Lessons from College Entreprenuer to Billion-Dollar Companies.

These are all about the businesses that started in college and became billion-dollar companies. There are many things to learn from the Zuckerbergs, Dells and Gateses. 

Here are four of those lessons:

1. Find a Need and Fill It

This is the most basic of advice for starting a business; either find something that doesn't exist but would improve the lives of those around you, or find an already available product and make it better and cheaper. Mark Zuckerberg is probably the most famous and richest 26-year old on the planet right now, and he did exactly this when creating Facebook.

Zuckerberg was an undergrad at Harvard in 2004, taking computer science (go figure), and had been programming since he was in his teens. At Zuckerberg's old school there had been a registry of students and their photos published every year, but not at Harvard. So Zuckerberg set out to change that, but after his initial hacking into Harvard's server to retrieve the information needed to make a kind of "hot or not" Harvard page, he was shut down and had to go a different route. This gave rise to thefacebook.com and later, after he and his team moved to California, facebook.com.

There have certainly been problems and issues along the way, but what started as a desire to give everyone access to Harvard student photos has made Zuckerberg a billionaire. Facebook is expected to reach one billion accounts in the near future.

2. Think Outside of School

Michael Dell regularly ranks among the richest men in the world as the founder and CEO of Dell computers. Dell actually started this company while he was still in college doing his pre-med courses. Even as a teenager, Dell was interested in computers and finding out how electronics work, and while he was at college, he turned this into a part-time job. Dell started upgrading computers from a room in residence and eventually started operating as "PCs Limited" out of a condo, selling upgraded PCs via direct order. This eventually became Dell computers, which dominated the PC world during the 1990s and mid-2000s.

The company is not quite as dominant a PC force right now, but having started it as a hobby while pursuing an entirely different goal, Dell has certainly made his mark on the computer world.

3. Use Your School Projects for Larger Goals

When you're in college, it's best to try and focus your studies in a way that interests you and will work out in your favor once you're done school. So don't write a 2,000 word paper on Chapter 57 from "Moby Dick" unless you truly find it interesting or want to teach this Melville classic in the future; make your studies work for you.

This is what Larry Page and Sergey Brin did when they were both pursuing their PhDs at Stanford in computer science. They were working on a research project that would create a search engine that would analyze the relationship between websites, and Google was born. The idea of Google comes from Brin's and Page's idea that information should be accessible and universal, and they're making this a reality through a project started at Stanford.

4. Don't Let School Get in the Way

Bill Gates didn't let school get in the way of creating something that would both help the world and make him a multibillionaire. After scoring a mere 1590 out of 1600 on the SATs, Gates enrolled at Harvard with the hope of studying law, and after seeing one the first mass-consumed micro computers, the Altair 8800, Gates and his former classmate Paul Allen approached the maker of the computer to let them know they had written a programming language for the computer. After the maker of the computer, MITS, accepted the offer, Gates left Harvard to pursue his dream, never to return. Shortly after this, Microsoft was formed.

Gates used the college's computer labs to work towards his real passion, and when that passion paid off, he realized that college wasn't for him. Zuckerberg also left Harvard and hasn't returned.
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Character information.
Mark Zuckerberg is an American entrepreneur and co-founder of the popular social networking site Facebook.
Michael Dell is an American businessman and the founder of Dell Inc..
Larry Page and Sergey Brin are American computer scientists and industrialists, who founded Google Inc..
Bill Gates is an American businessman, philanthropist, author of Microsoft, a software company he founded with Paul Allen.

In summary we need to focus on our passions in life and be guided by what we learned from schooling and our mentors as well and pursue our dream.  Dream big. Get larger goals. Focus. And take action.

Warren Buffet's Best Advice Received

Warren Buffet's best advice has nothing to do with money.  Is has something to do with love, family and passion.  I am just amazed with this successful man, a billionaire who lead by example and teaching the young generations to do the same and to give back to the society.

The power of unconditional love. I mean, there is no power on earth like unconditional love. And I think that if you offered that to your child, I mean, you’re 90 percent of the way home. There may be days when you don’t feel like it - it’s not uncritical love; that’s a different animal - but to know you can always come back, that is huge in life. That takes you a long, long way. And I would say that every parent out there that can extend that to their child at an early age, it’s going to make for a better human being.
 Warren Buffet is giving away almost all of his wealth to charity.  This is very amazing.  Challenging all the people out there to share their wealth also, Warren Buffet takes the lead by example. 

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2010 Philippines Richest Man_Richest Filipinos

Henry Sy Sr., whose wealth was primarily fueled by the success of SM shopping malls, is the richest mast in the Philippines for the second year in a row, according to Forbes magazine’s survey on the 40 richest Filipinos for 2010.

The mall mogul’s net worth rose to $5 billion in the Forbes 2010 survey from $3.8 billion a year earlier.

Sy ranks 201st in the 2010 list of 1,011 billionaires of the world, that according to Forbes dropped from 1,125 in 2008.

The 85-year-old patriarch of the Sy family made $8 million more in terms of net worth since Forbes came up with World's Billionaires list in March 2010.

Lucio Tan, owner of Philippine National Bank, Asia Brewery, Tanduay Holdings, Fortune Tobacco and Philippine Airlines Inc. ranked second with a net worth of $2.1billion, up by $4 million from the magazine’s 2009 list.

In third spot is first time billionaire John Gokongwei Jr. whose net worth of $1.5billion in the 2010 survey more than doubled over his 2009 net worth of $720 million. The 83-year-old Gokongwei holds interests in telecom, financial services, petrochemicals, power, and hog farming.

Jaime Zobel de Ayala is the fourth richest man in the Philippines, with a net worth that rose to $1.4 billion from $1.2billion.

The CEO of Ayala Land Inc. was knocked over the third place by Gokongwei.

In fifth place is Andrew Tan of Alliance Global Group. The entrepreneur has a net worth of $1.2billion from $850 million.

Restaurant chain magnate Tony Tan Caktiong, who owns 1,500 Jollibee stores in the Philippines and abroad, ranks sixth with a net worth of $980 million.

The seventh richest man is Enrique Razon Jr. with $975million. His International Container Terminal Services Inc. operates in nine countries, including China, Ecuador, and Philippines.

Beatrice Campos, one of three women who made it to the Forbes list of richest Filipinos, has $840 million to occupy the eight place.

Her year-on-year net worth grew by more than 50 percent or $430 million.

George Ty, the financial tycoon, ranks ninth $805 million.

The founder of Metropolitan Bank and Trust Co. earned $290million since the list was made a year earlier.

Wrapping up the 10 wealthiest Filipinos is Eduardo Cojuanco Jr., whose net worth grew by $100 million to $760million.

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There must be a secret in their lifestyles.  What is it?  Some of them are from rugs to riches.  You have to know their secrets in money handling, their investment secrets, money management, property management and their life's perspective.
They are the ones who take risks.  Some says, the winners are those risk takers.  The most successful people are the one's who fail and never give up.  They are the ones who applied the principle: Ready, Fire, and Aim.

Now its your time to get Ready and Fire Immediately and then Aim, Aim and Aim.