September 12, 200323 yr Allright boys and girls. New exercise for all. This is part of a new study recently concluded at Baylor University. I will post the results later on from the experts. Here is your task... Top 10 entrepreneurs in American History. Who are they? Dont forget to include minorities and women. The expert poll included them in seperate categories, you may choose to and you may choose not to..thats up to you. So tell us who your top 10 entrepreneurs in American history are. I will post my results either later tonight or tomorrow. Have fun.
September 13, 200323 yr Author Here are some of my candidates in no order Walt Disney H.L. Hunt Richard King William Gates J.P. Morgan Ben Franklin John Jacob Astor Andrew Carnegie Henry Ford John D. Rockerfeller Cornelious Vanderbuilt Asa G. Candler Ray Croc Mary Kay Ash Ted Turner Sam Walton David Packard William Hewlett August Busch Joseph Coors Hugh Hefner Michael Dell John H. Johnson Alfred Sloan Pierre Dupont Harry, Jack, Sam, Albert Warner and thats enough for now....i am sure there will be more that i come across. but these are some of the most influential entrepreneurs in US history.
September 13, 200323 yr oprah mary kate & ashley olsen u.s. government robert atkins george eastman martha stewart
September 13, 200323 yr Author interesting list bob....but i dont know if you can consider the us government to be entrepreneurs. i know i have never considered them to be so.
September 13, 200323 yr Top 10 Entrepreneurs in American history: Henry Ford Bill Gates John D. Rockefeller Andrew Carnegie J.P. Morgan Sam Walton Thomas Edison Alfred Sloan Ray Kroc Walt Disney Rapper P.Diddy is also a big entrepreneur. Greatest female entrepreneur: Mary Kay Ash Greatest minority entrepreneur: John H. Johnson
September 14, 200323 yr interesting list bob....but i dont know if you can consider the us government to be entrepreneurs. i know i have never considered them to be so. I suppose I was attempting to be funny.....glad you noticed it in the middle there. It was geared torward the worlds opinion about the U.S., and slightly my opinion as well.
September 15, 200323 yr Author Starting tonight.... I am going to begin unveiling my top 13 entrepreneurs in American History. Why 13? Because everyone does 10. And 13 is my lucky number. Pay attention... Argue about it. Debate it. Applaud it. Learn from it. And then make your own. This could be fun. Or it could be a disaster.
September 15, 200323 yr Author #13 ~ Asa G Candler Now who the hell was this guy? I know you are asking this, because prior to my own research I wasnt sure of who he was neither. While he didnt invent the product, he took it to new heights, buying it when none really knew what it was....So in that sense I equate him with entrepreneur. Here is the company he made famous..... And a little brief early history: In 1891, nine years prior to the invention of the paper clip, Asa Candler was the owner of the five-year-old Coca-Cola business. (He'd acquired it for $2,300) He'd been dabbling in a few other products, but unloaded them to focus full-time on the drink that would make him a successful man. Candler incorporated The Coca-Cola Company, registered the "Coca-Cola" trademark with the U.S. patent office and paid his first dividends on company stock in 1893. Twenty bucks. He personally oversaw the mixing of every drop of syrup. The secret formula was dubbed "7X", and was only shared with a handful of his most trusted associates. A short three years later, thanks to some inventive advertising and promotions -- like souvenir fans, calendars depicting robust young women and countless novelties -- Coca-Cola had made its way into every state in the U.S. ('Course, we were still two states short at the time.) The Coca-Cola script had been splashed across roughly 2.5 million square feet of brick walls across America. Candler figured he just had to get people to try Coca-Cola and they'd buy it. History's proved him right, of course it helped that he branched out beyond soda fountains. It took the initiative of a Mississippi candy store operator, impressed with the raging demand for the product, to actually start bottling it in the rear of his store. His idea was that people should be able to take their refreshment with them wherever they go. In 1899, large-scale bottling was ushered in by two Chattanooga, Tennessee entrepreneurs who -- for a dollar -- bought the rights to bottle and sell Coca-Cola across the United States. That operation was the forerunner of the largest, most widespread production and distribution network in the world. But their straight-sided bottles look nothing like the ones we grab today
September 18, 200323 yr I truly hope this study comes out in some mainstream magazine, perhaps BusinessWeek or some other national publication, even Time or Newsweek. For a long time we as Americans have associated entrepreneurial spirit with America. Perhaps have an online poll of everyday Americans and see what the general public believes. Sounds intersting although this is the first I have heard of this study being done. I wasnt even aware of Baylor University being engaged in research of this type, I need to pay more attention to what various academic institutions are doing in terms of research.
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