StartupRealities

StartupRealities No 135 FootballColosseum is a hotel complex developer which builds hotels encircling entire football stadiums. Instead of seats around the field, the complex has hotel buildings with thousands of rooms overlooking the field. The hotel buildings are up to 20 storeys high and the stadiums host top league football (soccer) matches in country's national championship. Guests choose their rooms in a similar way to buying football match tickets: the price depends on the location of the room around the field and the floor. CEO QUOTE "Imagine the Colosseum in Rome but filled entirely with hotel rooms and five times taller! This is what our FootballColosseums look like, " said company founder and CEO Forbes Colonel. Stadium in Los Angeles under construction (image source: Wikipedia )

StartupRealities No 43 NorthKoreaWorks is a staffing agency which recruits young North Korean workers under contract with the North Korean government and places them in travel and hospitality jobs in the US and Europe. Part of the workers' salary is paid as tax to the North Korean government but workers are free to save the rest in their personal US/European bank account. CEO QUOTE "Airlines and hotels love employing North Korean staff: they are hard-working, dependable and very respectful to customers. By working with us, the young North Koreans also have a chance to see the world, which the remaining 99% of North Koreans can only dream of," said NorthKoreaWorks founder and CEO Kim Wonk. "We sometimes get accused of supporting an authoritarian regime but do you see anything wrong in giving young people a chance, vocational training, foreign language skills and an opportunity to open up their mind. Who knows who the next leader of North Korea may be. He or she...