Tagged: Business Infographics
Most of the biggest online companies that exist today – Google, Yahoo, Facebook, eBay, you name it…, probably wouldn’t be here, if they didn’t receive venture capital or angel financing at their beginning. But putting money into a business is the easiest part, accurately evaluating its potential is what makes the difference between a highly successful and a bad investment. Investing in a multi-billion company at its start is like hitting the jackpot. All of the early investors in Google have made millions and even billions (like Andreas von Bechtolsheim for instance). But spotting such a gold mine is not...
Social media has become one of the greatest ways to market a business online. More and more people use Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and other social sites to get more visitors, potential customer, or just a broader audience for their ideas. But I doubt that many of you know exactly when the most effective time to post is. A company called ‘Social Caffeine’ has made a research on the matter and has created a nice infographic, showing the best hours to publish on the most popular social networks. Posting in these time intervals, you will most probably reach maximum potential users....
Making business online has become a sweet and lucrative occupation… And it has been expanding really fast. Internet is one of the greatest things that has ever happened in our development as humans. It has changed the world forever. Our lives has changed, our habits, our thinking and we are different as a whole. And this is only the beginning. Still, less than 35% of the people on the Earth use the web regularly. The growth that is going to come will be huge! Even though, just a third of the population on our planet uses it, Internet is the...
The most popular mobile operating system – Android has made a real revolution in the mobile world. Very soon, more than 1 000 000 000 devices will be using this platform. Having in mind, that this is around 1/7 of the population of the planet, this number is really huge. More than 1 500 000 Android devices are activated every single day and this number is growing. If you are already wondering about how this open source project has expanded that much, you can have a look at this infographic showing a brief history of this great software invention. It...
Have you ever wondered why some people succeed in their business activities and some people just can’t, no matter how hard they try? Why is it easier for one to take risks, innovate, and change the world, while others keep working from 9 to 5 for all of their lives and have never really made efforts to start on their own? The following infographic, created by the popular freelance platform – Upwork and based on a survey among 3 200 freelancers, gives an interesting view on the way entrepreneurs think. First of all, an entrepreneur is not every person who...
What Is an Angel Investor Actually? First of all, let’s see what a business angel (angel investor) is. This usually is a wealthy person, who is willing to finance a startup, in exchange for a part of the equity of the financed venture, or for convertible debt. It’s not unusual for business angels to be organized in groups, this way they share the risk, combine their experience and know-how, and can provide much more financing. In many cases, angel investors are retired entrepreneurs or executives in big companies. They often participate in the management of the startup and provide not...
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 again just in a couple of years. So what would be the difference between a guy who just can’t succeed in business and a guy who is a serial successor? The answer to this question is simply – the way of thinking. Entrepreneurship is a...
Being a good leader is really something tough but it’s also really something that is totally worth it. Leadership is a complex thing, and there are actually many blocks that the mindset of a successful leader is built from. It is described as a process of social influence in which one person can empower the help and support of others in reaching a certain goal or completing a task. A good leader is a person who knows how to motivate people and make them believe in what he/she believes him/herself. A good leader leads, but doesn’t dictate. Being a recognized...
Being rich is cool, isn’t it? But there is something even cooler… Being extremely rich is extremely cool! Probably many of you have asked yourselves the question ‘How can I get rich?‘ or ‘How did those billionaires make their extremely large fortunes?’… Not only how you can make money, but how to make a lot of money. You’ve come to the right site for the answers. On BusinessIdeasLab you can read the stories of some of the most successful people in the business world. And here in this post is a kind of more general answer to these questions… Nerdwallet...
Like in almost any other area, entrepreneurs have their own slang. The guys from the online courses provider – Udemy have decided to make a kind of entrepreneur’s phrasebook, where you can see some of the most common buzzwords founders of new businesses use. I was surprised about how many words I didn’t know, but I quickly amplified my knowledge. Some of the terms are really joyful and I thought it would be cool to share them here. Entrepreneur’s phrasebook For better readability, you can click on the image to enlarge it. Don’t forget to share this post if you...
