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...South African entrepreneur named Mike Nunn, who was buying tanzanite from local miners, spotted an opportunity. He recalls drinking a beer on the hood of his Land Cruiser?the snow on "Kili" pink in the sun's glow?and studying the mining operations below. He had come from the Block D zone reserved for small-scale miners and was headed to Block B, a second area for locals, studded like D with a jumble of corrugated-iron roofs, holes and ladders marking each small claim. But between them was a large dirt stretch with no activity. He made inquiries...
Capitalizing on the spirit of the national corporate-sponsored “EntrepreneurshipWeek USA,” the six-month-old Harvard College Entrepreneurship Forum (HCEF) has organized three campus-wide discussions this week in support of students’ commercial creativity. The first discussion, “Student Entrepreneurs: Staging a Company in Between Classes,” held Monday, centered on the practicalities of becoming an entrepreneur at Harvard—namely what students can do to meet challenges they face while pursuing their enterprise ideas. The informal discussion was facilitated by Vice President and co-founder...
Welcome to the prelaunch program of Virgin Galactic, which hopes to be the world's first private spaceline, with liftoff by 2009. The adventure-addicted British entrepreneur says that over its first 10 years Virgin Galactic will send 50,000 civilians on a thrill ride more than 62 miles (100 km) up into space--to escape gravity and ogle our small fragile planet. Initial cost for the two-hour adventure...
...gold of any mines on earth today. (Earth's gold results from some of those asteroids crashing into the planet.) "While exploration is going on, we can use those natural resources. There is no life there, no ownership, no private-property rights," he points out. No rules--an entrepreneur's dream...
...have to start something to make a difference. You may be able to work with a group targeting the same needs. "Putting in 10 hours a week is no small thing and shouldn't be minimized," says Howard Husock, director of the social entrepreneur program at the Manhattan Institute, a think tank that promotes civic innovation. You also may be able to do your own thing within an existing nonprofit with a related mission. This could speed your launch, reduce overhead and leave open the possibility of a spin-off down the road...