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Information about Sakichi Toyoda
http://www.shmula.com/sakichi-toyoda/7796/
http://www.toyota-global.com/company/history_of_toyota/75years/text/taking_on_the_automotive_business/chapter1/section1/item1.html
In formation about Berry Gordy Jr.

http://www.notablebiographies.com/Gi-He/Gordy-Jr-Berry.html
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Picture of Sakichi Toyoda
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In 1960 Motown released the song "Shop Around," written by Smokey Robinson and performed by him and the Miracles. The song sold more than a million copies, and with that record Gordy's company launched the most successful and influential era in the history of popular music. What came to be called the Motown Sound was a musical form that combined classic African American gospel singing with the new rock-and-roll sound that was being shaped by Elvis Presley (1935–1977) and the British band the Beatles.
Motown Records made more than 110 number-one hit songs and countless top-ten records, including "Please Mr. Postman," "Reach Out, I'll Be There," "My Girl," "Stop! In the Name of Love," "For Once in My Life," "How Sweet It Is to Be Loved by You," "Heard It Through the Grapevine," "My Guy," "Dancing in the Streets," "Your Precious Love," "Where Did Our Love Go," "Baby Love," "I Hear a Symphony," "I Want You Back," and "I'll Be There." Just as good is the list of artists Gordy brought into the spotlight: Diana Ross (1944–) and the Supremes, the Jackson Five, Stevie Wonder (1950–), Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, the Four Tops, the Temptations, Gladys Knight (1944–) and the Pips, Tammi Terrell (1945–1970) and Marvin Gaye (1939–1984), the Marvelettes, Mary Wells (1943–1992), and Martha Reeves (1941–) and the Vandellas

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At the suggestion of a friend teenage singer , Smokey Robinson, Gordy borrowed 700 dollars from his father and formed his own company to make and sell records. Motown records was headquartered in a house on Detroit’s West Grand Blvd., where Gordy slept in the second floor and made records on the first. In time the company grew with nine buildings.

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Only the Beginning!

When Gordy’s service in the army ended in 1953, he returned to Detroit and used the money he had saved from his military pay to open a record store called the Three-D Record Mart. His love for the jazz of Stan Kenton influenced the records he tried to sell more than his customers’ requests and his business soon failed. As he worked on the assembly line at the Ford Motor Company he wrote several songs in his head, some of which were recorded by local singers. The record company Decca Records brought several of his songs but soon he relaized that writing the songs were not enough he needed to own them.

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Background

Berry Gordy Jr. founded Motown Records in 1959. The record Company grew into the most successful African American enterprise in the United States and was responsible for creating a new sound that changed popular music. Berry Gordy Jr. was not the first businessperson in the family; both parents worked for themselves , his father as a plastering contractor, his mother as an insurance agent. As a child Gordy was interested in music, and his song Berry’s Boogie” won a talent contest. However he did not receive much formal traiing in music. Gordy droped out of Northeastern high School during his junior year to persue a career as a boxer. Between 1948 and 1951 he fought fifteen mathches, twelve of which he won, but his boxing career was cuts short when he drafted to serve in the U.S Army during the Korean War.

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The Company

When World War I broke outbin 1914, Japan’s industry was boosted by the wartime economy, and Toyoda Automatic Loom Works grew too large for one person to manage. On January 30, 1918, Sakichi incorporated his company, forming Toyoda Boshoku Corporation. Unable however to to meet the demands of a final restructuring plan, it was then merged with Toyota Motor Co., (now the Toyota Motor Corporation). In Toyota’s founding days, the delivery of completed vehicles to customers was carried out by individual delivery.

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I picked two entrepreneurs, Berry Gordy Jr. and Sakichi Toyoda......

This Padlet will give the reader comparisons between the two. One is old school (Sakichi Toyoda) and the other is new school (Berry Gordy Jr.)

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> Founder of Toyota
>59 years old

Sakichi toyota is often referred to as the father of Japanese industrial revolution. In the spring of his 20th year Sakichi made the huge decision to leave the familiarity of his village and travel to Tokyo. There Sakichi saw modern factories and the latest machinery. These fascinated Sakichi and awoke in him a passion for machines and motors. He returned to his village and began to conduct his own research, starting with the familiar objects around him. He devoted himeself to improving the hand loom, which at the time was a clumsy and inconvenient device.

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The start of something big

In 1890, Sakichi completed his first invention: the Toyota Wooden Hand loom, Although he found buyers for the clith woven by his looms, he sold amost none of the looms themselves. Sikichi next turned his attention ti researching a power loom, and in November 1896 he invented the Toyoda Power loom. The Toyoda Power Loom was the first step toward the full-scale development of power looms. Sakichi’s looms won great acclaim.