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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

Adam Lyons: The Zebra

Posted by smithcb22

· Monday, October 3rd, 2022

· 1 Comment

Adam Lyons helped co-found The Zebra along with Joshua Dziabiak in 2012. The Zebra is an insurance comparison site that compares rates from over 200 different insurance carriers. He helped co-found this multi-billion dollar company while living in his friends basement collecting unemployment in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. After making a fortune while being the CEO of The Zebra, he left the company in 2018 to pursue a career in reality TV development. What I think is exemplary about this entrepreneur is that he went from rock bottom, dropping out of high school and living off of unemployment checks in a friends basement to a founder of a successful business and a billionaire in around 6 years time.

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Categories : Business, Convenience

BeYOUtiful

Posted by KunkelmannPL21

· Tuesday, September 27th, 2022

· 3 Comments

On a casual trip to her favorite health and beauty store to buy bath bombs Hannah Grace, a ten year old girl, was challenged by her family to create a line of bath bombs of her very own. Hannah happily accepted the challenge and got straight to work formulating her own product and experimenting with fun and new ideas for bath bombs in her home. Hannah then began to sell her product to family and friends, but her product quickly took off.

Shortly after her bath bombs gained large success she expanded her product line to also include a plethora of health and beauty product. She went on to name her brand BeYOUtiful. Her mantra being you don’t have to be anyone else to be beautiful, you can just be YOU. When you buy a product from BeYOUtiful you can guarantee its hand made and with all natural ingredients.

What makes Hanna’s product so special is that 20% of every sale goes to a Diabetes Research Fund, JDRF the leading global organization funding type 1 diabetes research as well as other amazing charities. Hannah has grown up with Type 1 Diabetes after being diagnosed as a baby at 11 months old and is passionate about T1D research. Hannah and her product have been featured on the Today Show, This Is New England, Teen Boss Magazine, and Our Money-Snapchat. Hannah has already accomplished so many amazing things and is far from finished!

Check out their media here!

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Categories : Bath, Beauty, Uncategorized

Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia-Airbnb

Posted by smithcb22

· Sunday, September 25th, 2022

· 3 Comments

Brian Chesky and a Joe Gebbia founded Airbnb in 2008. They got the idea when there was a conference in town that completely booked all the nearby hotels. They decided to take advantage of the circumstances and rent out air mattresses and space in their apartment to those who couldn’t find a hotel to make enough money to pay rent, this is where they got the name Air bed and Breakfast. After their success, they decided to create a website that offered their apartment as an alternative to those that couldn’t book a hotel during the large conferences that were held in San Francisco. After launching their website, Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia traveled around the US to meet with users and promote their business to potential investors, it didn’t take long for them to see success. Just one year later they had around 3,000 listings and only a few years after that, they also started to offer their services in foreign countries. Now in 2022 Airbnb is a multi-billion dollar company with thousands of listing across the world.

These two entrepreneurs innovated the house rental industry by appealing to renters and being on average a cheaper option than hotels, Airbnb is also starting to beat hotels in the hospitality sector as well. Back in 2008 they even made $30,000 selling presidential candidate themed cereal at conventions during the elections.

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Categories : Business, Business::Entrepreneurs, Business::Home Based Business, Convenience

Flash Forest

Posted by blendermannkj20

· Monday, December 6th, 2021

· 2 Comments

To say that our ecosystem is important would be an understatement. It is absolutely vital to the world’s health and the care of our human society. Forests are one of the main factors in supporting a strong ecosystem, but deforestation is a major problem that many countries face around the world. Deforestation is when woodlands are purposefully cleared for agricultural expansion, logging, or infrastructure growth. However, one new entrepreneur, Angelique Ahlstrom, hopes to improve the ecosystem with her own business, Flash Forest.

Cofounded by Angelique Ahlstrom, Flash Forest is a “Canadian reforestation company that uses UAV technology, automation, and ecological science to regenerate ecosystems on a global scale.” She started the company this year in 2021 and uses advanced technology of artificial intelligence, Plant Science, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), and geographic information systems (GIS) to map, analyze, and automatically plant tree seeds in damaged forest areas. This company’s technology costs less and is safer and faster than other traditional methods. Flash Forest is actively working towards the goal of planting more than one billion trees by 2028 to reduce carbon in the atmosphere and restore worldwide ecosystems. They have tested 18 species of trees in planting trials to achieve biodiversity in forests. Flash Forest works with different organizations and industry partners to help plant trees and fulfill their “carbon offset pledges.” They even work with government industries to help them meet their reforestation targets that are expensive and difficult to complete.

Angelique says, “Our motivation is to have a tangible impact on climate change and all species within our lifetime, to revolutionize the reforestation industry on a truly planetary scale.” This is a very ambitious goal put forth by Flash Forest, but the first step to develop a socially minded business is to have a goal and fall in love with the problem, not the solution! Currently, Canada is one of the world’s leaders in sustainable forest management and Angelique aims to continue this with her company. She found a problem and used her passion for the environment to cause true social impact with her innovative brand and design.

