https://padlet.com/ncheyne/entrepreneur Post on here by double clicking on the wall and using your chosen Entrepreneur as your Title. Then answer: 1) Why did he get started? 2) How did he turn an idea into a successful business? en-us 2017-07-12 23:28:32 UTC 2026-01-09 18:46:21 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Manbag.png https://padlet.com/ncheyne/entrepreneur/wish/178597066 1)  Bill Gates was considering being a lawyer but then read a magazine about Altair computers which got him thinking. 
2 He called Altair saying he had a computer language for it (he didn't). He then quickly rewrote BASIC computer language for Altair. He then sold that language and opened Micro-soft.]]> 2017-07-12 23:34:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ncheyne/entrepreneur/wish/178597066 https://padlet.com/ncheyne/entrepreneur/wish/178597083 1) because Richard Branson got fed up with airlines that didn’t care about their passengers and he wanted to do something about it. 
2) ichard Branson made A phone call to Boeing to find out if they had any 747s for sale and an airline was born.]]> 2017-07-12 23:34:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ncheyne/entrepreneur/wish/178597083 https://padlet.com/ncheyne/entrepreneur/wish/178597177 1) Warren Buffett was surrounded by investors at a young age so he had the knowledge. He always showed an interest in this area by drawing the stock market on his fathers chalk board. At the age of 11 he first bought shares. At Columbia business school he was taught by Benjamin Graham. Graham convinced him to go into becoming a stockbroker, which kick started his career in business.

2)]]> 2017-07-12 23:37:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ncheyne/entrepreneur/wish/178597177 https://padlet.com/ncheyne/entrepreneur/wish/178597361 1) Steve Jobs showed an early interest in electronics and gadgetry. While in high school, he boldly called Hewlett-Packard co-founder and president William Hewlett to ask for parts for a school project. Impressed by Jobs, Hewlett not only gave him the parts, but also offered him a summer internship at Hewlett-Packard. It was there that Jobs met and befriended Steve Wozniak, a young engineer five years his senior with a penchant for tinkering. When Jobs returned to the U.S., he renewed his friendship with Wozniak, who had been trying to form a small computing machine. To Wozniak, it was just a hobby, but the visionary Business grasped the marketing potential of such a device and convinced Wozniak to go into business with him. In 1975, the 20-year-old Jobs and Wozniak set up in their parent’s garage, dubbed the company Apple, and began working on the prototype of the Apple I. To generate the $1,350 in cap they used to start Apple, Steve Jobs sell his Volkswagen microbus, and Steve Wozniak sold his Hewlett-Packard calculator.
2) Steve jobs created a multi-million dollar company by putting it all in by selling his Volkswagen bus and his partner Steve Wozniak selling his scientific calculator and using their combined brilliance to make smaller more compact machines and destroying their competitors.]]> 2017-07-12 23:42:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ncheyne/entrepreneur/wish/178597361 https://padlet.com/ncheyne/entrepreneur/wish/178597576 1) he had a tough childhood in South Africa, as well as his parents breaking up. He also had a love in computers and he taught himself to program. which started his interest in technology.]]> 2017-07-12 23:48:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ncheyne/entrepreneur/wish/178597576