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The website eBay has become the focus of a new breed of entrepreneurs who hope to make money by trading online. Jameel Verjee is a corporate lawyer turned entrepreneur, who wants to raise funds fro...m potential investors in the city. He wants to raise a million pounds to pay the wages of the half dozen staff he already employs in north London. In the tradition of technology start-ups, he's confident that the losses he is sustaining today will be nothing to the profits he will make tomorrow.
The website eBay has become the focus of a new breed of entrepreneurs who hope to make money by trading online. Jameel Verjee is a corporate lawyer turned entrepreneur, who wants to raise funds fro...m potential investors in the city. He wants to raise a million pounds to pay the wages of the half dozen staff he already employs in north London. In the tradition of technology start-ups, he's confident that the losses he is sustaining today will be nothing to the profits he will make tomorrow.
| Series: | The Money Programme |
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| First transmission date: | 17-11-2006 |
| Published: | 2006 |
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| Duration: | 00:28:56 |
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| Producer: | Charles Miller |
| Contributors: | Simon Balch; Carol Blach; Jim Griffith; Bruce Henshaw; Sanjay Khanderwall; Phil Leahy; Doug McCallum; Pierre Omidyer; Libby Potter; Margarita Rodriguez-Piza; Jamed Verjee; Wilma Ward; Meg Whitman |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Link to related site: | Website: http://open2.net/money/index.html |
| Subject terms: | Auctions--Great Britain; Selling |
| Master spool number: | BAP042893 |
| Production number: | LSGB679P |
| Videofinder number: | 7374 |
| Available to public: | no |
