Category: Entrepreneurship

High school dropout Alan Gerry is the pioneering entrepreneur in the cable television industry. Back in 1951, Gerry ventured into business with literally nothing – a small television sales and repair shop in rural Liberty, …

Garrett Camp is a serial entrepreneur, investor and the co-founder of the recommendation search engine, StumbleUpon. He founded StumbleUpon in November 2001 along with Geoff Smith who currently serves the company as Chief Technology Officer. …

Over the years, various technological developments have significantly improved the quality of our daily life. But the equal credit goes to the masses for showing their faith in the people who are largely responsible for …

It was 2004, the early morning of 19th June when the U.S. Army Captain Dawn Halfaker faced the horrible truth of losing her right hand during a patrol mission in Baqubah, Iraq. A rocket-propelled grenade …

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is an Indian entrepreneur who is best known for her significant contribution in the fields of biotechnology. She is the Chairman and Managing Director of Bangalore-based biopharmaceutical company Biocon Limited. She has taken …

“You have to be very nimble and very open minded. Your success is going to be very dependent on how you adapt.” Jeremy Stoppelman Jeremy Stoppelman co-founded San Francisco-based Internet Company Yelp Inc. in 2004 …

American businessman Philip Falcone is a true rags-to-riches story. Escaping from a tiny poverty-stricken iron-ore mining town in northern Minnesota he went on to founding a New York-based successful private investment firm Harbinger Capital and …

French-born Iranian American innovator, entrepreneur and philanthropist Pierre Omidyar has significantly changed the way people shop with his unique strategic vision and planning. He is widely known for founding the multi-billion-dollar online auction and shopping …

“I have a belief that life isn’t about balance, because balance is perfection … Rather, it’s about catching the ball before it hits the floor.” ~Carol Bartz Born: On August 28, 1948 In a career …

“Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.” Elon Musk Elon Musk is a South Africa-born American inventor, engineer and serial entrepreneur who co-founded online payment and money …

Jeffrey Preston Bezos started his entrepreneurial journey in 1995 when he founded Amazon.com as an online bookstore. The company that literally started its journey from his garage touched the pinnacle of success with his adventurous …

Net worth: $250 million Position: CEO and Founder of Nasty Gal The 28-year old American entrepreneur Sophia Amoruso has successfully turned her passion, a sophisticated sense for modern fashion, into a $250 million business. The …