1800's
This man founded the company Standard Oil.
John D. Rockefeller
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded this tech company.
Apple Inc.
This man is the owner of Tesla, Twitter and SpaceX.
Elon Musk
This man was the owner of the FTX crypto trading platform who oversaw the company's demise.
Sam-Bankman Fried
This is another name for an entrepreneur.
Business Owner, Capitalist.
This entrepreneur founded U.S. Steel and has a concert hall named after him.
Andrew Carnegie
The movie "The Founder" was about this businessman and the creation of his business.
Ray Kroc, McDonalds
This man started the company that was the focus of the movie "The Social Network."
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook
This famous inventor was kicked out of the company he founded for refusing to see the benefit of alternating current electricity.
Thomas Edison
These are the 3 main types of businesses.
Sole Proprietorship, Partnership, Corporation.
This entrepreneur originally started with a boating business, but later realized the value of trains, became the premier railroad tycoon, and has a university named after him.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Yahoo! was offered the technology behind this internet company, but turned down the proposition.
Google/Alphabet Inc.
Before Amazon was an internet retail giant, it was primarily geared towards these items.
Books
This man was behind the largest Ponzi Scheme in American history.
Bernie Madoff
This man was responsible for the widespread adoption of electricity, and is the inspiration behind Mr. Monopoly.
JP Morgan
This entrepreneur bought the company Berkshire-Hathaway when it was still a factory, and turned it into one of the most successful investment firms in the nation.
Warren Buffett
This venture capitalist features heavily on the show Shark Tank, known for being exclusively focused on money and return on investment.
Kevin O'Leary
This Minneapolis automotive mogul was convicted in 2011 of fraud, costing Chrysler over $80 million dollars.
Denny Hecker
This government agency is responsible for helping small businesses get on their feet by offering low-interest loans.
Small Business Association
The two brothers that broke away from the Ford Motor Company to create their own business founded this well-known American truck and car company.
Dodge
This sandwich company was founded in 1965, and is not publicly traded on the U.S. stock market.
Subway
This British entrepreneur is the creator of the company Virgin Group, the business behind enterprises such as Virgin Galactic, Virgin Atlantic, Virgin Mobile, Virgin Hotels, and many others.
Richard Branson
This entrepreneur failed to launch three different candy companies before creating the house-hold name chocolate company that creates Reese's, KitKats, Almond Joy, and more.
Milton Hershey
An entrepreneur could take this document to a bank or other financial institution in order to secure funding for the creation or expansion of a business.
Business Plan