Word: entrepreneur
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...quick fix. In the quest for a high per capita income, the society is moving forward in much the same way it handled the monkey issue - creating problems, analyzing those problems in retrospect, critiquing the possible solutions and finally learning to coexist with the problem. Then some entrepreneur sees a business opportunity: Let's bring in bigger monkeys to solve the problem of the smaller ones. The entrepreneur's income adds to the gdp, and society learns to coexist with the bigger problem. That's what India is today: brilliant entrepreneurs in a society that is content to coexist with...
...problem reflects the sad state of Indian society today. Indians see only the immediate trouble and its quick fix. In its quest for a high per capita income, the society is moving forward in much the same way it handled the monkey issue--creating problems and worse solutions. Some entrepreneur sees a business opportunity: Let's bring in bigger monkeys to solve the problem of the smaller ones. The entrepreneur's income adds to the GDP, and society learns to coexist with the bigger problem. That's India today: brilliant entrepreneurs content to coexist with poverty and corruption...
...billionaire cell-phone entrepreneur has promised millions of dollars to chosen African heads of state—and has given a Harvard lecturer the power to influence the selection. Mo Ibrahim, a Sudanese cell phone entrepreneur based in the United Kingdom, recently announced plans to offer a $5 million award to a retired sub-Saharan African head of state who he determines has demonstrated good governance while in office and democratically ceded his position to his successor. That amount is the largest prize the world has seen yet, surpassing the $1.3 million of this year’s 2006 Nobel...
...most people in the corporate world, the Caribbean is the perfect spot for that next much needed vacation. Irish entrepreneur Denis O'Brien, however, eyed the island nations and saw just one thing: customers. In 2001, O'Brien had a bit of cash burning a hole in his pocket from the $2.46 billion sale of his first telecom venture, Esat Telecom Group PLC. By chance, he came upon a small notice from the government of Jamaica announcing that it was opening its local phone market--long monopolized by British telecom giant Cable & Wireless--to competition. At the time, Jamaicans...
...colorful silkscreened squares of paper that decorate Allan P. Sahagun ’09’s common room don’t exactly scream “entrepreneur.” But Sahagun, with art projects and websites, loves to be creative. Sahagun and his brother Aaron, a 2006 University of California-Berkeley grad, recently earned a spot on BusinessWeek’s list of the 25 Best Entrepreneurs Under 25 for their social networking site, Alumwire.com. The brothers developed the site, which connects college students and recent graduates with job opportunities, as a response to their own need...