Pinterest is a photo sharing website that is in the top 50 most popular sites in the world. However, the visual discovery tool began as just a dream.
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When two people began working on an advertisement-based free service that allowed users to listen to all of the music in the world in 2005, it changed the music industry forever.
Snapchat is an image messaging and multimedia app originally created by three students from Stanford university. After a very slow start, it’s now hit over 10 billion daily video views.
Dropbox is an internet hosting service, allowing users to store their files in the cloud. They gathered a million users just seven months after their public launch. The story of Dropbox is coming up.
The idea for Dropbox was conceived by University student Drew Houston after he kept forgetting his USB memory stick. He originally built the solution for himself but soon realised others could benefit from it. He and fellow student Arash Ferdowsi co-founded Dropbox as a start-up in 2007, officially launching the service for the public the year after.
Airbnb is the tale of how three men went from renting mattresses to a $30 billion company.
The Californian entertainment company Netflix began life by offering people the opportunity to rent a movie from home and receive it on DVD in the mail. It has morphed into a streaming service with over 93 million subscribers worldwide.
Uber is worldwide transportation company. It allows its users to press a button on their app and a taxi cab will turn up for them.
Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp were waiting in the snow on a Paris evening in 2008. After having trouble hailing a cab down, the two entrepreneurs came up with the idea of an app that can be used to request a car.
Instagram is the largest-growing social-media platform. It was a success right from the beginning with over a million users only two months after it was launched.
Evan Carmichael is an entrepreneur who helps fellow entrepreneurs to succeed and prosper. His book explains the secret of how one word can transform you and your business.
Bo Peabody is an entrepreneur. The first company he built, Tripod was the 8th largest website in the world before it was sold to Lycos for $58 million in 1998. He then sold his Lycos stock a few months before the dotcom bubble burst and invested in real estate all by the age of 28. So, was he lucky or smart?