Benjamin Franklin was one of the brightest men in history. He is one of the founders of the most liberal country in the world – The United States. He was a writer, inventor, politician, diplomat, musician…, in a few words – a very successful man. He was born in a working-class family (he had always…
Many of the greatest business ideas, that were later turned into super successful businesses, were born in the heads of college students. Thinking about today’s multi-billion companies like Facebook, LinkedIn, Apple, Google, and Yahoo…, seems like this trend hasn’t changed much now as all of these are college startups… Only to add to this statement,…
A Short History Of MySpace and Founders Tom Anderson And Chris DeWolfe Oh, how the mighty have fallen. What was once the proving ground for social media has since become the punch line of many jokes. The history of MySpace.com is a tale of energetic innovation, risk, and ultimately, failure to capitalize. While some people…
Gearing is a popular word in the financial world. It is a synonym of ‘financial leverage’ and both of these words can be used interchangeably. This is a ratio between the amount of own and the amount of borrowed capital in a business, personal budget, or any other financial unit. To learn more about leverage…
Richard Branson‘s story is one of the must-reads for any starting entrepreneur. His life has been an amazing and profitable adventure that anyone can learn from. But first, let me drop a few words about him. Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is one of the richest people in the world, 4th by wealth in the…
What To Do If You Fall… What to do if you fall? You try to get back up… What to do if you can not get back up a hundred times? You try again… I was looking around for cool business videos and I came across this one. This is one of the most motivating…
The world of finance completely shut its doors to Daniel Kan. During his senior year in college, Dan wanted nothing more than to become a financier. They all did some decent money, right? Everybody goes to finance…Â But of the 35 jobs he applied for, mainly in the lucrative finance world, he got 33 rejections….
A History of eBay.com eBay‘s origins lie in San Jose, California. On September 5th, 1995, the American computer programmer named Pierre Omidyar founded a personal auction website called – AuctionWeb. One of the first items that were sold on the site was a not working laser pointer, at the price of $14.83. Astonished, Pierre contacted…
Catch an entrepreneur and take all his/her money, let her start all over and she will most probably rebuild her wealth again. Give to a poor guy the big money, and he will most probably be poor again in a while. There are hundreds of stories about people who won the lottery and had nothing…
In the beginning, a tiny garage in Palo Alto, California, where two young and determined men created unique and visionary products while instituting a style of business management that revolutionized business strategies forever. David Packard and William Hewlett graduated from Stanford in 1938, in the midst of the Great Depression era of unemployment. As Packard…