Entrepreneurial Blogs

During my research, I came across the first website I wanted to cite. As I pursued for more information about the blog and the entrepreneur, I found myself relating to the ideas, ethics, and to the business woman of whom I quickly became passionate about. Her name, Anita Roddick. Her website is filled with opinionated blogs posted by others that follow in her foot steps as an activist for various campaigns. The website was begun by Anita herself, and after her death in 2007, it still remains and is continuously updated.

Anita began business in 1976 by opening the Body Shop and within a year opened a second store, which was highly in demand. By the 1980s the company was completely recognizable. She applied customs she learned from the local women in the several countries she visited, about using natural resources to develop her own line of skin-care and hair-care products that she sold. With the success of the company came self-financing -franchise- , the pursuit for social and environmental change, and Community Trade. Although the company was eventually sold , her website continues to be active in her ideas, and supports many charities and campaigns across the world, fights for human and animal rights, brings awareness of disease, and the environment, the hungry, the poor, and the innocent.

1. http://www.anitaroddick.com/index.php
2. http://www.thebodyshop.com/bodyshop/


Despite my fast admiration for Anita, her site is not exactly what I expected a blogging site to look like, and therefore I quickly began to search for another entrepreneur. And his name is Elon Musk. He is co-founder of Pay-Pal, which he sold to e-Bay, started SpaceX to build inexpensive rockets to send out and to explore space, and has funded Tesla Motors to build electric vehicles and has also become chairman. He has partnered with other great entrepreneurs such as Google co-founders and former e-Bay president. Their first ever vehicle, an electric sports-car which emits no exhaust, was featured on the cover of Time Magazine in 2006.

1. http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=54
2. http://www.teslamotors.com/blog2/?p=22


Both internet sources that discuss the use of blogging generally introduce blogging similarly. Businessweek.com has been updated since its first article published in 2005 about the topic, and Inc.com remains the same. Each give examples of how blogs work and how they may help boost business; Business gives detailed descriptions and walks you through the life of a blogger in blogosphere, and a quick and simple crash course to it.

Since Inc.com's article was published in 2005 as well, its information about blogging was relatively new and on an incredible rise. Only a few Fortune 500 companies had blogs of which many were concerned with the kind of content that would be shared by company employees.

1. http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/feb2008/db20080219_908252.htm
2. http://www.inc.com/news/articles/200504/blogs.html