entrepreneur: noah tepperberg.

one of my favourite past times is reading about people who've done and how they did it. my favourite entrepreneur of all time would have to be richard branson. i read his autobiography for the first time back when i was fourteen or fifteen. he was just a high school dropout with big dreams and delusions of grandeur. i plan to follow. i am sure i will have several posts featuring him in the future.

today, whilst reading about the reduction in the total number of world billionaires from 1,125 to 793 from 2008 into 2009, i stumbled upon an article about the russian paris hilton: anna anisimova. the daughter of russian metals magnate, vasily anisimov, found that her father was no longer a billionaire when the forbes list came out in march 2009. the new york city socialite had worked the social scene since aged 18 in 2004 as a student at new york university. she bought expensive real estate downtown, midtown and uptown and rented palatial properties in the posh hamptons. became friends with club owners and promoters. she is following the script left by this man: noah tepperberg. the man who made paris hilton. click the picture for the article at portfolio.com.

"the art of good business is being a good middle man." eddie temple, 2004 british film layer cake [starring daniel craig]. no matter what the product, whether the price is up or down.

2009. it was supposed to be the best of times..

i have got to admit. the last six months have been not nearly what i had planned. i think it is fair to say that 2009 is the worst year of my life thus far. no one likes you when you're twenty-three. but on the up side, the only way to go is up. i had hoped that the last six months i would be using this blog to chronicle my successes. instead, ive been rather quiet. meetings with business lawyers and accountants, bankers, clients, etc. it would have been far too depressing to have written about the many false starts. the summer was spent focusing on positive thought and reading a few 'self-help' motivational business books [success through a positive mental attitude, the success principles, think and grow rich, etc]. the only problem is the things that i have been doing have bore no fruit. so i am regrouping, saving and waiting until the credit markets loosen. they are no where near funny at the moment. ill become a mogul, yet. i will.