Category: Start Up Stories
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...
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...
Tabatha Bundesen She was a waitress at first, but one cat with dwarfism would later radically change her life. This is the amazing story of Tabatha Bundesen and her friend, the cat Tardar Sauce. what kind of cat is a grumpy cat? The animal was born to normal parents, but it had a strange grumpy look because of dwarfism. Tabatha’s brother found this really funny and one day he decided to shoot (talking about a camera here) the cat and post the picture to the popular social site Reddit. The photo wade a boom there. Then, just in 48 hours,...
What is an Angel Investor? An angel investor is an individual investor who provides capital for a business in exchange for an ownership stake in the company. Angel investors typically invest their own capital as opposed to managing funds and often look for entrepreneurial businesses in need of seed money or early–stage capital. These investors generally look for businesses with high growth potential and are typically motivated by the potential for long–term gains and social impact. Angel investing is riskier than traditional investing because the companies have yet to prove that they have a successful product or service in the market....
Everybody knows Michael Dell as the founder of Dell Computers, but did you know that he founded the company with only a $1000 investment? Here is a short story about him with some other cool facts from his biography. Michael Dell was a smart kid. His parents wanted to make a doctor out of him, he even went to a college to study medicine. But this didn’t last for too long, just because he was passionate about computers from a very early age. So passionate, that he obtained and explored his first computing device when he was just 7, it...
History In 1893, Caleb Bradham created a drink in his home spicing it with kola nuts and the enzyme pepsin. At first, he called it “Brad’s Drink” and this was the first name of Pepsi Cola. It was so delicious that he soon started selling it in his neighborhood. Later, in 1998, this tasty beverage was renamed to Pepsi Cola and this was when the start of this world brand was put. In the first years, Bradham prepared Pepsi in his drugstore, but soon he was not able to supply the increased quantity that people wanted to buy. In 1903...
They are some of the super bright stars in the world of entrepreneurship. They are young, they are determined, and they are running a startup. I came across this cool movie about the lives of some of the youngest and super successful entrepreneurs. This is actually a documentary video about online entrepreneurs from the old continent and The United States and how they made their business ideas happen. Below you can watch how some of the most innovative Internet startups were launched and how they rose or fell. The clip contains interviews with a dozen of young founders, some of...
In BusinessIdeasLab we have been writing about some of the greatest and the most successful start-ups in all time. But in the start-up world, things are not going always smoothly, contrariwise, most of the newborn companies actually end up in flames. Different statistics show that more than 45% of start-ups in the United States survive not more than 6 months. In the long run, 3 out of 4 new businesses don’t make it at all… So, to be objective, we consider that we are supposed to write not only about success but also about failure. The latter could be even...
History There are many inspiring stories about young entrepreneurs, who started successful business and made some millions. But if you have missed doing this in your salad days, you should not lose faith. Here is a story about a man in his 60s, who founded one of the most popular companies from all over the world – KFC or Kentucky Fried Chicken… Colonel Sanders had not an easy childhood, like many other kids. He learned how severe life can be from a very young age. He started his work career at the age of 12, as a farmer boy, and...
Dell Computers? You might be coming from another planet if you haven’t heard about them. Talking about PCs, they are one of the greatest companies in the world. For more than a quarter of a century, Dell has helped many companies and people to realize their dreams, by delivering quality technology solutions. But how all of this started? Here you will see another great business idea, made happen… History This is one really inspiring business story about a man who started with nothing, and became a billionaire! When saying nothing, I am talking about money, because Michael Dell had all...
