Starting Business Of Education (2)

Pierre Omidyar started the business with a computer science degree. He is interested in the development of different technologies for consumer products, and he loved the idea that would take the concept in every way through product delivery to consumers, showing their reactions and then modify it. Internet gives you a place to do it, because you can publish quickly the software, you can get a reaction from your customers quickly and Andapun know if a mistake is fast. He thinks, how the auction in Paris, the participants do not have to go to Paris, but quite at home or at their office.

Finally Omidyar founded the company in the Internet auction with the name eBay in 1995. Prior to Omidyar founded eBay eSharp founded with her friend, which gives the experience as an entrepreneur. eBay is a company that relies on trust. Imagine! People want to pay what dilelangkan with only seen a picture of it. Without trust this company will not run. Net income more than three times to reach 1.35 million dollars in the third quarter of 1999, with sales rising to 58.5 million dollars. Number of doing the registration on the eBay site increased from 5.6 million to 7.7 million compared with the previous quarter and up 1.3 million dollars in the same period the previous year. Penjulan value of goods on the web site jumped from 195 million to $ 741 million dollars. eBay is the best auction company in the Internet in the year 2002 version of Yahoo magazine.

Anita Roddick founded The Body Shop in 1976 in the garage. He founded the business because of his education, that is history. "Historical study of myth and legend. About what makes you great. What separates you and me make history as an entrepreneur "says Anita Roddick. With a history that he loved akhinya environment makes the concept of "natural", made of pure ingredients, not tested on animals and friendly to the environment as well as native herbs which they come. With almost no advertising but with a very massive publicity, The Body Shop has become one of the legendary brands of the world.

Ir. Ciputra start a business with education in the field of architecture and property, because he was an alumnus of Architecture Department ITB in 1960. Ciputra now as President Director of PT Ciputra Development (CD) and President Commissioner of PT Jaya Realty (JR) and which was crowned as the best public CEO Magazine in 1997 Sembada Swa.

After completing my Masters in Education Management with friends founded the Program for Master of Business Administration in cooperation with the West Coast Institute of Management and Technology, Australia and Warnbrough University, United Kingdom before there were rules about the MBA program. After the rules were later established in the Master of Management Program STIE "Bodi Artha Iswara" Surabaya. Currently Master of Management Program students are approximately 1000 students, perhaps a Master of Management Program the largest number of students in Indonesia. So You can also start a business with your education and when I was in college.

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Starting Business Of Education (1)

Many who complain, that to open a business has no chance. This is a classic complaint that we can not hear anymore. In fact to start a business we can do a variety of ways, one with the education we have.

Jerry Yang and David Filo, Yahoo founders started the business by using his education. They are students at Stanford University. Yahoo starts from the back of this parking lot is now growing rapidly. Jerry Yang and David Filo started the business from small and simple things. Jerry Yang Yahoo illustrates that the discovery is "an accident" when he and Filo finish his thesis. Yang and Filo started Yahoo as they are sitting on the bench college, before they finish college. They started doing business with a website listing some of their favorite and write some software that allows a website to get other web sites that will be placed on the so-called web portals. At the time established in 1994, called Terry's Guide To The World Wide Web. When they learned that their sites are visited by people from 90 countries, spontaneously say "Yahoo" and ultimately that's the word used to name their company. In 1999, Yahoo reached star status. Net income quadrupled in the fourth quarter of 57.6 million dollars, while revenues jumped from 91 million to $ 201 million dollars. Now Yahoo is the best portal in 2002.

Kiichiro Toyoda is the son of the founder of Toyoda Spinning & Weaving Co., which moves in the field of automatic loom. After completing his engineering studies, he decided to start a business by transforming the company into the production car and change the company name from Toyoda to Toyota in 1936. Kiichiro Toyoda became President of the Toyota company until 1950. The first car produced was then Model AA Model Crown. Offices in foreign countries first established in Taiwan and then Saudi Arabia. The program the company began producing forklift trucks (tub / trailer), which makes the company the number one in the world in this market. These trucks entering the U.S. market in 1958 and the British market in 1965. Model Crown but failed to enter the U.S., because the car is designed for the Japanese market, are not designed for walking in the American highway. Finally Toyota Corolla in 1968 and achieve success so that it can shift the Volkswagen as the number one imported car in America. Even through the heart of the city took the Americans with General Motors to make Toyota cars in America. Camry is the most successful car sales in the United States in 1997. Toyota is now extended to other areas of business, namely financial services, telecommunications, housing, machinery navy, recreational boats, parts distribution and aviation services. Toyota is now number three car maker in the world after General Motors and Ford. Yoyota has sold 5 million vehicles per year. 

