Alfred Nobel is a Swedish scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist, and the man after whom the Nobel Prize is named.

Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist. Albert Einstein, a Nobel Prize winner himself, said that “Alfred Nobel invented an explosive more powerful than any then known—an exceedingly effective means of destruction. Alfred Nobel created the Nobel Prize using the fortune he had built in the explosives business. It is believed that the Nobel Prize was an attempt by Nobel to leave a better legacy in the world than having improved military weaponry through his ingenuity. The Nobel prize is given in several subjects, reflecting Nobel's diverse interests and abilities.

Alfred Nobel

Barry Diller is the long-standing senior executive and chair of the board of media company IAC/InterActiveCorp.

Barry Diller, Chairman and Senior Executive

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Barry Diller is the chair and senior executive of IAC/InterActiveCorp (IAC), a media and internet holding company. Diller is also known for mentoring successful media professionals such as Michael Eisner, CEO of The Walt Disney Company from 1984 to 2005; Dara Khosrowshahi, the CEO of Uber (UBER); and Jeffrey Katzenberg, founder and CEO of DreamWorks SKG and DreamWorks Animation. Barry Diller is the chair and senior executive of IAC/InterActiveCorp (IAC), a media and internet holding company. Diller joined American Broadcast Corporation when he was hired by ABC head of programming Leonard Goldberg, who gave Diller the task of negotiating broadcasting rights for feature films. Public companies IAC has created or operated include Expedia (EXPE), Home Shopping Network, Ticketmaster Entertainment, LendingTree (TREE), TripAdvisor (TRIP), Match Group (MTCH), Trivago (TRVG), and ANGI Homeservices (ANGI).

Barry Diller

Bleeding edge technology is a type of technology released to the public even though it has not been thoroughly tested and may be unreliable. 

Apple’s iPhone 12 Display Is Still Causing Serious Problems For Users

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What Is Bleeding Edge Technology? Bleeding edge technology has a certain amount of risk, with early adopters facing a significant downside if the technology misses the mark. Bleeding edge technology is a type of technology released to the public even though it has not been thoroughly tested and may be unreliable. Today's bleeding edge technology could become tomorrow's standard technology. Bleeding edge technology usually comes with a degree of risk and expense for the end-user—in most cases, the consumer.

Bleeding Edge Technology

Business bondage refers to the state of feeling inexorably intertwined or even imprisoned by your business. 

Business bondage refers to the state of feeling inexorably intertwined or even imprisoned by your business. Stress factors such as insufficient capital, late or non-paying customers, high interest new business loans, national economic issues, market fluctuations and many other factors can cause new business owners to feel trapped by their business and leads to a poor work/life balance. Many factors can contribute to this feeling such as a lack of experience running a business by the owner; the financial stress of starting a business; macroeconomic events; the inability to lead or delegate tasks; inefficient or inadequate business systems; lack of experienced staff; and an increase in the competitive environment. According to the Small Business Administration, business startups fail at a rate of roughly 50% within the first five years.﻿﻿ In order to make a business succeed it requires enormous financial, emotional and physical commitment by the owner(s). Business bondage is frequently experienced by new entrepreneurs and small-business owners.

Business Bondage

Christy Walton is one of the world’s wealthiest people thanks to an inheritance from her husband John Walton, who died in a plane crash in 2005. 

A Wal-Mart Heir Is $27 Billion Poorer Than Everyone Thought

Christy Walton is one of the world’s wealthiest people and also one of the top philanthropists across the globe. She inherited her wealth from her husband John Walton, son of Walmart founder Sam Walton, who died in a 2005 plane crash while flying an experimental plane near Jackson Hole, Wyoming. As a whole, the family wealth of the living Waltons during that time was estimated at over $100 billion, but in the case of Christy Walton, her son Lukas Walton received the largest amount of inheritance from his deceased father John. Walton is board member emeritus of the Children’s Scholarship Fund, an organization that makes private education affordable for low-income children, an organization her husband John co-founded in 1998. In addition to her own personal giving, Walton is on the board of the Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation, which has its own pet projects.

Christy Walton

Ecommerce is a business model that enables the buying and selling of goods and services over the Internet. Read about ecommerce benefits and trends.

