The fate of Borders Bookstore will be determined this Sunday, July 17th (the deadline for them to either find a new buyer or face liquidation). With this being the case I wanted to illustrate the rise and fall of this brand name and found this great article located HERE. Additional information below:
The recent stock market rally (in conjunction with rising oil prices) has many people expecting a correction. I’m a fan of value investing and purchasing undervalued stocks so it was refreshing to see this article in Barron’s titled “The Market’s Pullback Watch”, and to quote the article “does the market ever oblige the group that [...]
Sean Parker (better known as the guy Justin Timberlake played in film The Social Network!) was profiled on the cover of Forbes recently. Despite looking like a jacka$$ in the film, the real Parker is a serial entrepreneur with immense accomplishments. Really interesting article, and the guy is only 31 years old. Article located HERE. [...]
With everyone flying home recently during the holidays I thought it would be interesting to look into who is the CEO behind the world’s largest airline United Continental Holdings (with the merger between Continental and United Airlines.) There is a very interesting article from USA Today on the background of this CEO, Jeff Smisek. Most [...]
This is another excellent video by CNBC. Entrepreneurs from very miscellaneous business segments explain their rise to wealth and how they noticed opportunities. Follow two clothing designers who almost failed until “Jake” came along (watch the video). Also follow one entrepreneur who turned his passion of corn stalk mazes (yes like on a farm) into [...]
Great old school video below of Steve Jobs rocking a solid beard and dishing some sound advice. Jobs discusses how he called Bill Hewlett (co-founder of HP) at age 12, landing a summer job.
Having watched the documentary film INSIDE JOB over the weekend it was interesting to stumble upon this video from CNBC. The video below details Goldman’s history and rise in becoming the premiere investment bank on Wall Street. However, it later becomes fairly biased (and redundant in regards to the financial meltdown), but there are some [...]
With the film The Social Network being released recently, everyone has heard of Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, the youngest billionaire in the world. However, some may not yet have heard of Yoshikazu Tanaka, the second wealthiest billionaire in the world under the age of 35. Yoshikazu is the only self made billionaire in Asia, of [...]
