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Doorsteps

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· Wednesday, December 12th, 2018

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Akshay Ruparelia is a 19-year-old kid from Harrow, North East London who runs an online real estate agency worth millions. Doorsteps was recently valued at around twelve million pounds are just one year of business. Within just a year Ruparelia has raised over $530,000 along with over 500 investors owning a total just over 3% of his company.

He sold his first house while in still in school. Akshay, without a car, would use his girlfriends brother at the time to drive him around to these homes to take photos for his website. Each client looking to sell a home would pay Akshay 99 pounds to take photos of their home and post it on his website no matter what house it was. This price was market breaking considering other real estate agencies would charge 2-3% commission for each sale which equates to around ten thousand pounds.

As of now, Doorsteps has sold more than 1,500 homes all worth around 120 million pounds as a whole, saving customers over a million pounds in just one year. The average sale time is 20 days when dealing with Doorsteps; while the nation’s average is 57 days. Akshay currently employs 15-20 local agents to take pictures and show prospective buyers around. Doorsteps offers a dedicated agent, 24/7 operation, a live online portal, and the opportunity to reach millions of buyers for just 99 pounds. As of 2017, Doorsteps was claimed to be the 18th best real estate agency in the United Kingdom; Akshay claims that in the near future his company will be number one. At this rate, his goal seems as if it is very close to becoming a reality.

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Categories : Real Estate

Nelk Boys

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· Sunday, December 9th, 2018

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Nelk was founded in 2011 by Kyle Forgeard, Jesse Sebastiani, and Lucas Gasparini. Nelk began as a YouTube channel that consisted of prank videos. The first prank video that really blew their brand up was the “Coke Prank on Cops” video. It was launched on January 12th, 2015 and now currently has over 23 million views on YouTube. In this video they purposely got cops to talk to them while Nelk was in their vehicle. They told the cops that they had “coke” in the back of the car and were sorry. When the cops opened the trunk it was actually Coke as in the soda rather than cocaine. This video is still their most popular video to date.

Today not only is Nelk a YouTube channel, but a brand. Near the beginning of 2018, Nelk had to stop posing content on YouTube due to multiple videos being deemed inappropriate by YouTube. According to YouTube’s policy, if a channel is issued three “strikes” than that channel will be terminated. A “strike” can be given to a channel as a warning for posting inappropriate content. A “strike” can go away after a certain period of time, and in Nelk’s case they had to wait two months. Nelk had received two strikes on two different videos, and were afraid to post any other content, so instead they created their own platform on their own website.

Nelk’s website, fullsend.com, now offers exclusive content to those who purchase a membership. Nelk continues to upload one video a week through YouTube, but also uploads an exclusive video a week on their website. Their website is also where they sell their brand ranging from apparel with their logo to their slogan, “Full Send.” Nelk now has over 2.2 million subscribers on YouTube and is continuing to branch out and grow their brand.

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Categories : YouTube

Dairy-free Alternatives

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· Sunday, December 9th, 2018

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The options for sweet deserts, such as ice cream, have always been off limits for those who are dairy-free; until now. Meet Matthew Billington, the CEO of OLelei’s. At the young age of 18, Matt is in charge of OLelei’s which is a dairy-free option company. OLelei currently offers dairy-free milk, yogurt, and ice cream. These products are all made with almond milk which doesn’t contain any trace of dairy.

Matt started this business back in 2015 through the Young Enterprise Scheme (YES) program. YES is a program based solely out of New Zealand that offers 12-13 year students an opportunity to create a business venture and run it. Matt, along with his some of his classmates, participated in this program and created OLelei’s. They saw an opportunity in market for lactose intolerant people who were limited to a certain amount of dairy-free products. Matt emphasis the fact that OLelei’s main mission is to include everyone saying, “Inclusion is one of our core values. It doesn’t matter who you are, what you eat, where you’re from, what nationality you are, what race you are, what you’re allergic to, our products cater for everyone. We want to make sure everybody feels included” (You Unlimited).

YES allowed them to learn things that were unteachable in the classroom such as networking and managing. In 2017, Matt along with his team had won the Lion Foundation YES national award. OLelei is now currently stocked everywhere in New Zealand. Not only has Matt created a brand that offers a different type of tasty food, but has also helped solve problem for those who are live a dairy-free lifestyle.

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Categories : Food, Health

The Dreamville Foundation

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· Monday, October 15th, 2018

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Jermaine Cole, a hip hop artist, founded the Dreamville Foundation in October 2011. The Dreamville Foundation, a non-profit organization, was created to help provide special opportunities to the youth within Cole’s hometown of Fayetteville, North Carolina. The foundation is mainly funded by Cole through his record label Dreamville Records and the Dreamville Festival. The Dreamville Festival, founded by Cole, is hosted in North Carolina once a year which features music, food, culture, and art. This past year the Dreamville Festival was actually cancelled due to Hurricane Florence.

