Forbes magazine has increased Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth by another $6 billion.

That makes Zuckerberg the third richest guy in technology. He does trail behind Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Oracle’s Larry Ellision.

If we are really comparing it also means that he is richer than Steve Jobs of Apple and Google’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin. This new valuation was on the basis of investment made by GSV Capital. They bought 225,000 shares of Facebook at a price of $29.28 per share. Since that news broke out, GSV stock has gone up by 40%. As of today Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth was set at $18 billion.

Of course, this whole fortune is on paper only and the real value of Facebook will be known only after it goes public. Still, great going Zuckerberg!

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A video blog from entrepreneur Kevin Payne, the founder of Envyme.tv and other website startups discusses what it takes to be an entrepreneur.
Never give up because you are already so close!

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Did you see the Amosu 24ct Gold iPad?? If not you better check it out!! It will also make a great Christmas gift for someone very special!! Hey im special and i want one!!!!

Not only are they available in 24ct gold plated, you can get one in silver, white gold, rose gold or just about any color of your choice. The diamonds are Swarovski and also available in any color.

You also have the option of having your name engraved on the back of the iPad!

To see more of Amosu Couture check out the website!! www.amosucouture.com

Oh and don’t forget me, Christmas is right around the corner!!

I once wanted to wow the Boston scene and do something different for an Envyme.tv launch event. I needed to do something that really has never been done in this conservative city before. People asked me “Kevin how did you get Lamborghini to show up at your event’?”  I not only got Lamborghini Boston to show up but also a handful of  sponsors like Skyy Vodka and Lamborghini owners to show up with their Lambos!

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That night we packed Mantra and i felt like a celebrity. It was a great feeling!

So how did i do it? Well I put on my best suit, drove to the dealership with one of my female models and simply asked them to come. I told them about what i wanted to accomplish and how they would benefit from it, including the demographics and people that i was inviting.

A few years later, same city different game. This time it was for my other company LuxBoston.com. I wanted to do another launch event but with Aston Martin  (my favorite automobile manufacturer) . How did i do it? Again i went up to the dealership this time with my beautiful girlfriend and told them about the event and simply asked them to host it! It was not easy and i had to prove myself but i pulled it off!  It turned out to be a very cool event at Mars Made with food and drinks provided by Rocca!

Mars Made Aston MArtin and LuxBoston.com Event

The  next event for LuxBoston.com will be around April of 2011 at State Room. Lets see who i can get to sponsor this high end event!! Its going to be a challenge but im up for it!

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Show confidence in yourself ,  just ask!!!  These people can read a fake a mile away so if your not passionate do yourself a favor and stay home.

Non other than Alexander Amosu can pull off such an amazing ipad. Its Gold and its 24 Carat!!!

Amosu Couture offers these in many other versions as well including platinum, Diamond encrusted and ever Swarovski studded.

Price for this beauty is $1,500 but you can also send in your iPad and have it gold plated for $520.

Amosu's 24carat gold-plated Apple iPad

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On Monday 7th December Virgin Galactic unveiled SpaceShipTwo to the world at Mojave Spaceport, California. 800 press, future astronauts and VIP guests gathered in the desert for a press conference and to view the roll out of the world’s first commercial spaceline.

Sir Richard Branson and Burt Rutan led the press conference, special recognition went to the team at Scaled Composites whose hard work and dedication have made this happen. Governors Bill Richardson and Arnold Schwarzenegger both contributed at the press conference, celebrating this huge milestone and also joining Holly, Richard’s daughter in naming the spaceship, VSS Enterprise.

Despite gale force winds and stormy weather, guests gathered on the runway after the press conference to see SpaceShipTwo for the first time. The spaceship was carried down the runway by her mothership, VMS Eve, to a spectacular display of lights, music and snow which only helped increase the anticipation of her arrival and excitement and awe as she appeared before the crowds.

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Get to know Giorgio Armani!

