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January 26, 2017
What Is The Cost Of You Saying ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ ?
Mark Cuban said “I’m out” and Richard Branson said “I’m in” to entrepreneur, Jamie Siminoff.
Today, the change in that one word became worth over $28 million after Ring, the company that Jamie founded 5 years ago, raised $109 million from Goldman Sachs and Qualcomm Ventures.
This, after an amazing 5 year journey that brought Jamie face-to-face with two of the world’s most recognized billionaires.
In September 2013, a year after launching “DoorBot”, Jamie got on ABC’s ‘Shark Tank’ trying to ra...
January 25, 2017
How To Turn A 200 Year Old Invention Into A Billion Dollar Startup
Imagine you came up with an idea that could get people healthy and help the environment. Imagine you quit your dream job, launched a startup around the idea and 2 years later had turned the idea into a billion dollar company.
That’s exactly what David Wang has just done.
Two years ago David quit his job as General Manager of Uber in Shanghai after thinking “Why don’t I create an Uber for bikes?”
He launched his company, Mobike, a year ago. Each of his bikes has a pedal-powered GPS, smart loc...
January 23, 2017
The Sneetches By Dr Seuss
When I opened my Facebook and Twitter feeds today, they were filled with messages of conflict and intolerance. I looked for wise words to make sense of what’s going on. I found it in “The Sneetches” – Dr Seuss’ children’s story uncannily playing out in real life today. I hope we make it to the same ending.
The Sneetches. By Dr Seuss 1953
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Now, the Star-Belly Sneetches
Had bellies with stars.
The Plain-Belly Sneetches
Had none upon thars.
Those stars were...
January 20, 2017
3 Steps Blockbuster Took To Make Netflix A $60 Billion Company
Today, Netflix is globally recognized for being the leader in streaming TV. What is less know is the part Blockbuster (which was America’s leading video rental company) played in creating Netflx.
Here are the 3 Steps Blockbuster tookto make Netflix a $60 billion company:
STEP 1 – Get your customers upset:
Blockbuster’s first step...
January 17, 2017
NASA To Explore Quadrillion Asteroid 16 Psyche
Is NASA planning a journey to match Paolo Coelho’s “The Alchemist”?
NASA just announced it will be visiting “16 Psyche” – an asteroid calculated to be worth $10,000 quadrillion.
That’s ten billion trillion dollars (or one hundred million times the world’s entire money supply).
Are they going to mine the asteroid?!
No. They’re just going to go have a look…
“The Alchemist” is one of my favourite books which I first read before deciding to start my own business. It’s the story of a shepherd boy,...
January 15, 2017
How Mark Cuban Became the World’s Ultimate Billionaire
How Mark Cuban couldn’t keep a job, so started his own company instead and made $3 billion.
“I joined Mellon Bank after graduating from Indiana University in 1980 at 22. A lot of my peers at Mellon were just happy to have a job. I wanted to be more entrepreneurial. I started writing a newsletter. I did updates on current projects. I tried to inject a little humor. I thought my boss would love me for doing these things.”
“Instead, my boss called me into his office one day and ripped me a new o...
Happy Martin Luther King Day
As Americans celebrate Martin Luther King Day with a three-day weekend, the movement to make every weekend a three-day weekend continues to grow.
Japan is leading the way. After Dentsu’s chairman resigned on Dec 29th following the suicide of a staff member after overworking, the Japan government and business are launching a “Premium Friday” campaign in February to get companies to give their workers Friday afternoons off.
The campaign will start with the last Friday of every month, but it’s t...
January 14, 2017
From $0 to $2 Billion In 2 Months
How resilient are you? Here’s an amazing story of how to bounce back when things get tough:
The Elon Musk of China, 43 year old Jia Yueting, was under such financial stress 2 months ago, in November 2016 he wrote a letter to the staff and shareholders at his company, LeEco, telling them of the financial issues and saying he was cutting his salary to one yuan (15 cents).
To make things worse, he had used all his listed shares in Leshi Internet as security against the loans he had taken, but Le...
January 13, 2017
11 Things Michelle Obama Achieved The Past 8 Years
As the US switches President, I can’t help but admire the outright winner through the 2016 election race: Michelle Obama.
Although she wasn’t running for President, the popularity polls put her ahead of all the candidates (and Barack Obama). The WSJ/NBC poll that took place before the election had her popularity at 59%, ahead of Barack Obama (51%), Hillary Clinton (40%) and Donald Trump (29%).
Here’s 11 things Michelle quietly achieved while her husband was running the country:
1) She launche...
11 Things Michelle Obama achieved The Past 8 Years
As the US switches President, I can’t help but admire the outright winner through the 2016 election race: Michelle Obama.
Although she wasn’t running for President, the popularity polls put her ahead of all the candidates (and Barack Obama). The WSJ/NBC poll that took place before the election had her popularity at 59%, ahead of Barack Obama (51%), Hillary Clinton (40%) and Donald Trump (29%).
Here’s 11 things Michelle quietly achieved while her husband was running the country:
1) She launche...
