this morning.
Qantas’ lucky escape from a British Airways merger
Qantas’s infatuation with a merger with British Airways late last year has been shown up as the aviation equivalent of buying the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Media briefs: Community radio to Richard Branson: help!
In today’s media briefs, a Sydney community radio station comes up with a rich fundraising strategy, HuffPo internship costs $US13,000 and Google tells newspapers to buy robots.
Kernot: Where is Australia’s social innovation?
The Rudd government has failed to grasp the enormous potential to invest meaningfully in transformative social infrastructure, writes Cheryl Kernot.
Virgin stretches its brand
Virgin hasn’t exactly kept its logo pure. That said, perhaps it doesn’t need to — after all, it has a brand identity. His name is Richard Branson.
Flannery’s new gig is far out
Environmentalist Tim Flannery has come under fire after accepting a role as Richard Branson’s “environmental consultant” on green space travel.
Dear Richard Branson: best complaint letter eva
Crikey reproduces an amusing complaint letter that is floating around the interwebs about a Virgin flight, Mumbai to Heathrow on 7 December, 2008.
BSkyB to sue the British government?
Rupert Murdoch’s BSkyB is facing losses of hundreds of millions of dollars on its stake in British free to air network, ITV, after the UK Government confirmed a regulator’s order to sell more than half its 17.9% stake, writes Glenn Dyer.
Virgin deal might steer Austar to Foxtel
Could we be about to see some movement on the Foxtel attempts to buy its Pay TV rival, Austar?
