You can get rich and very successful even by a complete accident. In fact, many great businesses come to the world totally by fluke. And this is how one of the most popular social publishing platforms – Movable Type was born. It was started by a husband and wife, who created a system with the…
When he was only 12, Ephren Taylor started his first business venture – video game design. He was crazy about games, like most of the kids his age. He started reading “How To Make A Video Game In 21 Days”, by Andre LaMothe, every day after school, and after a few months he had coded…
Below is a nice set of infographics, where you can see how some famous billionaires made their first billion dollars. Most of the richest people in the world were actually poor at the beginning of their lives, they are self-made billionaires. But how did they make their first billion dollars? Here is how Warren Buffett,…
LinkedIn is currently the most successful and progressive business-oriented social media site. Today it’s used by more than 875 million people from 200 countries all around the world and the site has around ~1.5 billion unique visitors every month. It’s the 11th most popular site on the globe according to Alexa’s rankings. But things were…
Google has been one of the greatest companies of our time. It is the perfect example of how one could create a multi-billion business out of nothing, with only a great idea, passion, and entrepreneurial spirit. More than 190 million people visit the sites of the company every single month and this number has been…
Starting A Business With No Money Many starting entrepreneurs think that money (or its absence) will be one of the biggest problems at the beginning of their business adventure. In most cases, this is not really so, especially today, in the era of the Internet and online business. The world has changed, money is no…
How many times should you try to do something, if it is not successful on the first try? Here is an interesting point of view regarding this matter. It probably depends on what you are doing, maybe there is no general rule for every aspect of life? But in most cases when you want something…
When she was just 14 years old Ashley Qualls, born in Detroit, launched a site with the idea to publish her personal portfolio of pictures that she was making. The site was started in 2004 under the domain whateverlife.com, which derives from “for whatever life you lead”. Ashley had the humble desire to make a…
What Is Twitter? Twitter is a very popular social network that allows its users to post short messages (known as “tweets”) of up to 280 characters, which can be read by other users. Tweeting means sending messages. Twitter can be used to connect businesses with customers as well as a personal communication tool. The site…
What Is Viber? Viber is a mobile messenger that makes it possible for you to chat, call, and send files to all other users of the app, using your Internet connection. It was created by a company called Viber Media (viber.com) and today is one of the most popular applications offering a free voice-over IP…