The Worlds Most Successful Serial Entrepreneurs [infographic]

The Worlds Most Successful Serial Entrepreneurs infographicThe Worlds Most Successful Serial Entrepreneurs Founders and Founders have collected data on worlds top-earning entrepreneurs. Really interesting fact about billionaires is, that almost 70% of them are self-made aka. Started From The Bottom Now Theyre Here. This sample of billionaires is interesting to study. More than 85% of them have earned their money thanks to multiple businesses. Remaining roughly 15% have focused only on one business for example like Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates.Lets take a look at the path of the most successful serial entrepreneursSheldon AdelsonThis American gentleman who welches called Sheldon before it welches cool started with selling newspapers at the age of 12. When he was 16 he moved to a vending machine business. Later on, he attended City College of New York. Just like many other successful people, he decided to drop out.After the college, he started to sell toiletry kits and chemical sprays used to clear froze windshields. In the 1960s, he started a business with charter touring and became a millionaire. By his 30s, his career was like a rollercoaster. He had earned and lost all of his money twice.The real breakthru for his career was Comdex a computer trade show. After that, his business ideas spread even more. He started operating casinos, building hotel resorts and even starting his own newspaper.Eric LefkofskyMr. Lefkofsky from Detroit, Michigan started his first business on a university. He was selling carpets. After graduating law school, he moved to a fashion by buying apparel company Brandon Apparel.In 1999, Lefkofsky created an early Internet company which ended up which was sold to Halo Industries in January 2000. Continuing working on this project wasnt very lucky because a year after this company bankrupted.In 2001, he co-founded InnerWorkings. This company provided print procurement services for mid-sized companies. All of the companies are followed by Echo Global Logistics which provided logistic services and an advertising software firm called Mediaocean. In 2008, he started Groupon which is global e-commerce marketplace. It is considered fastest growing company in the world.Mark CubanDespite his last name, he is American businessman, who started his career by selling garbage bags. His first serious business was MicroSolutions system integrator and software reseller. After selling MicroSolutions, his attention was brought to a new project Broadcast.com. This sports broadcasting web was a huge success.After selling Broadcast.com, he started a distribution company for movies, purchased 58 movie theaters, bought several sports teams, launched satellite TV network and starred in an ABCs reality television series.Elon MuskElon Musk was born and raised in South Africa. When Elon was 10, he taught himself computer programming. At the age of 12 created a video game called Blastar, which he sold for $500.Zip2 was Musks first serious co mpany which was funded with the help of Musks father in 1995. His father landed him $28,000. This company was sold in 1999 for $307 million.1999 was for Musk game changer because he started X.com which later became Paypal. In 2005, Paypal was bought by eBay for $1.5 billion in stock.In 2002, Elon moved from software and IT business to space launch vehicles company called SpaceX. In 2008, he became interested in electric cars and takes a leadership of Tesla Motors. He also remains the largest shareholder of the SolarCity. This company provides solar power systems in the United States.Richard BransonThis English person is one of the craziest in terms of serial entrepreneurship. He is a founder of more than 400 companies. He has been doing almost every segment consisting of records store, recording studio, film distribution, video games publishing, air balloons renting and of course airlines or launching space tourism.This attractive infographic from fundersandfounders clearly shows ho w important it is to go after many ideas and opportunitiessource fundersandfounders.com, idownloadblog.comDo you like this story? Share it with your friends.Share Your Feedback or Ideas in the Comments