The success stories and start up business ideas of the most famous entrepreneurs .
Clear Car Rental is an Indian company providing car rental services in most of the big cities in India. It is actually an online car booking portal on which you can easily find your preferred car at the best price. The site is one of the pioneers in its field and it has an amazing start-up story. Founded just a few years ago (in 2010), the site has become one of the leading car rental services in India. Here is how this happened… The Start-Up Story Of Clear Car Rental While being of Aurangabad origin doesn’t mean coming from the...
The words entrepreneur and entrepreneurship have become really popular but also very few people know the exact definition and meaning of them. Often an entrepreneur is used instead of a businessman or a man/woman who starts a company and takes risks. But this is not correct! Nope… Let me try to throw some light on this popular word. In fact, the answer to the question “What is an entrepreneur?” seems to be not so trivial. But one thing is for sure, not every businessman is an entrepreneur. This is just like the apple – it’s a fruit but not all...
Google is an amazing company and this is not only my opinion. The company was the best one can find to work for in 2016, according to Fortune. It has been a dream for many college graduates, some of which would kill to get a job there. Well, it’s one of the coolest companies of all time, isn’t it? Employees get all kinds of perks, and I am not talking only about the free haircuts and the ‘cleansing’ toilets, but also about some little weird ones… Like their death benefits according to which employee’s spouse gets 50% of the dead...
Venture capital funding is one cool and accessible way of satisfying the hunger for cash of a dynamically growing startup. The company StartUps.co, which main activity is providing help to starting entrepreneurs throughout the fundraising stage, has created this beautiful infographic below, where you can see some interesting statistics about venture capital financing in the US. This information can be of great help because you can get a feel about the basics of this kind of funding. More than $100 billion was the invested money by venture capital companies during the Dot Com Boom in 1999. On average, this number...
Just by holding a dinner meeting with Mr. Haresh Chalwa, managing partner at India Value Fund Advisors (IVFA) and former Network 18 CEO, Housing.co.in closed on another funding deal less than four weeks after their previous investment. At least according to Mr. Advitiya Sharma, co-founder, housing.co.in, Mr. Haresh was impressed with the team and its product and that’s why he made the funding. Whether that’s exactly what happened, or some secret relationship between housing.co.in and Mr. Haresh triggered the funding, the company’s success story truly merits anybody’s faith and trust (including Mr. Haresh’s). The housing portal idea came up in...
A life-changing speech – this is what I can say about the oration of Steve Jobs, in honor of the Stanford graduates in 2005. Nothing so special, but really amazing, something that touches your soul deep inside, if you can grasp the meaning of it. It’s a story about life and death, about how everyone should think about his/her life because we are not here forever… Few people really realize this, but it’s true for all of us. See the philosophy of one great entrepreneur about life, success, failure, and happiness. Steve Jobs never graduated from college. However, this didn’t...
In mid-2013, Indian travel entity redBus was officially acquired by Naspers – a South African-based media and Internet group – via IbiboGroup, Naspers’s Indian subsidiary. Looking back on the company’s short history since its startup less than a decade ago, you would almost agree that the partnership with a company of Naspers class is nothing less than a milestone 100% deserved. RedBus was founded in August 2006 by Phanindra Sama, Sudhakar Pasupunuri, and Charan Padmaraju – three engineers who were schoolmates at The Birla Institute of Technology and Science and workmates at various companies in Bengaluru. They began renting and...
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...
Steve Jobs is one of the … Well, I think that everybody knows who he is… I will not explain this here, if you need to read his story, you can go here. I will just mention that he is one of the people I truly admire and I think it is really worth it to learn from his experience. A lot can be read about him, and I you don’t actually know where to start, you can go through some of his most famous quotes here. In this post, you will see some of the most popular and inspiring...
While I was browsing around the Internet, I came across another cool infographic, which shows 8 specifics for all successful entrepreneurs things. I think the following tips will be really helpful for any ambitious person and here I am publishing them here. I have read the stories of many self-made millionaires and billionaires, and I can conclude from this experience that the following facts apply really well to successful people. Here they are: 1. Never have a backup plan! 2. Work really hard, greatness comes from effort. 3. Pursue your goals. 4. Don’t try to be one of the herd,...
