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Mafatlal's first job was with one of her father's businesses?a purveyor of industrial fabric for conveyor belts. She went on to build her own business selling modular kitchens before founding MLP. "As an entrepreneur, I identified that our lifestyle is changing," she says. "We're on the upward curve of the retail boom, although the market is still not a mature market. I wanted to start with the right brand to spell Western luxury...
...kings of karaoke: they invented it, continue to improve sound-quality technology (if not the human voice part) and introduced karaoke boxes - private singing rooms for small groups. And anyone in London can now indulge in this latest twist on the popular Asian pastime, thanks to lastminute.com entrepreneur Martha Lane Fox. Her brainchild is [an error occurred while processing this directive] the Soho-based Lucky Voice, the British capital's most authentically Japanese karaoke bar featuring nine private rooms that hold up to 12 people. Once you and your fellow croonies have settled onto the semicircular benches in your snug...
...determine the best solutions instead of having governments bet on what they think are going to be the winning innovations. That vision is one reason a Republican Governor and a Democratic legislature were able to agree on the global-warming act and many business leaders--including Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned environmental activist Bob Epstein--got behind...
...Argenbright started his new company, AirServ, in 2002, contracting with airlines to provide workers who check passenger IDs at checkpoints, along with services such as ticket processing, bus transportation and cargo handling. And now that his business once again could be supplanted by the federal government, the airline security entrepreneur is not shy about expressing his ongoing frustration...
...city of Shenzhen, cradle of China's industrial revolution, is usually associated with impoverished migrant workers and cheerless gray factories churning out cheap toys, T shirts and sneakers for the world. While that gritty image represents Shenzhen's past, entrepreneur Pony Ma is a harbinger of its future. The 34-year-old Ma is an Internet tycoon with a fortune of nearly $500 million, thanks to the success of the Shenzhen company he founded in 1998, Tencent, China's largest instant-messaging service with 532 million registered users. The company's home is a tidy, landscaped campus where employees...