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Giorgio Armani 74, is a billionaire worth around $2.8 billion is a designer and very popular among celebrities sporting his fashions. President and Chief Executive Officer of the Armani Group and sole share holder of Giorgio Armani S.p.A., one of the world’s leading fashion and lifestyle design houses, with 5,000 direct employees, 13 factories, and a direct network of 500 exclusive retail stores in 46 countries worldwide. He dressed more than ten celebs last year for the Oscars. Armani also makes perfume, (I love Armani Code ) baby clothes, home decor, and five-figure watches. He recently opened a 43,000 SQ megastore on Manhattan’s famous Fifth Avenue.

“Mr. Armani’s philosophy of fashion and style, together with his entrepreneurial ability, has been central to the success of Giorgio Armani S.p.A. He oversees both the company’s strategic direction and all aspects of design and creativity. Perhaps best known for revolutionising fashion with his unstructured jacket in the Eighties, after thirty years of running his own label, he now presides over a stable of collections, including his signature Giorgio Armani line, Giorgio Armani Privé, Armani Collezioni, Emporio Armani, AJ | Armani Jeans, A/X Armani Exchange, Armani Teen, Armani Junior, Armani Baby, and Armani Casa home interiors, offering a choice of lifestyles to the marketplace. Today, the company’s product range includes women’s and men’s clothing, shoes and bags, watches, eyewear, jewellery, fragrances and cosmetics, and home furnishings.”

Armani even has his name tied to a string of hotels. The first Armani brand hotel is expected to be opened in 2009 and is under construction as part of the Burj Dubai development.

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The Dubai ‘Armani Hotel’ will include 175 guest rooms and suites, five restaurants and a spa, covering more than 40,000m². Alongside the hotel, the Burj Dubai will also offer 160 luxury residential apartments all designed by Giorgio Armani and fully furnished with a specially designed line of products from the Armani Casa home furnishings collection.

The schedule of Armani hotel openings to follow Dubai will be Milan, London, and New York along with the first resort. Giorgio Armani said, “This marks the beginning of a new chapter in the Armani story. In this our thirtieth anniversary year, I cannot think of a more energizing prospect than bringing my philosophy of style and design to a collection of hotels and resorts.

Armani  5th Avenue Store Build Time Lapse Footage with Staircase Construction

During his career Mr. Armani has received many local and international awards. These include the Commendatore dell’Ordine al Merito della Repubblica, and Grand’Ufficiale dell’Ordine al Merito della Repubblica (Italy’s highest government awards), and the Award for Best International Designer, Lifetime Achievement Award for men’s wear and for art and fashion from the Council of Fashion Designers of America. He has, in addition, been recognized with an Honorary Doctorate from London’s Royal College of Art, and has an Honorary Degree from Milan’s Accademia di Brera. In 2006 he was awarded an Honorary Degree from London’s Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, and in 2007 he received an Honorary Degree in Industrial Design from the Politecnico University of Milan.

Giorgio Armani is a true entrepreneur and a man to be Envied. We look forward to seeing whats next in the world of ARMANI!

Does this suit come with bullet proof armor or at least built in A.C.?  Created by non other than Alexander Amosu, who is a  luxury designer to the rich and famous. The suit will be unveiled at an undisclosed location in London. A one-off creation made from the finest fabrics in the world, this suit is definitely in a class of its own. Valued at a  mouth dropping ($103,000) this suit has taken more than 80 hours and 5,000 individual stitches to make it. That is almost ($21) per stitch! The additions of nine 18-carat gold and pave set diamond buttons have helped this suit attain its expensive price tag.

This suit better get me a date, or two!

world's most expensive suit

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The materials used include rare vicuña and qiviuk. When blended with pashmina from the high mountain plateaus of the Himalayas they create Vanquish II, one of the world’s most luxurious cloths. The extremely luxurious suit has been given extra security and provided with an armored Range Rover to transport it to the secret venue.

And in spite of the ongoing economic crisis, the designer is hopeful  that this suit will find a buyer.

