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Richard Branson

Virgin Group to launch urban hotel brand

12 June 2008

Today’s lesson from Richard Branson is expand your services to places you are already servicing.  One of his many airlines flys to several cities where they want to develoop hip urban upscale hotels.  Look at what add-on services you can add to what you already have.
Virgin Group is set to launch a new urban hotel [...]

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What do virgins and carbon scrubbers have in common?

10 June 2008

What virgins and carbon scrubbers have in common is Richard Branson.  Here are a select few articles about Richard Branson in the last week and what you can learn from them.
The case study is very interesting and you’ll learn alot about business.  The carbon scrubber’s article is a good step toward getting carbon dioxide out [...]

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Virgins Branson Sees More US Airline Bankruptcies Ahead

15 April 2008

With American Airlines making a major customer service mistake that with this current airline environment could spell the end of the airline and with fuel costs a well run company like Virgin America can do very well in the USA.
When the economy for an industry is growing companies that are well run can stay in [...]

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Branson’s online charter plane service launches

10 March 2008

Richard Branson is at it again. I’m surprised he hadn’t done this before.
Some 25 years after the entrepreneur chartered a private jet to fly 50 passengers and himself from the Beef Island, Tortola airport to Puerto Rico after their original flight was cancelled, Branson will launch on Tuesday Virgin Charter, an online service [...]

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Algae are fuelling Branson’s maiden flight

25 February 2008

Richard Branson’s new biofuel plane apparently has algae in part of the secret biofuel recipe.  It will fly today.
This is a great moment because it is the first time in history that air transportation and alternative fuel are being shown as commercially viable.
This morning Virgin Atlantic and its suppliers Boeing and GE will stage [...]

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Virgin Galactic Reveal The Design of SS2/WK2

22 February 2008

Are you interested in going to outer space? Richard Branson reveals the design of the mother and space ships.
The audience heard how around 80 of Virgin Galactic’s Founder customers had joined us on a series of G-Force training days at the NASTAR centrifuge facility in Philadelphia and how in those two days, each of [...]

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Entrepeneurial Branding

13 February 2008

Virgin’s brand is unique in the world.  Virgin has so many companies (350+ right now) and they span a very broad range of categories that there really is nothing that Richard Branson wouldn’t do with some exceptions.
So what does ‘entrepreneurial branding’ mean? Entrepreneurial branding is about being: hands-on, holistic (looking at and trying various [...]

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