LIFE OF AN ENTREPRENEUR

I will make this interesting by picking one of the world’s most famous, richest and successful entrepreneurs as a case study. I must mention that the man is a personal role model to me and a lot of us who have read about him.  With over 200 companies to his name, he is a serial entrepreneur, we will look in depth into how this man manages his large estate, family and society. He is the manager’s manager. We will be looking closely into the live of Sir Richard Branson as an entrepreneur. He stated his career as an entrepreneur at a very young age and has built himself an empire.

Sir Richard Branson was born in 1950. Branson was born in Black heath, London, the son and eldest child of barrister Edward James Branson and Eve Huntley Branson (née Flindt). Branson was educated at Scaitcliffe School (now Bishops gate) until the age of thirteen, he then attended Stowe School until the age of sixteen. Branson has dyslexia and had poor academic performance as a student but later discovered his ability to connect with others. He set up Student magazine at age sixteen

In 1970, Branson started his record business from the crypt of a church where he ran The Student. Branson advertised popular records in The Student Magazine. He founded Virgin as a mail order record retailer, and shortly afterwards he opened a record shop on Oxford Street, London. In 1972 he built a recording studio in Oxford shire where the first Virgin artist, Mike Oldfield, recorded 'Tubular Bells'.

In 1977 he signed the Sex Pistols and he went on to sign many household names from Culture Club to the Rolling Stones, helping to make Virgin Music one of the top six record companies in the world.

With over 200 companies in over 30 countries, the Virgin Group has now expanded into leisure, travel, tourism, mobile, broadband, TV, radio, music festivals, finance and health and through Virgin Green Fund he his investing in renewable energy and resource efficiency.