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...
Do What You Do Best: But More of It. For Andrea Kihlstedt, attaining success over the age of 50 was less about re-inventing herself than about reinventing her approach. She didn’t quit a job as a nurse or teacher and decide to launch a restaurant. Instead, she used the skills she’d been developing all along. ... 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...
5 Forward-flying companies. A sleek aircraft with a not-so-sleek name, drones are the future. Planes that fly themselves via software can be used in agriculture, delivery, data collection, and a number of fields that seems to be on the daily rise. Frugal Entrepreneur takes a look at 5 hot new drone startups making a difference ... Read more...