There's a company in China that allows you to hire someone to stand in line for you for $3-$5 an hour.
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Blockbuster laughed at a Netflix partnership proposal in 2000.
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HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple have one thing in common – apart from the obvious that they are IT companies. They were all started in garages.
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Dell's first advertisement was made on the back of a pizza box.
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The Shell Oil Company began as a novelty shop in London that sold sea shells.
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The CEO of Japan Airlines makes $90,000 a year, less than the pilots. During an interview, he said "We in Japan learned during the bubble economy that businesses who pursue money first fail. The business world has lost sight of this basic tenet of business ethics."
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Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group, is dyslexic.
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All 3 founders of Apple worked at Atari before forming Apple.
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