Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is one of the case studies for the sucessful entrprenuer story. At the age of 15 years , he began his entrepreneurial activities there by setting up Student Magazine. When he was 17, he opened a Student Advisory Centre, his first charity institution. In 1970 set up a record mail order business, started a record shop in Oxford Street, London shortly afterwards. In 1972 the record label Virgin Records with Nik Powell, opening a recording studio. To keep his airline company afloat Branson sold the Virgin label to EMI in 1992, a more conservatively-minded company which had rescinded the contract of the Pistols. Branson is said to have wept when the sale was completed since the record business had been the genesis of the Virgin empire. He later formed V2 Records to re-enter the music business.

Branson formed Virgin Atlantic Airways in 1984, launched Virgin Mobile in 1999, Virgin Blue in Australia in 2000, and later failed in a 2000 bid to handle the National Lottery. The virgin style ads which were filmed on Bransom himself on the shores of Atalntic were more hot and controversial and perhaps the Virgin of the Ad- Business itself. And that is why I said Our MDH Lala Ji is a sombre parson so not to get him into :-)

Coming to the Style of functioning of the Private Airlines I was recently on a SpiceJet flight and when we thought the exits were being closed at the time of departure time, came the announcemnet from pilot that some 70 passengers are to be taken on board from a Fellow Sahara Aircraft grounded next to it due to some snag in its fuel system, and a passenger came saying… Howrah Howrah .. Howrah.. Howrah .. Howrah.. Howrah .. Howrah.. AND a fellow passenger bagan to sing the song Gaadi Bula Rahi Hai Citii Bajja Rahii Hai