Category: Entrepreneur School
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...
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...
Becoming a millionaire is a dream of many. This is an important milestone for any entrepreneur, too. This is why stories of the type of how to become a millionaire are so widely spread around the Internet. The most valuable ones are written by millionaires themselves, like the one below. These are the 8 slow steps for making a million Dharmesh Shah, one of the founders and current CTO of the software company HubSpot. He has already reached the one million target and here he shares some insights on the matter with you. Money, of course, isn’t everything. Not by...
Success in business can be achieved in many different ways, but if we look globally at successful entrepreneurs, we can find that they have many things in common. So if you are wondering how to be a successful one, here are 15 of the most common characteristics we believe most of them have: 13 characteristics of entrepreneurs that make it 1. They do what they are passionate about – doing what you like is a kind of guarantee, that you will give the best of yourself. This is the case in which getting bored is less likely because you are...
Starting a business is actually not that hard. Making it successful and keeping it this way is a tough task. Actually starting up is one of the easiest steps of the entrepreneurship game. Yes, there are many problems you need to solve before you launch your company – what to do, where to get money from, etc. But these are really easy questions. Then comes the real struggle – running the business successfully. More than 90% of startups don’t make it in the long run just because they get drowned somewhere in the ocean of problems they start sailing in....
A startup accelerator also referred to as a seed accelerator, is a form of a business incubator that is chasing profit by usually acquiring a part of a business and then helping the latter to grow. Its main purpose is to help high-potential business ideas with mentoring, office space, know-how, education, and of course seed capital in exchange for a piece of the equity of the new business. The support is for a certain period of time ranging from 3 to 18 months and it is usually provided at the very beginning of a start-up. Business incubators are different from...
