Is Amazon really hurting small business? That’s a good question to ask after President Trump condemned the retail giant in a tweet, claiming the company doesn’t pay enough in taxes and has a stranglehold on the small business economy. The criticism seems strange, though, because from most angles, Amazon is helping small business. Here’s the full […]
Sometimes, luck wins. “How to be successful” returns 843 million results on Google. “I will teach you to be rich” is an actual website. And we can’t go a day without seeing how four habits will make us successful, or seven things the most successful people are always doing, or, from the astonishingly loquacious and
Amazon is the world’s best business and Jeff Bezos is the top CEO. His $120 billion net worth is an eloquent testament to his arrival at the top of the heap. But Bezos is never satisfied — in fact, a look at his Day 1 philosophy reveals that he keeps asking the same questions every day
Multi-billionaire Jeff Bezos certainly knows how to spend his money where it counts. Along with wife MacKenzie, the Amazon CEO—who was recently declared the world’s richest man—gave away $33 million on Friday to help fund the scholarships for Dreamers, immigrant youths who arrived in the US without proper documentation. Mr. Bezos’ donation will go directly to
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Black Friday was a particularly nice day to be Jeff Bezos. His company Amazon clearly won the day, pulling in an estimated half of all online sales. Those sales totaled more than $5 billion, so you do the math. Wall Street did, and Amazon’s stock price shot up almost $30 to $1,186. Bezos was already
Move over Bill Gates. Someone finally managed to topple the Microsoft founder from his number one spot on the world’s richest list; a spot that he has occupied since 2013. Jeff Bezos, the founder of online retail giant Amazon, briefly became the world’s richest man last Thursday after his net worth surged by an astounding
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In case you’ve been living under a rock, Amazon has been in the news quite a bit lately. In large part, it’s been due to the massive acquisition of Whole Foods, which surprised many pundits, and proved that Amazon is looking to. But as my Firebrand Group team and I organized the first-ever Innovation Congress
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Ever wondered how Amazon does Amazon? It comes down to four pillars, and Bryan Eisenberg is sharing them today in the video below. His newest book, Be Like Amazon: Even a Lemonade Stand Can Do It, breaks down (among plenty of other things) how Jeff Bezos implements these four core beliefs into any business he enters
If you are an entrepreneur, you will constantly here things like: “That can’t be done.” “That won’t work.” “That isn’t the way that things work in our industry.” It is really difficult sometimes to see if you have an bad business idea, or just a business idea that is unconventional or not yet understood. Giving
