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1966 – After failed attempts to grow and sell both Christmas trees and budgerigars, Branson launches his first successful business, a magazine named Student, the first issue of which appearing in January 1968. [1] Branson's net worth was estimated at £50,000 by 1969.
Branson expressed his desire to become an entrepreneur at a young age. His first business venture, at the age of 16, was a magazine called Student. In 1970, he set up a mail-order record business. He opened a chain of record stores, Virgin Records—later known as Virgin Megastores—in 1972.
Branson dropped out of school when he was just 15 — and never looked back. ‘The best always succeeds’: How Richard Branson went from running a student magazine to managing a $3B global ...
Richard Branson has built himself an empire. His Virgin Group enterprises stretch from the airline industry and telecommunications to space. ... He created “Student,” a youth culture magazine ...
Although financial success indeed followed, Branson doubled down that money has never been his driving force—and insisted that has been the case since his first venture, Student magazine, which ...
Nikolas Mark Powell (4 November 1950 – 7 November 2019) [1] was a British businessman and one of the co-founders of Virgin Records with Richard Branson.After operating a mail-order company, a small record shop, and a recording studio, the partners established the label in 1972.
In 1968 she spent some time working for Richard Branson's Student magazine. [1] She went on to graduate from St Anne's College, Oxford University. Spicer was a founder member and executive of Virago Press. [2] She was Chair of the National Lottery Commission [3] and has been chair of the Friendly Almshouses, Brixton. [4]
Some students get the boot early in their lives but go on to illustrious careers. ... Richard Branson had less success in school, nearly failing out of England's Scaitcliffe School at age 13 ...