GLOBAL ENTREPRENEUR

BY
N.MANOJ KUMAR
 Entrepreneur
• An entrepreneur is a person who has possession of a new
enterprise, venture or idea and assumes significant
accountability for the inherent risks.
• Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to the type of
personality who is willing to take upon himself a new
venture .

• Global Entrepreneur Programme , sometimes referred to

as GEP, was set up in 2003 by UK Trade & Investment. The
programme aim is to create high profit sustainable global
companies from pioneering start-ups, using the UK as a
strategic headquarters and base for international
expansion.
 BILL GATES
• William Henry "Bill" Gates III
(born October 28, 1955)is an
American business magnate,
philanthropist, author and
chairman of Microsoft, the
software company he
founded with Paul Allen.
• world's wealthiest people
• Gates is one of the best-
known entrepreneurs of the
personal computer revolution.
• After reading the January 1975 issue of
Popular Electronics that demonstrated the
Altair 8800, Gates contacted Micro
Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems
(MITS),
• the creators of the new microcomputer, to
inform them that he and others were working
on a BASIC interpreter for the platform.
Windows
• Microsoft launched its first retail version of
Microsoft Windows on November 20, 1985,
and in August, the company struck a deal with
IBM to develop a separate operating system
called OS/2.
Management style
• From Microsoft's founding in 1975 until 2006,
Gates had primary responsibility for the
company's product strategy.
• He aggressively broadened the company's
range of products, and wherever Microsoft
achieved a dominant position he vigorously
defended it.

Investments
• Cascade Investments LLC, a private investment and
holding company, incorporated in United States, is
controlled by Bill Gates, and is headquartered in the
city of Kirkland, WA.
• bgC3, a new think-tank company founded by Bill Gates.
• Corbis, a digital image licensing and rights services
company.
• TerraPower, a nuclear reactor design company.
 Steve Jobs
• Steven Paul Jobs (born February
24, 1955) is an American
business magnate and inventor.
He is well known for being the
co-founder and chief executive
officer of Apple.
• Jobs also previously served as
chief executive of Pixar
Animation Studios; he became a
member of the board of The
Walt Disney Company in 2006
• In 1976, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and
Ronald Wayne, with later funding from a then-
semi-retired Intel product-marketing manager
and engineer A.C. "Mike" Markkula
Jr.,founded Apple.
• In 1978, Apple recruited Mike Scott from
National Semiconductor to serve as CEO for
what turned out to be several turbulent years.
In 1983, Steve Jobs lured John Sculley away
from Pepsi-Cola to serve as Apple's CEO
• Around the same time, Jobs founded another
computer company, NeXT Computer.
• Like the Apple Lisa, the NeXT workstation was
technologically advanced; however, it was
largely dismissed by industry as cost-
prohibitive.
• Among those who could afford it, however,
the NeXT workstation garnered a strong
following because of its technical strengths,
chief among them its object-oriented software
development system.
Management style
• Much has been made of Jobs' aggressive and
demanding personality.
• He was awarded the National Medal of
Technology from President Ronald Reagan in
1985 with Steve Wozniak.
• In August 2009, Jobs was selected the most
admired entrepreneur among teenagers on a
survey by Junior Achievement
• On November 5, 2009, Jobs was named the
CEO of the decade by Fortune Magazine
 Richard Branson
• Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson
(born 18 July 1950) is a British
industrialist, best known for his
Virgin Group of over 360 companies.
• At age 16, Richard had his first
successful business venture,
publishing a magazine called
Student.
• In 1970, he set up an audio record
mail-order business.
• In 1972, he opened a chain of record
stores, Virgin Records, later known
as Virgin Megastores. Branson's
Virgin brand grew rapidly during the
1980s—as he set up Virgin Atlantic
Airways and expanded the Virgin
Records music label.
Business practices
• Branson's business empire is owned by a
complicated series of offshore trusts and
companies.
• When Virgin Mobile launched its service in
Canada on 1 March 2005, the use of "naughty
nurses" in its advertising triggered The Registered
Nurses Association of Ontario to demand an
apology from Branson and an immediate stop to
the campaign, and called on members to boycott
Virgin Mobile.
• Virgin Mobile spokeswoman Paula Lash said the
company never intended to offend anyone, but
was not about to pull the advertising.
• Humanitarian initiatives
• World record attempts
• Television, film, and print
• Politics

• In 1993, Branson was awarded an honorary

degree of Doctor of Technology from
Loughborough University
• On 7 December 2007, United Nations Secretary
General Ban Ki-Moon presented Branson with
the United Nations Correspondents Association
Citizen of the World Award for his support for
environmental and humanitarian causes.
 Michael Dell

• Michael Saul Dell (born

February 23, 1965) is an
American business magnate
and the founder and chief
executive officer of Dell Inc.
• He is one of the richest
people in the world, with a
net worth of US$14 billion
in 2010
• In January 1984, Dell registered his company as
"PC's Limited".
• In May, Dell incorporated the company as "Dell
Computer Corporation" and relocated it to a
business center in North Austin.
• In 1992 at the age of 27, Dell became the
youngest CEO to have his company ranked in
Fortune magazine’s list of the top 500
corporations.
• In 1996, Dell started selling computers over the
Web, the same year his company launched its
first servers. Dell Inc. soon reported about $1
million in sales per day from dell.com.
• In 1998, Dell founded MSD Capital to exclusively
manage his and his family's investments.
Investment activities include publicly-traded
securities, private equity activities, and real
estate.
• On March 4, 2004, Dell stepped down as CEO of
Dell Inc. but stayed as chairman of the board,
while Kevin B. Rollins, then president and COO,
became president and CEO.
• In July 2010 Dell agreed to pay a $4 million
penalty to settle SEC charges of disclosure and
accounting fraud in relation to undisclosed
payments from Intel Corporation. Dell
Corporation and two other company executives
also paid to settle all the charges.
 Mary Kay Ash
• Mary Kay Ash(May 12, 1918 –
November 22, 2001) was an
American businesswoman and
founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics,
Inc.
• Ash went to work for Stanley
Home Products, a direct sales firm
out of Houston.In 1963, Ash left
Stanley. Frustrated when passed
over for a promotion in favor of a
man that she had trained, Ash
retired in 1963 and intended to
write a book to assist women in
business.
• The book turned into a business plan for her ideal
company, and in September 1963, Mary Kay Ash
and her second husband began Mary Kay
Cosmetics with a $5,000 investment.
• Before the company could open its original
storefront operation in Dallas.
• The store opened in 1963, but grew rapidly,
particularly after Ash was interviewed for CBS's
60 Minutes in 1979.
• The pink Cadillacs awarded to top sales people
were the most visible sign of the company's
success.
• She considered the Golden Rule the founding
principle of Mary Kay Cosmetics, and the
company's marketing plan was designed to
allow women to advance by helping others to
succeed.
• She advocated "praising people to success"
and her slogan "God first, family second,
career third" expressed her insistence that the
women in her company keep their lives in
balance.
• Mary Kay Ash authored three books, all of which
became best-sellers.
• Her autobiography, Mary Kay, has sold more
than a million copies and appears in several
languages.
• Her business philosophy, Mary Kay on People
Management has been included in business
courses at the Harvard Business School.
• Mary Kay Ash's third book, You Can Have It All,
was launched in August 1995 and achieved "best-
seller" status within days of its introduction.