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What Is Ecommerce? These are:
Business to business (B2B), which is the direct sale of goods and services between businesses
Business to consumer (B2C), which involves sales between businesses and their customers
Consumer to consumer, which allows individuals to sell to one another, usually through a third-party site like eBay
Consumer to business, which lets individuals sell to businesses, such as an artist selling or licensing their artwork for use by a corporation Ecommerce operates in four market segments, including business-to-business, business-to-consumer, consumer-to-consumer, and consumer-to-business. Ecommerce companies like Amazon, Alibaba, and eBay have changed the way the retail industry works, forcing major, traditional retailers to change the way they do business.
If starting an ecommerce site is something you're considering, make sure you do your research before you start. Understanding Ecommerce
Special Considerations
History of Ecommerce
Advantages and Disadvantages
Example of Ecommerce
Starting an Ecommerce Business
What Is an Ecommerce Website?
Ecommerce vs. Ebusiness

Electronic Commerce (Ecommerce)

A game-changer can refer to a person who is a visionary or a company that alters its business strategy and conceives an entirely new business plan.

Companies are often headed up by game-changing individuals—visionary leaders with game-changing ideas continue to create innovative new paths to change the status quo. But entrepreneurs can find new tactics, ways of thinking, and other characteristics that make up a game-changer or industry disruptor by learning from other visionary leadership and understanding the anatomy of game-changing companies. The game-changer can be an individual person or a company, and they often use innovative techniques to become game-changers. A game-changing individual often uses their personality traits and attitude to change the way people think and how others do things.

Game-Changer

An intrapreneur is an employee who is tasked with developing an innovative idea within a company and can draw on its resources to do so.

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What Is an Intrapreneur?
How Intrapreneurship Works
History of Intrapreneurship
Advantages of Intrapreneurship
Characteristics of an Intrapreneur
Example of an Intrapreneur An intrapreneur works inside a company to develop an innovative idea or project that will enhance the company's future. The intrapreneur is generally given autonomy to work on a project that may have a considerable impact on the company. An intrapreneur is an employee who is tasked with developing an innovative idea or project within a company. Inevitably, as an intrapreneur develops the skills needed to recognize and solve important problems, that intrapreneur may turn into an entrepreneur.

Intrapreneur

Intrapreneurship is a system that allows an employee to act like an entrepreneur within a company or other organization.

The term intrapreneurship refers to a system that allows an employee to act like an entrepreneur within a company or other organization. Intrapreneurs may use what they've learned as part of an organization's team to create their own company and reap the benefits of their hard work rather than letting another organization profit from their ideas. For example, an intrapreneurship may require an employee to research and recommend a more efficient workflow chart to a company’s brand within a target group or implement a way to benefit company culture. An intrapreneurship creates an entrepreneurial environment by allowing employees to use their entrepreneurial skills for the benefit of both the company and the employee. The term intrapreneurship refers to a system that allows an employee to act like an entrepreneur within a company or other organization.

Intrapreneurship

James H. Clark is a serial and successful entrepreneur, perhaps best known for co-founding Netscape in 1994, along with Marc Andreessen.

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James H. Clark is a serial and successful entrepreneur and computer scientist, perhaps best known for co-founding Netscape with Marc Andreessen in 1994.﻿﻿ Netscape Navigator was the market leader in web browsers in the early days of the internet, becoming the dominant browser in terms of usage share in the 1990s. James H. Clark is a serial and successful entrepreneur and computer scientist, perhaps best known for co-founding Netscape with Marc Andreessen in 1994.﻿﻿ Netscape Navigator was the market leader in web browsers in the early days of the internet, becoming the dominant browser in terms of usage share in the 1990s. Clark went on to become an associate professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University and a major benefactor of the James H. Clark Center at Stanford, the location of the bioscience research program at Stanford. While Jim Clark is best known as the co-founder of the internet pioneer Netscape, he has since multiplied his wealth through timely tech investments in companies such as Facebook, Apple, Twitter, and Palantir. James H. Clark is a serial and successful entrepreneur, perhaps best known for co-founding Netscape in 1994 along with Marc Andreessen.

