What is remarkable about these success stories is that many began in their bedroom, not just Mark Zuckerberg, but others who can help us to an extraordinary inspiration.
1.- Mark Zuckerberg
In 2004, Zuckerberg created Face book from his dorm at Harvard. Face book started as a website only for students of Harvard where he grew up quickly, then Mark decided to leave Harvard University to move to Paulo Alto, Silicon Valley. In our time we see Face book as a regular part of our daily lives. Face book has now become a regular part of our daily lives. Currently the site boasts more than 600 million users and is valued at about $ 50 billion.
In 2010, we could even see the release of the movie ‘The Social Network’ based on the life of Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook while.
2.- Bill Gates
Bill Gates is the founder of Microsoft, the software company best known in the world. Gates is synonymous with the label “the richest man in the world.” I think Microsoft in 1975 at the age of 20 years. Earlier this year along with his friend Paul Allen saw the release of the MITS Altair 8800 based on the Intel 8080 and was inspired to create his own software company. In late 1975, Gates asked leave of absence from Harvard University, wanted to work full time in Microsoft Project, but never again as a student.
Just as an example to see how far this project grew we mention that at the end of 2010 Microsoft had 62.48 billion U.S. dollars in net income.
3.- Michael Dell
Michael Dell was a pre-med student at the University of Texas, where in 1984 with $ 1000 and a Dell founded idea. While in college working on improving his lab computers, then ask for a salesperson license to participate in bidding for contracts in the state of Texas. It was easy to win in these tenders for not having the overheads of a shop.
At the age of 27 years, Dell was the youngest CEO of a company listed in the Fortune 500. Soon after in 1996, Dell began selling over the Internet and do not spend much time they began to sell more than $ 1 million each day. In 2010 Michael Dell’s net worth was an estimated $ 14 billion.
4.- Jerry Yang and David Filo, Yahoo!
Yahoo was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in 1994, which resulted in the largest web directory and search engine of the world before Google came along. The project was created while they were students of electrical engineering graduate of Stanford University, and grew rapidly in the period of the dot com bubble, but struggled after the bubble burst.
In 1996, following explosive growth, was floated on the stock. Yahoo’s mission is “to be the global Internet service more essential to consumers and businesses, has chosen the diversificion as web portal and is often recognized as a brand online. On February 1, 2008, Microsoft made an unsolicited bid to buy Yahoo for 44,600 million dollars, an offer that would be rejected, arguing that the amount detracts from the company.
5) Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google
Sergey Brin, graduated with a degree in computer science from the University of Maryland. After graduation, he moved to Stanford to acquire a doctorate in computer science. There he met Larry Page with whom, at first, they had no matching tastes.
Later joined by a common interest in the World Wide Web, which led, in 1996, BackRub, the predecessor of Google search. The project grew quickly, so they decided to leave his studies at the University and devote himself to form, requesting financial assistance to teachers, family and friends. Servers bought and rented a garage in Menlo Park. The history of Google Inc. had begun.
Google has a very simple motto “Do not be evil.” Google currently has an endowment estimated at more than 17.5 billion dollars.
6.- Shawn Fanning, Napster
Napster was founded by Shawn Fanning with his partner Sean Parker in May 1999. Before launching encoding Shawn spent four months Napster, an online program that makes it easy to share and download music. In December 1999, several record companies initiated a lawsuit against Napster. Napster This brought huge popularity and millions of new users. Napster peaked at 26.4 million users in February 2001 before its closure.
Napster agreed to pay record companies $ 26 million in damages and another $ 10 million for future licensing. On May 19, 2008 Napster announced the launch of the store’s largest and most detailed of MP3 in the world with 6 million songs, in free.napster.com. The notice also indicated that all download sales in the United States will now be made with Napster MP3 formats. In September 2008, Napster was bought by Best Buy for 121 million.
7.- Matt Mullenweg, Word Press
In 2002, Mullenweg was a rookie 19 years at the University of Houston when developing Word Press. In fact, I have much to thank Word Press, Matt too. Word Press has become the blogging service that most blogger are using. Word Press is currently used by 13% the biggest one million Web sites and has been downloaded nearly 13 million times.
The open source software, and simplicity of use is the major responsible for the success of Word Press and which still continues to grow at a rapid pace.
8.- Paul Orfalea, Kinko’s
Paul started Kinko’s in 1970 while studying at the University of Southern California where he graduated a year later. He started his company in an area of 100 square meters on the campus of the University. His idea of Kinko’s, now a chain of photocopied, came after encountering a copy machine in the university library.
The company name was a nickname because of his curly red hair, which was when I was younger. In 2000 the company was bought by FedEx for $ 2.4 billion and its name became FedEx Office.
9.- Fred Smith of FedEx
FedEx that although not created at the time of student Fred Smith, the idea was conceived at this time. The idea became reality in 1971 but managed to gain only 4 years later. By the end of 2011 is expected to see earnings of $ 1.6 billion.
10.- Todd Krizelman and Stephan Paternot
I think it was the first social network founded in 1994. In 1998 admission to the stock market making news to achieve the highest profit in the first day of any initial public offering in history until that date.