Pretty amazing Howard Schultz profile from 60 minutes below (12 minute video)
Schultz talks about how he went from living in public housing and selling his blood to get through college, to creating a $29 billion corporation that doubles sales every 3 years. He also dives into some of the unique marketing practices Starbucks used to create such a dominant brand, and how how he managed to get investors back in 1987.
Have you ever wondered who profited from those extremely popular Louis Vuitton bags every celebrity seems to have? His name is Bernard Arnault. The below link has a great article from the Wall Street Journal which profiles Arnault, describing his lifestyle and how he managed to keep a striving business (in a somewhat fickle industry) [...]
Below a great hour long video in which Tim Ferriss, the author of The New York Times best selling book The 4- Hour Work Week, describes the ways he built his business and his subsequent rise to wealth. Most notably, Ferriss stresses testing one’s market before creating a product, and the specific ways he did [...]
This is a great article featured in The Hollywood Reporter about Relativity Media’s Ryan Kavanaugh who received their Leadership Award recently. After graduating Ryan initially wanted to be a musician, but followed his fathers advice and took a job at a stock brokerage firm, which eventually led to him running a successful hedge fund. After [...]
If you are looking for books this Black Friday to buy for yourself or friends, take a look at this article from the Wall Street Journal. Wall Street Journal Article located HERE It lists the specific books which successful business men and CEOs used to help improve their entreprise, and the aspects of the book’s [...]
I wanted to share a book I enjoyed recently called The Arrogance Cycle by Michael K Farr. It gives a detailed, comedic, and inside look at the emotions, entitlements, arrogance, and detached reality some investors have (both on Wall Street and Main Street). For anyone who enjoyed Michael Lewis’s Liar’s Poker you will enjoy The [...]
Next time you bust out your camcorder or digital camera keep this in mind. This video below from CNN quickly breaks down Youtube’s partner program (and some of surprisingly easy ways people make money from it). Basically, if your video is popular and has marketability, Youtube allows users to share in third party ad revenue. [...]
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. [...]
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