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Startup World
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He's ballooned across the Atlantic, floated down the Thames with the Sex Pistols, and been knighted by the Queen. His megabrand, Virgin, is home to more than 250 companies, from gyms, gambling houses and bridal boutiques to fleets of planes, trains and limousines. The man even owns his own island.
And now Richard Branson is moving onward and upward into space (tourism): Virgin Galactic's Philippe Starck-designed, Burt Rutan-engineered spacecraft are slated to start carrying passengers into the thermosphere in 2009, at $200,000 a ticket.
Branson also has a philanthropic streak. He's pledged the next 10 years of profits from his transportation empire (an amount expected to reach $3 billion) to the development of renewable alternatives to carbon fuels. And then there's his Virgin Earth Challenge, which offers a $25 million prize to the first person to come up with an economically viable solution to the greenhouse gas problem.
"There is luck, and then there is Richard Branson luck."
The New Yorker, May 14, 2007
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I can't see much decline in Goan tourism yet. Still there are lot of tourists coming to Goa. Indeed this kind of cases are very shameful and if not controlled, may have bad effect of Indian tourism but by now, it hasn't caused much damage to the... |
Man who is not ill that cough constantly. I have had a persistent cough for about 3 years and it is very debilitating and has huge effects on my confidence. It's not because I don't take enough vitamin C (which FYI has never been proven to have any... |
People who is not ill that cough constantly. I have had a persistent cough for about 3 years and it is very debilitating and has huge effects on my confidence. It's not because I don't take enough vitamin C (which FYI has never been proven to have any... |
