Incredible Ways People Got Rich!

We live in the world now, that makes earning money easier then ever. With the Internet and other technologies, we have many more avenues to pursue other, than the traditional nine to five. Following stories makes you ask yourself – why you didn’t come up with it yourself.

Thrift store find

In 2007, Michael Sparks was browsing through his local thift store, when a rolled up document caught his eye. He purchased the document for 2.48 $. It was authenticated that was an original copy of the Declaration of Independence. He then sold ir for 477,000 $.

Home page for million dollars

In 2005, Alex Tu came up with a briliant idea to help pay for the cost of his education. He set up a website and laid out an area of one million pixels. And sold them at 1 $ each. In 5 months and after putting 1 000 blocks on eBay, he earned 1,037,100 $.

Yellow smiley face

Back in 1963, Harvey Ball first drew the yellow smiley face for a client. He charged 45 $ for the creation. He never applied for a trademark of the copyright. But two brothers Bernard and Murray Spain saw the potential. 50 million dollars in revenue was made by the Spain brothers in just a few short years.

Right domain at the right time

In 1994, Chris Clark bought the domain pizza.com. He ended up maintaining the domain for 20 $ a year for 14 years until one day in 2008 put it up for auction with a starting bid of 100 $. The second that pizza.com was listed for sale, every single pizza company in the world went crazy for it. Eventually Chris made 2,6 million dollars from the auction.

The Pet Rock

Marketing executive, Gary Doll in the 1970’s start selling rocks as hassle free pets. Complete with a pet training manual and a cardboard box, fashioned after a pet carrier, each for 3.95 $ a piece. Gary managed to sell over 1.5 million pet rocks in one year. Making him 15 million dollars.