The founders of the Ekros company proved that researchers can make good money. On other researchers Last year, a new oil refinery opened in the city of Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod region. The media paid virtually no attention to it: the enterprise's capacity - less than 100,000 tons per year - is miniscule by industry standards. In Russia, oil refineries that process 7–10 million tons of oil per year are considered serious. But the St.

What will happen if a member of the Forbes rating becomes the head of the region? Nothing worked out in Adygea Akhmed Tatlok worked in the city of Maykop as a cameraman on the republican television of Adygea until he married a primary school teacher, Saida. Life is pressing - a married man must have his own house and car to transport his heirs. Akhmed gave up his TV camera and started a business that feeds half of Adygea.

This summer you could see such a picture in one of the fashionable Moscow hotels. Four dozen men (many came with their wives) listened to a gentleman dressed in a black three-piece suit. The gentleman poured the wine from one crystal glass to another, inhaled the smell, lowering his nose into the bell of the glass, stirred the drink with confident movements, tasted it, then poured it back and repeated everything again and again.

Private equity funds are scrambling to find the right companies. Is there really no one to give the money to? Many private companies have no intention of selling shares on the stock exchange and going public. The easiest way for them to get money for development is to borrow it from a bank or sell debt securities to investors. You can, however, not go into debt, but attract one of the many private equity funds as a partner.

There is enough oil in the world for everyone. All that remains is to pump it out, and prices will collapse The price of oil may return to the level of the 1990s. Don't believe me? But Michael Lynch, president of the Massachusetts Institute for Energy Strategy and Economic Research, believes. According to his calculations, next year oil will cost $45 per barrel, and in 2008 - a little more than $20. And not $65, as it is now. What is Lynch's assumptions based on?

The first public offering of shares of a sectarian community is underway in Russia On July 12, 2006, the meeting of shareholders of OJSC Family Estates decided to place 20,000 additional shares worth 20 million rubles by open subscription.

Who will inherit the country's largest private companies? One in three of the 500 largest US companies is family-owned. It is difficult to say how many of the two hundred largest private Russian companies will be called family companies in the future. Most of their owners are young, like all Russian businesses. The average age of the richest people in Russia, included in the “golden hundred” of Forbes, is 45 years.

2330 boats at one show in Genoa If people go to the September boat show in Cannes for social entertainment, and to Monaco a few days later to watch the parade of mega-yachts, then the boat show in Genoa is an event for people who set themselves a very specific task: to buy a boat. Still would! Genoa is an industrial city, which is not at all as nice as cozy Monaco and Cannes, and if you go there, then only on business.

If they want to capture your home in a movie or advertisement, don’t refuse - this is a good opportunity to make money When the passions of love reached their peak and sparks were already flying, Richard Pettler turned to his wife and whispered: “What kind of debauchery is this in our living room!” His dissatisfaction with what was happening was as artificial as the sparks. Like many other people who offered their homes for filming, Pettler was paid generously to allow actors into his home.

Psychologist Marina Melia explains how to transfer a business to children In our country, unlike in the West, we do not have a culture of passing on our business by inheritance. Moreover, few people have gotten used to the fact that they have their own business and are its owner, because this very concept has existed in Russia for only 15 years. There are three extremes to which entrepreneurs go when they want to pass on their business to their children.

What is more important: freedom of speech or the opportunity to do business with Russia? Europeans first faced this dilemma back in the 16th century.

7 cars that will change the world Ever since Karel Capek popularized the term “robot” (robota is Czech for “forced labor”) in 1921, robots have been capable of far less than expected. Honda introduced its humanoid robot Asimo in 2000, and now greets visitors in Honda's reception area and performs eight shows a day at Disneyland. But most of the world's robots are chained to factory floors, their movements limited to monotonous choreographies of welding, stamping or sawing.

A hundred years ago, when there were no wine critics, amateurs wrote poems about wine “Teetotaler, put this book aside, it is not addressed to you, unless, of course, you are going to change your beliefs.” I read this book avidly. And half a dozen more similar books found in a London second-hand bookstore. They were piled in a corner, their calico covers warped and moldy, their pages caked, their cloth bookmarks rotted.

Is it possible to successfully compete with international corporations at the national level? It’s possible, but Olga Mirimskaya didn’t succeed The chairman of the board of directors of Russian Product, Olga Mirimskaya, now rarely comes to her office, located in the building of the Colossus plant on the outskirts of Moscow. At work they say: spends time abroad. In the life of the head of a large company, not everything works out as we would like.

A journey to a mystery hidden in the Venezuelan jungle began with satellite photography. The crocodile was a success. What's missing, perhaps, is lime and sauce. It’s strange, but only now, sitting by the fire and gnawing a caiman’s leg, do I understand our situation quite clearly. What the hell lime! My friend and I are tens of thousands of kilometers from Russia and hundreds from the nearest city, deep in the jungle of Venezuela.