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An hour long look at controversial and outspoken British billionaire Mohammed Al Fayed who is best known for a hostile takeover of Harrod’s as well as being the father of Dodi Fayed who died with Princess Diana back in 1997. Continue reading
RBS: Inside the Bank That Ran Out of Money (BBC Documentary)
This is a thoroughly riveting look at the rise and fall of the Royal Bank of Scotland from an overly aggressive mergers & acquisitions-based growth strategy. While the story is about publicly-traded companies there are still a lot of insights for for entrepreneurs interested in growth via acquisitions. There’s also plenty of under-stated British humor in there as should be in any story about people with out-sized egos. Continue reading
Wired magazine says go to Africa and get involved with Internet related projects.
Quoting the article: Continue reading
Being a Billionaire is Strange, Microsoft Co-Founder Tells Students
This is the single best piece part from this article on Bill Gates: Continue reading
Amazon Is Cutting Publishers Out of the Action By Dealing Directly With the Authors
In business school they teach you to analyze the supply chain in an industry, identify the fat cats making excessive profits, and then look for ways to displace them. Jeff Bezos and Amazon are masters at this disruptive growth strategy. They first did it by displacing book stores and selling direct to the public. (I’m the first to admit that this has had its downside as I have always enjoyed my trips to bookstores. Moreover, you couldn’t really call independent bookstores “fat cats,” but they were vulnerable to displacement.) Next Amazon launched the Kindle creating a new Blue Ocean market for digital books and helping to save a lot trees. Continue reading
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