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...
S&P 500 percentage drops and duration of declines for the last 15 bear markets Bear markets are something inevitable and they are even good for the stock markets because they regulate and align it aligned with reality to ensure the most optimal allocation of capital in the changing economic environments. Bear markets come and go, and they will proceed to do so for the times markets exist. This is why it’s extremely important for any investor, trader, and market participant to know bear markets well so they can take advantage of them whenever they occur. Here is a nice...
He applied for Harvard Business School 8 times and got 8 rejections… Then, finding a job was not a much more successful experience, after applying for over 30 positions, he got rejections from all of them. At one of the jobs, at KFC, he was 1 of the 24 applicants. 23 applicants got accepted, only our man was rejected and didn’t get a job. The only job that guy managed to find after that was as an English teacher, earning the incredible $12 dollars per month. But he was kind of… not fulfilled being trapped in a classroom for the...
Jack Bloomfield, an Australian teenage entrepreneur, currently last year in high-school, is one of the youngest self-made millionaires… Just 17 years old, he’s been successfully starting and running online businesses since he was 12. His company turns millions of dollars per year and this is just the beginning of his journey. Jack began his entrepreneurial adventure very early in life. At an age at which most of the kids are passionate about games, cartoons, and toys, Jack was already passionate about the online world. He had been very interested in business and the Internet as a whole. So interested that...
OK, so you’ve got a new business idea and are running with it. Good for you. Focus on your goal, and you can achieve whatever you want. But it’s certainly worth heeding some advice to stay afloat early on as there are so many new businesses that do the basics wrong. What happens to those startups? They fail more often than not. Carry on reading for tips to help you land on your feet but first, let’s bring you a couple of examples of very promising businesses that have greatly and unexpectedly failed just because they did it wrong. Smart...
The world of finance completely shut its doors to Daniel Kan. During his senior year in college, Dan wanted nothing more than to become a financier. They all did some decent money, right? Everybody goes to finance…Â But of the 35 jobs he applied for, mainly in the lucrative finance world, he got 33 rejections. The two offers that he was left with were both not related to finance at all. One of the opportunities he received was for teaching English in Korea and the other – working for a startup. He opted for the opportunity to work with a...
Catch an entrepreneur and take all his/her money, let her start all over and she will most probably rebuild her wealth again. Give to a poor guy the big money, and he will most probably be poor again in a while. There are hundreds of stories about people who won the lottery and had nothing again just in a couple of years. So what would be the difference between a guy who just can’t succeed in business and a guy who is a serial successor? The answer to this question is simply – the way of thinking. Entrepreneurship is a...
Did you know that many of the biggest Internet companies today were started in a garage? These multi-billion businesses had barely anything at the beginning, the most important thing for their success turned out to be simply a great business idea. Here are the stories of some of the most popular ‘garage start ups‘: Google The founders of one of the greatest Internet companies – Sergey Brin and Larry Page started the business in a small garage in California. They paid $1 700 monthly for the rent and spent there around 5 months. During that time, they actually created the...
Being a good leader is really something tough but it’s also really something that is totally worth it. Leadership is a complex thing, and there are actually many blocks that the mindset of a successful leader is built from. It is described as a process of social influence in which one person can empower the help and support of others in reaching a certain goal or completing a task. A good leader is a person who knows how to motivate people and make them believe in what he/she believes him/herself. A good leader leads, but doesn’t dictate. Being a recognized...
Daymond John is a very famous American entrepreneur, the founder of the popular clothing brand FUBU. He is also an investor and a TV star. Since 2009, he has been participating in the popular reality show ‘Shark Tank’. He is one of the sharks there – 5 famous business managers who decide whether or not to invest money in ideas presented by normal people. History Daymond John was born on the 23rd of February, 1969 (currently 44). As a child, he lived in the Queens neighborhood of New York with his mom and 7 brothers and sisters. While he was...
