Worldwide Success

Guy Kawasaki is an entrepreneur, blogger, columnist, author, and venture capitalist.  For entrepreneurs looking for a great source of information, Guy’s blog, How to Change the World, is a worthwhile read.  Having funded a number of startups and started some of his own, including Truemors and Alltop, Guy certainly has the credentials to discuss important […]

Most entrepreneurs, active or potential, love to read about real life success stories of people who turned an idea into a business and grew it into a million-dollar enterprise.  The stories that are the most fun to read are the ones that are least likely to happen.  Like the ones where someone just stumbles upon a […]

In the last article we talked about the key to a successful idea and explained how great ideas are born out of the implementation of ideas that at first may not have the early indications of a big idea.  We explained how through persistence and by tweaking the original idea based on the feedback you gather […]

Entrepreneurs are always looking for the big idea.  Many entrepreneurial pursuits are often put on hold because the potential entrepreneur keeps on waiting to come across that brilliant idea that will generate millions of dollars.  This concept that there is a big idea out there waiting to be found is so prevalent that it has […]

Becoming an entrepreneur requires courage, persistence, and a taste for adventure.  For most people, deciding to become an entrepreneur is a difficult decision that can have significant consequences, either good or bad.  The entrepreneur route is not the safest.  When you decide to become an entrepreneur you put everything on the line for that five […]

In your success journey you are likely to run into some bad days.  In fact, some days will be really rotten, when nothing works, and you feel like your efforts are wasted.  When this happens you may get discouraged and start questioning the very reason for why you are doing what you are doing.  Then […]

Being the CEO of a publicly traded company is a high very achievement for anyone.  Being the CEO of two such companies at the young age of 25 is an astounding achievement.  Let me introduce you to Ephren Taylor, the CEO of Amorocorp and City Capital Corporation.  Ephren is also the youngest African-American CEO of […]

If you have the entrepreneurial bug and dream of one day having your own high-tech startup business, I would highly recommend that you pick up a copy of the book Founders at Work.  In this well-written account of what it is really like to run a startup company, author Jessica Livingston interviews several founders of […]

This is the continuation of the “I Love a Success Story” series.  The purpose of this series is to capture the success stories of people that started with nothing and conquered their success through persistence, hard work and a huge belief in themselves.  The first article in this series captured the story of Wendy Piersall, […]

Everybody knows that business credit cards play an important role in the success of many business institutions. Nowadays banks and credit card companies provide business organizations with a wide range of the best credit cards that will help businessmen in developing a thriving business.
It goes without saying that business credit cards can help you to […]

The road to success is diverse and can take many directions.  One interesting path that a well known Asian CEO has found to reach success is silence.  Vijay Eswaran is the CEO of QI Group, a $1 billion conglomerate.  Although most people would not recognize his name in the USA, he is well known in […]

In the dot-com days of the late 90’s internet entrepreneurs would come up with a brilliant idea, pitch it to venture capitalists, get a few million dollars in funding and hire an army of people to develop an unprofitable business.  In those days, as crazy as this may seem today, profitability was not a major […]

Ralph Engelstad was a multi-millionaire real-estate magnate and casino owner.  Ralph established Elgelstad Construction in the 1950’s after struggling to get a $2,500 loan to start his business.  He was turned down by two banks before Valley Bank finally allowed Ralph the opportunity to fulfill his dream to start his own construction company.
In the 1960’s […]