Jay-Z With His Fashion Emporium

Rocawear Apparel LLC sells urban and upscale clothing for men, women, teens, and children including jeans, jerseys, footwear, outerwear, headwear, sportswear, jewelry, accessories, and loungewear. Once part of the entertainment empire known as The Roc, Rocawear underwent a change in ownership in late 2005 when Damon Dash sold his interest to partners including rap superstar [...]

Kate Moss Cloth Business

Moss is another model-turned-designer. The supermodel’s fashion line launched with British retailer Topshop in May, and the collection was a huge hit. A second line of summerwear went on sale in June, and a fall collection is planned for late summer. According to Topshop, Moss is involved in the designs and draws on her years [...]

M by Madonna Design Line at H and M

The Queen of Pop teamed up with low-cost high-fashion retailer H&M in March to launch M by Madonna, available in H&M stores in 26 countries. Madonna serves as model, pitchwoman, and designer for the line, which she described as “casual but naughty, sensible but sexy.” The partnership began last year when the Swedish clothing chain [...]

Christy Turlington and Her Nuala and Sundari Biz

Christy was aged just 13 when she was discovered whilst horseback riding by photographer Dennie Cody who sent her photos to a local model agency. She signed with a small San Francisco agency and did small assignments during school holidays. She later signed with the Ford agency but decided to finish her education (at Monte [...]

Danny DeVito South Beach Business

DeVito South Beach and Danny DeVito’s Premium Limoncello
Danny DeVito is the latest celebrity to try to turn his name into a business. Perhaps it’s fitting that the portly star’s enterprise is an Italian restaurant, DeVito South Beach, which opened June 18 in Miami Beach.That’s not the only venture DeVito’s working on. When he notoriously turned [...]

Jennifer Lopez and Her Sweetface Fashion

From lemon liqueur to clothing lines to real estate development, celebrities are launching their own businesses from scratch, instead of simply licensing their names to the highest bidder. We take a look at what 20 stars started and where they are now.
The singer and actress had long dreamed of starting a fashion line when she [...]

The Man That Could

Steven Paul Jobs was born on February 24, 1955 to Joanne Simpson and adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. The family moved to Los Altos in California where Steve grew up. He attended Homestead High School and graduated in 1972. The following year he enrolled in Reed College but dropped out after one semester. He [...]

Estee Lauder - Classy and Feminine Sales Lady

The early part of the Estee Lauder biography is a mystery. Voting records has her birth date recorded as July 1, 1908, whereas her family says she was born in 1906. She was born as Josephine Esther Mentzer, the youngest of nine kids to immigrants Max and Rose Schotz Mentzer. Her family called her Esty [...]

Virgin Business

Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin brand, was born on July 18, 1950, to his lawyer father and stewardess mother. He attended Stowe Public school in England. Being dyslexic and nearsighted did not help him to achieve good grades in school.
His first business venture was a newspaper aimed at the students and teenagers in school. [...]

The Best Investor In The World - Warren Edward Buffett

Warren Edward Buffett was born in Omaha, Nebraska on August 30, 1930. His father was stockbroker and congressman Howard Buffett. As a kid he delivered newspapers for extra money and at the age of 11 he made his first stock investment - he bought 3 shares of Cities Service Preferred at $38. After watching the [...]

Hugh Hefner With His Playboy

My house is pretty much in order,” says the Playboy founder. “When it comes, it comes. But my mother lived to be 101, so knock on wood.”
There are few signs to show that the Hugh Hefner bio will be coming to an end anytime soon. But, if it does, it will be the conclusion to [...]

The Cheesecake Factory - David M. Overton

David M. Overton, the founder of the first Cheesecake Factory opened his first restaurant in Beverly Hills, California, in 1978. Overton’s goal was to showcase a model dessert specialty restaurant for prospective foodservice customers of the wholesale bakery. The restaurant established the future chain’s pattern of offering an eclectic menu, big portions, and signature cheesecakes, [...]

Yahoo - Jerry Yang And David Filo

The pair responsible for Yahoo! are the imaginative and brainy team of David Filo and Jerry Yang. While the two were students at Stanford’s graduate school in engineering, they discovered a shared obsession with making lists of their favorite web sites. In 1994, they decided to consolidate their lists and make them available to the [...]

Jeff Bezos - Amazon.com

Jeff Bezos is the founder and CEO of Amazon.com. Amazon is consistently ranked as one of the top retail sites on the Internet and offers over one million titles via its Web site, located at http://www.amazon.com. After graduating from Princeton summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1986, Bezos [...]

Ervin “Magic” Johnson – Magic Johnson Enterprises

After retiring his jersey from basketball, Magic Johnson has went on to develop many enterprises across the United States. Some of his ventures include: a record label, a movie production company, coffee houses, restaurants and entertainment complexes. Magic also started a foundation called the Magic Foundation. Magic Johnson gives a new meaning to the word [...]