The Dreamville Foundation mostly aims to help the youth in the North Carolina communities such as back to school supplies, a book club, and a homestead for single mothers and their children to live rent-free. Due to recent events involving a disastrous hurricane that hit Cole’s hometown, the Dreamville Foundation is now focused on helping those affected recover. Anyone can now donate on the foundation’s website which will help fund “hot food stations placed throughout the city, temporary housing options for families, and stocking of food pantries/shelters.” Cole has turned his success in the music industry into a brand that represents helping those in need in his home state. Not only is Cole a musical genius, but he is also an entrepreneur who is successfully created value and impact through innovation in his own community. For more information visit http://www.thedreamvillefoundation.org/.

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Quali Health

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· Monday, October 1st, 2018

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Dr. Nthabiseng Legoete is the founder and CEO of Quali Health which is based out of South Africa. Dr. Legoete graduated in 2003 from the University of Pretoria and qualified as a doctor. At the time South Africa’s medical industry was very poor, and it continued its poor reputation for years. People who worked in South Africa were faced with a choice when they needed medical treatment which was either skip a day of work and wait in line at a medical treatment facility all day, or go to work and hope their problems go away. Multiple people would become terminally ill throughout this time period due to the fact that they couldn’t afford skipping a day of work. Dr. Legoete saw this as a major problem and decided to do something about it.

Dr. Legoete established Quali Health in May 2016 when she opened the first public facility in Diepsloot. Quali Health’s goal is to “improve access to primary healthcare in under-serviced communities.” The vision was simple. Solve the problem of choice between work and healthcare in South Africa. According to their website (qualihealth.co.za) their plan is to “provide effective primary healthcare to this segment in South Africa in the short term and Africa and other emerging markets in the medium to long term.” By 2017 they had expanded with three new facilities located in Alexandra, Tembisa, and Soweto.

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Quali Health begun with only 40 employees and has grown to over 200 employees across four locations. Dr. Legoete’s first facility was only receiving an average of 62 patients a day upon opening in May, but it didn’t take long to take off. By August of 2016, Quali Health had over 400 patients visiting the one facility every day. The impact on the poor communities around the facilities has been incredible. Residents now have access to affordable health care that also allows them to receive assistance in the morning and be out and off to work by mid-morning. These facilities also have created over 200 new jobs, the majority actually residents within the communities. Quali Health is also working with small businesses around the areas by offering catering, plumbing, and maintaining of the facilities. Quali Health also offers training opportunities for potential new staff. Dr. Legoete is making it her personal goal to change healthcare in Africa, and community by community she is slowly achieving her goal.

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Categories : Medical, Medicine

World’s Biggest Videographer

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· Wednesday, September 19th, 2018

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Cole Bennett, a 22 year old videographer and entrepreneur from Chicago, Illinois. Cole started his own YouTube channel called Lyrical Lemonade in September of 2013 with the intent to film music videos for rappers and hip-hop artists. Even in 2013, music videos were very popular and the competition to get a videographer to create a video for an artist was large, but Cole was unique. Cole’s videos were like none other and really allowed viewers to remember artist by their videos. Before Cole’s videos, rappers never really took the music video industry seriously. In the year 2013 alone the top ten music videos consisted of Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry, Selena Gomez, Avicii, etc. None of these artists were involved in rap or hip-hop at the time. Rap was still kind of an underground thing for almost all rappers with exception for a few.

After 2010, streaming music started to become increasingly popular. Streaming companies such as Spotify, Pandora, and in Cole’s case, Soundcloud began to take off. Soundcloud was different from the main streaming services. They didn’t really represent major record label artist. Instead they stood for giving underground, unsigned artists a chance at the spotlight. The artists that used Soundcloud to gain fame such as Lil Xan, Lil Skies, and Lil pump became targets for Lyrical Lemonade.

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The video that made Cole blow up was “Betrayed” by Lil Xan. This video has over 130 million views and counting and is recognized as the original video that brought fame both to Cole Bennett and Lil Xan. As anyone would have guessed, after that video, artists began chasing after Cole Bennett. Lyrical Lemonade went from the company who produced the music videos to the platform that showcased new and upcoming artist. As of today, Cole as directed over 300 music videos. YouTube has become a media platform to reach out to a huge audience, and Lyrical Lemonade is the brand that represents all the artists. Lyrical Lemonade’s YouTube channel now has over 5.4 million subscribers which basically means anytime Cole decides to post a new music video for a new artist millions of people are going to view it within hours.

Not only has Cole changed the lives of many different artist, but he has completely changed the way rappers become popular. Rappers no longer need to continue to advertise their music, and get people to talk about it. All they need now is a platform such as Lyrical Lemonade that can advertise their music for them, and within minutes their famous. Not only is Cole Bennett an innovative thinker in the way he creates his incredible visuals for music videos, but he is forever a game changer in the entire music industry.

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Categories : Music, YouTube