yes this is a good post, but slightly misleading.
They carried on using the skills/experience that they had before the business, the business was an extension of the skills/experience they had already acquired.
definitely true of
facebook
google
apple
microsoft
amazon (i think)
virgin started with the student magazine (called student) with richard branson and a group of other students, not as a business but as a magazine for students to air their views etc - vietnam war etc etc, to pay for the magazine they sold advertising space, they then started selling records by mail order, (which was a very big industry then) virgin records then opened up a record shop which i think they managed to get rent free, they then opened more shops and then managed to sign up some artists, most of the artists never made the label any money but they got lucky with a few - mike oldfield and tubular bells and the sex pistols etc, and so on etc etc. the first plane virgin atlantic bought the engine caught fire and blew up on its first flight, but that didnt matter as long as people had bought tickets. (what the fuck is safety ?)
the other 2 i dont know
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Originally Posted by Niktamer
Very inspiring blog post by Sale force.
Even the biggest multi-billion dollar conglomerate started off as a small business. After studying some of the most dominant brands, it's clear there was one common denominator that they share when growing their business -- having a clear vision.
A clear vision of what you want to accomplish is one of the factors that will ultimately help grow your business from a small startup to big time player. Want to know how to grow your business? See how global brands such as Apple, Google, and Facebook did it.
Apple has brought about one of the most monumental changes with its innovative mobile devices and impeccable designs, which all started with Steve Job's vision of allowing the individual and aesthetics to be the center of the computing universe, not the mainframe. Google toppled all search engines in the industry based on their ability to scale and make the web free for everyone. Facebook completely redefines how we connect with friends and brands and this success is attributed to their persistence in growing during pivotal points rather than selling it off....
http://blogs.salesforce.com/company/...-business.html
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