Companies That Started in a Garage

If you think you need a corporate office to get your business started, think again. Find out how these multimillion or billion-dollar companies launched in the unlikeliest of places. However massive they may seem now, at one time, some of the largest and most successful companies around started in someone's garage. Sometimes the garage was at the childhood home of the company's founders. Other times, the entrepreneurs had to rent a garage just to get a little privacy for their ideas to grow.

The humble beginnings of these said companies prove that great ideas are still great ideas, no matter where they're started and developed.The lesson here is that the most amazing ideas have no boundaries. From small, rented garages to multimillion or billion-dollar companies, anyone who's passionate about an idea can start—and grow—that idea anywhere, as long as they have a little privacy and room to shut out the rest of the world.

(Following are companies that started from a garage, correspondingly a school, a dorm and even a trunk of a vehicle)

Hewlett-Packard

Marconi

Harley Davidson

IKEA

Dyson

Zara

Mattel

Virgin Group (from school)

Nike (from a vehicle)

Dell (from a dorm)

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