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Nick Friedman
Nick Friedman (born 1981) is an American entrepreneur best known for co-founding College Hunks Hauling Junk and College Hunks Moving with his lifelong friend and business partner, Omar Soliman. He co-authored ''Effortless Entrepreneur, Work Smart, Play Hard, Make Millions'' with Soliman. Friedman is also a TV personality, public speaker, and co-executive producer of the documentary ''Beware of Mr. Baker.'' Early life Friedman grew up in the Washington, D.C., area where he attended the Sidwell Friends School. Following graduation in 2000, he attended Pomona College in California where he played basketball for four years. Career After graduating from college, Friedman worked briefly as an economic research analyst for Marsh and McLennan Companies, Inc. In the summer of 2002, before his senior year in college, he joined Omar Soliman in hauling junk in their community to earn extra money. Initially, they hauled junk from houses, offices, and different entities in Omar's mother's carg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
College Hunks Hauling Junk
College Hunks Hauling Junk and Moving is a North American junk removal and moving company with headquarters in Tampa, Florida. The company provides junk removal, local and long distance full service moving and office relocation services including in home donation pickup services for non-profit partner organizations. The company became operational in 2005 and began franchising in 2007. The company's services are available to both commercial and residential clients, with over 70% of the "junk" collected being donated to charities such as Goodwill Industries, recycled, reused or incinerated as fuel through the Covanta Energy Corporation. As of October 2021, College Hunks Hauling Junk and Moving had three company-owned locations and 162 franchised locations in the United States and Canada. History College Hunks Hauling Junk began operations in 2004 after co-founder Omar Soliman won $10,000 in the annual Leigh Rothschild Business Plan Contest. Upon graduating from the University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omar Soliman
Omar Soliman (born May 10, 1982) is an American entrepreneur who co-founded College Hunks Hauling Junk, a national junk hauling and moving franchise headquartered in Tampa, Florida. He is the co-author of the book ''Effortless Entrepreneur'' and the co-executive producer of the 2012 documentary ''Beware of Mr. Baker''. Early life and education Soliman was born and raised in Washington D.C. He started his marketing, sales, and deliveries career at the age of ten, assisting his mother in her furniture shop. He attended Sidwell Friends School and went on to attend business school at the University of Miami where he received a Bachelor of Business Administration in 2004. Business career Soliman founded College Hunks Hauling Junk with Nick Friedman in 2003 while they were attending college. After working that summer with the business, he returned to the University of Miami for his senior year of college. In 2004, he entered the Leigh Rothschild Entrepreneurship Competition in Miami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidwell Friends School
Sidwell Friends School is a Quaker school located in Bethesda, Maryland and Washington, D.C., offering pre-kindergarten through high school classes. Founded in 1883 by Thomas W. Sidwell, its motto is ' ( en, Let the light shine out from all), alluding to the Quaker concept of inner light. All Sidwell Friends students attend Quaker meeting for worship weekly, and middle school students begin every day with five minutes of silence. The school's admissions process is merit-based. As documented on the school's website, it gives preference in admissions decisions to members of the Religious Society of Friends, but otherwise does not discriminate on the basis of religion. Sidwell "accepts only 7 percent of its applicants". The school accepts vouchers under the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program. Described as "the Harvard of Washington’s private schools", the school has educated children of notable politicians, including those of several presidents. President Theodore Rooseve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pomona College
Pomona College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It was established in 1887 by a group of Congregationalists who wanted to recreate a "college of the New England type" in Southern California. In 1925, it became the founding member of the Claremont Colleges consortium of adjacent, affiliated institutions. Pomona is a four-year undergraduate institution that approximately students. It offers 48 majors in liberal arts disciplines and roughly 650 courses, as well as access to more than 2,000 additional courses at the other Claremont Colleges. Its campus is in a residential community east of downtown Los Angeles, near the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. Pomona has the lowest acceptance rate of any U.S. liberal arts college and is considered the most prestigious liberal arts college in the American West and one of the most prestigious in the country. It has a $ endowment , making it the seventh-wealthiest college or university in the U.S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marsh And McLennan
Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc., doing business as Marsh McLennan, is a global professional services firm, headquartered in New York City with businesses in insurance brokerage, risk management, reinsurance services, talent management, investment advisory, and management consulting. Its four main operating companies are Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer, and Oliver Wyman. Marsh McLennan ranked #212 on the 2018 Fortune 500 ranking, the company's 24th year on the annual ''Fortune'' list, and #458 on the 2017 ''Forbes'' Global 2000 List. In 2017, ''Business Insurance'' ranked Marsh McLennan #1 of the world's largest insurance brokers. History Foundation and early years Burroughs, Marsh & McLennan was formed by Henry W. Marsh and Donald R. McLennan in Chicago in 1905. It was renamed as Marsh & McLennan in 1906. The reinsurance firm Guy Carpenter & Company was acquired in 1923, a year after it was founded by Guy Carpenter. In 1959, it acquired the human resources consulting f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shark Tank (TV Series)
''Shark Tank'' is an American business Reality television#Investments, reality television series that premiered on August 9, 2009, on American Broadcasting Company, ABC.Hibberd, James (May 10, 201'Dancing,' 'Bachelor,' and a bigger 'Shark Tank' returning to ABCInsider TV. Retrieved June 24, 2012 The show is the American franchise of the international format ''Dragons' Den'', which originated in Japan as ''Money Tigers'' in 2001. It shows entrepreneurship, entrepreneurs making business presentations to a panel of five investors or "sharks", who decide whether to invest in their companies. The series has been a Nielsen ratings, ratings success in its time slot, winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Structured Reality Program four times (2014–2017) in the first four years of that category's existence. In 2012–13, it won Outstanding Reality Program. Premise The show features a panel of investors called "sharks," who decide whether to invest as entrepreneurs make bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millionaire Matchmaker
''The Millionaire Matchmaker'' was an American reality television series on Bravo that premiered on January 22, 2008, and is hosted by Patti Stanger. ''The Millionaire Matchmaker'' follows Patti Stanger, owner of the Beverly Hills-based "Millionaire's Club" dating service, as she matches single wealthy people with closely compatible dates. The seventh season premiered on December 5, 2013, with an all-new panel of matchmakers. In July 2015, Stanger announced that she had left the network after eight seasons and 90 episodes. It was later announced that she will be producing another show on WE tv. The new series, entitled ''Million Dollar Matchmaker'', premiered on July 8, 2016. ''Millionaire'' followed the "pioneering" matchmaking show ''Confessions of a Matchmaker''. Cast * Patti Stanger (seasons 1–8), CEO of Millionaire's Club, former assistant to pioneering matchmaker, Janis Spindel * Destin Pfaff (seasons 1–6), Executive assistant in the first season; promoted to chief ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Nate Berkus Show
''The Nate Berkus Show'', also known as ''The Nate Show'', is an American talk show that premiered on September 13, 2010, hosted by interior designer Nate Berkus. The series aired on Broadcast syndication, syndication during its original run from September 13, 2010, to May 24, 2012. ''The Nate Berkus Show'' is a Spin-off (media), spin-off of ''The Oprah Winfrey Show''. In September 2012, the Oprah Winfrey Network (U.S. TV channel), Oprah Winfrey Network purchased the cable rights to ''The Nate Berkus Show'', along with the first five seasons of ''Rachael Ray (TV series), Rachael Ray''. Production The show was co-produced by Harpo Productions and Sony Pictures Television. It is taped in 1080i (High-definition television, HDTV) in Studio 42 at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City, New York. The series was distributed by Sony Pictures Television, after Sony and NBCUniversal made agreements to launch the show on all 10 NBC owned and operated stations, as well as Harpo Productions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st-century American Businesspeople
The 1st century was the century spanning AD 1 ( I) through AD 100 ( C) according to the Julian calendar. It is often written as the or to distinguish it from the 1st century BC (or BCE) which preceded it. The 1st century is considered part of the Classical era, epoch, or historical period. The 1st century also saw the appearance of Christianity. During this period, Europe, North Africa and the Near East fell under increasing domination by the Roman Empire, which continued expanding, most notably conquering Britain under the emperor Claudius (AD 43). The reforms introduced by Augustus during his long reign stabilized the empire after the turmoil of the previous century's civil wars. Later in the century the Julio-Claudian dynasty, which had been founded by Augustus, came to an end with the suicide of Nero in AD 68. There followed the famous Year of Four Emperors, a brief period of civil war and instability, which was finally brought to an end by Vespasian, ninth Roman em ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1981 Births
Events January * January 1 ** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union. ** Palau becomes a self-governing territory. * January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments. * January 15 – Pope John Paul II receives a delegation led by Polish Solidarity leader Lech Wałęsa at the Vatican. * January 20 – Iran releases the 52 Americans held for 444 days, minutes after Ronald Reagan is sworn in as the 40th President of the United States, ending the Iran hostage crisis. * January 21 – The first DeLorean automobile, a stainless steel sports car with gull-wing doors, rolls off the production line in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland. * January 24 – An earthquake of magnitude in Sichuan, China, kills 150 people. Japan suffers a less serious earthquake on the same day. * January 25 – In South Africa the largest part of the town Laingsburg is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
