------------------------------------------------- Early years[edit] Fernandes was born in Kuala Lumpur to an Indian father (a physician‚ originally from Goa) and Portuguese-Eurasian mother‚ Ena Dorothy Fernandes of Malacca‚ Malaysia.[2][3] At a young age‚ he used to follow his mother‚ a businesswoman‚ to Tupperware dealer parties and conventions. He was educated at The Alice Smith School in Kuala Lumpur‚ Epsom College from 1977 to 1983 and graduated from the London School of Economics in 1987. He
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Wikipedia . I read an article about Tony Fernandes‚ the CEO of AirAsia‚ in The Economist today that got me thinking. Thinking about the last few articles I’ve written about United Airlines‚ RyanAir and Southwest Airlines – on how they make money off their customers – what what works and what doesn’t. There’re a lot of airlines in the US and Europe can learn from Tony Fernandes and AirAsia (+ Azran and AirAsiaX). Here’s how the article in The Economist ended. “Mr Fernandes says that he came to the industry
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Entrepreneurs are innovators or developer who recognizes and seize opportunities; converts those opportunities into a workable/marketable idea; adds value through time‚ effort‚ money or skills; assumes the risk of the competitive marketplace to implement these ideas and realizes the rewards from these efforts (Kuratko‚ 2009). Based on this explanation‚ we can assume that entrepreneurs are people who take risks and efforts to venture into a new business. In order for them to take such risks‚ they
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Most Successful Entrepreneurs Of The Year Philippines 2005 ________________________________________ ENGINEER GREGORIO G. SANCHEZ‚ JR. Founder Lacto Bacillus Pafi Techno Resources Corp. Innovation Entrepreneur 2005 Engr. Gregorio G. Sanchez just had to find a way to keep alive the hundreds of piglets in his livelihood program. A kitchen experiment resulted in a food supplement formula that fattened the piglets and eventually‚ became the foundation of a full-blown business. Engr
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Jessica Fernandes has a life experience‚ personality‚ current activities‚ and future educational goals that point to a doubtless success in the vegan food business. She was born in Brazil‚ but moved to the United States at six years of age. Growing bi-cultural‚ besides of having contact with many other ethnicities‚ gave Jessica Fernandes a broad perspective of choices of food. Besides the various cultural influences‚ Jessica was impacted on her concept of food by the consideration that
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As I do every Sunday morning‚ I awake to read the Tonys - Tony Becca and Tony Cozier - before I prepare for church and the upcoming week. Each Sunday‚ my four-year-old daughter’s hair needs to be washed‚ she needs to get a bath‚ her clothes pressed‚ and her breakfast prepared before she’s off to Sunday School. Oftentimes‚ I’ll catch Becca’s article in the wee hours of the morning before the world awakes and disrupts my peace and quiet with its crazed rush after dawn. For Cozier’s piece‚ I’d have
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wants to start his company‚ there are a lot of things that they should know because it ’s very hard. This essay was written after a long research about different topics related to entrepreneurs‚ the common characteristics and traits that lead a successful career. This paper will describe what it takes to be an entrepreneur and how a person may become one. It will also be focused on the things that are elemental to start your own business. Introduction For some people‚ being the boss‚ having the
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CONTENTS COMPARISON OF ENTREPRENEUR 1. Introduction Entrepreneur are one unique individuals that establishes and manages a business for the principal purpose of profit and growth. The entrepreneur is characterized by innovative behavior and implement strategic management practices in the business (Gartner‚ 1989). It is very important for any business students to know how entrepreneurs act and behave in order to learn and become successfull entrepreneurs in the future. Therefore‚ in this
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1.0 INTRODUCTION AeroCookies has started as a small business during fasting month in 2009. The original business started with just three types of cookies to be sold at “Pasar Ramadan” Bandar Baru Salak Tinggi and Subang Jaya. Before starting the business‚ we had been in discussion to in what business that we wanted to involve in for the 2009 fasting month. The first thing we had to do was to identify the needs and wants of customer’s during the fasting month. After identifying the needs and wants
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Question 1 Breaking up the market into segments by the Entrepreneur can be the key to a small business’s success. The beauty of target marketing is that it makes the promotion‚ pricing and distribution of the Business’ products and/or services easier. The process could be carried out on the basis of Geographic‚ Demographic and Psychographic considerations. The process could also help identify feasible business opportunities; but the Entrepreneur needs to answer several questions including the following:
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