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. ...

Konosuke Matsushita is a true entrepreneur success story as he started with an electric plug idea and then ended up creating the Panasonic brand everyone knows around the world. He was even involved in other important profitable business ventures, all summed up to giving him a fortune of over $3 billion. What is interesting is that not many know much ...

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 ...

Bre Pettis is a very interesting entrepreneur, creative artist and video blogger. He became well-known in the world as he co-founded and was the CEO of MakerBot Industries, now owned by Stratasys, a revolutionary 3D printer company. He also gained popularity as a DIY video podcaster for MAKE magazine and did co-found NYC Resistor. Pettis quickly gained a following thanks ...

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 ...

Drew Houston is known by everyone that is interested in cloud technology. This is because he is the founder of Dropbox, a firm that has an estimated worth of over $10 billion. What few know is that this was not a quick, overnight success. Drew Houston actually had different failed ventures but he was determined to be successful. Houston was ...

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 ...

Every single serious investor knows how tricky penny stocks can be. These can bring in a huge profit but in most cases they are going to lead to capital losses. It is really important to see signs that penny stocks will increase in value in the near future if you want to make a good profit. If you do not ...

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 ...

We can safely talk about how Facebook changed the internet since this is definitely what happened. However, it is hard to argue with the fact that it was Mark Zuckerberg that led the company to the success it enjoys at the moment. At just 32 years of age we can easily see Zuckerberg as Person Of The Year because of everything ...

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 ...

When you hear Catherine Cook you might also say female Mark Zuckerberg. It all started in highschool, when Catherine decided she didn’t like her yearbook. Her and Dave, her brother complained about the annual school yearbook. That’s when the idea of $20m was born. When she was 14, her family moved to Skillman, New Jersey, where she started highschool. With ...