In the right situation, taking a loan to start a business can be a very profitable life-changing decision. Getting to know the stories of successful businesses can be inspiring – it can show us how a little entrepreneurial flair – and the right loan – can go a long way. The slideshow includes interesting facts and stats about Starbucks, Dell, Domino’s, Whole Foods Market and Walmart. Presented by Zillidy (http://www.zillidy.com/blog/large-companies-started-with-a-small-loan/)

1. Large Companies Started
With A Small Loan
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2. Few people realize
that some of today’s
business giants
actually started by
taking a loan.
Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you. - R. Kiyosaki
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3. We may be left
wondering how this
was possible,
considering their
current size and
financial success.
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your
dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way. - R. Kiyosaki
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4. But, as rhetoricians
long ago noted, if we
get to know our
audience, we usually
find that they are all
humans, just like
ourselves!
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing - Warren Buffett
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5. Getting to know the
stories of such
businesses can
therefore be
inspiring...
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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and
learning from failure - Colin Powell Starbucks
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6. ...it can show us how
a little entrepreneurial
flair and the right loan
can go a long way.
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Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference - Winston Churchill
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7. In the right situation,
taking a loan to start a
business can be a
very profitable life-
changing decision.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Robert H. Schuller
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8. Starbucks
Consider Starbucks –
today, the company’s
revenue is around $10
billion per year.
Starbucks
Starbucks had 137,000 employees in 2010 (twice the population of Greenland)
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9. Starbucks
Did you know that when
they started out in 1971,
Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegel
and Gordon Bowker each
had invested $1350 in the
project?
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Starbucks
The average Starbucks customer visits the store 6 times per month.
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10. Starbucks
Shortly after that, they
borrowed another $5000
from the local bank.
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Starbucks
The average Starbucks customer visits the store 6 times per month.
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11. Starbucks
It wasn’t until they started
making the coffee, tea
and other drinks inside
the store...
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Starbucks
А loyal 20% of customers go to the stores 16 times per month
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12. Starbucks
...that the business really
skyrocketed – instead of
just selling the beans as
they did initially.
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Starbucks
There are over 87,000 possible drink combinations at Starbucks
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13. Starbucks
They grew so much
that at one point they
were opening a new
store somewhere
each day.
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Starbucks uses over 93 million gallons of milk per year...
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14. Starbucks
But maybe if they hadn’t
taken the risk, we would
have never experienced
Starbucks coffee!
Starbucks
...enough to fill 155 Olympic-sized swimming pools
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15. Dell
Dell’s story is even more
compelling...
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Starbucks
Dell currently employs 110,000 people worldwide.
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16. Dell
Interestingly enough,
Dell started out with an
investment of $1000.
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Starbucks
Last year the company ranked 44 on the Fortune 500 and had revenue of $62.1 billion.
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17. Dell
While he was at the
University of Texas in
1984, Michael Dell
founded the company and
initially ran it from his
dorm room.
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Starbucks
Michael was buying his own parts and assembled cheap machines which he sold to his
classmates.
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18. Dell
When the company made
the Fortune 500 for the
first time in 1992, Michael
was the youngest (27)
CEO to ever lead a
company on the list.
Starbucks
He later decided to drop out of college and commit to the business full-time.
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19. Domino’s
Domino’s Pizza dates
back to the 1960′s when it
was started by Thomas &
James Monaghan in
Michigan.
In March 2010, Domino’s Pizza opens its 9,000th store worldwide
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20. Domino’s
After a tough childhood in
orphanages and foster
homes, and dropping out
of college because he
could not pay the fees,
one day Tom Monaghan
decided he would start a
pizza shop with his
brother.
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Approximately 3 billion pizzas are sold in the U.S. each year
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21. Domino’s
They too started out with
a loan – they borrowed
$900 from a local bank. A
year later, James decided
he would leave the
business and so Tom
continued alone.
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Each man, woman and child in America eats an average of 46 slices of pizza
each year.
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22. Domino’s
Now Domino’s is represented
in 55 countries worldwide and
last year it had a revenue of
$264,9 million.
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The three dots in the Domino’s Pizza logo represent the first three Domino’s stores.
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23. Whole Foods
Market
Whole Foods started in 1978
in Austin, Texas and was then
called Safer Way.
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Today the company has more than 340 stores, throughout the UK, Canada and US
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24. Whole Foods
Market
In order to open the store, the
founder John Mackey and his
girlfriend got a $45,000 loan
from family and friends.
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It's the eighth largest food and drug store in the U.S.
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25. Whole Foods
Market
A year later they were evicted
from their home because they
were storing the food
products at home.
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It has $11.7 billion in sales in fiscal year 2012
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26. Whole Foods
Market
They then moved on to live in
the store where they even
used the Hobart dishwasher
for taking showers because
the store was meant for
commercial use only.
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It has more than 73,000 team members.
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27. Whole Foods
Market
After a merger with another
natural foods store, Whole
Foods Market was officially
opened on September 20,
1980 in Austin.
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Every reusable Better Bag they sell is made from 80 percent post-consumer recycled
plastic bottles.
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28. Whole Foods
Market
By the mid-1980′s they were
already expanding to other
cities and 25 years later, in
2010, their revenue was $9
billion.
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It has been among Fortune Magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” every year
since the list began.
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29. Walmart
“There is only one boss – the
customer. And he can fire
everybody in the company
from the chairman on down,
simply by spending his money
somewhere else.”
Sam Walton, founder of
Walmart
Sam Walton literally put this idea of his into practice, as he implemented a heavy price
cutting strategy, hoping that he would sell more that way.
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30. Walmart
Sam made sure his shelves
were always stocked with a
wide range of products and
also focused on smaller towns
rather than large cities.
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Each week nearly one-third of the U.S. population visits Walmart's U.S. stores.
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31. Walmart
But it all started in 1945 when
he left the military, got a
$20,000 loan from his father-
in-law and bought his first
shop in Newport, Arkansas.
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Walmart is the largest overall employer in the USA, and the biggest employer in 25
states.
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32. Walmart
In three years his sales grew
from $80 to $225,000. In
2012, Walmart’s revenue
equaled $446 billion.
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Walmart parking lots alone take up roughly the size of Tampa, Florida.
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33. More than anything else, the
point in all of the above
examples is that businesses
do not necessarily require big
capital to get started.
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The secret of getting ahead is getting started - Mark Twain
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34. Rather, it is courage and
personal entrepreneurial
qualities that turn a garage-
store into a world famous
brand.
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You have to be smart. The easy days are over - Robert Kiyosaki
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