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Top places for startign a business in USA

Which city to choose for your startup? The Best Cities For Starting A Business In The US

Business conditions can vary significantly in different places in the US. Choosing the right city for your startup can be the difference between failure and success. A company called GoodApril has made research on this matter across the country and has found the top 7 best places for founding a company. They have taken in account 6 important business factors in their analysis: 1. Average tech wages 2. Income taxes 3. Sales taxes 4. Property taxes 5. Housing cost 6. Office prices After collecting all the needed data, the professionals from GoodApril have come to some interesting results. The best...

The Magic of Accurately Valuating a Start Up

How Start-Ups Are Valuated – This Is How You Can Evaluate Your Starting Company

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...

The Official Dropbox Logo, 2013

How Dropbox Was Founded – The Start-Up Story Of Drew Houston

Imagine that you could create a folder on your desktop. You could go to work, create a folder with the same name on your office computer and find there the same files you put in the folder at home. You could also access these files of yours via your smartphone, no matter where you are. Well, you can do all of this with a service called Dropbox (www.dropbox.com). This is a cool way of storing your information, so it’s accessible from anywhere you are, from any device you use. And here is the story about how this great business idea...

How Entrepreneurs Think - Survey

Do Entrepreneurs Think Different?

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...

The Start-Up Story Of LiveJournal And Brad Fitzpatrick

When social media websites became popular, some rose to prominence and remained at the top of search results. Others plowed steadily down the middle of the road, remaining in the peripheral vision of interested online parties. And still, others fizzled out quickly due to keeping their focus too limited. In the case of LiveJournal, a social media outlet designed specifically for blogging, it has remained important depending on the geographical location. Founded in 1999 by Brad Fitzpatrick, a programmer born in Iowa and raised in Oregon, the site grew in popularity over the next few years. It wasn’t until the...

United Parcel Service

Would You Believe It? James Casey Started UPS With Borrowed $100

United Parcel Service, or UPS as it is known by everyone today, is one of the largest messenger and courier services on the planet. Since its beginnings in 1907 as a small messenger service in Seattle, United Parcel Service (UPS) has become one of the world’s most recognizable delivery companies. It serves an estimated 8 million customers each day and has operations in more than 220 countries. The company was started by James E. Casey when he was still a teenager after he witnessed a disorganized delivery service at a local department store in Seattle. Seeing an opportunity to improve the...

Jerry Cohen & Ben Greenfield - the founders of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream

Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream Was Started With Just $12000, See Their Start-Up Story

Did you know that Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream Company was supposed to be a Bagel Company? Childhood friends Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield were born in Brooklyn NY, in 1951, four days apart. Ben, during his senior year, drove an ice cream truck. He attended various colleges in the Northeast but dropped out. Eventually, he left college life and taught pottery in New York’s Adirondack region where he also learned about ice cream making. On the other hand, Jerry went to Oberlin College and took up medicine. While Jerry was in college, he worked as an ice cream scooper...

The Iceberg illusion

The Real Truth About Success

Every single day we see successful people around us. They seem to be so happy, they smile, they obviously enjoy life, they have enough spare time, because of their financial independence… Their lives look so carefree. Most people think of them as they are the ‘lucky ones’. It seems that any of them just got lucky at some point in their life and all the great life they live now is because of some kind of a fluke. Well, often in life things are not what they seem to be… What you see about most of these people is just...

Craigslist's founder - Craig Newmark

The Start Up Story Of Craiglist.org And Its Founder Craig Newmark

Craigslist.org is the biggest classifieds site in the world today, receiving millions of visits per day and more than 20 billion page views per month. It’s in the group of the top 10 most popular sites in the US and number 35 in the world. Every single month, more than 70 million new classifieds are published there. The site is used for almost anything, from buying and selling stuff to personal ads and offers. This online empire was started with no money, and no experience, by a single guy as his hobby. Here is how it all happened… The History...

Mark Zuckerberg at his computer

A Short History of Mark Zuckerberg

A Short Biography On May 14th, 1984, Mark Zuckerberg was born in a small White Plains town, in New York. He was the fourth child of Karen Kempner and Edward Zuckerberg, who already had three girls. This was how it all began… Currently, Mark is only 32, and his net worth by the year 2019 was estimated at $64 billion. But the fact that he is one of the youngest billionaires is the less interesting one. The cool stuff here is actually his startup story, telling how a kid became the founder and later the CEO of one of the...