Historical Entrepreneurs that have most Influenced the World !!! from Income Diaries.com 2010 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz 6/13 At some point, most Entrepreneurs have said to themselves they want to be like one of people in this list (ie, “I want to be the next Richard Branson”). We define them …
Claudia Hoester, a Former Model, strikes It big with clever new Invention !!! from Huff Post 6/19/13 enhaced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz Marlo Thomas said: “One of the reasons I started my website is, that I wanted a place for women to come together and dream. We women need to know …
Turkish immigrant stumbles upon a dilapidated yogurt plant Kraft wanted to unload. The rest is a story of the American Dream coming true !!! fm USA Today 17 June 13 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz “Small Business is the key to job creation in America. It is the engine for growth. …
on Business, Leadership & Passion from Forbes magazine 5/13 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz As soon as I read all about him, I’ve been a big fan of Richard Branson. Ignore his daring publicity stunts, but focus on him starting as a Teenager and creating an Empire of several hundred companies …
compiled by Peter/CXO Wiz4.biz 11/12 Late Beginnings. In 1963, when most women didn’t have Full Time Jobs. At age 43, Mary Kay launched a direct sales Cosmetic company, run by women. Within 20 years, it was > $1B and today it has >$3B in sales by > 2 million Beauty …
Authored by Ken Blanchard of othe “One Minute” books enhansed by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz 4/09 Ken Blanchard was the Speaker of the eBay Speakers Series last week. This best-selling book has sold13M copies worldwide. It was such a great time listening to him, that I read his book in an hour …
from Taco Bell’s Glen Bell, late Founder/CEO 01/10 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz If you want to look back on a life that fills you with joy, conventional rules for success are not the place to start. Try these. 1. Don’t chase money, power, or status. If they come to you, …
Investors Business Daily [IBD] 1/13 Enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4.biz You’d be hard-pressed to find a more competitive industry than Fast Food restaurants. Infinite choices abound on most every street. “It’s so difficult in today’s market to fight for that food dollar,” said Larry Feldman, CEO of Subway, which has > …
Quotes from John Wooden, the Winningest Basketball Coach ever. enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz 6/10 “Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. “Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, …
from Business2Community 05/12 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz 05/13 These are the three reasons Steve had an incredible ability to innovate, according to the Adaptive Marketer: 1. Steve clearly understood Customer needs. Apple is famous for not doing traditional customer research . A few days ago Author Guy Kawasaki came to …
on Business, Leadership & Life from Forbes magazine 5/13 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz Legacy. We may think, we all know a lot about Henry Ford: founder of Ford Motor Company. Among his achievements are: 1) making mass production in the form of the assembly line popular, 2) creator of the …
to Succeed in your Small Business – a Revolutionary way of thinking that every small biz owner should start with from Epinions.com 04/04 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz 05/13 There may be up to Eight (8) Phases of new businesses: 1) Infancy – owner & business are more or less the …
from Fast Company ‘Zine 6/13 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz In an era in which best-laid plans are quickly disrupted, the need for new tactics is constant. And that creates a need for constant inspiration. Our 100 Most Creative People in Business come from all industries around the globe; as they …
Compiled by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz 5/13 Here are the first Jobs of some of the most famous people we know or should know – listed in alpha order for your beta test. Richard Branson\Virgin Group $B – published a Newsletter in High School, then dropped out to start a Record Shop, …
from CNN Money 11 Apr 13 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz Fat Chance. Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield met in Junior High School in Merrick, N.Y., running around the track during gym class. “We were the two slowest & fattest kids in the class,” Greenfield says. A few years after graduating …
from Fortune 500 magazine 2012. enhanced by Peter@ Wiz4.biz 4/13 Barnes & Noble CEO, William Lynch found his Niche, er, Nook When people think about e-books, they often think of Amazon. But it is Barnes & Noble, once the looming goliath to local book stores, that many publishers not-so-secretly hope …
– The new Frontier in Business I will boldly go & I’d like to take you too !!! from USA Today 28 May 13 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz Competing for Space. If you think that civilian space travel is only a fantasy of the movies, then you are probably underestimating …
from Biography.com 11/12 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4.biz Virgin Records. His first artist on his label, Mike Oldfield, recorded his single “Tubular Bells” in 1973 with the help of Branson’s team. The song was an instant smash, staying on the UK charts for 247 weeks. Using the momentum of Oldfield’s success, …
Compiled by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz 05/13 Steve Jobs, Co-Founder & CEO of Apple, had a huge influence on the IT industry, and on personal computing in particular. Jobs was one of the few people who was involved in the industry right from the very early days of the micro-computer and, as …
Who’s Kodak? The original “inexpensive” cameras that dominated the photo field for > 100 years. from Huff Post 05/21/13 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz Steve Sasson was working at the applied research lab at Eastman Kodak when he was asked to look into a new apparatus called a charge-coupled device. One …
from USA Today 05/22/13 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz The Promise. In announcing the $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr on 05/20/13, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer now famously promised not to “screw up” the hot social-media site for Millennials. That was seen as part promise to Tumblr’s innovative staff, which she needs, …