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Kyle Giersdorf: Gamer entrepreneur

Posted by stullbw22 
· Wednesday, November 16th, 2022 
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Kyle Giersdorf others know him as Bugha which is his in-game user name. Kyle was born on December 30, 2002, and grew up in Pottsgrove Pennsylvania. Bugha’s entrepreneurial venture started when his father mentioned an up-and-coming game called Fortnite. Bugha fell in love with this game and later started to stream on Twitch. Twitch is a gaming live stream platform that allows watchers to donate and subscribe. Bugha was so good at the game that slowly more and more viewers started to join his stream and he started to make a ton off the money of the subscriptions. Bugha also started to win many tournaments and even qualified for and won the Fortnite world cup in 2019. After this, he blew up and created a youtube that now has 4.28 million subscribers.

Bugha, after he had a very big following on all platforms, started to create affordable PC accessories like keyboards mouses and even some PCs. He created these products because when he was young keyboard was so expensive and he could never buy them so now with his products he changed that for many young kids that want to games. Bugha taught me many things throughout his entrepreneurial venture. The first thing I learned is to find something you love instead of trying to do what other people want you to do because then you won’t put your all into your venture. Bugha’s family was very hesitant about his idea of trying to pursue gaming as a job but with some good persuasion, he finally got their approval to chase his dream. Bugha’s story really encourages me to go out and do what I love and hopefully make as much money as he did.

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Categories : Great Ideas, Millennial Enrepreneuers, Technology

Matthew Mullenweg: Founder of the WordPress

Posted by stullbw22 
· Monday, November 14th, 2022 
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Matt Mullenweg was born in Houston, Texas. Matt went to a performing arts highschool where he studied Jazz saxophone. He later went on to attended Houston University majoring in political scientce. He later dropped out to pursue a job at  CNET. In 2003 Matt and his friend Mike started the beggining of wordpress. At the time matt was just 19 years old. After Matt took the CNET job he designed a brand called automattic. Now Automattic has around 1,100 employees working from more then 67 countries. Automattic is a company that works with the web so it can be done from all around the world. This company was the bases of many brand sincluding wordpress.

Word press  is now used by over 40% of the web. WordPress is a company that created a way for people to build their own blog websites with little to no experience. This was a big deal because back in the day creating a website would take a ton of time and skills like coding and designing. Now with WordPress many more people can blog on their own website. Matt’s story teaches us alot about following your dreams and pursuing them. Matt was so into Blogs and websites that he dropped out of school to pursue his job. And in doing that he created a massive company from his own hands. To think that only 19 years old Matt thought of an idea this complex is truly increadible.

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Categories : Business, Millennial Enrepreneuers, Millennial Entrepreneurs, Technology

Benjamin Kickz

Posted by stullbw22 
· Monday, November 14th, 2022 
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Benjamin Kapelushnik was born on October 14, 1999, in Brooklyn New York. Benjamin got into sneakers when his mBusiness Is Boomin: Benjamin Kickz for Grailed | Grailedom first purchased him some Nike sneakers in middle school. This is when Benjamin Kicks was born he started to get involved in the sneaker resell market. Ben started to purchase one pair of shoes and flipped it for money. He then used that money to buy two pairs and then eventually he was buying hundreds of sneakers at a time. Ben was one of the first in this sneaker reselling Industry and became the “plug” for sneakers.

Ben gained a lot of success when he first met DJ Khaled and created a very close relationship with him. His clients kept getting better since DJ Khaled Ben really created his name in the sneaker industry and also in the music industry. At the age of 16, Ben reached the achievement of one million dollars in sales of sneakers. Ben was also seen on many TV shows like Complex, CNN, Business insider, and The Daily Show. He also won the SHorty awards finalist in 2018. One thing that Ben teaches me is that he is a hard-working man and when he had his goal set to resell sneakers he was laser focused and worked up to a millionaire. Ben also showed the world that no matter your age if you are confident you can achieve anything.

