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Who Founded Youtube – How Jawed Karim, Steve Chen, and Chad Hurley Started The Video Sharing Site

Who Founded Youtube – How Jawed Karim, Steve Chen, and Chad Hurley Started The Video Sharing Site

YouTube, the world’s largest video-sharing platform, has revolutionized the way people consume and share content. It was founded in February 2005 by three former PayPal employees: Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. This article delves into the fascinating story of YouTube’s founding, the challenges it faced, and its journey to becoming a global phenomenon. Youtube.com is the biggest video-sharing site in the world, it’s really huge! At the beginning of the year 2012, more than 4 billion videos were streamed every single day. Nowadays (2024) the platform boasts over two billion logged-in monthly users, making it one of the...

Skype History

How Was Skype Created? A Startup Story Of Niklas Zennstrom & Janus Frii

Only 10 years ago, no one could have even imagined that nowadays everybody would be able to make completely free calls with anyone, anywhere in the world… Not only can you talk with someone on the opposite side of the Earth, but you can watch him/her in real time, share files and even play games with the person you are connected to or make a conference call to a group of users. This is what Skype made possible and totally free for everyone! Great! And here is how it all happened… But first, what is Skype and how was it...

Groupon.com

Andrew Masen, Eric Lefkofsky and the Start Up History of Groupon

Today, Groupon.com is the biggest deal of the day site in the world. Its name comes from the words “group” and “coupon” and it is a place where you can buy stuff at really big discounts, reaching 90% for some offers. When the company went public on the 4th of November 2011, it was valued at nearly 13 billion dollars. That made the event the biggest  IPO (Initial Public Offering), since Google‘s. Having in mind that at that time Groupon was a relatively new company (only 3 years old) and it had never made even a penny of profits, this...

What Is CPA?

What Does CPA Stand For? How The Cost Per Action Marketing Works

CPA stands for “cost per action” and this is an online marketing technique for generating leads (potential customers) for a business. This is also a nice way to make some good money from home. In today’s world, this method has become a mandatory part of the marketing plans of many big companies, and it is a well-working way for them to attract new customers. How does CPA marketing work? A simple example… Imagine that John has an online store, selling furniture. One day he decides to start sending e-mails to potential customers. For this purpose, he will need mail addresses,...

Jim Wang, a picture from his Twitter profile

How Jim Wang Made $3 Million Online From A Website Because He Was Bored

“I was bored!” Jim Wang said when he was asked how he decided to start the personal finance blog Bargaineering.com, which he later sold for the sweet round amount of $3 000 000. This is the amazing story of the young entrepreneur who created a super successful financial blog out of thin air because he didn’t have anything else to do… Well, all this didn’t happen without effort. Actually, Jim had developed the site for more than 5 years before his investment of spare time paid off big time. When he was in college, he spent his spare time hanging...

The performance of Voya Corporate Leaders Thrust series B compared to major US stock indexes, since 1970.

This Fund Has Kept The Same Shares For The Last 80 Years And Has Totally Beaten The Markets Since Then

Investing is a boring job… You will be amazed about how true these words of Warren Buffett are. Still don’t believe it? Here is the proof, the managers of the Voya Corporate Leaders Thrust haven’t bought any different stocks in their entire life, than those that were selected when the fund was founded. Even more, this fund hasn’t changed its portfolio for the last 80 years. The year 1935 was when the positions of the fund were opened and since then, nothing has changed with them, except their sizes. The thrust has shown really amazing results that have beaten all...

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The Amazing Story of Silvester Stallone – How The ‘Rocky’ Movie Was Made

Silvester Stallone Certainly, there can’t be a better example of how commitment and fully engaging yourself with what you do than the life of Sylvester Stallone itself. There can be a lot of questions over how he managed to receive about $20 million per role, making him one of the best paid in Hollywood. Was it talent, a lucky coincidence or was it a combination of both? If you’ve ever wondered what made Stallone that special, you would never have guessed, probably, that the reason behind all the charm is an almost deadly mistake by the doctors who delivered him....

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Jan Koum – From Living On Food Stamps To Becoming A Billionaire

This is one amazing story proving that anything is possible in America. This is the amazing story of Jan Koum, who yesterday closed a $19 billion deal selling WhatsApp to the social networking giant Facebook. Jan, who just a few years ago was hardly making the ends meet, became one of the richest people in the world. He is believed to have around 45% of WhatsApp, which sets his net worth to $6.8 billion. Who Is Jan Koum? Jan Koum was born in a small village in Ukraine on Feb 24, 1976. He was the only child in the family....

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What Is Mad Mimi’s Start Up Story – An E-mail Marketing Company Started 100% From the Ground

What Is Mad Mimi? Mad Mimi is, as they claim on their site (madmimi.com), “The world’s most sensible, enjoyable email marketing tool.”. It’s an e-mail marketing company that offers services like organizing, executing, and tracking e-mail marketing campaigns. For example, you can register for free, get a ready-to-use code from their site, put it on your site or blog, and … VIOLA! Now you have your own e-mail subscription service for your visitors. As simple as that… Now they will be able to subscribe to your mailing list. Everyone that subscribes by the box on your site gets on your...

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Which Is The Oldest Currency In The World

The British Pound The British Pound also called ‘pound’, ‘sterling’, or ‘pound sterling’ is the official currency for all payments in the United Kingdom and a few other territories. Its international abbreviation is “GBP”, which comes from Great British Pound and its currency sign is (£). The symbol derives from the Latin word “libra”, which meaning is “pound”. One pound is equal to 100 pence ( p ) since the “decimalization” in 1971. The pound is part of the sterling zone, which also includes the Isle of Man, Jersey, and Guernsey, and is made up of £1, £2, £5, £10,...