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Colatris: Mobile to Global

Posted by Alan Brennen

· Thursday, October 15th, 2015

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A problem faced by many has just been taken head on by three young entrepreneurs in San Francisco, California. The app started out as an experience one of the co founders experienced during his visit to Chile and saw an immense need for improvement with the poor quality apps being offered and brought to market. This app helps localize mobile apps to translate with people throughout the world. These three tech entrepreneurs recognized that their was a problem and set out to capitalize on it. Common knowledge is that it is hard enough to develop a successful strategy and layout of content in your own country and native language and be successful. The thought of tackling a foreign language and country head on with a total different culture is intimidating and very difficult. A lot of expenses can incur while you try to make a splash in a whole new area. This app they created works to solve this problem and to provide a perfect fitting and existing user interface.

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Colatris is ranked one of best current young entrepreneurs businesses in America is setting its aim on dominating the mobile industry. They set their company apart by selling their app as a way to effectively reach an international audience with very little effort and cost. The app allows you to very easily and quickly edit an app to your liking. This easy feature can help catapult your business to a great start in a foreign market with no stupid mistakes; starting your company out with a bad rep. This app personally allowing you to customize your app to your own preferences, setting you up for success! Colatris hopes their once idea, now brought to life, will one day be the standard for localization of digital content everywhere on the globe.

For more great info and a quick video on this great new company: check out the following link!

https://youtu.be/NIRAx5ANjtQ

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Categories : App, Blog, Millennial Enrepreneuers, Millennial Entrepreneurs

Beme

Posted by Joanie Brown

· Saturday, October 3rd, 2015

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Over this past summer, filmmaker and youtuber Casey Neistat and former VP of Engineering for Tumblr, Matt Hacket launched a new app called “Beme”. After working on the project for over a year, the duo was finally ready to release their new format for video sharing.

“Beme” is an app that, according to Neistat and Hackett, captures the unfiltered and genuine moments in life. “Beme” captures videos with the rear camera in four-second bursts by covering an iPhone’s proximity sensor. The screen goes black so users have no way of previewing the content. Viewing others’ content is done via a snapchat like interface where you hold down your finger to play and when the video finishes, it’s gone forever. The app lets you react to other peoples’ content with the iPhone’s front camera by sending a selfie to someone as they watch the video.

So what makes “Beme” different or better than other forms of video sharing, such as Snapchat? Being frustrated by the superficiality of social media today, Neistat feels that “Beme” allows users to consciously capture their life without altering it to make it seem like something that it’s not. With such widespread use of social media, Neistat felt that there needed to be something that could capture life in the most unaffected, candid manner. Neistat states that he loves sharing apps, such as Instagram, but it’s not the right platform to share little photos of what he sees throughout the day, rather it’s a place to share beautifully edited aspects of his life. According to Neistat, social media today is built to share with the world a version of who you are. Now, “Beme” wants you to share who you really are.

Within eight days of release, “Beme” users shared 1.1 million videos and sent 2.4 million reactions. As of now, Neistat and Hackett decided on a slower, invite-only rollout to ensure that each user had at least one friend on the app. The partners said that they hope to upgrade the app’s background soon so that they can do away with invite codes and let anyone join. In addition, while this is currently only available on Apple devices, they are working to develop it into an app for Androids as well.

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Categories : App, Blog, Film, Great Ideas, Millennial Enrepreneuers, Smartphone, Technology, Uncategorized, YouTube

16-Year Old Millionaire Necklace Maker

Posted by Jordan Hudock

· Saturday, October 3rd, 2015

· 4 Comments

Maddie Bradshaw is popular on the blog tonight. Like Grace, I researched Bradshaw for this post. I want to talk about her success from a slightly different angle, though. As you might have read from Grace’s awesome post, Maddie Bradshaw is a 16-year-old millionaire. She designs and sells Snap Caps, creative bottle caps that can be worn as jewelry. She has 25 employees and sells over 60,000 necklaces each month.

I found her story particularly interesting because she isn’t selling something that solves a huge, mind-boggling problem. In fact, she’s similar to Apple in that she’s giving people something they didn’t even know they wanted.

So, why are people buying from her? Anyone can make a simple necklace, and many companies do. What sets Bradshaw apart? She presents Snap Caps as the necklace that celebrates and brings out a girl’s unique qualities. Each necklace has a theme, whether fairytale or music or ladybugs or faith. Girls choose the ones they think fit their personality. Just like Zappos, she’s putting a bigger “why” behind a product most people don’t usually think much about.

Her approach fits right into the “conceptual age” idea we were talking about in class. To have a place in the market, products need to be more than just functional. They need to stand for something. Snap Caps stand for uniqueness.

