Therefore, for those of you who wanted to be a young entrepreneur such as the founders of the companies above, no need to prestige again to start a small business from the garage. For more details, let's take a look together big business what successfully began from the garage.
Amazon
Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in 1994 as an online bookstore. At that time, the company was fully created and run from the garage of his home in the city of Bellevue, Washington.
Bezos sold his first book in July 1995 and successfully rolling out the sale of shares of Prime, or Initial Public Offering (IPO), two years later in 1997. Currently, Amazon is the largest online retailer in the world.
Apple
In 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, respectively aged 21 and 26, founded Apple Computers by selling 50 units of Apple I Computer-made Wozniak. The device is sold at a price of 500 us dollars per unit to local retailers in Cupertino, California, United States.
Because at the time, the duo of Steve has not had its own electronic components manufacturer, they still need to order the components from the distributor. Although it still has a shortage of capital here and there, by relying on the expertise to assemble computers and the ability to sell qualified, Steve Jobs and his team managed to make the computer 50 in 30 days from his garage in Cupertino.
Stanford University graduate students Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded the company, which is currently known as the Google of the garage belonging to his friend, Susan Wojcicki, located in the city of Menlo Park, California, United States, in September 1998. A year later, their work in the company of such a stub — then still be a side project — apparently began to interfere with their college.
The result, they decided to sell the project to Excite for the price of 1 million us dollars. At that time, Excite is not interested in the project and refused to accept them.
Five years later, on August 19, 2004, Google makes its maiden share offer (IPO). With the IPO, Google has a market capitalization of more than 1.67 billion us dollars. In January 2014, the market capitalization of the company was already developing into 397 billion us dollars
Hewlett-packard
In 1939, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard founded HP Company Inc. in the garage belonging to Packard in Palo Alto, California, United States, with an initial capital of 538 us dollars. Their first product was an audio oscillator and its first buyers were Walt Disney — he purchased eight oscillators to develop sound film Fantasia.
Currently, the company is the birthplace of the garage — better known as HP Garage — has become a private museum. The garage is also known as the "place of birth of Silicon Valley" — a nickname because this area has a lot of company in the field of computers and semiconductors and information technology and creative industries.
