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Entrepreneurs Who Turned Trade Skills into Businesses
Entrepreneurs Who Turned Trade Skills into Businesses
by curious_compiler  • 
3 in common: Vidal Sassoon, Josiah Wedgwood and 1 more
Before the company names came work with tools, materials and customers. These biographies connect practical trades with businesses: plumbing, shoemaking, baking, pottery, metalwork, hairdressing...
Business
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Entrepreneurs Who Built Companies Around Craftsmanship
Entrepreneurs Who Built Companies Around Craftsmanship
by list_wrangler  • 
2 in common: Henry Royce and Josiah Wedgwood
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...
Business
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Coaches Who Succeeded with Very Different Teams
Coaches Who Succeeded with Very Different Teams
by pitch_side  • 
In common: Alex Ferguson
Winning once can be a matter of inheriting the right players. Winning again with a different club, a different country, a different sex or a different sport shows a method that travels. This list...
Sports
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Founders Who Stayed Close to Product Design
Founders Who Stayed Close to Product Design
by curious_compiler  • 
2 in common: Henry Royce and Henry Ford
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...
Business
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Jobs Dogs Do, From Guide Dogs to Truffle Hunters
Jobs Dogs Do, From Guide Dogs to Truffle Hunters
by curious_compiler  • 
More from curious_compiler
A guide dog stopping at a kerb, a beagle sitting beside a suitcase at the airport, a muzzled dog locating kiwi in the bush: dogs hold a surprising range of real jobs. This list walks through the...
Animals
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Founders Who Turned Professional Experience into a New Business
Founders Who Turned Professional Experience into a New Business
by list_wrangler  • 
On a similar theme
Pharmacists, surgeons, a foot doctor, teachers, accountants, an engineer, a lawyer, a chef, make-up artists and fitness instructors: these founders spent years practising a profession before...
Business
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People Who Used Their Fortunes to Preserve Cultural Heritage
People Who Used Their Fortunes to Preserve Cultural Heritage
by list_wrangler  • 
In common: Henry Ford
Restoring a palace, saving a painting for the nation, rescuing a historic garden or a tumbledown church: heritage work is expensive, and private fortunes have paid for a great deal of it. This...
Business
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Scientists Who Were Exceptional Public Communicators
Scientists Who Were Exceptional Public Communicators
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Michael Faraday
Explaining science well is a skill of its own, and it is rarer among working researchers than it should be. This list picks scientists with real research careers who also explained their fields...
People
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Scientists Whose Notebooks Reveal How Discovery Happens
Scientists Whose Notebooks Reveal How Discovery Happens
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Michael Faraday
Finished papers make discovery look tidy. Notebooks show the guesses, dead ends, crossings-out and conversations behind it. This list gathers scientists whose surviving notebooks, diaries and...
People
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Entrepreneurs Who Started Their Defining Business After Forty
Entrepreneurs Who Started Their Defining Business After Forty
by list_wrangler  • 
In common: Henry Royce
The founders here were at least forty when they started the business they are remembered for, and every age is checked against a documented founding date rather than a legend. Most had spent...
Business
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People Who Became Wealthy Through Industrial Manufacturing
People Who Became Wealthy Through Industrial Manufacturing
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Henry Ford
Factories have generated personal wealth through very different combinations of engineering, ownership, finance and scale. This selection moves from vehicles and heavy industry to chemicals...
Business
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People Whose Lives Make a Good Starting Point for Biography Readers
People Whose Lives Make a Good Starting Point for Biography Readers
by curious_compiler  • 
In common: Josiah Wedgwood
A good first biography gives you a person to follow and a wider world to explore. These lives offer routes into science, art, public life and business through specific, researched books. The...
People
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Water-Loving Dog Breeds for Lake and Coast Lovers
Water-Loving Dog Breeds for Lake and Coast Lovers
by curious_compiler  • 
More from curious_compiler
For anyone living near a lake, river or the sea who wants a dog that would rather be wet than dry. Every breed here was developed for real work in water, from herding fish into nets and hauling...
Animals
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Tricks to Teach a Dog, From Easiest to Most Impressive
Tricks to Teach a Dog, From Easiest to Most Impressive
by curious_compiler  • 
More from curious_compiler
Fun, reward-based tricks to teach your dog at home, ordered from a first-evening win to a showpiece chain. Each entry says what it builds on, so you can work down the list in small steps, with...
Animals
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People Who Changed Professions and Became Known for the Second
People Who Changed Professions and Became Known for the Second
by curious_compiler  • 
On a similar theme
A working life can have several chapters, and the break between them is often less tidy than a success story suggests. These people held substantial jobs before building a serious second vocation...
People
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People Who Became Public Figures Through a Specialist Obsession
People Who Became Public Figures Through a Specialist Obsession
by curious_compiler  • 
On a similar theme
Some people become famous not for a career plan but for knowing an enormous amount about one thing: fossils, steam engines, birds, crosswords, fungi, trains. This list collects people whose deep...
People
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Political Figures Who Came from Other Professions
Political Figures Who Came from Other Professions
by curious_compiler  • 
On a similar theme
Research laboratories, hospitals, classrooms, factories, businesses, stages and sports grounds all appear in these routes into politics. The selection focuses on substantial earlier professions...
Politics
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People Who Returned to Formal Education as Adults
People Who Returned to Formal Education as Adults
by curious_compiler  • 
On a similar theme
Leaving school early, dropping out or putting a degree on hold is not always the end of the story. These people went back to formal education as adults, sometimes decades later: a rock guitarist...
People
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People Who Helped Others Achieve Their Best Work
People Who Helped Others Achieve Their Best Work
by curious_compiler  • 
On a similar theme
A biography often follows the name on the cover, the stage or the discovery. These profiles follow another thread: the editor who asks a better question, the teacher who develops a skill, the...
People
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Celebrities Whose Early Jobs Shaped Their Later Work
Celebrities Whose Early Jobs Shaped Their Later Work
by list_wrangler  • 
On a similar theme
This is not a list of surprising day jobs. Every entry here is a documented job held before fame that fed directly into the work that made the person famous, from wartime intelligence behind the...
Celebrities
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