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John Feinsibler: founder of Gimkit

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· Wednesday, December 15th, 2021 
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19-year-old John Feinsibler was one day researching for a project while in high school when he came across an online learning game called Kahoot. The concept of the games struck him, but he thought of improving the base & execution. Determined to come up with something new, Feinsibler gathered a few of his high school friends to brainstorm ideas. His great effort to innovate something that had already existing led to the creation of Gimkit, now used by thousands of teachers everywhere.

Gimkit is a live quiz learning application that allows teachers to make different “kits” to help their students learn. The game kits award students for their activities and allow teachers to keep a tab on their progress in real-time.

Josh’s innovation earned the Top 5 on Product Hunt on it’s launch day and has earned about three million users across 100 countries. Part of Feinsibler’s huge success was his great focus on aspects that are important and have the potential to add value to the end-user from the start of this project. He recognized that it is important to know how people want to interact with the service, how the want to feel when they use it, and what experience it should create for the user. All entrepreneurs can learn something of value from this great young innovator.

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Langston Whitlock: co-founder of Safetrip

Posted by hallerer20 
· Wednesday, December 15th, 2021 
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19-year-old engineer Langston Whitlock is the co-founder of Safetrip, the world’s first healthcare transportation app geared towards helping the homeless & elderly. The app allows patients, caretakers, and health care providers to book non-emergency and emergency medical transportation. Users are offered premium vans, cars, wheelchair accessible vehicles and ambulances and have the option of paying with insurance. Safetrip, based in Georgia, is changing the game for healthcare.

The idea for the app came when co-founder Ja’Nese Jean met a homeless veteran without access to healthcare. Jean began brainstorming ideas and brought together a team which included Whitlock because of his skills, talent, and passion for technology. From there, the idea for Safetrip developed. Since it began, the company has rasied over $2 million, a large part of this is thanks to Whitlock’s technology. He began coding when he was only 12 years old when he built an anonymous messaging app to contact his absent father. Since then, his passion has grown ever stronger for it. Whitlock says “Whatever you’re good at is likely what you’re called to do, and never give up. Even if your dad walks out of your life, pray to God and try to move forward with your life. God will provide resources.”

Additionally, Langston Whitlock was one of the youngest founders named to Forbes 30 under 30 in 2019. He can be seen as an inspiration to all, especially teenagers, of achieving your dreams doing something you love.

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Categories : App development, Entrepreneurship, Uncategorized, Young Entrepreneur

Davis Siksnans: CEO & co-founder of “Printful”

Posted by hallerer20 
· Friday, October 8th, 2021 
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Davis SiksnansWhat started as a three-person team making t-shirts in a garage grew into a huge company of more than 500 employees across the US, Mexico, and Europe. In 2013, when Davis Siksnans was only 22 years old, he co-founded the business “Printful”. Printful is a print-on-demand drop shipping startup that makes it easy for anyone to sell custom print products online. It provides services including printing, packaging, shipping, and warehousing to help make launching your own e-commerce business as easy as possible. Their goal is to help aspiring entrepreneurs to sell their goods online by allowing them to focus on design, marketing, and sales instead of thinking about the “how” part.

Back in 2012, Siksnans and his team began an online store that offered posters with motivational quotes from successful entrepreneurs. They then wanted to expand this business and start selling apparel the same way they sold these posters. However, they realized there were no services that would do apparel print-on-demand with fast fulfillment and good quality. That’s when they realized the need for a service like Printful. Printful would become one of the world’s leading drop shipping companies.

Siksnans is very open about challenges on his road to success saying “The way I overcome my failures is – I learn from my mistakes and accept that failures are inevitable. Success very rarely comes with the first idea.” He also offers great advice to those wanting to start a business like he did. In a more recent interview, he offers this final piece of advice, “A good time to start is anytime, because a better one will never come. So just start now and see what happens.”

