Steve Jobs will be remembered as a digital visionary — the man who brought poetry to the microchip. But before he was a legend, he was a person. We can’t all be Steve Jobs, but we can all learn from his extraordinary life. #1 Skate to…
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How to Be Like Mike: 21 Life Lessons from Michael Jordan
#1 Trust the Game “Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you.” Michael Jordan Michael…
10 Winning Lessons from “Maverick Entrepreneur” Mark Cuban
Mark Cuban knows how to win. Since Cuban bought the Dallas Mavericks NBA basketball team in 2000, the team’s winning percentage has gone from 40% to 69% and in 2011 the Mavericks won their first ever NBA championship. Cuban also has a winning record in business.…
Top 30 Female Internet Entrepreneurs
Women more so than men I find do not measure success by money alone but by a lot of things such as happiness, love, friendships, family and the list goes on. So in recognition of the great numbers of female entrepreneurs out there and in particular…
Top Earning Websites In The World
Google Overtaken By Amazon? Back in March 2009 one of my earliest posts here on was a list of the the top 30 earning websites in the world Back then the Top Earning website was not surprisingly Google.com, but I have just done a new Top…
Top 30 Website Sales Of All Time
One day I want to sell my website network for millions and so today I did some research to see whats possible and I was happily surprised when I came across so many high prices paid for websites. Ryan Allis said “You have to work with…
Marketing Lessons from the Top 5 Rapper Entrepreneurs
I didn’t started listening to hip-hop until 2006, when I discovered The Grey Album. It was a mash-up between Jay-Z and The Beatles. I was hooked. As I delved deeper into hip-hop, I was surprised to find how many rappers had become very successful entrepreneurs. It turns out…
Top 10 Business Lessons from Bill Gates
Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard in 1974. In I975, he co-founded Microsoft – a computer software company that would eventually make Gates the world’s wealthiest man. He earned the money by masterfully guiding the world into the era of networked personal computers. Today, Gates is…
How to Think Like Warren Buffett
Warren Buffet isn’t a psychic, but he does have a knack for predicting the future. His eye for savvy investments has earned him the nickname the “Oracle of Omaha” — along with a net worth of US$50 billion. Buffett has never been shy about sharing his…
10 People Who Changed The Internet
With the birth of the internet came great possibilities for many entrepreneurs, and few people have had such a great influence as the people in this list. They went beyond the invention of the internet, email and websites, and changed the way that we live our…
30 Most Influential Entrepreneurs Of All Time
Historical Entrepreneurs That Have Influenced The World At some point, most entrepreneurs have said to themselves they want to be like one of people in this list, “I want to be the next Richard Branson”. We define them as success and role models for who we…
“Be the Unexpected” + 8 Other Lessons from Jack Dorsey (Twitter and Square Founder)
Jack Dorsey isn’t the man you expect him to be. You may know him as the serial entrepreneur founder of both Twitter and Square. But did you know Dorsey’s also a certified masseur who dabbled in fashion design? With Twitter’s announcement that they’re looking to go…
Top Earning Websites
Our first Top Earning Websites List was published in March 2009. There have been significant changes since then. AirBnB founded in 2008 did not make the original list but are here today. Myspace no longer features! Please Note: Despite their significant size, some companies are intentionally…
Elon Musk’s 15 Lessons for Your Startup Business
I used to think that Elon Musk was just another billionaire entrepreneur. Now I realize Musk is a super hero. I’m not just saying that because Robert Downey, Jr. used Musk as real-life inspiration for Iron Man’s Tony Stark. I really think Elon has super powers:…
20 Most Influential People in Social Media
Thanks to Income Diary, you know who are the top bloggers, female entrepreneurs, and Internet millionaires under 30. Now it’s time to take a look into the world of social media – the who’s who of people you have probably seen around the social media-sphere a…
Own It: 15 Inspiring Business Lessons from Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey is a self-made CEO worth about $2.7 billion. By most accounts, she’s the greatest black philanthropist in American history and the most influential woman in the world. But she could have been just another talk show host. In 1984 she got her dream job:…