How did Nick Woodman , the founder of GoPro grow from selling bead belts in a VW van to creating a billion-dollar empire. Let us check it out.

Mark Cuban’s father was an automobile upholstery installer and life was not the best. He figured out ways to make money and finished his education. He was not sure what to do with his life, but a chance firing from his job made him start a business. Later he started Broadcast.com, sold it and became a billionaire. Let us check out his story.

Everyone hates working out in the gym, Yet these two moms invented a fitness that made exercise effective and joyful. They had very humble beginning and started in a sublet scrappy studio and built a Multi-million dollar indoor cycling fitness empire.

Jan Koum migrated to America in his teens. His family was poor,Yet this kid rose to build an app called Whatsapp. It grew like crazy and was purchased for a whopping $15+ billion. Holy smokes. How is this possible.

Let us check out this unbelievable story.

David set aside his dreams of becoming a professional musician to help his parents with their struggling cheesecake business. He helped them open a small restaurant and today it has become a billion dollar global phenomenon.

Let us check it out.

Robin's story is an inspiring one . She grew up on a farm, had a bunch of personal and business setbacks. Yet she bounced back and finally sold her startup for 30+ million. Let us find out how she did it.

Jessica was a popular Hollywood actress. She had a personal problem and could not find products to solve her problem. So, she started her own business and made it into a multi-million dollar company. Holy Danish pastry. Let us check out how she did it.

Caterina and Stewart started building an online multi-player game and money was running out. They accidentally hit upon an photo sharing idea-- Flickr-- and built it and sold for $30+ million. Holy Crispy Croissants. Let us check out, how they did it.

Before he turned 20, Fred used a borrowed $1,000 investment to open a sandwich shop in Connecticut. Today, Subway has more than 40,000 locations worldwide and Fred became a billionaire. Holy Macaroni, How did he do it, Let us find out.

James and Rick were studying at Harvard and they accidentally hit upon an "Personality Testing" idea. They were close to shutting it down, but they persisted.  They sold the company  for $90+ million.  Let us check out how they did it

Ingvar was a poor boy and his poverty propelled him to work hard and become entrepreneurial from a very young age. He later broke the rules of retail and created the world-famous IKEA and became a billionaire. Let us check out this awesome story.

Vikas and Jeff wanted to build an app for receipt scanning, but it failed. They had another idea and that too failed. Finally they built Redlaser which was a hit and sold to eBay for multiple millions. Let us check out how they did it.

Mary kay Ash had a very tough childhood growing up as a poor girl. She faced many personal and professional setbacks and was depressed. She finally started a cosmetics company with $5000 and became a billionaire. Let us check out, how she built it.

Brian Lam was laid-off from his tech job  and he trained himself  as a professional fighter, but he switched careers and finally started the Wirecutter website. He sold it to The New York Times for $30+ million.
Let us see how he did it.

Tom Scott and Tom First started by delivering food and other stuff to boats in a harbor.  They  ultimately started a Juice company by accident which was sold for  $100+ million dollars.

Holy Choco, Let us check out how they did it.

Reid Hoffman was bad at academics , then he started and failed at his first startup. Yet he persevered and later started Linkedin.

He  sold it to Microsoft for $20+  billion.

Holy Tasty Strawberry pie. How did he do it. Let us check it out.

Two firefighter brothers Chris and Robin were  always looking for ways to increase their income.  They failed many times and finally built a  multi-million dollar restaurant empire.

Holy Pecan Pie, Let us check out how they did it.

Mike and Matt started GrubHub as a side project while working on their day jobs as computer programmers. They bootstrapped it with their own money and took GrubHub to a 3+ billion IPO.

Holy Chocolatey Doughnut. How did they do it. Let us check it out…

Jerry was a sales manager but he did not like it. He wanted to start a software  business but he ended up starting a chocolate business.  He did not know anything but he made it into a $10million business. Let us check out how he did it.

There were huge dating websites with plenty of cash and thousands of employees. Can one person and a new entrant take on these giants and still succeed and make millions with zero employees.  Markus did it with PlentyofFish.com. Holy Apple Pie!, Let us find out how he did it.

If you look at it , Fitbit for dogs seems like a gimmick business. Who would think that this will become successful. Yet Ben Jacobs proved that this is a worthwhile business and started it and finally sold it for $100+ million.

Let us see how he did it.

Jeff ran out of money and was not able to pay his employees. On top of this, his company got sued, yet he kept pushing forward and succeed and sold StubHub to ebay for $300+ million.
Let us check out how he did it.

Robin Chase was a stay at him mom & Antje Danielson was a mom and academic researcher. They never had any prior experience starting a business but they had deep passion to make the world a better place. They started ZipCar and even though they faced several problems and came close to shutting it down, they survived. Finally they sold it for $500 million.

Let us check out their story.

Francesco Clark was living a happy life  but suddenly his life was hurled and turned upside down by an accident leaving him paralyzed and not able to move 95% of his body, Yet he built a multi-million dollar business.

