The success stories and start up business ideas of the most famous entrepreneurs .
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 the corporate world in America. In the same time his company have been one of the best performers for these years. This looks like some kind of an oxymoron, but it’s the pure truth. Excluding the 90 million plane, which was a gift to him...
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 steps for making a million Dharmesh Shah, one of the founders and current CTO of the software company HubSpot. He has already reached the one million target and here he shares some insights on the matter with you. Money, of course, isn’t everything. Not by...
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 increasing sales and gaining popularity. But, it should be done the right way! Even though the method is as old as the e-mail itself, there are still some things that many people understand wrong about it. In the following infographic, you can see the top...
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 look because of dwarfism. Tabatha’s brother found this really funny and one day he decided to shoot (talking about a camera here) the cat and post the picture to the popular social site Reddit. The photo wade a boom there. Then, just in 48 hours,...
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 look for businesses with high growth potential and are typically motivated by the potential for long–term gains and social impact. Angel investing is riskier than traditional investing because the companies have yet to prove that they have a successful product or service in the market....
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, he even went to a college to study medicine. But this didn’t last for too long, just because he was passionate about computers from a very early age. So passionate, that he obtained and explored his first computing device when he was just 7, it...
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 System”. One day, in 1980, as Tim was sitting in his lab, he was visited by a man named Paul Allen (one of the founders of Microsoft), who offered him $50 000 for his QDOS software. Can you imagine Patterson’s face at that moment? What...
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 1980, more than 16% of the working population received minimal wage. Today this percentage is under 3%. You can read some interesting information about wages and labor on the site of the United States Department Of Labor located here https://www.dol.gov/
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 was renamed to Pepsi Cola and this was when the start of this world brand was put. In the first years, Bradham prepared Pepsi in his drugstore, but soon he was not able to supply the increased quantity that people wanted to buy. In 1903...
Online marketing has been growing for many years and it has become a constantly expanding multi-billion industry. Any business must have a presence online, nowadays this can be the difference between failure and success. SEO is one of the most, if not the most important aspect of online marketing. Companies from all around the world spend large budgets every single year for improving their search engine rankings and this is not about to change in the foreseeable future. Typically search engines themselves don’t like their results being manipulated, so they constantly improve their ranking algorithms for excluding nonnatural popularity from...
