Inspirasi Keberhasilan Usaha

• M. Mirwan

Lessons from the TOPLessons from the TOP

•Jack Welch (General Electric)Jack Welch (General Electric)

• Bill Gates (Microsoft)Bill Gates (Microsoft)

• Andy Grove (Intel)Andy Grove (Intel)

• Lou Gerstner (IBM)Lou Gerstner (IBM)

• Michael Dell (Dell Computer)Michael Dell (Dell Computer)

• Mike Armstrong (AT&T)Mike Armstrong (AT&T)

• John Chambers (Cisco John Chambers (Cisco System)System)

• Fred Smith (Federal Express)Fred Smith (Federal Express)

• Steve Case (America Online)Steve Case (America Online)

• Elizabeth Cole (American Red Elizabeth Cole (American Red Cross)Cross)

• Bob Eaton (DaimlerChrysler)Bob Eaton (DaimlerChrysler)

• Michael Eisner (Walt Disney)Michael Eisner (Walt Disney)

• Ray Gilmartin (Merck)Ray Gilmartin (Merck)

• Hank Greenberg (AIG)Hank Greenberg (AIG)

• Sandy Weill (Citigroup)Sandy Weill (Citigroup)

• Alex Trotman (Ford Motor Alex Trotman (Ford Motor Company)Company)

• Bill Steere (Pfizer)Bill Steere (Pfizer)

• Howard Schultz (Starbucks)Howard Schultz (Starbucks)

• Ralph Larsen (johnson&Johnson)Ralph Larsen (johnson&Johnson)

• Walter Shipley (Chase Manhattan)Walter Shipley (Chase Manhattan)

• and many othersand many others

Hi-Tech EntrepreneursHi-Tech Entrepreneurs

The computer “Nerds” who changed the world instead of following conventional careers are widely celebrated. Their social ineptness is a

stereotype that is often inaccurate.

Bill Gates “was impatient with those not as quick as he was, teachers included.”

He did better when his parents sent him to an elite private school

Started a small business while in high school

He dropped out of college to go into the software business

• Steve Jobs was adopted, a loner and nonconformist in school, dropped out of Reed College

• Experimented with Indian mysticism, hallucinogenic drugs, communes, vegetarianism, fasting

• “I’m just a guy who should have been a semi-talented poet on the Left Bank. I got sidetracked here.”

• David Filo and Jerry Yang started Yahoo! while students at Stanford University in 1994

• It began as a list of cool WEB sites posted for their friends

• David is from Louisiana and majored in computer engineering at Tulane University

• Jerry is from San Jose and got his bachelor’s degree at Stanford

David FiloDavid FiloChief YahooChief Yahoo$ 3,12 Milyar pada umur 33 tahun$ 3,12 Milyar pada umur 33 tahun

Jerry YangJerry YangChief YahooChief Yahoo$ 3,05 Milyar pada umur 30 tahun$ 3,05 Milyar pada umur 30 tahun

The Chief Yahoo!’s Grow Up

• Jerry Yang was born in 1968 in Taiwan

• His father died when he was two, leaving his mother with him and a one year old brother

• Jerry began writing Chinese characters at age three

• His mother moved to the U.S. when he was five to get a college teaching job

• He got straight A’s all through school

• David Filo was born in 1966 in Moss Bluff, Louisiana

• He was the fourth of six children, a “bright and curious child”

• He grew up and went to college in New Orleans getting a bachelor’s in computer science at Tulane

• He met Jerry Yang at Stanford where they were doctoral students

• Michael Dell got a job in a restaurant when he was twelve to raise funds for a stamp auction business

• In junior high he joined a “number sense club” that did math problems in their head and competed in math contests

• He got his first Apple at 15 and promptly took it apart, upsetting his parents who thought he had ruined it.

• He made $18,500 selling newspaper subscriptions in one year in high school

• Defied his parents’ insistence that he give up the computer business and stick to pre-med, he took a leave from the University of Texas after the freshman year and never returned.

• Michael Dell• CEO Dell Computer• $ 21,49 Milyar pada umur

34 tahun

Larry Page and Sergey Brin

• Larry Page and Sergey Brin started Google as a research project while Ph.D. candidates at Stanford University

• Page was 24 and Brin 23

• Page, the son of a computer science professor, fell in love with computers at age six. He is an honors graduate of the University of Michigan in computer engineering

• Brin, a native of Moscow, graduated with honors from the University of Maryland in math and computer science

• They disdain financial values and espouse slogans such as “Making the World a Better Place” and “Do No Evil”

Hendy Setiono (25 thn)adalah pendiri dan presiden direktur PT Baba Rafi Indonesia. Kebab Turki Baba Rafi adalah hasil inovasi bisnisnya. Dia memulai bisnis itu dengan modal hanya Rp 4 juta. Dia enggan meminta bantuan orang tua. “Itu duit hasil pinjam arek-arek (teman-temannya, Red) dan saudara,” kisahnya.Outlet makanan ala Timur Tengah itu kini berjumlah 325, membentang dari kawasan superramai seperti Jakarta hingga pelosok Ambon. Ratusan outlet itu dipantau dan disupervisi dari dua kantor operasional di kawasan Nginden, Surabaya, dan Pondok Labu, Jakarta. Tahun lalu omzet usahanya mencapai Rp 45 miliar, dan 25 persen di antaranya masuk kantongnya sebagai laba bersih. “Tahun ini omzetnya saya targetkan Rp 60 miliar,” ujarnya. 

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Sekarang ini Unggul memiliki dua restoran yang khusus menjajakan 40 jenis aneka makanan, jajanan maupun minuman berbahan baku telo. "Jelasnya bangga. Dengan usaha yang saya bangun ini, petani dan warga bisa merasakan manfaatnya," kata Unggul yang mengaku saat ini memiliki lebih 250 pegawai itu.

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