The success stories and start up business ideas of the most famous entrepreneurs .
Marketing is a complex process, it is actually selling a product or service, by using different techniques. It literally means finding, keeping, and utilizing a market (customers) for a business. This is one of the most simple definitions of marketing. It is a crucial part of a company’s activities because it helps with the thing that any business should do to stay alive – to sell! Practically marketing has initially appeared many, many years ago. Because of the fact, that any effort that helps with sales can be called marketing, its roots began with the beginning of trade. Although it...
Business conditions can vary significantly in different places in the US. Choosing the right city for your startup can be the difference between failure and success. A company called GoodApril has made research on this matter across the country and has found the top 7 best places for founding a company. They have taken in account 6 important business factors in their analysis: 1. Average tech wages 2. Income taxes 3. Sales taxes 4. Property taxes 5. Housing cost 6. Office prices After collecting all the needed data, the professionals from GoodApril have come to some interesting results. The best...
Instagram is definitely one of the greatest companies of the Internet era, and its story – one of the most engaging start-up stories today. The company started by two young entrepreneurs Kevin Systrom and Michel Krieger was sold to Facebook for the whooping of $1 000 000 000, just a few years after its foundation. The story of Instagram is not only a story of ‘how to start a billion dollars company and cash in’, but also it’s a story about faith, persistence, and entrepreneurship. It’s really amazing and you can see it in the following set of images, which...
Today’s world is amazing, it totally is. We live in a time of opportunities and possibilities. This story is a bright example of how a free market combined with some creativity and maybe luck can make you a multi-millionaire in a matter of months. This is the astonishing story of a young Vietnamese developer who, because of suffering from the ‘too much spare time’ syndrome, decided to write a very simple game with awful graphics… Eventually, that turned out to make him incredibly rich, because of one simple reason – people just liked it! I am talking about the fabulous...
One of the crucial things for the survival of a startup is finding the money for its growth. Fundraising is extremely hard for starting companies, because of the huge risk involved and the lack of collateral for backing up the funds. But it is easy to avoid the most common mistakes an entrepreneur makes when searching for funds. The consulting company Founder Institute made research on this matter and they created this beautiful infographic below. There you can see the most common mistakes you could make while searching for cash to start your business. Attracting the attention of those worth...
Do you want to be independent? Do you want to be the master of your own destiny? Would you like to get rich? If the answer to all of these questions is ‘YES’, a great way to achieve these goals is by starting your own business. If you haven’t considered this option, think once again about it. Especially if you think the rules listed below apply to you. On this cool infographic, you can see 10 great tips that can help you come up with a great business idea, or/and shift out the good ones. The picture, created by ‘The...
In 2012, there was an announcement from Facebook – they were buying Instagram for the price of $1 billion. A company started just a few years ago by two young entrepreneurs, has brought them to the world of super riches. A company that had no revenue, only 13 employees, and completely no profits by the time of the deal… Who would be so insane to pay a billion for such a business?!? Well, actually Instagram had one thing that was far more valuable – potential. And this is what the managers of the biggest social network spotted there. Here is...
Jared Isaacman was only 16 when he decided to start his own business. He was so obsessed with the idea that he quit high school and passed the GED exam instead, so he could focus on this entirely. In a few years, he ended up founding a payment processing company named United Bank Card Inc. The first office of his business was not traditional for many great entrepreneurs garage, but the basement of his home. Here is how it all happened. After leaving school at 16, Jared went to work for a credit card company, where he spent around 6...
Most of the biggest online companies that exist today – Google, Yahoo, Facebook, eBay, you name it…, probably wouldn’t be here, if they didn’t receive venture capital or angel financing at their beginning. But putting money into a business is the easiest part, accurately evaluating its potential is what makes the difference between a highly successful and a bad investment. Investing in a multi-billion company at its start is like hitting the jackpot. All of the early investors in Google have made millions and even billions (like Andreas von Bechtolsheim for instance). But spotting such a gold mine is not...
Social media has become one of the greatest ways to market a business online. More and more people use Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and other social sites to get more visitors, potential customer, or just a broader audience for their ideas. But I doubt that many of you know exactly when the most effective time to post is. A company called ‘Social Caffeine’ has made a research on the matter and has created a nice infographic, showing the best hours to publish on the most popular social networks. Posting in these time intervals, you will most probably reach maximum potential users....
