American inventor, entrepreneur, and naturalist, and is considered to be the founder of the modern frozen food industry.
She began making her own hair treatments in 1904. The treatments worked well, she began offering them to other African-American women. She sold her products door-to door and bought ad space in newspapers. She then opened Lelia College, where she and her daughter trained other women to use and sell the product line.
Was an American businesswoman. She was the co-founder of a cosmetics company. She was the only woman on Time magazine's 1998 list of the 20 most influential business geniuses of the 20th century.
Innovative visionary who built a two-man operation into a multi-billion-dollar colossus and made himself one of the richest men in the world.
This entrepreneur borrowed $800 and turned it into gold! The founder of the Motown Records, one of the most successful black owned companies in the United States.
Widely regarded as one of the greatest innovators and industrialists of all time. His innovations in assembly-line techniques and the introduction of standardized interchangeable parts produced the first mass-production vehicle manufacturing.
A Virginia farmer invented a mechanical reaper, then harvested profits in the Midwest's exploding grain belt, innovating credit, service, and sales practices that became essential parts of American big business.
