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The Entrepreneurs and Family Background The Entrepreneurs I've gotten was the Jodrey Family. I will first talk about Roy A. Jodrey who was the one that started it then lead to his son John J.Jodrey. Roy A. Jodrey was born in 1888 -1973. He was a grade school dropout. Jodrey dropped out of school in grade 6. He described going to school was a waste of time. And went on to make millions. Though he dropped out of school, through textbooks and correspondence course, he educated himself on the basis on business. At the age of 12, his first job was apple harvesting. Then, at the age of 18, his own company he worked for was shipping apples to England. In 1917, once again guided from a textbook, he and his friend built a dam at Stivers Falls which …show more content…
Jodrey was the next generation to take over the business. John J. Jodrey's full name is John Joseph Jodrey. He was born in Gaspereau, Nova Scotia. He was born in September, 18 913. The Jodrey Family has an estimated net worth of $782 million ( Canada's Richest People 2015). Thus considered to be one of Nova Scotia's richest and most influential families. After graduating from Wolfville High School and Horton Academy he owned and operated a service station in Pictou, Nova Scotia for two years, followed by an apple orchard operation (just like his father). While still in his 20s, he joined the family business of Minas Basin, and then Canadian Keyes Fibre Inc (renamed CKF Inc, in 1982) eventually becoming president and chairman of both companies. His biggest role was to oversee the operations of the family's vast business empire that includes a diverse range of companies that specialise in pulp, paper, medical devices, construction materials and paper plates. John Jodrey was also an avid supporter of various universities based in Nova Scotia and created scholarships. He also supported various hospitals and foundations. John J. Jodrey died peacefully on Sunday, February 19, 2012. He was 98 at the time. John J. Jodrey had six grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. He also had two kids, one was a boy the other was a girl. Their names were Kathryn and …show more content…
He also supported various hospitals and foundations. Not only that but before his death in the will, Jodrey gave his wife all his personal, domestic and household use possessions which included consumable stores, automobiles and boats. But with he exception of his boat named Windy Boat that he gave it to his son Bruce. Jodrey also gave his wife their home on Willow Street in Hantsport and directed that she continue to take care of their property on Shaw Island. In addition to the boat and a gift of $250,000, Jodrey said in his will that he forgives his son and release him from paying back whatever he owes. As for the daughter, Kathryn was given a gift of $500,000 and an option agreement on parcels of land known as Beachettes in Montserrat in the West Indies. Jodrey also left $100,000 to his daughter-in-law Johanna and $25,000 each to the Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation to which he was a former director, Dalhousie University and Acadia University. And another $5,000 went to Scouts Canada in Nova Scotia. Jodrey created scholarships and served on the board of governors of Acadia University, where he helped establish the Jodrey School of Computer Science and the Roy and Isabel Jodrey student
To begin with as a child, Johnson was very innovative and curious, he built his own go cart out a lawnmower
John Cartwright was born on the 9th of August 1965 in Penrith New South Wales to Merv Cartwright and Carole Cartwright. Cartwright is best known for playing rugby league for the Penrith Panthers, NSW Blues and the Australian Kangaroos.
Jarrod J. Rein is an eighteen-year-old with dark brown hair and brown eyes to match the brown arid dirt of Piedmont, Oklahoma. His skin is a smooth warm tan glow that opposes his white smile making his teeth look like snow. Standing a great height of six foot exactly, his structure resembles a bear. He is attending Piedmont high school where he in his last year of high school (senior year). He is studying to be a forensics anthropologist. Also he is studying early in the field of anatomy to be successful in his profession. While not always on the rise for knowledge Jarrod’s swimming for his high school. In a sense it’s like you see double.
This book devides these men into two groups; market entrepreneurs, which are Hill, Vanderbilt, and Rocketfeller, and the
Market entrepreneurs were known as risk-takers and charitable people. Many of them donated money to needy,
Over a three week period in October 2002 a series of random sniper attacks paralyzed the Washington D.C. area. The shootings happened in in various establishments such as super markets, gas stations, restaurants and near schools turning normal tranquil areas into chaotic murder fields. There were no age group, gender or ethnicity that was safe, Victims were randomly selected and everyone was targeted. After the murderous spree, ten people were declared dead and several others wounded. The perpetrators were finally apprehended while they were sleeping at a resting spot and later identified as forty-one-year-old John Allen Muhammad and his seventeen-year-old Jamaican-American protégé, Lee Boyd Malvo.