Exquisite platinum & gold suits made with Vicuna, Pasmina & Qiviuk, the finest wools in the world, to launch in London, with the unveiling of the World’s Most Expensive Suit

Alexander Amosu, luxury designer to the rich and famous and founder of Amosu luxury & customised mobile phones is to launch a luxury bespoke suit collection called ‘Alexander Amosu’; featuring suits made with gold & platinum threads, rare cloths and precious stones. As part of the service Alexander and his tailors will travel to clients anywhere in the world in order to take measurements and fit the suits, this service is exclusive to Alexander Amosu and is not offered by any other tailors.

Collaborating with Dormeuil, purveyors of the world’s finest fabrics, Alexander Amosu is due to unveil the first ‘Alexander Amosu’ suit line and the world’s most expensive suit in Pall Mall on Wednesday 22nd April.

The World’s Most Expensive Suit will cost £70,000 and will be a one-off creation made from gold thread, Himalayan Pashmina, Qiviuk and Vicuna. Each suit will be a work of art and will take in excess of 80 hours to complete and will include over 5000 individual stitches.

Fabric

Using the world’s most luxurious fabrics is paramount to the quality of Alexander Amosu. One such fibre is Vicuna; a rare wild South American Camelid which only produces enough wool for shearing every three years. Another fibre used in the collection is Qiviuk; the world’s most expensive wool, gathered from the Arctic muskox, which sheds its coat once a year. Together, blended with Pashmina from the high mountain plateaus of the Himalaya’s they create the world’s most luxurious cloth: Vanquish II. Due to the rarity of these fibres and the care which is taken to safeguard the well-being of the animals that produce them (these animals are not hunted but cared for in their natural environments), only enough wool can be gathered to make 300 suits in the world. Other exclusive fabrics selected by Alexander Amosu include Kirgyz White and Pashmina blended with the rarest silks.

Lifestyle

The addition of nine 18 carat gold and pave set diamond buttons complete the suit, which is said to move with an unmistakable fluidity. As well as the detail within the suit, customers who indulge in the Alexander Amosu collection will immediately reap the rewards of the luxury lifestyle that accompanies their purchase which include a 1 hour flight by private jet to anywhere in the world by Cloud9, 1 year free wealth management from Cheviot Asset Management and a 24 hr Global Concierge service.

Tailoring

Alexander Amosu will offer discerning clientele the ultimate in bespoke tailoring. A highly trained tailor with over 20 years experience will craft each suit by hand. The Alexander Amosu commitment is for each suit to be a work of art created using only the finest fabric and dedicated workmanship. Bespoke suits are available for both men and women alongside luxury bespoke shirts.

Ferruccio Lamborghini started out making tractors. He felt he could make a better sports car than Enzo Ferrari. Ferrari, a great car maker mocked Ferruccio Lamborghini saying “You stick to tractors and let me build sports cars.”!  Look at Lamborghini today, an amazing Automobile company built by sheer spite! If they laugh at you today don’t ever give up, use it as fuel. Tomorrow they will not be laughing!!

-Payne

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Virgin Airways’ Richard Branson  has more on his mind that the space tourism market, he’s recently announced that he has serious plans to get involved with the private jet business. Branson’s project will connect sellers of flight time on private planes with eager beaver buyers who are willing to shell out the dough.  What the basic idea is that many private jets have empty legs when they fly home after dropping clients off, so why not try to get that empty time booked & get paid for it as well.  That Branson, he’s always thinking….

Alexander Achievements to Date:
• At the age of 12 earned £10 a week doing paper round
• Started his first business at age 15 holding school football, basket ball and table tournaments.
• Started Promotion, a Sound system and PA hire company hosting and playing at house parties and nights clubs called Shadow King Crew, earning £250 per show.
• Promoted 37 parties in total averaging £2,000 per night
• Started a cleaning company called HomeCare Cleaning Agency at age 19 turning over £4,000 p/m with a total of 12 clients
• The first person to start urban ringtones in Europe at age 24 after he sold his cleaning company.
• Made his first million at the age 25
• At the age of 26 started his own magazine called ICON
• Started a new company selling off line mobile phones
• Holds five wards starting from “Entrepreneur of the year award”
• Created the first ringtones book and software Polywap 2.1 that allows you to send ringtones around the world from your PC.
• Had my first TV show at 28 called Rich & Famous
• Started inspirational speaking at schools, colleges and business seminars
• The first to start the world first mobile video community site Mobsvideo.com, here you can upload, download and share content.
• Launched Mobsworld 2005, mobile playground for your phone
• Partner and Investor in Screen Nation Awards, the first Black film and television awards in the UK

Alexander Amosu, a young entrepreneur who turned his interest in technology and the mobile phone industry into a commercial success story, now heads a business at the forefront of mobile entertainment.

