Archive for December, 2008

Watch Richard Branson’s New York video diary

Following Richard’s previous video diary of his day in London promoting his new book Business Stripped Bare, this next ‘day in the life’ film follows Richard on a recent whirlwind day around New York including TV interviews and a book signing session at Virgin Megastore in Times Square…

Social responsibility - just business

In Business Stripped Bare, I have written a chapter which tells you about Virgin’s recent adventures in the territory where business and politics meet, and asked a few questions about where the forces of entrepreneurism might be headed in the next ten to a hundred years. I don’t think for an instant that big businesses [...]

An innocent entrepreneur

I’m full of admiration for people who build and start businesses on their own. Whilst we built a good business here at innocent, I’ve done it with my two best friends and we’re doing it together. I think we make a fantastic team and I certainly couldn’t have done this on my own. I don’t [...]

Meet Lazarus Seema

As described in the previous post about the Branson School of Entrepreneurship, Richard and Virgin Unite are supporting the next generation of entrepreneurs in South Africa. Watch the video here to meet Lazarus Seema - one of the first students to graduate from the school and launch the business of his dreams, Milestone Communications. [...]

Richard Branson’s video diary

Ever wondered what a day in the life of Richard Branson was like? Well the Virgin Group chairman recorded a video diary over one eventful day while visiting London to promote his new book Business Stripped Bare.

The Branson School of Entrepreneurship

Following up on recent posts about what it takes to be an entrepreneur, I think it’s interesting to also consider how entrepreneurs can have a positive impact on wider society, especially in places like South Africa where they are identifying gaps, providing critical new services and creating jobs.  In fact, it’s been reported* that [...]

What does it take to be a Virgin entrepreneur?

Firstly, as CEO for the Virgin Group, I don’t think I am an entrepreneur – I’m a manager. A particularly successful entrepreneur has to have enthusiasm, passion, be extremely energetic and slightly irrational!
People will always tell you your idea won’t work. To be successful long term and across a lot of different businesses you need [...]

Add your name to the Every Human Has Rights pledge

Following up on Richard’s recent post about Entrepreneurs and leadership, I think one of the most exciting initiatives supported by Richard and Virgin Unite under this banner has been The Elders. This esteemed group of global leaders, headed by Nelson Mandela, Graça Machel and Desmond Tutu, are contributing their wisdom, independent leadership [...]

Entrepreneurs and leadership

In 2004 I did a programme called The Rebel Billionaire for Fox Television, where I was nice to people and then had to whittle them down to a winner. In one episode, I told a participant we were going to be the first to go over the Victoria Falls in a barrel. Annie Taylor was [...]

Innovation - it’s got to be real

Following on from Richard’s post on Innovation - I learned a really valuable lesson about Innovation recently. When I was a junior brand manager at Virgin Drinks about 10 years ago, I came up with a great idea, which I dubbed ‘Virgin water for the world’. I created a bottled water product in [...]