James H. Clark

John Elkann is the chair and CEO of Fiat Chrysler, a global automobile brand which includes several other brand name cars.

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John Elkann may not necessarily be a household name, but he's certainly associated with a number of corporations with which most of us are familiar, notably Fiat and Ferrari. He oversaw the acquisition of Chrysler by Fiat, along with the merger between Fiat Chrysler and Peugeot, which led to the creation of a new entity called Stellantis.
John Elkann is a member of the powerful Agnelli family that controlled the Italian automaker Fiat. John Elkann is the chair of Exor, a holding firm that has interests in Fiat and Ferrari. Elkann assumed the role of board member of Fiat in 1997 and became chair in 2010. By the time he landed a seat on Fiat’s board in 1997, Elkann was already writing his undergraduate thesis on e-auctions as a part of General Electric’s corporate initiatives group.

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Edwin "Mac" Crawford is a former CEO of Magellan Health Services and CVS Caremark who earned a reputation for turning companies around financially.

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Edwin "Mac" Crawford is an American business executive who has earned a reputation for turning around the fortunes of struggling companies, particularly in the health-care sector. It also changed the company's name to Caremark and acquired a rival company, AdvancePCS.
In 2007, Caremark merged with pharmacy CVS to become the Fortune 20 company CVS Caremark, with annual revenue estimated at $75 billion. Crawford's resume within the sector includes the transformation of Charter Medical into Magellan Health and management of the 2007 merger that formed CVS Caremark Corp. (CVS). The final deal gave CVS shareholders a slight majority of 54.5% of the combined company, according to _The New York Times_.
With the merger, Crawford became chair of CVS Caremark but retired from the board and the chairship in the same year. Crawford is a co-founder and principal in CrawfordSpalding Group, a business advisory and management services company he formed in 2008 with two former senior executives at Caremark.

Mac Crawford Bio

Mompreneur is a slang term describing women who run their own businesses while also acting as a full-time parent.

Mompreneur, or "momtrepreneurs," is a slang term describing women who start or run their own businesses while also acting as a full-time parent, where mompreneur is a combination of the words "mom" and "entrepreneur." Because of family obligations, mompreneurs have to balance the requirements of running a business with the demands of raising their children, and they may do the bulk of their work during the time when their children do not require as much attention, such as when they are at school. Because these income producing activities can be carried out with a flexible schedule, it is conducive for people—such as mothers of young children—to remain active as a small business owner while also taking care of the family. Because these income producing activities can be carried out with a flexible schedule, it is conducive for people—such as mothers of young children—to remain active as a small business owner while also taking care of the family. Online platforms for selling goods and services have proliferated in the past decade, allowing people to work for themselves from the comfort of their own home, selling crafts or homemade items, retailing wholesale items, or conducting freelance work, among other pursuits.

Mompreneur

The Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) is a non-profit organization with members who provide free consultation and advice to entrepreneurs.

The Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) is a national non-profit organization with members who provide free consultation services and advice to business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs. In addition to offering one-on-one mentoring and online services, SCORE also holds seminars and workshops designed to help small businesses and entrepreneurs navigate the business world. In addition to offering one-on-one mentoring and online services, SCORE also holds seminars and workshops designed to help small businesses and entrepreneurs navigate the business world. The Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) is a national non-profit organization with members who provide free consultation services and advice to business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs. There is no membership requirement to receive SCORE counseling; any small business owner can call and make an appointment with their local SCORE chapter.

Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE)

Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief of Forbes Media, has an estimated net worth of $440 million. He is a prolific author and is active in Republican politics.

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"Forbes Sells Control of Media Business to Hong Kong Group."

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Who Is Steve Forbes?
Understanding Steve Forbes
Forbes as COB and Publisher
Forbes as Author
Forbes in Politics He is the son of longtime _Forbes_ magazine publisher Malcolm Forbes and the grandson of a Scottish immigrant named Bertie Charles Forbes, who founded the magazine in 1917. The Forbes company kept a large stake in the business, and Steve Forbes stayed on as Editor-in-Chief. Following the death of his father, Steve Forbes assumed the role of Chair of the Board and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Magazine.

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