Bradshaw’s success shines far beyond her net worth. She has appeared on multiple TV Shows, like The View and Shark Tank, and has even published her own book, You Can Start a Business, Too. Her biggest piece of advice to young entrepreneurs is to follow your passion. She says, “If you come up with an idea and you love it, chances are other people will, too.” I think people forget this a lot. They don’t work towards something they love because they’re scared it won’t interest others. That has certainly been true for me and many people I know. Bradshaw is a wonderful reminder that you can create a business around any passion. She took the risk most people wouldn’t have and it’s paying off for her in amazing ways.

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Categories : Apparel/Accessories, Art, Beauty, Blog, Fashion, Jewelry, Millennial Enrepreneuers, Millennial Entrepreneurs, Youngest Entrepreneurs

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Nolan Carroll

Posted by Ian Schrenk

· Friday, October 2nd, 2015

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The young businessman that I’m writing about hasn’t struck it rich yet or made it onto any major business website, but he is a perfect example of a Millennial Entrepreneur. Nolan Carroll is a 2013 graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, he majored in Information Systems. He is the co-founder of Three and Seven LLC, a Pittsburgh based company that specializes in web site design and development. He helps to run this business while he works at his full time position as a Senior Applications Engineer at a multinational computer technology corporation headquartered in New York City, Medidata Solutions.

This information may seem slightly average to some, but I will explain why Nolan’s story, so far, is anything but average to me.

First, I didn’t mention that Nolan was my neighbor for most of my life, our families are very close and our parents often organize get-togethers with each other. He is someone that I used to play basketball with in the driveway and looked up to for just about everything when I was a child. He is unique because of how driven and creative he is. I remember my brothers going over to his house to see the video games that he had designed and prototyped and hearing from my parents about the various internships that he was getting straight out of high school. He is someone that you can just tell loves technology and truly enjoys working on it, and now he is making money by doing what he loves! I think a true love of what they are doing is something that most successful entrepreneur’s experience.

I am inspired by Nolan’s story for many reasons. He is someone that I’ve know my whole life and it is great to see him really pursuing his goals and aspirations, this really shows me that being a successful entrepreneur is possible no matter your background or your age. It is always cool to read about the ultra-successful young entrepreneurs out there, but it is even better and motivating to see someone you know make their dreams a reality and really go out and get what they want.

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Categories : Blog, Millennial Enrepreneuers

Catherine Cook- Memories of Money!

Posted by Alan Brennen

· Monday, September 28th, 2015

· 2 Comments

Catherine Cook’s life is the perfect story of living the American Dream. She is a true millennial entrepreneur and has made millions in her teens! The beginning stages of her entrepreneurial spirit took place when she at a very young age, she sold books in her homemade library to her parents for a small charge. When she turned 15 years old, she started a business called myYearbook with her brother in New Jersey. She partnered up with her brother David, and they were kick started by her older brother, Geoff, who made an investment to get them up-and-running.

Her business, myYearbook, which was started in 2005 with 400 members that went to school at her local high school. She grew her business immensely through great marketing strategies and a true passion. In 2012 it grew to an astounding 32.7 million users, which is the same year she sold their family business for 150 million dollars…

The success and the money were a byproduct of love and passion. Her brilliance in social networking led her to be on of the youngest self-made millionaires in the world. MyYearbook makes most of their revenue through online advertising. High school and college graduates go on myYearbook to reunite and touch base with old classmates.

Through Catherine, lessons can be taught to all of us, especially young entrepreneurs like ourselves. It starts with a simple idea, and having the ambition and passion to get out there and act on it. At a young age of 15 years old, she saw a problem that could be solved by herself. We are the millennial age and have the strongest position ever in human history. We have so many tools and resources at our disposal. Catherine, herself, proved you are never to young to start a business. Now is our time, let’s go out and conquer the world.

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Categories : Academia, Blog, Great Ideas, Millennial Enrepreneuers, Social Entrepreneur, Youngest Entrepreneurs

Suja Juice: Four Diverse Entrepreneurs Come Together to Realize a Single Dream

Posted by Joanie Brown

· Friday, September 18th, 2015

· 1 Comment

Juice seems like an industry where there is nothing left to innovate. Almost every food can be juiced and it seems that there is a market for even the most bizarre mixtures. So if juice production has gone just about as far as it can, what did four Californians do in 2012 to completely revolutionize the way so many people think of fruit and vegetable juices? Two words: Cold-pressed.

