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How Coca-Cola Was Started – The Start-Up Story Of John Pemberton and Asa Candler

The Coca-Cola Company has been one of the world’s most recognized and beloved brands for decades now. From its beginnings in 1886, when it was created by pharmacist John Pemberton, to today where it is a global beverage giant with annual revenues of over $42+ billion (2022) – Coca-Cola has come a very long way. Its story is simply amazing and we’re going to see now how it all happened… A Brief History of Coca Cola In 1886, a Confederate veteran and pharmacist/chemist named John Stith Pemberton felt the need to make something new. He had been wounded in the...

Ellon Musk’s Biography Is Simply Amazing – Video

Ellon Musk is one of the most successful entrepreneurs of our time. He was born on the 28th of June, 1971 in South Africa. He learned to code when he was just 12, early-developed computer skills are really common among today’s IT gurus… He started his first company, Zip2, when he was just 24. After selling it and cashing in $22 million, he continued with co-founding X.com (the predecessor of PayPal). PayPal was a huge success, in 2002, eBay bought the payment company for $1.5 billion (Musk personally cashed in $165 million for his share). But this was not enough...

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Jerry Yang, David Filo and Yahoo.com’s Start-Up Story

Today we will lead you to a new world, the kingdom of Yahoo.com. It is of the most important players in the history of the Internet and possibly one of the largest existing portals which is inspired by the story of two young entrepreneurs. How Yahoo.com Was Started In the spring of 1994, Jim Clark and Marc Andreessen founded Mosaic Communications. At that time Jerry Yang and David Filo were just two recently graduated electrical engineering students who were looking for a job. In a busy office, located at the campus of Stanford University and not far away from the...

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How To Become An Entrepreneur? Do You Have The Most Common Entrepreneurial Traits?

Are you wondering about how to become an entrepreneur? Most entrepreneurs are simply born this way (this doesn’t mean that you can’t learn to be one of them, too). This is why there are so many millionaires and even billionaires who have never graduated from college. Some of them haven’t even finished their high school education (billionaire Richard Branson is a bright example). These are the so-called natural entrepreneurs. Even though you can learn to be one of them, most of the characteristics common for so many entrepreneurs are inside you when you come to this world. I came across...

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Small Business Funding Tips And Advice

Some tips when finding financing for your small business… Funding is one of the most crucial things for a start-up. When you are a starting entrepreneur, money is usually scarce and at the same time, it’s so needed for growing the business. But does a start-up really need to seek cash in all circumstances? Actually, funding is not always good and there are bad moments to do that. Sometimes it can even have a negative effect on growth and performance, this is why it’s not always good. Another important question is ‘What to seek funds for?’. There are so many...

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The Most Important Key To Succeed According To Dan Kennedy

If there was a thing that was the simple and clear key to success… Just one thing, which if it was done well could reward you with an impending success. Too good to be true? Maybe not… Even though I don’t think that a universal way to do anything exists, according to author Dan Kennedy there is such a thing. And not only he knows about it, but also he has written an entire book on this matter. And here is the only habit one should master and stick to, to be successful. Punctuality The author has been exploring punctuality...

8 Steps For Slowly Becoming A Millionaire By Dharmesh Shah

Becoming a millionaire is a dream of many. This is an important milestone for any entrepreneur, too. This is why stories of the type of how to become a millionaire are so widely spread around the Internet. The most valuable ones are written by millionaires themselves, like the one below. These are the 8 slow steps for making a million Dharmesh Shah, one of the founders and current CTO of the software company HubSpot. He has already reached the one million target and here he shares some insights on the matter with you. Money, of course, isn’t everything. Not by...

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A Short Biography of Michael Dell – How He Founded Dell With Just $1000

Everybody knows Michael Dell as the founder of Dell Computers, but did you know that he founded the company with only a $1000 investment? Here is a short story about him with some other cool facts from his biography. Michael Dell was a smart kid. His parents wanted to make a doctor out of him, he even went to a college to study medicine. But this didn’t last for too long, just because he was passionate about computers from a very early age. So passionate, that he obtained and explored his first computing device when he was just 7, it...

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Fact: Microsoft Bought Their First Operating System MSDOS From Tim Patterson

Did you know, that Microsoft bought the prototype of their first disk operating system  “MS-DOS” from a man working in a small computer company named “Seattle Computer Products”? Tim Patterson, an engineer in this enterprise, had developed the operating system for six weeks, for internal purposes only. He named it QDOS – “Quick and Dirty Operating System”. One day, in 1980, as Tim was sitting in his lab, he was visited by a man named Paul Allen (one of the founders of Microsoft), who offered him $50 000 for his QDOS software. Can you imagine Patterson’s face at that moment? What...

200 Ranking Factors for 2013 and 2014

200 Search Results Ranking Factors

Online marketing has been growing for many years and it has become a constantly expanding multi-billion industry. Any business must have a presence online, nowadays this can be the difference between failure and success. SEO is one of the most, if not the most important aspect of online marketing. Companies from all around the world spend large budgets every single year for improving their search engine rankings and this is not about to change in the foreseeable future. Typically search engines themselves don’t like their results being manipulated, so they constantly improve their ranking algorithms for excluding nonnatural popularity from...