The success stories and start up business ideas of the most famous entrepreneurs .
Investing is a boring job… You will be amazed about how true these words of Warren Buffett are. Still don’t believe it? Here is the proof, the managers of the Voya Corporate Leaders Thrust haven’t bought any different stocks in their entire life, than those that were selected when the fund was founded. Even more, this fund hasn’t changed its portfolio for the last 80 years. The year 1935 was when the positions of the fund were opened and since then, nothing has changed with them, except their sizes. The thrust has shown really amazing results that have beaten all...
Starting a small business is a nice path to freedom, satisfaction, financial independence, and happiness. So, we will do our best to provide you with some nice information on this topic. We believe that by doing this, we can make the world a better place for everyone. Also, this is a nice way for us to learn more about doing business and improve our knowledge. Starting Your Own Business Starting a venture is not the easiest task in the world, but it is not hard, too. You should prepare for a lot of work, sometimes without seeing any quick results,...
Silvester Stallone Certainly, there can’t be a better example of how commitment and fully engaging yourself with what you do than the life of Sylvester Stallone itself. There can be a lot of questions over how he managed to receive about $20 million per role, making him one of the best paid in Hollywood. Was it talent, a lucky coincidence or was it a combination of both? If you’ve ever wondered what made Stallone that special, you would never have guessed, probably, that the reason behind all the charm is an almost deadly mistake by the doctors who delivered him....
This is one amazing story proving that anything is possible in America. This is the amazing story of Jan Koum, who yesterday closed a $19 billion deal selling WhatsApp to the social networking giant Facebook. Jan, who just a few years ago was hardly making the ends meet, became one of the richest people in the world. He is believed to have around 45% of WhatsApp, which sets his net worth to $6.8 billion. Who Is Jan Koum? Jan Koum was born in a small village in Ukraine on Feb 24, 1976. He was the only child in the family....
What Is Mad Mimi? Mad Mimi is, as they claim on their site (madmimi.com), “The world’s most sensible, enjoyable email marketing tool.”. It’s an e-mail marketing company that offers services like organizing, executing, and tracking e-mail marketing campaigns. For example, you can register for free, get a ready-to-use code from their site, put it on your site or blog, and … VIOLA! Now you have your own e-mail subscription service for your visitors. As simple as that… Now they will be able to subscribe to your mailing list. Everyone that subscribes by the box on your site gets on your...
LinkedIn’s Startup Story The story of the world’s biggest business social site LinkedIn – www.linkedin.com – has a very similar beginning, to many other high-tech and highly successful ventures. Only it was not started in a garage and not by a college dropout :). The founder of the popular site and its CEO – Reid Hoffman launched the site from his living room ;)… The idea for a professional social network was born back in 2002, when Hoffman and some friends of his, the other four founders – Allen Blue, Jean-Luc Vaillant, Eric Ly, and Konstantin Guericke, decided to start...
While it is highly incomprehensible why certain fictional creatures are so obsessed with golden treasures, very few can doubt its appeal to humans. Throughout history, it is seen as a sign of power and economic status. “Royals” and aristocrats of the ancient world dictated the market trends by using gold as a medium of currency for exchange and to store wealth. It is difficult to ascertain when exactly did humans start using it but evidence of mining can be traced as far back as 4700 B.C. Although most people would associate it only with coinage and jewelry, its chemical, electrical...
1SaleADay.com How about buying a laptop for 50 bucks? Are you interested? This is an extraordinary story about a guy, who made millions of dollars selling at big discounts! At first sight, you may be thinking that I am kidding, but this is not a laughing matter… This is the real story of Ben Federman, the founder of 1SaleADay.com, where you can buy every day different product at up to 90% discount. Imagine, that you want to buy a digital camera. The best price you have found so far is $300 bucks and occasionally you come across a site, where...
This is one of those stories that are a little hard to believe, but it is completely real. A story about a young guy, who came up with a bright idea and cashed it out for $16 billion of dollars. Jan Koum, one of the founders of WhatsApp is now one of the richest people in the world, and he made all this in just a few years. Here is how it all happened… WhatsApp History Jan Koum was born on Feb 24, 1974, in Kyiv, Ukraine, to a family of Jewish origin. Back in 1992, he and his mom...
Imgur.com is a leading online image-sharing platform. It’s described as the home of the most shared and liked images from all around the world. It’s actually a very successful social network, which people use to share, comment, and store images with anyone. The site is visited by more than 100 million people every single month and has more than 350 million images uploaded. Like many of the other big and successful tech startups, Imgur was started as a hobby by Alan Schaaf in 2009. That year he was studying computer science at Ohio University. One day he decided to make...