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Starting a Business From Work (2)

From his job as a technical guru SMK Negeri 3 Ciamis, Mr. Tatang Handapherang Marta from Village, District Handapherang, Ciamis regency, West Java to start a business making wood waste of various kinds of souvenirs. Waste from mahogany, pine, rosewood to be a coconut trunk watch boxes, sticks, small flower vase, wall clock shaped like a watch, a jar, place matches, bowls, ladle the soup until the pencil desk. He just wants to waste wood that had been treated less well still, can be more useful. At first Mr. Tatang started this business by ditertatawakan surrounding communities and fellow teachers. Even thought the contribution beggar when Mr. Tatang find the remains of wood from the factory to factory, and gazing at me quizzically, and was called "Mang" by the manufacturer.

After knowing Mr. Tatang was a teacher, only those people apologized and replaced it with a call "sir". But the biggest and oldest problems faced Tatang Paka is a matter of marketing. "Souvenir from a small village who wants to buy?. Want to be taken to the city I have not had a friend who has a shop or showroom to display my goods. More is no longer possible I like to sell jajakan around fish or vegetables, "Mr. Tatang. Eventually he followed the show and left business cards on his fellow craftsmen / entrepreneurs who met at the exhibition. "Thank God, from which buyers finally began more as a way of escape from the marketing problem," Mr. Tatang. Than just interested in their last exhibition invites cooperation and even finally found an agent who markets to foreign goods. That was the beginning of the most successful businesses, ridiculed and gazing with a cynical view. Now-made goods Mr. Tatang interest not only in the country, but to foreign countries, such as America, Japan, Korea, Australia, Singapore to the Middle East.

I will finish when my final assignment in Physics FMIPA UGM, which calculates the phase angle of scattering of atoms by using numerical methods, so I worked with a computer. From the work I do is create IMKI Computer Education Center in 1988. I started from one of my Apple credit. Every business is always a resistance, that is, when for three months can not pay in the Apple computers, so that the computer was withdrawn by crediting my place. How to deal with students who course?. I say "This week we learn the theory first, God willing, next week we practice again". That was the last weapon I have to make IMKI students persist. The beginning of a business usually starts from the difficulties, threats and even failures, but how to make it into an opportunity and can learn from the failure to achieve success in the future. Opportunities that arise when it is the Computer Professionals Program, One Year, the first in Yogyakarta and early escape from the difficulties currently Computer Education Center already has 12 branches and has about 2000 students students. From IMKI is STMIK AMIKOM Yogyakarta begins. You can also start a business from the work you have done. 

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Starting a Business From Work (1)

Apart from the education that you live, you can start a business from the work you have done. Reuben Mattus started the business from a job as a child. He arrived in the United States from Poland in 1921. When it was 8 years old and with his mother who was a widow. To make money, mother Mattus sold lemon ice from a squeezed lemon and Mattus help. In 1932, he founded the company Senator Frozen Products in the Bronx and in the late 1950s to build an ice cream persusahaan Ciro's being marketed through grocery stores and liquor stores. Then he had the idea to enter into supermarkets, but supermarkets are not asking for incentives can be met by Ciro.s.

Mattus not easily discouraged, he kemudia create a luxury brand of ice cream made from real fruit, natural ingredients and are marketed through the imaginative use of the name smells of Danish "Haage-Dazs" as the perfect way to differentiate a brand new with its competitors. Three flavors Haagen Dazs, which first appeared is a sense of Vanilla, chocolate and coffee and sold in food stores in New York. Community positively welcomed the ice and only in a few weeks other stores throughout the United States to send a reservation for this new ice cream. Of-mouth marketing is enough to improve the distribution of these products to the urban centers and cities and universities in the Northeast region. People across America sent a letter asking how to get Haagen Dazs near where he lived. Some even volunteering to distribute this product. Mattus girls then proposed the idea to open a shop selling only brand Haagen Dazs. The first store opened in Brooklyn and opened a new era for this brand and was followed in major cities across America. In the year 1982, has been to expand into Canada and also cooperation with leading food companies and has crossed the Atlantic to Europe. The Europeans are welcomed with enthusiasm ice.

Eugene Schueller also started the business from his job as a chemist. As a chemist who was young, he managed to make hair dye formula which he calls innovative "aureole". Then Schueller founded the company called "Franncaise Societe de Teentures Inoffensives pour Cheveux" in the year 1909, which eventually became "L'Oreal". Schueller principles used to achieve success is to research and innovation which focuses on beauty. Starting from a small company and he himself as a chemical expert, just 11 years later added 3 chemist and is now approaching 2000 chemists employed. Schueller sell these products at the beginning to the hairdresser in Paris. Five years later, L'Oreal products have been found in the Netherlands, Austria and Italy. A few years later, through distributing agents and their representatives to the United States, Russia and Asia. Now, L'Oreal products have been present in the whole world and L'Oreal, including companies that are most remarkable in France and ranked 23 amazing world of Fortune magazine.

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