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Categories : Business, Great Ideas, Millennial Enrepreneuers

Sean Belnick Bizchair adventure

Posted by stullbw22 
· Monday, October 3rd, 2022 
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Sean Belnick is an entrepreneurial genius. At just the age of 14 while attending pope high school he created a website that sold office furniture. The name of the company is Bizchair and Sean’s net worth is 42 million. The way that Sean got into this industry of selling products online all started with selling Pokemon cards on eBay. After he got a passion for this he put money into advertising and created the website himself at just 14 years of age. For a kid in high school to create a fully functioning website is truly spectacular. Even though he was young he still possessed so much ambition to sell things that he figured out how his father’s business ran and created a website off of that model. The reason why Sean’s business took off was because of how ahead he was in using the internet. He saw that it would be easier to sell things if they were out there for the whole world to see them.

In 2006 2o-year-old Sean was making 24 million dollars in revenue. Because of Sean’s ambition, he isn’t content with what he has. He wants to expand and expects his sales to be 50-54 million dollars in 2007. Sean was running a million-dollar company while attending college because he believed that he still had more to learn in the business field. He is also a boss of 75 employees at that time all of whom are older than him. Sean stated that he liked being younger than them because the working environment wasn’t as stressful and the employees came to him more often if they have ideas or concerns. Sean’s story really shows how ambition is a key trait to possess when becoming an entrepreneur. Without it, there would be no reason to try and make anything better than it is.

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Categories : Business, Furniture, Great Ideas, Millennial Enrepreneuers

The Young Entrepreneurs Brandon and Sebastian Martinez

Posted by stullbw22 
· Monday, October 3rd, 2022 
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Brandon and Sebastian Martinez run a business called Are You Kidding Socks. Brandon who is now 13, and Sebastian who is now 11 are one of the youngest entrepreneurs out there. The way that they stumbled across this idea was when Mrs. Martinez noticed how Brandon and Sebastion loved wearing crazy socks around. She then asked them if they wanted to design new sock ideas and this is where one year later Are You Kidding Socks started. The Martinez brothers found that people can express themselves through crazy socks. They took an industry that has been around for decades and decided to make it more fun and attracted a whole new market.

While making a profitable business they also decided to give back to the community and work with some major charities. Here are a few charities they collaborate with: Live Like Bella, Make A Wish, Autism Speaks, and Cowboys Who Care. Creating this brand wasn’t easy because Are You Kidding Socks had to compete with major mainstream companies like Nike, Adidas, and other brands. The entrepreneurial trait that they stuck by and that has helped them to find success is creativity. Every pair of socks are different resulting in major uniqueness. This is something that big companies fail to do because they often have to create many products resulting loss of uniqueness. Both young boys show how even the simplest twist to a common product can appeal to many people. You don’t have to come up with a crazy complex product you just have to find something that people are appealed to.

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Categories : Uncategorized, Young Entrepreneur

Youngest CEO Yip Hillary

Posted by stullbw22 
· Tuesday, September 20th, 2022 
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Hillary Yip is from Hongkong where she went to school in Kellett school. Hillary came up with her millionaire idea when her mother sent Hillary and her brother to summer camp. The summer camp they were sent to was to help them speak Mandarin more fluently. After Hillary came home she thought of an idea like her summer camp, where everyone could connect with each other from around the world. She then started to enter her idea into several competitions and won all of them. Then she created her company and branched it out to sixty-plus countries.

“People treat me as a kid sometimes I get that. I’m 15, but I prefer being treated as an adult because I’ve had some experiences. I’m still learning, but that doesn’t mean you should count me out as immature.” says Hillary.

She created an education app where you can talk to others around the world about topics you are passionate about while learning about the other person’s culture through their conversations. The main purpose of this app is to help with learning a language in a fun way. This is very smart because most kids are not very interested in learning different languages, but when you can talk about interesting topics it makes learning more fun. When creating this MinorMynas Yip Hillary was just ten years old. It came out on IOS in 2017 and has over 65,000 downloads worldwide.

Hillary truly shows how anyone who has drive and motivation can pursue their dreams. Hillary even though she was very young still pursued her goal and proved to all the people telling her she was too young wrong. Hillary shows a very important entrepreneurial trait of courage. Hillary to this day is still perfecting MinorMynas.

 

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Categories : Millennial Enrepreneuers, Technology