Let us check out how he did it.

Microsoft and Quicken were leaders and giants with lots of cash and marketing power in the personal finance software business. Yet, Aaron took on the giants and built a "sure-to-fail" business and sold to Intuit for $160+ million.Let us see how he did it.

Kevin worked on his startup idea close to 2 years but it didn't take off.  He took a risk, scraped his old idea and went with a new idea, which he found almost by accident.
It was a hit and Facebook bought it for $1 billion. Let us check out how he did it

Milton Hershey started many business and failed in all of them. Any one else would have been crushed by these failures but not Milton. His passion  kept him going and he became one of the richest person in America.

Let us find out how he did it.

Pretty inspiring story. Anne Beiler had to face an agonizing, intolerable personal loss. Yet this 8th grade dropout,courageously came out and built one of the most enduring Pretzel stores dotting across the world.Let us find out how she did it.

Three friends started Wufoo with less than 20k, while  still working on their day jobs.
They faced lot of hurdles with lots of uncertainties. Finally they sold the company for $30+ million. Let us find out how they did it.

Jon needed  photographs for his websites and when he couldn't find cheaper photographs, he sensed that others will have the same problem and started ShutterStock.

He started with less than $1000 and  took it to  $2+ billion IPO.Let's see how he did it.

Markus started the game Minecraft as a side project, while working on his day  job.  
He had personal tragedies during this time.Yet he kept pushing.

Later he sold for 2+ billion. Let us see how he did it.

Can you be cheap and scrappy and yet build a business that is both fun and makes millions. James and Jim built HotorNot by bootstrapping all the way and came out with creative ideas to save themselves from shutting down.

Let us check out how they did it.

Tim started his career as a Nanny and was playing  in bands as a side hustle. He saw the agonizing problems his fellow musicians were facing and he started Pandora.
He faced several problems and he  came very close to shutting it down, but didn't.

Let us see how he did it.

Two friends turned their passion of ice creams into a multi-million dollar empire. They just started with $5 investment and did not know anything about how to start a business.

Yet they became wildly successful. Let us see how they did it.

Daymond John was an ordinary guy working as a waiter in a restaurant and in his spare time started FUBU(For us by Us) a sports apparel company with just $40 and turned it into $350+ million in revenue.

Let us check out how he did it.

Household cleaning products were dominated by giant companies with their toxic and harmful products. Two friends created "non-toxic" and "cool-looking" cleaning products and they beat the giants and are making $100+ million.

Let us check out how...

Is it possible to invest $200 and make millions from a simple message of “Do what you like, like what you do” and also bring happiness to millions of people.

Let us check out how two brothers Bert and John Jacobs did it.

Derek did not know anything about programming, he did not know how to start and run a business.

He did not have enough money. He just started with $500 and eventually sold his business CDBaby for $19+ millions.

Let us check out, how he did it.

How did a bartender became a millionaire, Jim McCann transformed 1-800-FLOWERS from a small struggling floral shop into a multi-million dollar flower and gift business. Did he plan it and did he have the desire to become a millionaire?. Let us check out.

Nobu a poor boy , dreamt of opening his own sushi restaurant. He started a few restaurants, but all of them failed  He  attempted suicide but it was averted . He pulled himself up and opened  a fourth one and it became wildly successful and generated millions. Let us see how he did it.

Can a simple kid's game with penguins become a blockbuster hit , and then attract Disney to buy them for $325+ million.

Here is how three guys, Lane Merrifield , Dave Krysko and Lance Priebe did it with Club Penguin.

Is it possible to do what we love..have fun and.. also make money.
Leo Laporte of the famous “TWIT TV” podcast  did it by bootstrapping his podcast empire almost by accident. Let us check out how he is doing it.

When Rachel, a healthy vegetarian food lover, injured herself during pregnancy, her husband got her a frozen vegetarian dinner, which tasted Yucky.

They started their own vegetarian frozen dishes business and grew big into a 200+ million business. How?

Danny Zappin, Shay Carl and a few other YouTubers, started their own YouTube Channels and amassed millions of subscribers. They decided to pool together their talent, followers and subscribers into a kind of talent network. They called it Maker Studios.

It kept growing and they finally sold it for more than $500 million. Let us check out their story.

Betsy Saul did not set out to make money. She couldn't see bad things happen to Pets.

She started as a service to help pets and it grew into a business and produced millions as a side benefit.

Here is who she did it.

We all heard about internet unicorns --the billion dollar-- valuation companies.

but can that be done with a non-internet business that too with a simple Yogurt business. Hamdi Ulukaya an immigrant proved it can be done and became a billionaire.

Here is how he did it...

Can you start a business without knowing anything about the business and still make millions.

Most people will say No, but Bob MacLeod  and Steve Byckiewicz  proved that it can be done.  They just started and learnt along the way.

Let us find out who they did it.. Pretty interesting