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Nouveau Riche (or "new rich") is French for a person that earned all his money during his own life. It's not enough with just money to qualify, you have to have made a fortune during the time of your own generation

Sounds hard, but a lot of people have succeeded and CNN got a long article about Nouveau Riche people which proves that if you got an excellent idea for a new service or product you should go for it since there's a chance you may succeed (and also end up on the CNN list ). The requirements for the list are a bit of seed money, a little business savvy, and a great big appetite for adventure. Which means that that's also what you need to succeed . You will need a lot of appetite for adventures, because otherwise you wont believe in your idea enough to dare to start your own company.

An example of a person that built his own fortune is Chung Ju-Yung from Korea who started Hyundai with just a grade-school education. He was especially aggressive overseas and was the first Korean to build bridges in Alaska, housing in Guam and highways in Thailand. So to succeed you need to do thing no one else has done before.

Another example is the, maybe, most famous man in the world Bill Gates. Gates and his friend Paul Allen founded the software giant Microsoft in 1975 after dropping out from Harvard. Like Ju-Yung they show that you don't need to graduate from a fine school, just to have a good idea and to dare to do something with it instead of saving your ideas on your desk….

Check out the CNN article about Nouveau Riche.

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Andreas co-founded Xavier Media® in 1996 and has since been involved in all kinds of development, marketing and making money online.