The success stories and start up business ideas of the most famous entrepreneurs .
The Coca-Cola Company has been one of the world’s most recognized and beloved brands for decades now. From its beginnings in 1886, when it was created by pharmacist John Pemberton, to today where it is a global beverage giant with annual revenues of over $42+ billion (2022) – Coca-Cola has come a very long way. Its story is simply amazing and we’re going to see now how it all happened… A Brief History of Coca Cola In 1886, a Confederate veteran and pharmacist/chemist named John Stith Pemberton felt the need to make something new. He had been wounded in the...
Ellon Musk is one of the most successful entrepreneurs of our time. He was born on the 28th of June, 1971 in South Africa. He learned to code when he was just 12, early-developed computer skills are really common among today’s IT gurus… He started his first company, Zip2, when he was just 24. After selling it and cashing in $22 million, he continued with co-founding X.com (the predecessor of PayPal). PayPal was a huge success, in 2002, eBay bought the payment company for $1.5 billion (Musk personally cashed in $165 million for his share). But this was not enough...
Today we will lead you to a new world, the kingdom of Yahoo.com. It is of the most important players in the history of the Internet and possibly one of the largest existing portals which is inspired by the story of two young entrepreneurs. How Yahoo.com Was Started In the spring of 1994, Jim Clark and Marc Andreessen founded Mosaic Communications. At that time Jerry Yang and David Filo were just two recently graduated electrical engineering students who were looking for a job. In a busy office, located at the campus of Stanford University and not far away from the...
Social media sites are still the rising star in the world of Internet marketing. This part of web is still growing and more and more competitors are entering the social game. Today, there are thousands of social sites – some of them are huge, some are smaller and focused, third are just stepping in… and they attract great attention, which is growing every single day. Facebook – the biggest social network was valued at $15 billion in 2007. Amazingly (for me), the company has managed to create $50 billion more value and today (2011) it is worth around $84 billion!...
If you haven’t heard about Dick Kovacevich, he is an American businessman who served as the chairman and CEO of Wells Fargo from 1998 to 2007. He previously served as president and chief operating officer at Norwest Corporation, prior to their merger with Wells Fargo in 1998. In addition, he has held numerous corporate positions including Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, member of the executive committee for Visa Inc., and director on the board at Aetna Inc., Chevron Corporation, 3M Company, and Oracle Corporation. Dick is most known as the chief executive officer of Wells Fargo –...
Nice and informative video, part of the 2010 conference on Entrepreneurship, held at Standford Graduate School of Business. Here you can learn about the top 10 mistakes made by entrepreneurs around the world. This will help you improve your entrepreneurial skills and gain some experience from some great lecturers and experts on this topic. Some of the mistakes are really easy to avoid if you knew about them previously. If you are a beginner in business, I highly recommend to take the time and watch this video. It’s around an hour long, but it will be a nice invested hour,...
Are you wondering about how to become an entrepreneur? Most entrepreneurs are simply born this way (this doesn’t mean that you can’t learn to be one of them, too). This is why there are so many millionaires and even billionaires who have never graduated from college. Some of them haven’t even finished their high school education (billionaire Richard Branson is a bright example). These are the so-called natural entrepreneurs. Even though you can learn to be one of them, most of the characteristics common for so many entrepreneurs are inside you when you come to this world. I came across...
Some tips when finding financing for your small business… Funding is one of the most crucial things for a start-up. When you are a starting entrepreneur, money is usually scarce and at the same time, it’s so needed for growing the business. But does a start-up really need to seek cash in all circumstances? Actually, funding is not always good and there are bad moments to do that. Sometimes it can even have a negative effect on growth and performance, this is why it’s not always good. Another important question is ‘What to seek funds for?’. There are so many...
If there was a thing that was the simple and clear key to success… Just one thing, which if it was done well could reward you with an impending success. Too good to be true? Maybe not… Even though I don’t think that a universal way to do anything exists, according to author Dan Kennedy there is such a thing. And not only he knows about it, but also he has written an entire book on this matter. And here is the only habit one should master and stick to, to be successful. Punctuality The author has been exploring punctuality...
Chris Gardner was an ordinary guy, working as a salesman for medical supplies. Some years ago he was like most people in the world, struggling to earn enough for a living and take care of his kid and girlfriend. One day he saw a very well-dressed man in a nice red Ferrari, trying to find a parking place in a crowded parking. Chris offered the guy his parking spot, in exchange for the answers to two simple questions – “What do you do for a living, and how?”. The Ferrari guy delightfully said that he was just a stockbroker, trading...
