The success stories and start up business ideas of the most famous entrepreneurs .
The Basics Affiliate marketing is a multi-billion industry, you would probably be amazed about how widely spread it is. But what is this thing? Nothing that special, it is simply: selling other people’s stuff, that’s all! No need of fancy and complicated definitions. And it is also one of the most lucrative ways to make money online. It has made hundreds of thousands of people millionaires and many more make a living this way. But it’s not as easy, as a walk in the park… I don’t want to make such an impression. It is a business like any other...
There are hundreds of millions of sites on the Internet today. Some of these web assets are something like online real estate – they generate passive revenue (rent) for their owners, and others are big online businesses making millions of dollars. It’s completely natural for these properties to be traded and this need has been growing fast for the last few years. This is what a group of entrepreneurs took advantage of and this was the idea behind the number one site marketplace – Flippa.com. What Is Flippa? Flippa is simply a website marketplace, where buyers and sellers of online...
Women entrepreneurs have had to face cultural bias, sexism, and other challenges across the world to seek success. Many have succeeded and become leaders who inspire us. Read how some of the world’s most powerful entrepreneurs – and women – overcame all odds to get where they are today. Oprah Winfrey Born to a single teenage mom and frequently molested between the ages of nine and thirteen by male relatives before running away to strike out on her own, and losing her own baby as a teen, Oprah Winfrey had an emotionally devastating childhood. But she overcame that, with a...
What Is Fiverr Fiverr is the ultimate micro-jobs platform on the Internet. It’s a place where millions of buyers and sellers meet and exchange services, products, goods, and whatever else that you can imagine, and that costs $5. These are the so-called gigs, each gig will cost you five bucks, and it is the universal name for every offer there. Having more than 500 000 different gigs published, Fiverr has become a great place for individuals and businesses from around the world for outsourcing small tasks for relatively small amounts of cash. Imagine that you are a marketing company from...
What Is Blogger? Blogger.com (also known as blogspot.com) is the ultimate microblogging platform on the Internet. Not only has it been the most popular place for a free blog for the last several years, but also it is the most powerful tool one could use for this purpose. There you can start and develop a professional blog for free and even earn money from it. You have everything you may need to do this, and you can make it literally in minutes. This makes Blogger the perfect place for zounds of people, companies, organizations, and others to create their own...
Zynga Inc Zinga (zynga.com) is a games-developing company that was incorporated in April 2007 by Mark Pincus, with its main headquarter based in San Francisco, California. Just a few years after it was started, Zynga began generating billions of dollars in revenue from its social games. Originally, the project was named Presidio Media but the name was changed, in July of 2007, in honor of Mark’s dog – an American bulldog “Zynga”. This is also where the dog on the logo of the company derives from. In its humble beginnings, the entire production team included just nine people to run...
How To Start a Cleaning Company There is nothing better than a simple and working-well business idea. And here is a good one – start a cleaning business. Someone may say it’s too trivial to be a profitable idea, but do you know what? Cleaning is a multi-billion industry around the world. Every year people from all around the globe generate hundreds of billions of dollars in profits from simply cleaning different things – from small apartments to the offices of the largest corporations. Any moment, anywhere there is something to be cleaned up, and the good news is, that...
Have you ever had the thought ‘It’s too late for me to start a business’ running through your mind? You might have even believed in it, but here are 12 good examples of why you shouldn’t have. The guys and gals from fundersandfounders.com have made this cool infographic, on which you can see 12 super successful entrepreneurs, who were ‘ordinary people’ working ordinary 9-5 jobs like most people. And they had been doing this till their early 30. Did you know that Harrison Ford was a carpenter until he turned 30? Joanne Rowling, the author of Harry Potter lived on...
The richest are getting richer and the poorest are getting poorer. Everybody knows about this and many things that this is a flaw in the modern economy, but surprise… this is not something new at all. Things have been so for many many years and this is not going to stop anytime soon. Contrariwise, the inequality has been getting progressively stronger. According to a recent research made by two guys named Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, not even the top 1% by wealth acquire the most of the income in The United States, it’s the top 0.01 percent of the...
Steve Jobs is, and will ever be, one of the greatest entrepreneurs of all time. His complex personality with overwhelming passion, dedication, and will has not only generated billions of dollars but also changed the world. He was a technological entrepreneur, visionary, and innovator who changed the world by pioneering the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 80s. Not only did he create some of the most groundbreaking products of all time, such as the Apple Macintosh, but he also helped create an entirely new industry that has made technology more accessible to everyone. Jobs was born in San...
