article thumbnail

28 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Entrepreneurs They Consider to be Successful

Hearpreneur

Not only is she the CEO of one of the largest graphic design companies in the world (Canva), but she was also the founder – and she has led it to a net worth of over $55 billion. As early as 1994, he had guessed that the Internet would be the next boom, and people would prefer to buy things online in the future. 25- Tim Ferriss.

article thumbnail

30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Disruptors

Hearpreneur

It is truly a wonder when you start thinking about the massive scale that Amazon works at and how far the company has come along since 1994. It's difficult not to include Steve Jobs at the top of that list; he established a brand in Apple that altered global habits and elevated the importance of design in our daily lives. 7- Netflix.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

I’m going to start by going back to 1994. In the mid-1990s, a good friend of mine, Gene Kim (founder of Tripwire and author of When IT Fails: A Business Novel ) and I were in graduate school together in the Computer Science program at the University of Arizona. It’s proven accurate on many occasions.

article thumbnail

crowdSPRING Community Gives Back – MagazineLiteracy.org

crowdSPRING Blog

MagazineLiteracy.org devises innovative programs that foster community and business partnerships to get new, surplus, and gently used recycled magazines into the hands, homes, and hearts of children and families so they can learn and love to read and build their self-esteem. Please consider helping this worthy cause.

Community 103
article thumbnail

10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. Universities are also creating more interdisciplinary programs in order to encourage this collaboration.

article thumbnail

Using Open Source to Bootstrap Your Data Service

Feld Thoughts

Stamen Design jointly released a project they have been working on together called Polymaps. When I first started program, it was 1979. When I started programming on an IBM PC in 1983, I did exactly the same thing. Last week SimpleGeo and their partner ?

article thumbnail

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 21, Part 1: Kathy Ku and Orin Herskowitz

Steve Blank

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward. . From 1994-98, Kathy was responsible for Stanford’s Sponsored Projects Office.