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Love to struggle

How To Be Successful? Simple! Learn To Love To Struggle

What do you think about struggle? Do you like it or would you better avoid it? How do you meet struggle – as a challenge or as an obstacle? How much struggle can you take when you have to? You probably have thought like this but have you realized something really important, something global? No matter what you do, no matter who you are, and no matter where you live you need to struggle not only to get what you want but also to live. Because life is equal to struggle, this was how mother nature created it. It has...

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The History of Reddit – How Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman Started The Company

History Reddit.com is amongst the biggest social networking sites nowadays. It has more than a billion page views monthly, which makes it one of the most popular websites in the world.  “The front page of the Internet” was started back in 2005, by two guys in their twenties –  Alexis Ohanian and his friend Steve Huffman. They created a social site, where people were able to share links with a short description and vote for them. According to the number of votes, the publications were ranked and shown on the site. The young entrepreneurs initially created some fake accounts themselves...

Jim Rogers 2010

Jim Rogers – Who He Is And How He Got Rich – A Short History

Jim (James) Rogers is an author and investor and is a man who really doesn’t think that you can just put economics into a box and call it good. With an around-the-world adventure under his belt, he is the co-founder of the Quantum Fund and an International Commodities Index. He believes that financial sectors are transitory and will shift based on economic needs. That means what might bring tremendous economic wealth for one period will be at a disadvantage for another period. In a recent interview with Forbes, he said that the smartest people in the United States will learn...

A movie inspired by the real life of Chris Gardner.

The Pursuit of Happiness Movie – One Of The Greatest Entrepreneurial Movies I’ve Watched

The Pursuit of Happiness is one great movie about the life of a man who found himself homeless, broke, without a home, and totally desperate. It’s about his struggle for getting up again and becoming a millionaire. If you like movies about winning the fight with life, this one may be real for you. And the best thing here is that it’s based on a true story, it tracks the early and hard life of Chris Gardner and how he made it from homeless to a millionaire. The Pursuit of Happiness movie is about the success story of Gardner, who...

The Summly App

How Teenager Nick D’Aloisio Made 30 Million At 17 – The Summly App’s Story

This is one of the latest millionaire stories, in which a smart techy teenager hits the jackpot by selling his work to a big Internet company. This is the story of Nick D’Aloisio, the British teen who developed the news syndication app for iPhone – Summly. A little about the teenage millionaire When he was just 15, the young entrepreneur had an idea – to simplify the way how information is spread across the web. He wanted to build an application, which could show you news or simply articles from many different sources in a convenient way. So, he sat...

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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...

Who Founded Youtube – How Jawed Karim, Steve Chen, and Chad Hurley Started The Video Sharing Site

Who Founded Youtube – How Jawed Karim, Steve Chen, and Chad Hurley Started The Video Sharing Site

YouTube, the world’s largest video-sharing platform, has revolutionized the way people consume and share content. It was founded in February 2005 by three former PayPal employees: Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. This article delves into the fascinating story of YouTube’s founding, the challenges it faced, and its journey to becoming a global phenomenon. Youtube.com is the biggest video-sharing site in the world, it’s really huge! At the beginning of the year 2012, more than 4 billion videos were streamed every single day. Nowadays (2024) the platform boasts over two billion logged-in monthly users, making it one of the...

Uber in action

What Uber’s Start Up Story Is – How Garrett Camp And Travis Kalanick Started The Company

There are only a few companies that can blow you away and make you wonder how owning a business can be so cool and awesome. Among such amazing companies include Apple, Tesla, Facebook, and Uber. Fortunately, Uber is becoming more and more fascinating and mind-blowing by the day! It’s not only a private chauffeur company but also a logistics company. Its amazing stunts with flower delivery, ice cream delivery, and helicopters on demand are nothing but a pure example of how you can achieve whatever you aim for provided you have the right application for it. The Start-Up Story of...

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...