Philip D. Armour
Chapter 4 - Philip D. Armour - How They Succeeded by Orison Swett Marden
Philip Danforth Armour began life growing up on a farm in New York. His parents were of Scottish and English ancestry and he was brought up in a strict...
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Alexander Graham Bell
Chapter 2 - Alexander Graham Bell - How They Succeeded by Orison Swett Marden
He is most known for his pioneering work on developing the telephone, but Alexander Graham Bell’s interest in transmitting speech led him to experimenting...
Marshall Field
Chapter 1 - Marshall Fields - How They Succeeded by Orison Swett Marden
The entrepreneur and self-made millionaire from the 19th century Marshall Field, is perhaps best known for creating the modern department store as we now...
Entrepreneurs
The Art of Money Getting by P. T. Barnum
P.T. Barnum was an incredibly successful promoter and showman. He created and ran a travelling circus that was known as “The Greatest Show On Earth”. He...
YouTube
How YouTube Started
Did you know YouTube was created by three former PayPal employees and was originally a dating site? YouTube was created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and...
How Facebook Started
From a hobby in 2004 to over 1.8 billion monthly active users, here’s the story of Facebook. While he was at Harvard, Mark Zuckerberg built websites as a...
How Pinterest Started
Pinterest is a photo sharing website that is in the top 50 most popular sites in the world. However, the visual discovery tool began as just a dream. Ben...
spotify
How Spotify Started
When two people began working on an advertisement-based free service that allowed users to listen to all of the music in the world in 2005, it changed the...
snapchat
How Snapchat Started
Snapchat is an image messaging and multimedia app originally created by three students from Stanford university. After a very slow start, it’s now hit...
dropbox
How Dropbox Started
Dropbox is an internet hosting service, allowing users to store their files in the cloud. They gathered a million users just seven months after their...
Airbnb
How Airbnb Started
Airbnb is the tale of how three men went from renting mattresses to a $30 billion company. In 2007, two housemates who were both designers, Brian Chesky...
Netflix
How Netflix Started
The Californian entertainment company Netflix began life by offering people the opportunity to rent a movie from home and receive it on DVD in the mail....
Entrepreneurs
Your One Word by Evan Carmichael
Evan Carmichael is an entrepreneur who helps fellow entrepreneurs to succeed and prosper. His book explains the secret of how one word can transform you...
Bo Peabody
Lucky Or Smart? by Bo Peabody
Bo Peabody is an entrepreneur. The first company he built, Tripod was the 8th largest website in the world before it was sold to Lycos for $58 million in...
Jack Ma
Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built
Jack Ma is an English teacher turned Internet entrepreneur who founded the Chinese e-commerce company called Alibaba. It is the Amazon of the East, but it...
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography
Steve Jobs is a man who revolutionised six different industries (PCs, Animated films, Music, Phones, Tablets and digital publishing). This is the story of...
Innocent Drinks
How the Innocent Drinks Company began
So I recently listened to a podcast where Richard Reed was interviewed. Richard founded the Innocent Drinks Company, which went from a fledgling start-up...
John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller's Autobiography
Seen by many as the richest person in modern history, John D. Rockefeller made his fortune in the oil business and used his wealth to fund numerous...
Peter Jones
Peter Jones - 10 Golden Rules to Build a Successful Business
Peter Jones is a serial entrepreneur. He has been successful in the telecommunications and publishing industries among many others. Here are this tycoon’s...
Theo Paphitis
12 Business Success Rules of Theo Paphitis
Theo Paphitis’ life has been a true rags-to-riches story. Much of his success can be attributed to his twelve business success rules. Reduce the risk When...
Derek Sivers
Anything You Want by Derek Sivers
Derek Sivers started a hobby that a decade later turned into a business that he sold for $22 million. Unusually for an entrepreneur, when Sivers decided...
Entrepreneurs
Zero to One by Peter Thiel
This book show us how one builds companies that create something new. It came about when Peter Thiel was teaching a course in Stanford in 2012. One of his...
Management
Managing Oneself by Peter Drucker
Today is a time of immense and unprecedented opportunity. Gone are the days where you are stuck having to do the same job that your father did. You can...