Chris Gardner was an ordinary guy, working as a salesman for medical supplies. Some years ago he was like most people in the world, struggling to earn enough for a living and take care of his kid and girlfriend. One day he saw a very well-dressed man in a nice red Ferrari, trying to find…
One of the greatest entrepreneurs of our time, the founder of one of the most innovative and successful companies in the world – Apple, had been working for only 1 dollar annual salary for the last 15 years! This way Steve Jobs was one of the ‘worst’ paid chief executive officers for many years in…
Becoming a millionaire is a dream of many. This is an important milestone for any entrepreneur, too. This is why stories of the type of how to become a millionaire are so widely spread around the Internet. The most valuable ones are written by millionaires themselves, like the one below. These are the 8 slow…
Email marketing was a very popular marketing strategy in the early and middle stages of the Internet era. Actually, it was one of the main online channels marketers used to reach their target groups of people. Although it is not as popular today as it was, this can still be a very effective method for…
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…
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…
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,…
Did you know, that Microsoft bought the prototype of their first disk operating system “MS-DOS” from a man working in a small computer company named “Seattle Computer Products”? Tim Patterson, an engineer in this enterprise, had developed the operating system for six weeks, for internal purposes only. He named it QDOS – “Quick and Dirty Operating…
Did you know, that the minimum hourly wage was 25 cents, when the federal minimum wage law was enacted back in 1938. This was equal to 4 dollars today’s money. Having this in mind, the average minimum hourly earning has increased only twice in real terms and 16 times (to $8) in nominal terms. In…
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…