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Eve Kekeh, founder of Bundlee

Posted by hallerer20 
· Monday, September 27th, 2021 
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If you have kids, you know how quickly they grow out of clothes in their first two years. Eve Kekeh recognized this problem and started her own company to help parents seeking a more sustainable and convenient way to access baby clothes. Her company, Bundlee, is the UK’s first sustainable baby clothing rental subscription.

Having two younger siblings, Eve Kekeh experienced first hand just how quickly babies will grow out of their clothing. She says, “Babies outgrow 7 clothing sizes in their first 2 years, and seeing the amount of waste this led to made me think there had to be a better way.” While spending a year studying abroad in the US, Kekeh discovered a designer womenswear rental service. She fell in love with this idea and soon realized that this same concept could be applied to baby clothing. Through careful research and receiving useful feedback from hundreds of parents, Kekeh developed Bundlee.

Bundlee is unique as it is tailored to fit the parents’ (and babies’) specific clothing needs. You simply choose a subscription plan that works best for your family, wear the clothes with no worries (thanks to the included rental insurance), and then conveniently swap clothing as your little one grows. All returned clothes are then thoroughly cleaned through their eco-friendly Ozone sanitization method and sent on to be loved by the next family.

In order to provide the very best quality, Eve Kekeh designs all collections that Bundlee offers herself. In addition, all pieces are made in the UK in a women run and owned factory, where Kekeh frequently visits to ensure that it meets her ethical standards. While designing pieces, it’s important to Kekeh that all fabrics used are suitable for babies’ sensitive skin. That is why all clothes are made with breathable cotton and free of any harmful chemicals.

Bundlee has continued to grow and flourish over the past few years. Eve Kekeh shows true innovation as she has built a company that helps so many, while helping the planet as well.

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Categories : Business::Entrepreneurs, Clothing, Entrepreneurship, Millennial Enrepreneuers, Sustainable, Women Entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneur

Omari McQueen: the 12 year old author, chef, and CEO

Posted by hallerer20 
· Monday, September 20th, 2021 
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12-year-old award-winning Omari McQueen is making history and inspiring millions with his thriving vegan food brand, Dipalicious.

After his mother became sick, Omari McQueen, at the young age of 7, began cooking for his family. This was the beginning of a passion and love for cooking. One year later, McQueen, at age 8, went vegan after learning how animals were treated for food and clothing. He found that veganism could help his mother and began to cook vegan recipes for her. McQueen’s passion of vegan food soon led to the start of his YouTube channel, Omari Goes Wild, in 2017 where he posted vegan cooking videos. This same year, he founded Dipalicious, a food brand that offers vegan Caribbean fare. His main purpose with the company was to create great tasting food without putting animals in danger. McQueen says, “The thing that inspired my recipes is bringing people together with good food without harming animals”

Omari McQueen’s dedication to his craft did not end there. In the summer of 2017, Boxpark’s CEO Roger Wade invited and financial supported the young entrepreneur to host a weeklong pop-up at Boxparks’ Croyden location. McQueen also went on to write his very own vegan cookbook, Omari McQueen’s Best Bites Cookbook– another “dream come true” for the young chef. “I’ve achieved a goal as I’ve got dyslexia I found it hard spelling stuff out and reading things,” he says. “But I wrote the whole thing and got it done and I’m so proud of myself. I’m bringing people together with good food without harming animals with that book, with easy-to-make recipes in there, and my favorite recipes.”

All of McQueen’s hard work and dedication over the past few years have truly paid off. He has earned himself the title of the youngest award winning vegan chef in the UK. In addition, McQueen has gone on to receive several awards such as the TruLittle Award, the Compassionate Kids Award, and the Proud and Gifted Award.

Omari’s drive is an inspiration for all. He is a true encouragement to the many young entrepreneurs looking to start a business of their own.

 

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Categories : Business::Entrepreneurs, Cooking, Entrepreneurship, Food, Restaurants, Young Entrepreneur