The success stories and start up business ideas of the most famous entrepreneurs .
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,...
Basecamp is one of the coolest companies in the world. Its headquarter is in Chicago but everyone working there is free to live and work from anywhere else in the world. This is how, not much surprising, many of the employees of Basecamp work from home and other convenient locations. The company has an amazing startup story, it’s really intriguing and this is why I thought it’d be great to have it on this site. To all of you, Basecampers, I wish you luck and successful business. What Is Basecamp? Basecamp is an on-line project management software, used by thousands...
Whoever thought a novel idea could be transformed into a multi-million dollar business venture in less than half a decade? Well, to one Dhiraj C Rajam, that’s a possibility because it’s exactly how he started his now world-famous Mu Sigma business analytics company. To Mr. Dhiraj, becoming a businessman, let alone a successful one, was one of the last things he ever thought he would be. Prior to starting Mu Sigma in 2004, all he was interested in was learning and innovating new things in the field of business information technology, without the knowledge that what he was cooking was the...
Glasses for Dogs?! Are you kidding me? Many of you might think that this is just a funny story, but it’s completely real and actually totally innovative. In fact, it also turned out to be a really profitable and successful business idea, that created a fortune. Roni Di Lullo made millions by building a business around it. And here is her story… One day when she was in the park, she saw her dog unpleasantly blinking, because of the strong sunlight. She got immediate inspiration and decided to make sunglasses for dogs. This was a totally crazy idea, nobody has made anything...
Simply Great! This is what I could say about the movie: “Pirates Of Silicon Valley“. This is a real story, about the fathers of the world of technology we have today. A movie about the struggle of young entrepreneurs, that founded two of the greatest companies ever – Apple and Microsoft. It’s a movie about the epic fight between the early tech giants, stolen business ideas, and entrepreneurship. A movie about the competition between the two men, who lead the most successful companies of our time – Steve Jobs (Apple) and Bill Gates (Microsoft). You will be just amazed at...
