Author Archive for Thomas Botkin

MyYearBook.com

Posted by Thomas Botkin 
· Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019 
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Background

Geoff and Catherine Cook are siblings who created a website called Myearbook.com; I have never been on the website but they are doing really well and is thinking about making their company public soon. Geoff was in Harvard when he sold his first business in 2002 and Catherine was still in high school. A few years later they came up with a yearbook but online. They had a problem when they started looking for people in the yearbook, but they didn’t recognize anyone. They also thought that information was useless, so their idea was to make it more accessible and a easier to use but online.

There now making millions of dollars and merged with another website that was like theres but in Latin america.

 

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Categories : Online Companies, Social Media, Software, Websites

Fair Harbor

Posted by Thomas Botkin 
· Saturday, November 30th, 2019 
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About Them

Jake and Caroline Danehy founded Fair Harbor. It started when they went on shark tank with their idea and won $20,000 for grant money. They go to Colgate University. Jake being 20 and Caroline being 17 they were able to start this company themselves. If you would read their about us on their website you would learn that they loved going to the beach as kids. They grew up in a community that barely had any cars and everyone was barefoot. They were able to walk to the beach without any shoes on; so you could say that they grew up on the beach. With the love of the beach sparked an idea to keep it beautiful.

The Idea

As they got older they noticed more and more plastic was being washed up on the beach. Will their love of the beach and the environment they had an idea to help with the problem but also make some money. Their idea was that they would make swim wear out of the plastic they find on the beach or in the ocean. This is how they decided to do something about the problem

Delivering Value

To make swim wear out of used plastic is a mystery for me, but these two have figured out how to not only make the clothing but also to deliver quality value. Their swim outfits also have some new qualities two them that most companies don’t have yet; like they got rid of the mesh in their swimming shorts for men. We all know how irritating those nets can be. If you would go to their website it looks very updated and easy to use.

https://www.fairharborclothing.com/pages/custom-about-us

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Categories : Enviornmental, Shark Tank, Swim Wear

Ashley Qualls

Posted by Thomas Botkin 
· Tuesday, November 5th, 2019 
· 1 Comment

Who Ashley Qualls Is

At the age of just 14 Ashley Qualls made her own website. She first started by uploading Myspace accounts to people and helping students with programming. Then she created this website were students can share around the world on the web. She created this website in 2004.

More About the Company

This website is were students can upload their graphic design works and earn points to were they can excess a virtual mall. In this virtual mall they can buy things that were provided by the company. She only started with $8 to making $70,000 a month, what a success. She saw the that myspace was very popular and wanted to capitalize on an idea she had. She eventually dropped out of school to pursue your business. She was even offered 1.5 million dollars for it but she turned it down. This is an example of someone who took their passions, skills, and knowledge and made an entrepreneurial venture. These are all the things you need to be an entrepreneur. I couldn’t find anything one her today, but i hope she did something to survive out there on the online world.

Ashley Qualls

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Categories : Software

Fraser Doherty-The Jam Boy

Posted by Thomas Botkin 
· Tuesday, November 5th, 2019 
· 1 Comment

How he started

At the age of 14 Fraser Doherty created a company that could last a life time. Fraser Doherty spend hours at his grandmothers house learning the recipe that she has made for years. He saw an importance in her recipe that was no other, and so did alot of other people.

More information about the company

Alot of jam companies, or food companies for that matter, have a ton of additives in their food products. But Doherty realized a need that these big companies didn’t realize. He gave the people a 100% fruit jam that has no other additives. He was very successful and his community loved his new idea and it quickly spread to the nation. His companies name is SuperJam and they are selling to retain companies all over the place, putting millions of these jars in many peoples homes.

Why do people love this so much?

With the world of abundance we are getting more and more detailed with the kind of products that are brought to the consumers. This product takes a step back from that and just gets back to the necessitates of things, back to what God intended us to consume. Like i said before this product is 100% fruit no additives, and this fact has brought millions of people to love this product.

 

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Categories : Food, Uncategorized

Cameron Johnson- The Steps Of Becoming A Young Entrepreneur

Posted by Thomas Botkin 
· Monday, September 30th, 2019 
· 4 Comments

Cameron Johnson started his business venture at the age of nine. While his piers were playing and being kids, Johnson had his mind on something else.

Young Venture

When Cameron Johnson was just nine years old he started making cards for his family on special occasions. Friends and neighbors started showing an interest and he was soon taking orders on to make cards for them. His first business was called, Cheers and Tears Printing Co.

After making $300 he started another business called Cheers and Tears Beanie Wholesale. With his second business he bought Beanie Babies whole sale and sold them making 10x more than he invested. He made $50,000 at the age of just 12.

A year later he started working on something else, but this time it was online. He created a service that forwarded emails to a specific account without showing any information about who sent it. He was unable to do the coding himself, so using his resources, he hired a coder to make it for him. This online service is called My EZ mail. This business made him $3,000 a month at the age of 13.

During his teenage years he decided to partner up with another teenager to make a online advertising company, called Surfingprizes.com; they would show advertisements on top web browsers for $.2 an hour. They started partnering with some big names making $300,000 a month. Before graduating high school he successfully led 15 start up businesses. He also wrote his own book about being a 15 year old entrepreneur.

Looking at what Cameron Johnson was involved in just before graduation can inspire anyone at any age. It is impressive how young and successive he was going through his business ventures as a kid. At this point in his life all of his assets added up to a over a million dollars, not too bad for a teenager. I also think its impressive to see what he started with and compare it to what he has now. He just started with a $300 dollar card making company and in 9 years he makes that into over a million dollars. Then it makes you ask the question, what can I do with the resources that I have?

 

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Categories : Bootstrap Business, eCommerce, Millennial Enrepreneuers, Online Companies, Uncategorized

About Dan Lok

Posted by Thomas Botkin 
· Tuesday, September 17th, 2019 
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Dan Lok is the oldest millennial’s being 38 years old. He is the owner of a company that helps business close high ticket deals. He started at a young age, making himself a millionaire before the age of 30. Today he is worth multi millions. He is also a best selling author of many books, and teaches over 130 countries about business. This blog post is more about a successful entrepreneur venture rather than on a single business or idea.

Early Life

Dan Lok was born in Hong Kong, but moved to Canada at the age of 14. High school days were grim for him, being the 3rd Chinese kid in his school he was bullied everyday. This inspired a long term hobby of martial arts for Mr. Lok. At the age of 16 his parents got divorced, and with financial issues on both sides of his now divided family they were in a dark spot. This is important because this feeling of financial problems sparked Dan Lok to take things into his own hands.

Early Business

Shortly after the divorce Dan Lok Started doing odd jobs like being the paper boy or mowing lawns. After doing this he started his own company one man company; he started an advertising agency. Making ten thousand dollars in the first month Lok new this is what he wanted to do. After years of making money through this company he moved back to Hong Kong to help his father with his financial issues. In the early 2000’s he took a deep dive in the internet marketing industry. This made Lok a millionaire by the age of 27. After this he wrote several books that were best sellers including F.U. Money, creativity sucks and many more.

Today

Today at the age of 38 Dan Lok owns a High Ticket closing company. This company specializes in closing high ticket deals for businesses to customers; this company is called High Ticket Closer. He is also a well known you tuber being one the most searched for business. He Is also an educator for over 130 countries; he teaches about the broad subject of business. He was also a two time leading speaker for TEDx, speaking about business.

 

 

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Categories : High Ticket Closer