Sunday 2 February 2014

Entrepreneur Bio: Jeff Bezos

By Franklin Skribbit


In films you always see the Special Forces FBI agents portrayed as handsome, leading men, while the computer geeks stay inside with their glasses and their calculators computing how much time there is until the end of the world. As you might have guessed, this is not really the case in real life. Those computer geeks are actually forensic accountants, trained to track numbers to bust criminals for stealing enormous sums of money.

Bezos was born Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His mother divorced his father shortly after his birth, and later married Miguel Bezos, who legally adopted Jeff after the marriage. As a young boy, Jeff Bezos showed in interest in science. One of his earliest science projects was rigging an electric alarm to keep his siblings out of his room. The family moved to Miami where Bezos attended high school and was valedictorian.

First, you have to study math as much as you can starting from a young age. If possible, take as many advanced math and computer in high school as you can. Then pursue a Bachelor's degree in accounting. You will want to major in either that or forensic accounting if the major is available. They will teach you the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) that will be necessary to know for any accounting position.

After you graduate, you will have to take ethics courses, the Uniform Certified Public Accountant Examination, a best practices exam for your state, an oath, and work supervised for a defined period of time in order to become a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). This process typically takes a year and can be done while simultaneously working.

Bezos wrote up the plans for Amazon.com while making a cross-country drive from New York to Seattle. He literally started the company in his garage and left his high paying job at a New York hedge fund when he learned about the increased growth in Internet use.

If you do find people that seem to have a need for your business, then examine them. What sort of people are they? What do they like? What do they dislike? And how do you think you could get them to do business with you? These fundamental marketing questions may seem tedious, but they will help you build a marketing plan that will allow your business to attract customers.

Now that you have passed all of these exams, you can list all of your degrees, titles, and experience on a comprehensive resume that you will give to as many potential employers as possible. Hopefully at this point you have honed your skills as both an accountant and a researcher.

Bezos' genius had a large part to play in the reason why Amazon succeeded. He devised an unconventional business plan which did not expect to make a profit for around four to five years. Stockholders initially complained about this slow growth model, but after Amazon survived the burst of the dot-com bubble at the turn of the century, it became a massive name in online sales.

If you are looking to become a certified forensic accountant there are degrees such as business and finance in Cheyenne. These programs are great starts to a career in the FBI or CIA. You could become one of the force's special agents that trace numbers and money to find the culprits that are creating injustice for the world.




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