Tagged: Big Businesses

Wikipedia.org

Wikipedia’s Startup Story – How Jimmy Wales Started The Biggest Online Encyclopedia

Wikipedia.org is the biggest and the most popular free online encyclopedia today. Its knowledge database has been created by millions of people from all over the world. Currently, (2019) the site has more than 40 million articles in more than 293 different languages. That makes around 3.7 billion words which are 85 times more than all of the words in all 120 volumes of “Encyclopædia Britannica“. and what’s even more amazing is that all of this content was created by the 27 million registered users (voluntarily) and it’s available for free use, under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Monthly, more...

Skype History

How Was Skype Created? A Startup Story Of Niklas Zennstrom & Janus Frii

Only 10 years ago, no one could have even imagined that nowadays everybody would be able to make completely free calls with anyone, anywhere in the world… Not only can you talk with someone on the opposite side of the Earth, but you can watch him/her in real time, share files and even play games with the person you are connected to or make a conference call to a group of users. This is what Skype made possible and totally free for everyone! Great! And here is how it all happened… But first, what is Skype and how was it...

Groupon.com

Andrew Masen, Eric Lefkofsky and the Start Up History of Groupon

Today, Groupon.com is the biggest deal of the day site in the world. Its name comes from the words “group” and “coupon” and it is a place where you can buy stuff at really big discounts, reaching 90% for some offers. When the company went public on the 4th of November 2011, it was valued at nearly 13 billion dollars. That made the event the biggest  IPO (Initial Public Offering), since Google‘s. Having in mind that at that time Groupon was a relatively new company (only 3 years old) and it had never made even a penny of profits, this...

How George Eastman Started The Kodak Company – History

The Eastman Kodak Company Foundation More than 120 years ago, in 1888, a man named George Eastman founded a small company – Eastman Kodak Company, selling cheap cameras and consumables for them. ‘You press the button, we do the rest’ was the motto of the business, and the main strategy was selling cameras cheaply and making good margins on films and other photo equipment and materials. Mr. Eastman wanted to make photography more accessible to a broader circle of people. He wanted to make it more simple and more entertaining. He wanted to change the world, one of the most common...

Jeff Bezos, The Founder Of Amazon (Wikimedia)

The History Of Amazon.com – How Jeff Bezos Started Up The Company

Amazon – amazon.com – is a website that even a kid well knows today. Millions of customers, both returning and new visit this online marketplace to find everything they need to buy online. Their mission is to offer any product under the sun, to anyone, anywhere in the world… And they have been doing this really successfully for more than 20 years… Amazon.com Inc. is undoubtedly a pioneer in online retailing. The company offers almost everything – from books, videos, CDs, DVDs, and toys to automotive parts, lab & scientific supplies, power transmission products, and so on. And here in...