Peter Salem : a slave who was freed by his owner, Jeremiah Belknap, to join the Framingham militia in Massachusetts. He was a patriot for over seven years, supporting the Americans fight the British, and became a militia himself and served for four years and eight months. In 1775, Peter took part in fighting the war’s first battle at Concord. He enrolled in Captain Drury’s Company of John Nixon’s 6th Massachusetts Regiment. He also took part in the Battle of Bunker Hill, where he mortally wounded British Marine Major, John Pitcairn. Then in 1776, he reenlisted for another year in the 4th Continental Regiment. After his enlistment was over, he volunteer for three years in the 6th Massachusetts Regiment of Colonel Thomas Nixon. Achievement : Contribute to Concord battle(1775), Battle of the Bunker Hill(1775), and the Battles of Saratoga and Stony Point(1777).
Scott Joplin said: “Boy, when I’m dead 25 years, people are going to begin to recognize me.” With this quote, Scott Joplin seemed to predict the impact that his music and life would have on generations to come. Indeed, as time moved on Scott Joplin’s prediction became true. Best-known as a ragtime musician and composer, Scott Joplin set the standard for many other musicians that followed in his footsteps. Scott Joplin was an important figure in American History because he is considered the “King of Ragtime Writers.” Ragtime is music played in “ragged” or off-the-beat time.
Born in Seneca, South Carolina on June 10th 1953, Johnny Reid Edwards was raised a Methodist and learned the values of hard work and perseverance from his father, Wallace and mother, Bobbie, while growing up in Robbins, North Carolina. Working alongside his father in the textile mill, John was taught that all Americans should be treated equally and that the voice of every man and woman in the United States should be heard. He grew up without the benefit of a private school education, something of which Edwards is, to this day, extremely proud. He was the first of his family to go to college. John attended North Carolina State University, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude in 1974 with a BS in textile technology, an impressive accomplishment by any standard. But given the values of hard work and perseverance learned by his parents, John Edwards did not quit his schooling after a BS from NC State. He continued on to the University of North Carolina (at Chapel Hill) where he graduated their law program Cum Laude in 1977. While attending law school at UNC, he met his wife, Elizabeth Anania, whom he married in 1977.
...author/writer. Penney wasn’t a college graduate but he surely knew how to run a business. He received a whole bunch of college degrees from a variety of colleges including the University of Missouri which is his home state. He died in 1971 at the age of 95. He is buried at the Woodlawn cemetery in the Bronx. April 14th, 2002 Penney celebrated one hundred years in business which is amazing considering the things his store has been through throughout its timeline. His company is still one of America’s largest retailers in the world. In conclusion J.C. Penney is one of the best to ever create a business, survive the “Great Depression”, and have multiple upsets in his life that would have tore people down to the point that a person couldn’t work anymore but Penney got through it and shined until the end. This is my report on James Cash Penney the founder of J.C. Penney.
The last entrepreneurs were a team of fisherman, Jack Panels and Jeff Panels they are Father and son, they designed an accessory that makes fishing so much easy. TacticBite- Fish Call is like a nutshell that people can throw into the water and it start making sounds and vibrations that attract the fish around the dispositive and make easy for fisherman to catch more
I think that being an entrepreneur takes a lot of skills and hard work, but I believe I could do it. I would not mind being one. I would like to try to be one when I grow up. I think they are very smart and successful people and I would enjoy being one.
Fredric Jameson's notorious attribute is criticism of the postmodern paradigm. He is a Marxist- who was raised during the Red Scare. The formation of his unconventional mindset was enabled by The New Left, and the existentialist Jean Paul Sartre. These forces led to Jameson's inquiry into Marxism. In the 1960s, Jameson studied Marxism intensely, publishing his first exploration of details regarding the theory in, "Marxism and Form."
Sirmon, D. G., & Hitt, M. A. (2003). Managing resources: Linking unique resources, management, and wealth creation in family firms. Entrepreneurship theory and practice, 27(4), 339-358.
"Entrepreneurs who start and build new businesses are more celebrated than studied. They embody, in the popular imagination and in the eyes of some scholars, the virtues of "boldness, ingenuity, leadership, persistence and determination." Policymakers see them as a crucial source of employment and productivity growth. Yet our systematic knowledge of how entrepreneurs start and grow their businesses is limited. The activity does not occupy a prominent place in the study of business and economics.