Eighteen months of hard work and determination resulted in Alexander’s business evolving from a one-man operation to a business based in Islington employing over a dozen staff, and generating an annual turnover in excess of £1 million.

RnB World, now the parent company of RnB Ringtones, was founded in June 2000, although Alexander’s business experience significantly predates this.

Whilst studying, Alexander worked part time in retailers such as the electrical store Tandy and the fast food chain Pizza Hut. It soon became apparent that selling and in particular developing a rapport with customers came naturally to him.

Having undertaken a business start-up course at the college of North East London, at the age of 19, Alexander wrote a business plan which was reviewed by the Prince’s Trust. The Trust didn’t delay in awarding him a grant to start his new business venture for a cleaning company that he oversaw and ran for three years whilst continuing his studies.

Whilst studying Aeronautics at first St. Alban’s College, and then Queen Mary of Westfield University, Alexander promoted basketball tournaments, five-a-side football, Table Tennis and club nights in his spare time. Alexander promoted and managed over 25 club nights, widening his experience and strengthening his business acumen.

At the University of North London, where he studied Sound Engineering, Alexander discovered a niche in what was then a fledgling industry. He proceeded to test demand for urban ringtones by producing and supplying them to his friends and family. Initially he had no promotional support other than the word of mouth of his customers. This was to prove a sufficient catalyst to propel Alexander and his business along a roller coaster ride into the ringtone market – Alexander was in business.

Alexander’s passion for technology, entrepreneurial skills and determination has resulted in his Company becoming the UK’s No.1 provider of ringtones and graphics. The Company’s runaway success story has attracted media frenzy. Such is the interest that he has appeared in several TV shows including, GMTV, Channel 4’s Flash documentary, an interview on Ruby Wax’s daytime programme and BBC2 Documentary “Mind of a Millionaire” accompanied with a published book.
This success has not gone unnoticed by his peers or the media. Alexander was awarded Young Entrepreneur Of The Year at the Institute of Directors by Black Enterprise Awards 2002, Africa’s Best Award at the GAB Awards 2003, also receiving London African Carribean Entrepreneurs Award 2004. Alexander have also been featured in the Sun, News of the World, Sunday Express and the Guardian newspaper as well as appearing on MTV, Bravo, Nickelodeon and Ben TV .

Alexander was the first person to created Free Ringtones Day, where company had over 75,000 orders in one day, he donated all the revenue for Free Ringtones Day to Teenage Cancer Trust which amounted to thousands of pounds.

RnB World currently offers the broadest spectrum of ringtones and graphics, ranging from Pop and Garage to Yoruba and Italian. This diversity has resulted in a database of 250,000 consumers across the UK.

Understanding the target market that it serves underpins RnB World’s success. This knowledge enables RnB World to keep abreast of current trends while responding proactively to an ever-changing market.
Alexander has sold rnbringtones and has now started a new company www.mobsvideo.com, where you will be able to access mobile video downloads direct to your phone. It is exactly this kind of ethos, which is reflective of its founder Alexander that ensures he will continue to dominate the youth territory.

Alexander’s ambition seems endless with his DJ career launching and his freelance writing for magazine and other newspapers, TV presenting career presenting his own show called Rich n Famous on Ben TV Sky 238 and a chain of Insprational Speaking around the world, Partner in Screen Nation Awards, he also intends to launch his own branded mobile handset company. This drive has propelled him to his current position, and will keep people guessing as to what the next two years will bring.

http://www.alexanderamosu.com