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Categories : Business, Millennial Enrepreneuers, Social Entrepreneur, Technology, Women Entrepreneurs

Starlite Village

Posted by guntrumcm21

· Saturday, December 4th, 2021

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Hannah Meloche is a influencer who has started her own jewelry buisness which is Starlite Village.

Hannah Meloche started Starlite Village to inspire others through positive everyday jewelry you can wear with messaging to inspire you throughout the day. She has always thought that jewelry completed an outfit, “especially dainty simples pieces you can throw on in the morning knowing it’s going to match with whatever you’re wearing that day.” Hannah Meloche has had a goal to make a sustainable jewelry for a very long time and she is working really hard to create pieces that are not only affordable and timeless. instagram image

Where Fashion Meets Sustainability

The company Starlite Village is a mindful brand who’s working towards 100& sustainability. Starlite Village believes in transparency, ethical work environments and designing pieces that reflect inner and outer beauty.

Mindfulness Meets Nature

Starlite Village collaborates with One Tree Planted. For one each item purchased they donate $1 to their organization towards rooting a new tree for our plant.

Transparency Beginning at Ethical Manufacturers

Starlite Village is always working on bettering the planet and being part of a production space that is humane, safe and allows employees and thrive. In 2007 Starlite Village started to produce pieces at a manufacturing facility that partners with well-known US and European jewelry brands. 55,000 square feet of indoor space & are up to date with Laser cutting machines and 3-D printing machines.

The company is audited each year by a third party supervising agency to ensure a sound working environment, fair pay to workers, as well as full compliance with environmental guidelines.

Every single factory floor is fully compliant with standard working conditions (adequate circulation, ventilation and temperature control). All employees are paid with salaries that meet local living standards.

Materials

Starlight Village pieces use partially recycled sterling sliver, partially recycled 14k and 18k gold for plating as well as partially recycled brass

Packaging

Starlite Village is very mindfulness in every are including what we use to package for their pieces such as recycled paper and compostable plastic bags.

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Categories : Business, Women Entrepreneurs

Curly Tail Coffee

Posted by Sophia Whiteman

· Wednesday, November 24th, 2021

· 4 Comments

Curly Tail Coffee is a very cool coffee company started by a young woman named Nicole Waltenbaugh. This business started out as a coffee roasting business alone, but Nicole soon added two food trailers to the business to capitalize on the demand for coffee on the go. These little trailers sell her bags of roasted coffee, pastries and muffins, hot tea, hot chocolate, and their specially roasted hot coffee. Part of the inspiration behind starting this business was the founder’s love for animals and her passion for rescue pugs specifically. One dollar of each bag of coffee that she sells is donated to an animal rescue. Because of this, Curly Tail Coffee has been able to donate over 30,000 dollars! Nicole’s love of pugs is also where the name came from, curly tail for the curly tails of the pugs that Nicole loves so much! It also applies to the curly tails of pigs which she has two of.

Curly Tail Coffee is the perfect example of a business built out of the combination of two passions. She started with the two passions of roasting coffee and the support of rescue pugs.

This business is especially cool to me because this is in our home town of Kittanning! I love Nicole and her coffee. She often has one of her pugs or one of her pigs at the trailers when you go to visit to buy coffee.

http://www.curlytailcoffee.com/

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Categories : Baking, Beverages, Business, Business::Entrepreneurs, Charity, Coffee, Cookies, Dogs, Food, Food Trucks, Pets

Smells Like a ManCan

Posted by blanktc21

· Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021

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Hart Main, age 13

When Hart Main was 13 years old, his little sister Camryn was selling candles for a school fundraiser. He remembers teasing her for the “girly scents” and saying that only women would buy her candles. This jovial teasing turned into a business idea later on when Hart was saving for a $1500 bicycle. In order to reach a larger crowd Hart created ManCans, candles scented to appeal to men as well. Instead of flowery, sweet scents, ManCans candles smell like a “fresh new baseball glove.”

Hart’s business idea was like no other, it was unique, and appealed to a new genre of people; for this reason, ManCans rapidly took off selling more than 300 candles a week. “It started as a Joke; it really wasn’t meant to turn into anything serious” says Hart. Thanks to his mother’s encouragement, his jokes became reality. “Even if it sounds like they’re joking, if their idea sounds like something they can do, by all means, I tell them to go for it,” Amy, Hart’s mom, says. Hart’s little sister also has a dog-walking business of her own, which was sparked by a simple conversation in the car.

Starting off, Hart had high ambitions, a little too high for a startup business; however, he was encouraged by his mom to stick to his main scents and branch out as expenses allow. Right now, ManCans offers eight unique scents such as: NY Style Pizza, Grandpa’s Pipe, Sawdust, Campfire, New Mit, Fresh Cut Grass, Coffee, and even Bacon. Along the way ManCans featured the scent “Money to Burn” but because of low sales has since been discontinued.

