Category: Entrepreneurship

Ben Milne, the founder of Dwolla, an innovative payment network system as an alternative to credit cards, started his company in 2008. This innovative online system makes moving money or making payments incredibly easy, affordable, …

Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra, and Evan Sharp founded Pinterest in 2010, a photo sharing website with social networking features where people can create theme based image collections and share their experience and interests. Generally, users …

28 December 1932 – 6 July 2002 Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani, an Indian industrialist, was widely known as founder of Indian conglomerate multinational Reliance Industries. The company, has been featured on the Fortune 500, is a …

Zach Sims and his classmate and friend Ryan Bubinski founded Codecademy with interactive online lessons to motivate the frustrated coders who desperately seek interactive learning resources to brush up their coding skills. They designed a …

Dave Morin is Co-Founder and CEO of Path.Com, a Social Networking Website for Smartphone Devices. Path was launched in November 2010 and in less than a month, Google attempted to purchase it for an exorbitant …

Born: July 8, 1839 Died: May 23, 1937 John Davison Rockefeller, an American oil industrialist, investor, as well as philanthropist, founded the most dominating and successful company of 19th century, Standard Oil Company, in 1870 …

Soichiro Honda, a Japanese engineer, industrialist, and founder of the automobile giant Honda Motor Co., Ltd, was born to a talented and honest blacksmith, Gihei and Mika, an accomplished weaver. He spent his early childhood …

Azim Hashim Premji, an Indian engineer, businessman and chairman of Wipro Limited, was born in 1945, July24, in Mumbai, India, to a Gujarati Khoja Shia Ithna-Asheri Muslim family. He is the son of M. H. …

Howard Schultz, an American business magnate, is widely known as CEO of Starbucks, the global coffee house; and the former owner of the Seattle SuperSonics, the former basketball team. In 1998, along with Dan Levitan, …

Ben Federman, an American entrepreneur, is the founder and CEO of a large deal website 1SaleADay which offers one hugely discounted item that is approximately 80-90% off in every 24 hours in the categories of …

Shama Kabani, whilst studying at the University of Texas, wrote her thesis on Twitter. It was back in 2006 when Twitter barely had about 2000 users. Needless to say, she could envision the potential of …

Jesse Conners, the founder as well as CEO of PeppermintPark.com, had a perfectly normal and uneventful childhood. However, things turned worst for Jesse when she was 9. Her parents sold all of their worldly possessions …