EXAMPLE OF SMALL BUSINESS IDEA AS THE STARTER OF LARGE BUSINESS

An example of success is dr. Gideon Hartono, the founder of Apotek K-24. In the beginning, he had simple business idea which is opening pharmacy that opens for 24 hours nonstop so that people can get medicine anytime they need with the same price during day or night. Business system of Apotek K-24 he created  is proven to be large business which can change the service of medicine purchasing by people, and it is proven to be developed quickly in all area in Indonesia.

Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl, and Gordon Bowker opened small coffee shop called Starbucks in Seattle, Washington, in 1971 because they want to have fresh coffee. At that time, coffee shop was not a common thing because people usually drank coffee in their house. However, now starbucks grows to be a large business because it has 15.012 coffee shops spread in 44 countries.

You obviously now Liquid Paper. This products was born because of the confusion of the founder, Bette Graham. When he was working as secretary, he often stressed because of his job in typing. You can imagine how confusing it is because he has to make sure that his typing is right and clean while he often mistyped.

One day, he accidentally saw a painter. Accidentally, he stained his work. He calmly repaint the stain with white paint.

From that experience, Graham got the idea to do the same thing. He tried to use water based white paint and thin brush to cover his mistake in typing. It worked. In 1957, when his friends knew it, Graham made money from it so that he could sell up to 100 bottles in a month. Greatly, 15 years later the company he established sell at least five millions bottle in a year.

Pursue Your Knowledge

Fulfill your soul before you own the big things. How to get bigger soul? You should not chase money but knowledge and experience. The further you chase knowledge, the richer you are. The further you chase money, the poorer you are. Actually, money lies behind knowledge.

How do we get knowledge and experience? The solution is to erase “give up” from your dictionary. When you fall, just get up, fall again, get up again. Keep doing that and you will get stronger (both in knowledge and experience).

Great success can happen to anyone with any way. The important thing is you should be delicate and brave in taking risk.

Henry Ford, a multi rich owner of Ford car company once said, you can take all of my money and I will get it back in five years with my knowledge and experience.

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