If you’ve ever dreamed of being an entrepreneur hits and someone told you to abandon this silly idea.
That business is not for you or that the situation is too hard in “these days.” So, welcome to the club.
You’re not alone and here are some inspiring stories. I’m sure like me, you will be motivated to not hear the voices of those people who say you can not, but who probably never have tried.
- Apple was founded by Steve Jobs in the garage of his home. Steve was the adopted child and his parents did not have enough money to pay for college. Some of their products: iPod, iMac, iPhone and IPAD. Also creator of the Pixar animation company.
- William Hewlett and David Packard started the company they founded in a rented garage. With this money began manufacturing the first product of Hewlett Packard and its only furniture was a table and a filing cabinet (1938). In 1985, as stated in this historic building garage for the company HP.
- Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, in a Valentine’s party noted that the charge of filming the videos complained about how difficult it was to upload and share their material to the web. Just think of the millions of people who are interested in seeing your videos on the net. Weeks later met in Hurley’s garage to give life to the idea that in 2005 would become a billionaire business: Youtube.
- Is Mrs. Susan Wojcicki rented her garage they the creators of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin for $ 1,700 dollars a month to help pay your mortgage. The story is odd, because Susan came to empathize with both the Google guys who ended up being part of the company. Today is Vice President of Advertising Management and is said to be the creator of Adsense.
- Jerry Yang and David Filo, had only 21 and 23 years when they created Yahoo! In the trailer where they lived for a University to complete his studies.
- Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook as a social tool for university but its use became so popular and interesting it was opened to anyone who had an email and its use expanded rapidly. In late 2007, Zuckerberg sold to Microsoft for 1.6% of the company for $ 240 million.
- Nokia was founded in 1865 by the Finnish Fredrik Idestam. Originally a producer of wood pulp for paper production. Later, Nokia Corporation has evolved through the production of tires for cars and bicycles, paper, shoes, computers and even televisions. Finally in 1987 the company introduced the mobile phone market, which at that time was just a seed of millionaire business is today.
- Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita in 1945 started a small radio repair shop in an apartment in a building that had survived the bombing of the World War II in Tokyo. A few years later, that company would become the successful company we know today Sony.
- Nintendo: This multi-billion dollar leader in the video game market was beginning very curious. Founded in 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi and for over 50 years its only product was a board game called Hanafuda. In 1963 a grandson of the founders led the company and tried to expand their horizons by trying some businesses like a fleet of taxis, running a chain of hotels, fast food service and even an attempt to own television channel. All attempts failed and the company took a very critical financial situation because of the debt. In 1970 decided to focus on one product line: the game consoles, and by 1975 began producing the first video games that would transform the history of Nintendo Company. In 1983 came the first console 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) with its characters Mario and Donkey Kong.
The rest …. is history.
As you can see, these stories are from people like you and me. Dreamers who refused to be overcome. Were not in the circumstances or lack of resources an obstacle to achieve their big dreams. And they worked tirelessly to achieve it.
Of course, a dream must be accompanied by a good business plan, but if you do then you’re on the road to building the business of your dreams. “To you, what story you like best?