Since 1864, the only way that most of the world would consume beverages was if they were pasteurized. Pasteurization has done great things for science and saved countless lives, however, while it kills bacteria, it also does away with the good vitamins and minerals, and completely changes the flavor of our food. People like two of Suja’s co-founders, Annie Lawless and Eric Ethans, were frustrated by the lack of pure, organic products on grocery store shelves. So Lawless and Ethans started their own local, juicing business. They loved the idea of producing non-GMO fruit and vegetable juices on a larger scale but they didn’t want to compromise the flavor or nutrients of the drinks. The only way for them to do that would be to process the juices using a cold press, or high pressure processing.

High pressure processing, or HPP, is a cold pasteurization technique which consists of subjecting food, previously sealed in flexible and water-resistant packaging, to a high level of pressure transmitted by water. HPP not only kills bacteria, but also keeps the flavor and nutrients of the beverage intact. They were familiar with cold-pressing or high pressure processing, but did not yet have the funds or means to produce it on a large enough scale to make any money.

This is where Suja’s other two co-founders, James Brennan and Jeff Church, come in. When Brennan met Ethans he was instantly hooked on the juices. Inspired and searching for support he asked one of his previous partners, Jeff Church, to join the mission. Initially, Church was reluctant. “As a self-declared meat-and-potatoes kind of guy, I agreed to meet Ethans as a mentor but told him I probably wouldn’t like the juice. I tried it and it just stopped me in my tracks.”

Now with the more than willing help of serial entrepreneurs, Brennan and Church, everything seemed to come together for Lawless and Ethans. Since its inception in 2012, Suja Juice has become a national sensation, serving products in stores like Whole Foods and Target all over the country. In 2015, they made Forbes’ #2 spot in America’s Most Promising Companies and made an estimated $42 million in 2014, expecting it to have doubled in 2015. In an interview with Forbes in early 2014, the quarter stated that they owe much of their success to one of the only things the group has in common: their shared passion and belief in the juice they seek to sell.

There is so much to learn from entrepreneurs like these four. Not many people thought that it would be possible to produce non-pasteurized juices on this level, but here I am on the East Coast sipping on my own carrot juice produced by Suja in San Diego, California. Their passion for real organic, non-GMO food led them to completely revolutionize the juicing industry. They took a small, local business and brought it to the global level in just four years. Suja and its founders are being recognized by magazines such as Entrepreneurs and Forbes as hugely successful. What started off as two yoga instructors selling green smoothies to their friends turned into a multi-million dollar company. If that’s not entrepreneurship, I don’t know what it.

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Adam Horwitz: 18-Years-Old, $1.5 Million, 3 Days

Posted by Jordan Hudock

· Wednesday, September 16th, 2015

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I love reading about any young entrepreneurs, but I’m especially captivated by extravagant success stories. 18-year-old Adam Horwitz has one of those. In just 3 days, his online course “Mobile Monopoly” made him $1.5 million.

In an interview with Income Diary, Adam explains that he first got interested in digital entrepreneurship when his father took him to a seminar about online marketing one day. “That kind of opened the doors to me to see that there is potential out there for making money online,” he says.

Before “Mobile Monopoly”, Adam sold a few other online courses, such as his courses “Tycoon Cash Flow” and “Cell Phone Treasure.” Each made him around $100,000. “Mobile Monopoly” was his first million dollar program.

His success sounds unreal and unmatchable, but he lives by business principles that are actually pretty simple. He says that his biggest tip to anyone in the online world is to take their business one step at a time. “I think a lot of people’s struggle is they set up like eight different campaign [at once].” Instead, he urges people to start with one and wait until it is successful before they spread their focus out to other projects. “If you just do a bunch of different products… you’re not going to make a sale for any of them.”

His other big tip is just as simple — make your content easy to consume. People have short attention spans, especially when going through information-intensive courses like the ones Adam makes. “The best way to do it is through video,” he says. “[People] don’t want to read a lot, they want to watch you talk.” I think this can be applied to anything. I feel the same way about websites and social media posts — I’d rather see a video or an infographic than lines and lines of dull words. If it looks like an essay, I’m probably going to click out. People are busy and they want to hear what they need to hear quickly and easily.

The last point that stood out to me was how Adam views all of his success. When asked if he likes being his own boss, he said that he doesn’t even think about it like that. “I don’t think of this as work. This is fun, this is what I’m doing.”

Adam is in college like all of us in Entrepreneurial Mind. His friends have minimum wage jobs while he has made over a million dollars, simply because he had an idea and the drive to do something about it. I think Adam showcases the possibility and opportunity of entrepreneurship, specifically digital entrepreneurship. He’s a reminder to me that being successful is always possible, no matter what your age, other commitments, or circumstances.

