Delena Stout threw her values into her business, Brookside Barkery & Bath. Every couple of weeks, we profile an over-50 entrepreneur, and today’s is Delena Stout, founder and CEO of Brookside Barkery & Bath, a Kansas City dog grooming center and pet supply store. Like many over-50 entrepreneurs, Stout had a standard career before finding ... Read more...
Don't let the casual air fool you: for Zuckerberg, it's all about intensity. The hoodie, the jeans, the mild mannerisms: Mark Zuckerberg appears perpetually to have just woken from a nap or on his way to a video game session. Nothing in the young legendary entrepreneur looks urgent. But, if it’s not clear from his ... Read more...
Mary Kay Ash had a long career as the CEO and founder of her own company, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Inc. Ash was born in 1918, started her cosmetics company in 1963, and ran it until her death in 2001. The world-renowned company came from a book on entrepreneurship Ash started in 1963. From hypothetical business ... Read more...
Zuckerberg knows: do what you love. Mark Zuckerberg is, with room to spare, the poster child for the dream life. He struck big before 22, and his company just kept striking and striking, growing and growing. He’s done the Paris Hilton, private yacht routine. The conventional wisdom with him is that his life is a ... Read more...
Bill Gates began programming at age 13. As a college student, he began developing the seminal programming language BASIC. At the tender age of 25, he founded Microsoft. Keep in mind, this meant founding a company to produce something that at the time was not part of everyday life. In 1975, recall, computers were the ... Read more...