The success stories and start up business ideas of the most famous entrepreneurs .
One of the most legendary investors of the past century has been George Soros. He turned his hedge fund into a money-making machine by which he has not only been making billions of dollars, but he helped provide funding to needy people around the world. In 2011 he retired from running the Quantum Group of Funds and started paying more attention to his philanthropic activities. A Short History George Soros was born in Budapest, Hungary on the 12th of August, 1930. His family background was Jewish and he was forced to hide his identity during World War II when the...
This is just another story about how you can get anything you desire if you are fully dedicated to it. This is the story of a bad kid, who becomes a multimillionaire, founding his own company. This is a story about a guy who hasn’t even finished high school, and at the same time, he writes a book that reaches a top place on the best sellers list of the New York Times. Ryan Blair Ryan Blair was born on the 14th of July, 1977, in Southern California. He had a tough childhood, his father was far from the best,...
Making money online is one of the best work-from-home jobs ever. It’s one of the greatest ways to earn because it has some amazing, really amazing advantages. What’s one of the best methods you can employ? It’s affiliate marketing and you can see exactly how right here, but first: Let’s go through some of the sweetest advantages of online business 1. No barriers to start – everybody with a computer and Internet can actually start earning online right now, even from her home. 2. Huuuge earning potential – when you work online, your potential customers are around 4.95 billion people...
Patrick Bet-David didn’t have an easy childhood. He was born in Iran in 1970, during the Iranian revolution. He suffered from war and all the bad consequences it caused. When he was 10 years old, he and his mother escaped from hell, they left Iran and went to Germany where they spent 2 years living in a refugee camp there. When he was 12, they went to the United States and settled there. But his childhood continued to be a tough one. He was not doing well in school, and all the other kids actually avoided him. When he graduated...
A startup accelerator also referred to as a seed accelerator, is a form of a business incubator that is chasing profit by usually acquiring a part of a business and then helping the latter to grow. Its main purpose is to help high-potential business ideas with mentoring, office space, know-how, education, and of course seed capital in exchange for a piece of the equity of the new business. The support is for a certain period of time ranging from 3 to 18 months and it is usually provided at the very beginning of a start-up. Business incubators are different from...
You have a great startup idea, you believe it’s awesome and that it has huge potential. You know what to do, how to do it. You have made a working prototype and it is working great. You can even smell the profits that are coming… Just a tiny problem stays between you and your success… The lack of finances… Any startup needs to be financed somehow and you should be well prepared when you start searching for cash. Here is a nice clip that can give you some cool tips and advice about startup financing. Below is a video from...
Money is the lifeblood of any business. It is the fuel that any company needs at any stage of its existence. No matter how big it is, no matter how many workers are employed, any venture needs financing to stay operational. In this article, we will go through the different stages of financing and see the different ways businesses obtain their money in their life cycle. Funding Stages / Business Financing Stages Seed Funding Stage – this is the very first stage of financing, in which the business may not even be founded yet. This is the money used for...
Seed capital also referred to as seed funding is a commonly used term in the business world. But what does it mean and how exactly is it used? Well, in this article I will try to explain its basics. So, seed funding is a form of financing in which the owner of a business receives money in exchange for a part of the equity of his/her company. It is called ‘seed’ because it happens at the very beginning of the business before even the latter generates any money (before it is started). This makes seed funding a very risky investment...
Pete Cashmore mashable.com Pete Cashmore was born in Banchory, a small town in Scotland, on the 18th of September 1985. When he was in high school he experienced some health issues, because of which he finished high school two years late. He couldn’t go out with friends and he had a lot of time all by himself. He was a teenager experiencing a big need for social contact. This is how social media sites became an important part of his everyday life and he was amazed by the fact that they were changing the way people communicate. He spent a...
Have you heard about Chuck Feeney? Did you know that he is a billionaire and one of the wealthiest people in the world? Most of you probably don’t know him, even though he is one of the American billionaires? Here is why I decided to uncover his amazing biography here. Chuck is an American-Irish philanthropist, the founder of one of the biggest world charitable foundations – “The Atlantic Philanthropies“. Not only he is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world, but also he and his organization have changed the lives of so many people without even these people...
