Thursday, December 16, 2010

Undercover Boss ABM

  • was not aware how hard the jobs really are
    ABM - showing him where the twin towers had fallen
  • Was unable to do some of the jobs

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

Conrad Hilton

  • Known for Honesty and Hospitality
  • Ritch man
  • decided to build hotels
  • became popular
  • known as "the man who bought the waldarth"
  • Net worth: $100,000,000.00 +
  • in 1941 married Elizabeth Taylor

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

  • Makes bbq sauce
  • makes "rub"
  • Offered $50,000 for 10% stake..
  • final offer = $50,000 for 50% stake.
  • Did this on the side
  • both have full time jobs.





  • Offer was $50,000 for 25% stake

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?"