1. Daymond John started FUBU while working at Red Lobster, hand sewing his first products (sold on street in Queens!) 2. Sarah Blakely started Spanx while selling fax machines (at first door-to-door) for Danka 3. While working for NASA, Lonnie Johnson invented the Super Soaker
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4. Bob Parsons, founder of GoDaddy and a Purple Heart winning Vietnam Veteran, started MoneyCounts while working a day job in Iowa, selling it for $64 million. 5. Mohnish Pabrai, an immigrant to the US from India, started an IT consulting company while working a day job, selling
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it for $20 million in 2000. 6. Lil Dicky started rapping while working as an advertising executive in San Francisco. To fund "phase 2" of his rap career he raised over $100k on kickstarter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvHYWD29ZNY … 7. Marc Jacobs, while still studying at Parsons school of design,
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launched his first fashion line of knit sweaters. 8. Beto Perez, an immigrant from Colombia, started the exercise fitness program Zumba while working as an aerobics class instructor in Miami 9. Jerry Yang, an immigrant from Taiwan, started Yahoo! while studying at Stanford.
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10. Paul Orfalea, a first generation American of Lebanese descent, while studying at USC, with a $5k bank loan cosigned by his parents founded Kinko's. If you have more American entrepreneurial success stories, send them to me!
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You'll notice that, not only can you start an amazing business with a day job and without being rich, that it doesn't matter the color of your skin, where you were born, gender, or sexuality. So stop watching Netflix and making excuses and fucking do it.
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One more that is too good not to share: 11. Guy Laliberte, a French Canadian (just like me!), while juggling
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Every amazon seller
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Not everyone is that special. I don't tell the stories of those who started these businesses with day jobs out of respect for those who keep them.
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Do you have a running list of businesses like these and just add to it as you see them?
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That's the plan. I need to get a website though. Could keep a medium article in the meantime.
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