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Categories : Blog, College, Great Ideas, Millennial Enrepreneuers, Online Companies, Websites, Youngest Entrepreneurs

Tags : millionaire, online course

Brian Moran – helping you scale your start-up

Posted by Hueberfx1

· Monday, December 16th, 2013

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A Little About Me…

I’m a former college baseball player who’s career was cut short, which somehow led me into the world of marketing online. My first website, TrainBaseball.com was anything but an instant success, but over time I learned what separated profitable websites from the others.

I wanted to share that information with the world, which lead to quitting my job, creating this site, Get10000Fans.com and 5MinuteMarketing.com.

This site takes you through my journey of teaching entrepreneurs, startups, and hopeful business owners how to get their idea out to the world quickly and profitably.

About Get10kFans

Get 10,000 Fans’ mission is to empower business owners to use Facebook’s social network to grow their business through proven marketing strategies.

Founded in November 2010 by Brian Moran, Get 10,000 fans serves business owners & independent entrepreneurs around the world. The Get 10,000 Fans team is devoted to delivering the best and most relevant marketing tactics & strategies to our community of over 225,000+ fans, email subscribers, and customers.

We provide information through our blog, our email newsletter, various paid video trainings, and through a number of subscription-based softwares and services. Our video trainings are aimed at empowering users with Facebook marketing, knowledge, & strategy for businesses who are overwhelmed by ineffective Social Media Marketing strategies.

Since our launch in late 2010, our offerings have expanded from a single training course, to seven video training courses covering all different aspects of Facebook Marketing. We also offer 2 web-based softwares that aid users in creating powerful, customized Fan Pages for their business ventures.

In August of 2009, I (Brian Moran) had recently graduated college with a degree in marketing management and yet found myself beginning a career that had nothing to do with marketing. I was engaged at the time, and started to think about my future and path over the next couple years.

I had played baseball and college in my career had come to an end after a short stint in semipro baseball. So I began thinking what if there was a way for me to merge my two passions baseball and marketing together and actually start to create a new hobby for myself. I had always dreamt of owning my own company one day so I began searching online and eventually stumbled over website that changed everything.

I started listening to every podcast, reading every blog, and trying to suck in every piece of content that I could. I struggled with what business to start first and I finally decided to go into the baseball industry, something that I knew that I could provide good content to my visitors. I spent the next six months endlessly searching, reading, and learning every strategy that I could. I wasn’t making a dime, but the dream was still alive and I didn’t really care about the money.

I was confident enough in myself and I knew that if I kept pushing for that eventually something would happen. During that time I was able to learn a lot about blogging, WordPress, search engine optimization, driving traffic, social media, product creation, membership sites, and a whole lot more. The only problem for me at that time was that I was not making any sales. the traffic just wasn’t there and I was not a lot I can do about it being a one-man show.

Finally in April of 2010, I stumbled on something that literally turned my world upside down. this little secret, was Facebook. I remember sitting in my college dorm as a freshman in 2004 hearing what my buddies talk about this new website called “Facebook” and how it seemed to be a pretty cool tool to connect with old classmates that we lost touch with. Little did I know that this new tool would become my largest source of traffic six months later.

I began using Facebook fan pages and advertising to drive more traffic to my website than I ever thought I would be able to get by myself. It almost seemed too easy. I’ve struggled before with search engine optimization and Google AdWords, but Facebook just came so easy to me. It was simple. And the results came almost instantly.

I did a lot of testing and tweaking over the next couple months, but for the first time I was seeing a steady amount of sales coming in each week. I felt like the dream was finally starting to come into place. I decided that day and output all the other hyped up techniques to the side and focus solely on Facebook.

A few short months later I have multiple fan pages with thousands of fans residing on each one. My puny little e-mail list of 60 baseball players that took me over six months to generate had turned into a list of thousands of people in a few short weeks. I was finally able to focus on creating excellent content and stop worrying about where the traffic was at a come from next.

It was in November of 2010 that my train baseball fan page had reached 10,000 fans and I decided that I would finally start a business that aimed at helping other small businesses like you get off the ground using tools like Facebook. So this is where things sit today. I’m 24 years old, and get a pretty neat opportunity to help out small businesses make better use of facebook.

Chances are that if you’re reading this you’re where I was six months ago. You’re reading the story of someone who’s only a few steps ahead and truthfully it won’t take much for you to get where you want to be.

I hope you enjoy every post I release. I would love to hear from you and get any feedback you might have. You can usually find me using either our fan page wall, the comments feature on our posts, or our contact page here on the website.

Best of luck! I can’t wait to hear your success story.

~ Brian Moran

getting 1000 fans fans was one of brian’s first and most successful business ventures. transferring his love for baseball brian saw a chance to profit from helping other entrepreneurs draw more attention. Grove City graduate and great example of a millennial entrepreneur.

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