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People Who Made Franchising a Major Business Model
People Who Made Franchising a Major Business Model
by list_wrangler  • 
2 in common: Colonel Sanders and Ray Kroc
Franchising lets a company grow with other people's money and effort: franchisees pay fees and run the outlets, and the franchisor supplies the brand and the system. This list follows the people...
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Women Entrepreneurs Who Built Substantial Businesses
Women Entrepreneurs Who Built Substantial Businesses
by list_wrangler  • 
2 in common: Rose Blumkin and Mary Kay Ash
A tour of women who built companies of real size across very different trades: furniture, roofing supplies, smartphone glass, oil, betting, biotech, beauty, catalogues and television. Each entry...
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Founders Who Stayed Close to Product Design
Founders Who Stayed Close to Product Design
by curious_compiler  • 
2 in common: Bill Bowerman and Henry Royce
Plenty of founders are credited with designing everything their company sold. Fewer actually sat at the drawing board, the workbench or the cutting table once the business was large. This list...
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Businesspeople Who Built Fortunes in Retail
Businesspeople Who Built Fortunes in Retail
by curious_compiler  • 
2 in common: Bernard Marcus and Sam Walton
For readers interested in the business behind familiar shops, these people show how retail ownership can become personal wealth. The selection moves from discount and warehouse formats to...
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Sports Coaches Whose Teaching Methods Are Well Documented
Sports Coaches Whose Teaching Methods Are Well Documented
by pitch_side  • 
In common: Bill Bowerman
Many great coaches leave only results and anecdotes. These ones left a record of how they actually worked: books they wrote, training logs, studies of their practices and the testimony of the...
Sports
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Entrepreneurs Who Turned an Everyday Problem into a Business
Entrepreneurs Who Turned an Everyday Problem into a Business
by curious_compiler  • 
2 in common: Momofuku Ando and Craig Newmark
A clogged vacuum, difficult paperwork or an awkward search for help can reveal a customer need. These historical examples connect a recognisable problem to a specific product or service, then...
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People Who Did Landmark Work After Fifty
People Who Did Landmark Work After Fifty
by curious_compiler  • 
2 in common: Colonel Sanders and Ray Kroc
A career does not have to follow one early rise. These people published influential books, made distinctive artworks, developed important tools or built new programmes after their fiftieth...
People
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Entrepreneurs Who Built Companies Around Craftsmanship
Entrepreneurs Who Built Companies Around Craftsmanship
by list_wrangler  • 
In common: Henry Royce
Craftsmanship is easy to claim and hard to run as a business: skilled work is slow, training takes years, and growth tempts owners to cut corners. This list compares people who built companies on...
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Donors Who Built Independent Journalism Institutions
Donors Who Built Independent Journalism Institutions
by list_wrangler  • 
In common: Craig Newmark
Rich people have long funded newsrooms, sometimes to protect them and sometimes to steer them. This list explains how each donor's money is structured, through a trust, a non-profit owner, an...
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Businesspeople Who Expanded a Local Company Internationally
Businesspeople Who Expanded a Local Company Internationally
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Dietrich Mateschitz
Most businesses that try to go abroad come home bruised. This list looks at the people who took a company rooted in one town or country and made it work across borders, and at exactly what they...
Business
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Entrepreneurs Who Made Repair and Reuse Commercially Viable
Entrepreneurs Who Made Repair and Reuse Commercially Viable
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Craig Newmark
Fixing things and passing them on sounds virtuous, but it only lasts when somebody makes it pay. This list is about the founders who did: chains that mend shoes and cars, marketplaces that keep...
Business
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Business Leaders Who Defended a Company's Independence
Business Leaders Who Defended a Company's Independence
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In common: Craig Newmark
Saying no to a takeover can protect a company's culture and long-term plans, or simply protect its managers at shareholders' expense. This list follows leaders who fought to keep their companies...
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Business Biographies That Reveal How Ownership Works
Business Biographies That Reveal How Ownership Works
by list_wrangler  • 
In common: Sam Walton
Who owns a company and who controls it are often different questions. These businesspeople's careers show the machinery in action: shares with ten votes, family trusts with an expiry date, holding...
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Business Leaders Who Made Succession Work
Business Leaders Who Made Succession Work
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Sam Walton
Handing over the top job is where many strong companies stumble. This list covers both sides of successions that held up: leaders who planned their own exit and picked or developed a successor...
Business
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Businesspeople Who Changed How Products Reach Customers
Businesspeople Who Changed How Products Reach Customers
by list_wrangler  • 
In common: Sam Walton
Most business fame goes to products and adverts, but much of the real change in how people shop has come from distribution: catalogues posted to farms, self-service shop floors, steel containers...
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People Whose Apprenticeships Shaped an Unusual Career
People Whose Apprenticeships Shaped an Unusual Career
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Henry Royce
Apprenticeship rarely gets the credit that a university degree does, yet many remarkable careers started with years of hands-on training in a workshop, kitchen, print shop or tailor's. This list...
People
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Entrepreneurs Who Built New Businesses After Corporate Careers
Entrepreneurs Who Built New Businesses After Corporate Careers
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Vera Wang
A corporate career can supply more than a reason to leave: skills, colleagues, customers and enough savings to attempt something new. These entrepreneurs built substantial businesses after jobs at...
Business
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People Who Built Fortunes from Everyday Consumer Goods
People Who Built Fortunes from Everyday Consumer Goods
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Dietrich Mateschitz
From cereal and bottled drinks to pens, cosmetics and clothing, these businesspeople built valuable ownership interests around familiar purchases. The selection moves through food and drink...
Business
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Businesspeople Who Built Enduring Companies from Modest Beginnings
Businesspeople Who Built Enduring Companies from Modest Beginnings
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Momofuku Ando
A small first shop, workshop or product range can be the beginning of a company that lasts for decades. Here, modest describes the opening operation, not a claim that every person grew up in...
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Executives Who Made Staff Development Part of the Job
Executives Who Made Staff Development Part of the Job
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Ray Kroc
Training becomes more useful when it connects to work, responsibility and opportunities to progress. These executives backed or strengthened identifiable systems, from company schools and...
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