Did Richard Branson have any qualifications when he started his first business?!

Did Richard Branson have any qualifications when he started his first business?

Branson was educated at Scaitcliffe School (now Bishopsgate School)[2] until the age of thirteen. He then attended Stowe School until he was fifteen. Branson has dyslexia, resulting in poor academic performance as a student. He was the captain of football and cricket teams, and by the age of fifteen he had started two ventures that eventually failed: one growing Christmas trees and another raising budgerigars.

At sixteen, Branson left school and moved to London, where he began his first successful business, Student magazine. When he was seventeen, he opened his first charity, the "Student Advisory Centre."

Richard's first successful business venture was at age 16, when he published a magazine called Student. He then set up a record mail-order business in 1970. In 1971, he opened a chain of record stores, now known as Virgin Megastores.

With his flamboyant and competitive style, Branson's Virgin brand grew rapidly during the 1980s - as he set up Virgin Atlantic Airways and expanded the Virgin Records music label.

Today, his worth is estimated at over £4 billion (equivalent to US$7.8 billion)