Positive Business News Stories – Weekend 19 Nov 2011
Following are three stories which should give you hope that there is a great and positive future ahead for all those who want to make a difference in the world today through their potential business talents and dreams.
Young Entrepreneur Program to Positive Future
This is a great opportunities for all those young entrepreneur’s in the UK and are between the age of 16 and 21. Who knows, with this start, one of them go on to be register in the Rich List and most of all, create jobs for others.
The ideas could be “anything, from the heart warming to the hilarious, whether it’s a streetwear start-up, a new school skate ramp or a major charitable donation.” Applicants can apply at TheStake.co.uk or on Facebook, where users can pitch or back their ideas. What makes it fun and engaging: by completing challenges along the way, they can increase the number of voting stakes out of a possible total of six.
According to Channel 4’s press release, the peer-to-peer game with the big jackpot “aims to show the UK’s young people that business and social enterprise can be creative, fun, challenging and that good ideas and passion can be rewarded.” (Link above to www.brandchannel.com)
Fund Raising For Start-Ups Just Like Obama
How wonderful to see such an initiative in helping people get started with their own start-ups. The fact that Obama used certain fund raising marketing methods to get to the white house, what could an up-and-coming company do with the right marketing tools?
“This week, a Scottish company launched what it said was the first crowd funding platform of its kind in the UK.
The platform enables anyone with an idea to reach out and approach complete strangers to invest in their project, using the internet and social networks.
Bloom VC (Venture Catalyst) aims to help start-ups, community projects and social enterprises find seed money through the crowd-funding model.
The concept was popularised by no less a person than President Barack Obama, who used online communities to raise millions of dollars for his presidential campaign in 2008.
Bloom is now taking the idea to entrepreneurs, with backing from innovation-promoters National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (Nesta).”(Link above to www.bbc.co.uk)
Sir Richard Branson Positive Vision For Future Generations
Sir Richard Branson has inspired and been respected by many people over the last several years. He is moving into yet another arena and no doubt, will carry inspiring others with his business ethics.
“If companies become a force for good, the people working for them will be that much more motivated and their brands will shine that much brighter amongst others,”.
“In the week that saw his surprise purchase of Northern Rock, Sir Richard Branson enthused about what he sees as a “vibrant and very marked sea change from the way business always used to be done when financial profit was the only driving force”.
The quote comes from his new book, uncompromisingly entitled Screw Business as Usual. Published, inevitably, by Virgin Books its theme is: “Doing good is good for business.” (Link above to www.Telegraph.co.uk)
More and more people are stopping watching television and reading the newspapers for the doom and gloom which greets them at the switch of a button or the turn of a page. On the other hand, positive news can only help each and every one of us to realise our potentials. I thoroughly enjoyed finding the three articles above for you, on positive business news stories.
