Richard Branson's "Student": A model we need

"Money.Cnn: What was the first business idea you came up with?

Richard Branson: I set up this magazine called Student when I was 16, and I didn't do it to make money - I did it because I wanted to edit a magazine. There wasn't a national magazine run by students, for students. I didn't like the way I was being taught at school. I didn't like what was going on in the world, and I wanted to put it right.

Of course, a lot of businesses want to reach students, so I funded the magazine by selling advertising. I sold something like $8,000 worth of advertising for the first edition, and that was in 1966. I printed up 50,000 copies, and I didn't even have to charge for them on the newsstand because my costs were already covered.

So I became a publisher by mistake - well, not quite by mistake, because I wanted to be an editor but I had to make sure the magazine would survive. The point is this: Most businesses fail, so if you're going to succeed, it has to be about more than making money."

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Let's make the magazine our passion, if you cannot, don't do it.

Asians rock the world with their unsurpassable usage of Internet

The graph below speaks for itself. TV is no more a "be-all", passive medium for Asians, being no more than an addictive medicine we plug-in to suppress the symptoms of loneliness and emptiness of our character. While internet, though a potential addiction as well, is nonetheless a "Two-way" medium in which the consumer not only consumes but is able to produce things as well, like for example this blog post I'm creating. Happily, the Asians, so-called 3rd world dwellers, are top users of internet worldwide.
Another surprising thing to note is that is the explosion of usage or growth within a span of 9 years in Asia. Internet Users by Dec. 31, 2000: 114,304,000. Latest data: 738,257,230. Increase in users: 42.6%, unsurpassed once again. And. These are not the blessings conferred upon us by the White Man.

Read complete analysis here.