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A simple explanation of what branding really is.

What Is Branding And How Does It Work? A Simple Definition For Dummies

What is branding? This word is widely used in everyday life, but the truth about it is that many people don’t really know what it means. Some people think that branding is a logo, a name, or even a slogan, but it’s actually more than a combination of all these. By the way, anyone does branding, no matter if she realizes it or not. It’s the image and ‘the feel’ you build in your customers while doing business with them. It’s a very broad thing, including everything that you want to do, or just do unintentionally, in order to effectively...

How To Incorporate A Business In The USA? Pros And Cons Of Different Legal Forms

In the life of an entrepreneur, one day comes the moment for incorporating his/her activities. And then usually comes the question ‘How the heck do I do that?’ or ‘How to incorporate a business?’. What type of company would you use if you needed to do that? Would you form a C Corp or you would choose a sole proprietorship? Maybe founding a limited liabilities company (LLC)? What are the differences between all of these what would be the most appropriate for you? Someone may say: Damn, isn’t it enough that more than 90% of starting entrepreneurs fail, but now...

5 Things Vital For The Success Of Any Start Up According To Richard Branson

5 Things Vital For The Success Of Any Start Up According To Richard Branson

Richard Branson is a well-known entrepreneur from all around the world. But he is not just an entrepreneur, he is a serial entrepreneur. Branson has started hundreds of successful companies, most of which are still operational today. He has not only made billions of dollars this way but also he has acquired an enormous amount of experience. In the video below he shares a little bit of it. There you can see the 5 most important things for the success of any starting company. Enough words, here is the video on the matter: 5 Vital Things For Start-Up Success More...

World wealth distribution statistics.

World Wealth Distribution And Income Inequality In The World

The total wealth in the world at the beginning of 2013 was around $223 trillion. It has increased almost twice from $113 trillion in the year 2000. Here is an interesting infographic, showing some facts about world wealth. The most obvious thing you can see here is the inequality of its distribution among people. Did you know, that just 0.1% of all people own around 80% of all financial wealth? Around a quarter of the world’s wealth is located in the United States, which makes it the richest country in the world. Most of the millionaires on Earth are located...

Wordpress Market Share 2013

WordPress Market Share –

Probably every active Internet user has heard about WordPress. If you haven’t, you better check this out. Over the last few years, WordPress has become the most popular CMS in the world. It’s an open-source content management system (the so-called CMS), with which you can quickly and easily build your own website. Its development started 12 years ago, back in 2001 under the name b2 cafelog. Today this platform is the most popular CMS in the world and powers 33% of all sites in the world (2023), around 120+ million. Not only it’s completely free, but also professional, secure, and...

The evolution of marketing

The Evolution of Marketing – How It Changed Over The Years – Strategies & Trends

Marketing is a complex process, it is actually selling a product or service, by using different techniques. It literally means finding, keeping, and utilizing a market (customers) for a business. This is one of the most simple definitions of marketing. It is a crucial part of a company’s activities because it helps with the thing that any business should do to stay alive – to sell! Practically marketing has initially appeared many, many years ago. Because of the fact, that any effort that helps with sales can be called marketing, its roots began with the beginning of trade.  Although it...

The amazing story of Instagram.com - the company that made it from zero to $1 billion just in a few years.

The Story Of Instagram In Pictures – How Instagram Was Started

Instagram is definitely one of the greatest companies of the Internet era, and its story – one of the most engaging start-up stories today. The company started by two young entrepreneurs Kevin Systrom and Michel Krieger was sold to Facebook for the whooping of $1 000 000 000, just a few years after its foundation. The story of Instagram is not only a story of ‘how to start a billion dollars company and cash in’, but also it’s a story about faith, persistence, and entrepreneurship. It’s really amazing and you can see it in the following set of images, which...

Flappy Bird

The Incredible Story Of Flappy Bird And Its Creator Dong Nguyen

Today’s world is amazing, it totally is. We live in a time of opportunities and possibilities. This story is a bright example of how a free market combined with some creativity and maybe luck can make you a multi-millionaire in a matter of months. This is the astonishing story of a young Vietnamese developer who, because of suffering from the ‘too much spare time’ syndrome, decided to write a very simple game with awful graphics… Eventually, that turned out to make him incredibly rich, because of one simple reason – people just liked it! I am talking about the fabulous...

10 Mistakes To Avoid When Raising Funding For Your Start-Up

One of the crucial things for the survival of a startup is finding the money for its growth. Fundraising is extremely hard for starting companies, because of the huge risk involved and the lack of collateral for backing up the funds. But it is easy to avoid the most common mistakes an entrepreneur makes when searching for funds. The consulting company Founder Institute made research on this matter and they created this beautiful infographic below. There you can see the most common mistakes you could make while searching for cash to start your business. Attracting the attention of those worth...

Instagram Logo, source: commons.wikimedia.org

Instagram – An Online Business Idea For $1 Billion

In 2012, there was an announcement from Facebook – they were buying Instagram for the price of $1 billion. A company started just a few years ago by two young entrepreneurs, has brought them to the world of super riches. A company that had no revenue, only 13 employees, and completely no profits by the time of the deal… Who would be so insane to pay a billion for such a business?!? Well, actually Instagram had one thing that was far more valuable – potential. And this is what the managers of the biggest social network spotted there. Here is...