The story of Airbnb started in 2007 when two designers, Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia weren’t able to pay rent for their apartment in San Francisco so they decided to rent their loft as a lodging space for travelers. They created a website and soon after they started to receive emails from people who wanted to stay at their loft ...

The popularity of mobile apps is quickly growing, opening the door towards a great market that smart businessmen take advantage of right now. As the number of smartphones and mobile devices grows, the number of games that are developed for the platforms also grows. We are faced with a huge possibility that is present through in-game mobile marketing. The main ...

Jack Dorsey is a highly respected American businessman that did many interesting things as an entrepreneur, even if he is mostly known as Twitter’s founder. He was born in 1976 in St Louis and initially became interested in web development when he was a college student. Twitter was founded in 2006, with Dorsey as CEO, executive chairman and chairman of ...

Pierre Omidyar was trying to impress his girlfriend and ended up creating a revolutionary online system that allowed people to sell and buy everything they wanted, eBay. The eBay founder is Iranian-American, French born and became a billionaire at 31. How did this happen? Childhood Omidyar was born in 1967 in Paris while his computer interests started in high school. ...

Tinder’s popularity is something that cannot be ignored especially since it sparked a new generation of online dating apps and apps in general. The app’s main target and the biggest part of the user data base are millennials, a generation that sees dating in a different light than the generations before. As opposed to old school dating sites that required ...

Brent Beshore is quite a growing name in the entrepreneurial world. When he was just 7 he actually started doing some business. He partnered with a friend in order to create arrows and bows. They were made in America and then sold to Guatemala. As you can imagine, there were different problems with Brent’s plans but the truth is that ...

Starbucks is a brand known by everyone in the world. In the nineties it was Starbucks that basically made coffee drinking a favorite national pastime. What many do not know is that Howard Schultz is the CEO and the mastermind behind this coffee chain. He is the one that managed to transform a 4 store chain into a leading specialty ...

Microsoft decided to enter the gaming console market around 1998 through the work of Otto Berkes, Ted Hase, Seamus Blackley and Kevin Bachus, all after a successful pitch to Bill Gates. It was originally named DirectX Box and should have been the very first gaming system that was built as a personal computer. The chosen system was Windows 2000, making ...

Elon Musk is one of the most successful entrepreneurs of this generation, a person that became a millionaire at 27 after selling Zip2, his first company, an online media services firm. The buyer was Compaq and the sales price was $307 million. You may know Musk because he founded X.com right after selling Zip2, X.com became PayPal. In 2002 PayPal ...

Tim Ferriss (full name Timothy Ferriss) is a highly successful American entrepreneur, public speaker and author. He is renowned around the world for the self-help books he wrote since they were bestsellers in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today and New York Times. He is a highly successful entrepreneur and an advisor or angel investor for Twitter, Facebook, Evernote, Uber ...

Twitter is a popular app that allows people to connect with other users, express their thoughts and discover new things that they are interested in. For those who always want to be up to date with latest news, this is the app that allows them to do so. Many online users discover all there is to know about public figures ...

The road to success is never an easy one. However, the challenges we encounter are the ones that make the experience an interesting one. Did you know that with a single tap on your smartphone can now have a car pick you up and take you wherever you want? It is even possible for you to pay online for these ...