If you are talking about Richard Branson there's few things that are different between Sydney and the London of the 1980's.
Firstly, it has to be said Australia had an enormous amount of talent at the same time as the Branson Empire started. We had band after band, artist after artist making it big - both in the States and in the UK. So let's not belittle our talent pool. Awesome talent is what we had in that period. What we didn't have, that Branson did have, was an enormously musical/artistic place called London. His records didn't just sell to the UK but all throughout Germany, France, Spain and everywhere the records could physically go. With respect to the Space travel, the UK already had Concorde in his day, and so he's obviously aspired to do something along those lines in later life. So why not. Sure. Europe and the USA are good markets to sell in. I'm not sure where the Australian Entrepreneurs that you want to dump on are. I don't know what the capital intensive projects that are failing all around actually are. No sane Entrepreneur ever argues about the need to be profitable although if you are dealing with Venture Capital, growth is more important than dividends. In large Tech businesses, they are grown without profits and then sold off for huge amounts as equity. Check examples like Facebook, youtube, hotmail etc. If you did a financial comparison on the numbers, the advantages are that millions of young people don't have to be dragged out of their villages on trucks at night to get the same ROI. In fact there's almost no human trafficking needed. That's why Tech is a much better way to go than your suggestions so far. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Vist http://siliconbeachaustralia.org for more Forum rules 1) No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. 2) No jobs postings. You can use http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/jobs To post to this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en
