Category: Famous Entrepreneurs

Who Is George Soros? A Short Biography Of The Legendary Investor And Quantum Hedge Fund Manager

One of the most legendary investors of the past century has been George Soros. He turned his hedge fund into a money-making machine by which he has not only been making billions of dollars, but he helped provide funding to needy people around the world. In 2011 he retired from running the Quantum Group of Funds and started paying more attention to his philanthropic activities. A Short History George Soros was born in Budapest, Hungary on the 12th of August, 1930. His family background was Jewish and he was forced to hide his identity during World War II when the...

The Engaging Story Of People Helping People and Patrick Bet-David

Patrick Bet-David didn’t have an easy childhood. He was born in Iran in 1970, during the Iranian revolution. He suffered from war and all the bad consequences it caused. When he was 10 years old, he and his mother escaped from hell, they left Iran and went to Germany where they spent 2 years living in a refugee camp there. When he was 12, they went to the United States and settled there. But his childhood continued to be a tough one. He was not doing well in school, and all the other kids actually avoided him. When he graduated...

Peten Cashmore

10 Young Entrepreneurs Who Became Online Millionaires By Starting A Site As Online Business

Pete Cashmore mashable.com Pete Cashmore was born in Banchory, a small town in Scotland, on the 18th of September 1985. When he was in high school he experienced some health issues, because of which he finished high school two years late. He couldn’t go out with friends and he had a lot of time all by himself. He was a teenager experiencing a big need for social contact. This is how social media sites became an important part of his everyday life and he was amazed by the fact that they were changing the way people communicate. He spent a...

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Who Is Chuck Feeney? Founder of DFS, The Atlantic Philanthropies and the “Giving While Living” Movement

Have you heard about Chuck Feeney? Did you know that he is a billionaire and one of the wealthiest people in the world? Most of you probably don’t know him, even though he is one of the American billionaires? Here is why I decided to uncover his amazing biography here. Chuck is an American-Irish philanthropist, the founder of one of the biggest world charitable foundations – “The Atlantic Philanthropies“. Not only he is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world, but also he and his organization have changed the lives of so many people without even these people...

44 Inspiring Quotes For Boosting Your Motivation

44 Inspiring Quotes For Boosting Your Motivation

  Inspiration is a key factor not only in business but also in any other aspect of life. If you have inspiration, you have also motivation. In fact, inspiration is pretty much the best motivation, isn’t it? In this sense, we found a cool presentation in which you can find 44 really inspiring quotes from 44 great entrepreneurs, authors, inventors. So, have a look below and get your dose.   44 Inspiring Quotes   Great quotes, aren’t they? If you think so, please, consider sharing this post on some social sites. Thanks for that.

7 Things Successful Entrepreneurs Don’t Do

7 Things Successful Entrepreneurs Don’t Do

Entrepreneurs are people, who have a certain mindset. If you take two random successful entrepreneurs you will be amazed by how much in common they have in their thinking. They would not only be similar regarding the things they do but also there would be many things they never do. Here is an interesting article on the matter that we found on the Internet. Below you can see 7 things any self-respecting successful entrepreneur doesn’t do. If you want to become such, it would not be enough only to do certain things, you should also stop doing some like these:...

McDonald’s History – How Ray Crock Founded The Company At 52

You may not know the name Ray Kroc, but you certainly know the business that he built. The brand name McDonald’s is known in every corner of the globe and it is Ray Kroc, who is the man that brought the golden arches to the masses. His story is truly one of the rags to riches and really shows what the entrepreneurial spirit can get you in America if you are committed to a vision. Kroc was born in and spent most of his life living in Oak Park, Illinois. As the years went on Ray would have a lot...

Steve Wozniak

A Short Biography Of Steve Wozniak – One Of Apple’s Co-Founders

Stephen Gary Wozniak (Woz) was born back in 1950, on August 11th in San Jose in California. His father Jacob Francis Wozniak had graduated as one of the best students of the Columbian University Information Technology and he was actually the one who inspired the young Steve to become a guru in electronics. Since he was a very little boy, Wozniak junior spent a lot of his time in his father’s workshop, which was a place full of all kinds of electronic parts. He became very interested in what his dad was doing and wanted to learn how transistors, diodes,...

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10 Stories Of Super Successful Tech Start-Ups and Founders

Today technology is booming again and there are thousands of new tech companies launched every single month in the US. Some of them make it big, and some of them just don’t. This is how things in business go. Because this site is mainly about great business ideas and entrepreneurs, we have researched many of the new ventures. So, here is how we decided to make a list of 10 of the most successful and relatively new technology startups. each one of them is built around a great and fresh business idea, so it’s worth reading a sentence or two...

Who Is Larry Ellison? A Short Biography Of Oracle’s Founder and CEO

Larry Ellison (Lawrence Ellison), who co-founded the enterprise software giant Oracle, and currently is a chief executive officer there, was born on August 17, 1944, in the Bronx, New York. After being adopted as an infant by Jewish parents, he spent his high school years in the Chicago area. Larry himself did not subscribe to any religion, avoiding a bar mitzvah when he turned 13. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for a few years then attended the University of Chicago, where he grew interested in computer design, but soon dropped out. Then at age 20, he moved...