Variety of ManCan Scents created by Hart Main

Hart makes all his candles in soup-cans, and although it is a for-profit business, he donates soup to local soup kitchens with a portion of the proceeds. This is a prime example of how you can make a positive influence in the world, without necessarily donating all of your earnings to charity.

ManCans has been a business of trial and error. Hart took something laughable and made it sellable. ManCans serves as a perfect example that products don’t have to serve just one audience, and there is always a way to make things marketable to different groups. Young entrepreneurs should be encouraged by Hart’s story to not reject a product, until they attempt see it from a different angle; in Hart’s case, this meant making masculine scented candles.

ManCans — Beaver Creek Candle Company (bccandle.com)

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Categories : Business, Candles, Charity, Great Ideas, Millennial Enrepreneuers, Millennial Entrepreneurs

Mo’s Bows

Posted by blanktc21

· Monday, November 22nd, 2021

· 3 Comments

Moziah Bridges grew up in a home in Tennessee, where fashion had a huge roll in his upbringing. His father used to walk around the house in suits, even when not going out in public. He was always taught to dress nice and present himself in a professional way. It was very rare that you saw a Bridges family member in a sweatshirt. Mo's Bows

When Moziah was 9, he remembers going to the mall and seeing very overpriced, low quality bow ties. Moziah begged his mom to buy one for him, but she said that they were way too expensive. Moziah, who now goes by the name Mo, decided there to create his business, Mo’s Bows.

Mo’s grandmother was a skilled seamstress who taught him how to sew his own bows. This rocketed Mo’s interest in the fashion world. Mo’s Bows are high quality and affordable bow ties. Each and every bow is hand crafted and unique. While Mo is at school, his mother keeps the business going, and when he gets home from school, he helps her to package and ship the bowties.

The duo appeared on the hit television show, Shark Tank. While on the show, they gained the support of Daymond John who offered not only an investment but also an entrepreneurial mentorship. Starting off by selling bow ties on Etsy, Mo’s Bows are now featured on Amazon, ebay, and Mo’s personal website. Additionally, Mo has worked with the NBA becoming their personal fashion correspondent; many of Mo’s Bow’s feature the NBA logo.

Next year, Mo looks forward to graduating high school and going to college for fashion design. Mo’s story serves as an inspiration to other entrepreneurs, and he is a role model to young kids. He teaches the lesson that when there’s a passion, there’s a successful business to be unveiled. Mo’s business is something that he loves doing; so in a way, he never really works. Young entrepreneurs should take his business as a model of how they run their own businesses, find a passion and run with it.

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Categories : Apparel/Accessories, Blog, Business, Creating, Experience, Male Entrepreneurs, Millennial Entrepreneurs, Shark Tank

TeaCakes by Chloe

Posted by blanktc21

· Thursday, November 18th, 2021

· 4 Comments

At a certain age, parents decide it’s time to start teaching their children how to be responsible with their money, and learn how to value costly items. The best way to teach a child to value money, is to make them work for it. I’m sure most of us remember our first big purchase, for me it was the iPod touch, a whopping $200. In the eyes of a 7-year-old, this may as well be $1,000. Chloe Smith, a 7-year-old girl from Louisana, desperately begged her parents for an electric scooter; her parents, wanting to turn this into a learning experience, told her that she would need to earn the money herself. This meant that she has to come up with $249 herself. Unlike many her age, this was no big feat for Chloe and her entrepreneurial mind.

With the help of her nana, Kathy Phelps, the two started baking family recipes and selling them to the locals. Chloe’s business rapidly grew, and her teacakes could be found in small shops around town. She networked through family members; specifically her Uncle Larry in Australia, who’s coworkers wanted Chloe’s TeaCakes. Eventually, TeaCakes by Chloe was an international business. Not only were her cakes delicious, but each package had a personalized hand-drawn label. Without realizing it, Chloe became a marketer, entrepreneur, and successful business woman in a little less than a month.

Chloe’s grandma believes that this business not only got her the electric scooter, but also showed her that “you have to work for money” and be patient. This experience also helped Chloe in her academics, as she read all the recipes herself and measured the ingredients. Chloe’s business was no ‘one-hit-wonder’ as she plans on continuing baking even after college. “When I get about 20-years-old,” Chloe she says that she wants to open up her own TeaCake Shop.

TeaCake’s by Chloe serves as an inspiration to many other young entrepreneurs. All it takes is dedication and follow through. If Chloe decided that $249 was impossible to raise, then it would be impossible. Having faith in yourself and your work is the first big step in becoming a successful business. Sometimes older entrepreneurs get too obsessed with the fine details, and they overthink things to the point where the passion is no longer there. Chloe’s business goes to show that we all could benefit from doing a little less thinking, and a lot more doing.

Made in LA: 7-year-old entrepreneur starts baking business (kplctv.com)

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Categories : Business, Cakes, Cookies, Cookies, Cooking, Food, Kids, Millennial Enrepreneuers, Youngest Entrepreneurs