Harry Potter - J.K. Rowling

J.K. Rowling was once living on public assistance in a tiny Edinburgh flat with her infant daughter, Rowling wrote Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone at a table in a café during her daughter’s naps - and it was Harry Potter that rescued her. The Harry Potter series is known around the world. Each release [...]

Blockbuster - Wayne Huizenga

Wayne Huizenga is a man of distinction. He’s the only person in history to build three Fortune 1000 companies practically from scratch: Waste Management, Blockbuster Entertainment and AutoNation. He is the only person to have developed six NYSE-listed companies. He also owns the Miami Dolphins. At one time he owned the Florida Marlins baseball team [...]

Ingvar Kamprad - IKEA

IKEA is still one of the largest, most successful privately held companies in the world, with over 200 stores in 31 countries, employing over 75,000 people and generating over 12 billion in sales annually. At an early age, he learned that he could buy matches in bulk from Stockholm and sell them at a fair [...]

Berry Gordy – Founder Of Motown Records

The Motown story is the story of Berry Gordy, Jr., who was born in Detroit, Michigan on November 28, 1929. His father ran a plastering contracting business and his mother sold insurance and real estate. When Berry got out of the Army 1953, he opened a jazz-oriented record store called the 3-D Record Mart that [...]

James V. Kimsey - Founding CEO, America Online, Inc.

James V. Kimsey is a lifelong Washingtonian, born in the District of Columbia and raised in nearby Arlington, Virginia. He attended St. John’s College High School, graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point and studied at Georgetown University on an honors scholarship.
Kimsey is most widely known as the Founding [...]

Larry Page And Sergey Brin - Google

Larry Page, the son of Michigan State University computer science professor love of computers began at age six. While following in his father’s footsteps in academics, he became an honors graduate from the University of Michigan, where he earned a bachelor of science degree in engineering, with a concentration on computer engineering.
Sergey Brin, a native [...]

Ted Turner - Turner Enterprises, Inc.

Turner was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 19, 1938. When he was nine years old, his family moved to Savannah, Georgia. Turner then attended the McCallie School in Chattanooga, Tennessee from 1948 to 1956. He received a degree from Brown University, where he was vice president of the Debating Union and commodore of the [...]

Mark Burnett – Television Show Producer

After spending his life bouncing from one adventure to the next, it was natural for Mark Burnett to turn his experiences into successful reality television, even if he did take a circuitous route to fame and fortune. Originally born in the east end of London, England to factory worker parents, Burnett was raised in Essex [...]

Bill Hewlett – Hewlett Packard

With David Packard, William R. (Bill) Hewlett was co-founder of Hewlett-Packard Company. Hewlett resigned as president in 1977 and retired as chief executive officer in 1978 in accordance with his previously announced plans for management succession within HP. He then served as chairman of HP’s executive committee until 1983, when he became vice chairman of [...]

Little Caesars Pizza - Mike and Marian Ilitch

The story of Little Caesars Pizza’s growth is a phenomenal one. Founded in 1959 by Mike and Marian Ilitch, what began as one neighborhood pizza restaurant has grown into one of the top international pizza chains. He also owns the Detroit Red Wings and the Detroit Tigers. He also supports many different charities.
www.littlecaesars.com

Paul Orfalea - Kinko’s

Paul Orfalea founded Kinko’s in 1970 near the University of California at Santa Barbara with a simple idea: provide college students with products and services they need at a competitive price. The space that Orfalea rented for his copy business was so small that the copy machine had to be lugged out onto the sidewalk. [...]

Tyler Perry Productions

Tyler Perry is a 34-year-old African-American - new-school playwright, who has, he says, made over $50 million writing and producing plays for the urban theater circuit. It wasn’t always that way for Perry. In 1992, Perry saved $12,000, rented out a theater, wrote, directed, promoted and starred in his own production of I Know I’ve [...]

Gordon Moore - Intel

Gordon E. Moore is currently Chairman Emeritus of Intel Corporation. Moore co-founded Intel in 1968, serving initially as Executive Vice President. Moore is widely known for “Moore’s Law,” in which in 1965 he predicted that the number of transistors the industry would be able to place on a computer chip would double every year. In [...]

Sam Walton - Walmart

After Sam got out of the US military he decided he wanted his own department store. He wanted to make enough money that he could support his family. His dream came into reality in the fall of 1945 when he purchased a store in Newport with the help of his father-in-law. Sam borrowed $20,000.00 from [...]

Bad Boy Entertainment - P. Diddy

Sean “Puffy” Combs, also known as P. Diddy, is a hip-hop performer, producer and businessman known for hit records (Bad Boy Entertainment), and his clothing line Sean John. Sean John is now a $400+ Million Dollar per year company.

Bad Boy Worldwide Entertainment Group [BBWWEG] is one of the world’s pre-eminent urban entertainment companies, encompassing [...]