From Nothing to everything
Hey everyone, welcome to My Journey To The Millions first official blog. Todays blog goal is to make you see the "how can I" side to your goals. Most people these days have a dream of owning their own business but never start because of the amount of money it takes. Some people think In order to start a successful business, you need to take a business course. We are going to look at a few big companies and you may be surprised at which companies are posted here as they weren't started in your regular office you may imagine today when you hear the company name.
As some of you may know, Alibaba just launched its IPO (This blog is from September 2014). The company's value skyrocketed to a 250 billion market cap. Jack Ma has a net worth of 18 billion now, the company was started in an apartment. The company is only about 20 years old. This is why I decided to make this blog, I had realized there are a lot of mega big company's that had been started just out of the house. Lets take a look at some other company's that did this.
Facebook was started in a dorm room by Mark Zuckerburg, which is a company with a market cap of 202 billion as of today. The company was founded in 2004 and his net worth is 33.3 billion dollars.
Amazon was founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos, with a market cap currently at 153 billion dollars. Jeff's net worth is 30.6 billion dollars. Amazon was started in Jeff's garage.
Apple was founded in 1976 out of a garage by Steve Jobs . Apple has a market cap of 600 billion, the highest in the world. Steve Jobs died with a net worth of 10 billion in 2011, may you rest in peace Steve.
Google was founded in 1998 in a garage by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Google has a market cap of 403 billion. Google was also started out of a garage.
The point of mentioning all of these is to help you take action. If you got an idea just start it, don't worry about money or experience, it will come to you! Its crazy how these are some of the biggest companies in the world and they were started from their house. Here our a few more: Harley Davidson, Hewlett-Packard, Lotus Cars, Maglite, Mattel, Yankee Candle Company and that's just a few of them. The first 5 company's I posted, none of the founders has any type business degree that I could find on Google. In order to become this successful, chances are a business degree wont get you their, but your imagination, vision, and action can and will. Start today, and you will find a way!
Hope you liked this blog post, old but still great!