Thursday, December 16, 2010
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Famous Entrepreneurs
- Donald trump
- had 6mill by age 22
- father gave him money to start his life
- owned sports teams
- Richard Branson
- Owns Virgin
- Owns an island
- very wealthy
- Orville Redenbacher
- THIS KID IS AN IDIOT!!
- Howard Shultz
- Born in Brooklyn, New York
- Started Starbucks
- Bill Gates
- Born in seattle
- Went to harvard
- dropped out of harvard to start microsoft
- THIS KID AS ANOTHER IDIOT
- J.D. Rockefeller
- 'Con" Artist
- Merchant commission and produce distributor
- No business plan,
- Gave over $500 million to charity
- Ray Kroc
- Opened Mcdonalds
- Most well known business
- wanted a place for familys to go after church
- aimed for the cheapest, and fastest place to get food
- Phil Knight
- Started Nike
- Competition was a weakness to him
- Named the shoe "nike" after a greek goddess of victory
Friday, December 10, 2010
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Post-It Notes & Uro Club
- Made a mistake trying to make super glue, that stuck to paper but nothing else
- Used as low power sprasy adhesive or to puut up papers for advertisement
- would use scraps piece of paper for bookmarks
- decideed to put adhesive on bookmarks so they would stick
- Sent samples to all companies executives, they soon ordered more
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- A object to pee in desguised as a 7 iron
- Holds 18 ounces... more than the average person pees
- sold over 3000
- Final stake was $25,000.00 for 70%
- Original stake was $25,000.00 for 51%
Friday, December 3, 2010
College Inc.
- wasn addicktied to meth, smoking weed, and drinking a lot
- became a christian by somebody reading him the bible
- when economy goes down, education goes up
- when there are no jobs, peoplem think"education = job"
- in early 90's some schools were shut down because of false advertising and some other crimes
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Pork Barrel spice rub & Mr. Poncho
Mr. Levi
- Little things make a big diffrence
- Know your "why"
- Imagine your business
- Have a plan
- Be diffrent
- Read Bniographys
- Ask Mentors
- Give more than you expect
- People LOVING business
- Stay humble
- Create FUN
- Let it go... Forgive... Move ON
- Financial Literacy
- Live with a ll your means
- Take inverntory... "Am I on track?"
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