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Daymond John

Posted by MillerHS23

· Saturday, October 7th, 2023

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“Don’t focus on you, focus on what you can give others”. Have you ever heard that quote? That was said by Daymond John, a powerful entrepreneurial mind who’s story has inspired many people to rise up from nothing and find success in their own lives. Born in Queens NY in February 23, 1969, Daymond didn’t have much growing up. He always had a mind for business though, and started working at the age of 10 by selling pencils and $2 flyers in the streets. When he was in high school, he worked in a program that allowed him to work full-time and be in school simultaneously.

He started out like everyone else, working a standard job at Red Lobster after graduating in 1986, but things started to change once his mother taught him how to sew. After selling hundreds of dollars worth of merchandise at shopping malls in Queens, Daymond and some friends started a clothing brand called For Us, By Us, otherwise known as FuBu.

Daymond got married and continued to expand his business, partnering with Samsung fashion and grossing over $200 million in sales. He then gave back to the people by establishing the Fubu Foundation that donates $1 million annually to support local urban communities. FuBu became the authorized clothing of the GlobeTrotters basketball team, and things only went up from there.

As his business continued to thrive, Daymond was eventually invited to join the ABC show SharkTank in 2009. For anyone who watches SharkTank, Daymond John is probably best known as being arguably the coolest shark on the show.

There can be a lot learned from Daymond John. He has an inspiring story that serves as an example for many entrepreneurs to come, and as he once said himself, “Entrepreneurship brings us hope”.

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Categories : Business, Clothing

Bradley Martyn’s Raw Gear

Posted by wolfbm22

· Tuesday, September 26th, 2023

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In the fitness world, Bradley Martyn is a name that needs no introduction. Known for his impressive physique, charismatic persona, and commitment to pushing the limits of human strength, Martin has inspired countless individuals on their fitness journeys. However, one aspect of Bradley Martyn’s fitness journey that has generated substantial curiosity is his own brand he created called “Raw Gear.” Founded in 2015, the company has grossed a revenue of well over five million dollars. It is well respected in the industry and provides thousands of athletes with high-quality clothing.

What makes Raw Gear different is that this is a brand from an influencer (Bradley Martyn) who has been on the scene since day one. He knows the ins and outs of the industry and truly cares and understands how to run it. He is driven to create a quality brand with excellent clothing as well as build a name for the brand. He has been a pioneer in the industry, being one of the first fitness influencers on the scene to really take off and get well-known. He is always finding ways to appeal his brand to new potential customers. Raw Gear’s appeal also extends far beyond its clothing racks. The brand often collaborates with athletes, artists, and influencers who share its values. These collaborations result in limited-edition collections that capture the spirit of Raw Gear. An example of this is when Raw Gear collaborated with Alex Eubank. This introduced a flood of new customers to the site and helped drive the revenue. This is inspiring to see because I have watched his come up. It’s been so interesting to see how he is doing things, and honestly, it helps give me potential ideas if I were to create a business. I have learned a lot by observing this brand grow.https://www.rawgear.com/

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Categories : Athletics, Clothing

Frankie’s Bikinis

Posted by turnbaughga19

· Wednesday, December 14th, 2022

· 3 Comments

In a market of millions of swimwear brands, Frankies Bikini’s, a very well-known swimwear brand to most female Instagram-users, found success. Its head designer, Francesca Aiello, began the brand when she was in high school.

She says, “…I could not find styles that I was interested in on the market at that time. I had seen a woman on the beach wearing a skimpy bikini bottom, and could not get over the amount of confidence she was exuding. […] I had so many ideas of designs that I wanted to wear, so my mom helped me source seamstresses that could my visions come to life.”

After she started wearing her custom bikinis, her friends began asking for them, and from there, her business took off. She created an Instagram account and began posting photos of the bikinis, and soon enough, a well-known supermodel requested to have some of her bikinis. She posted photos in them and tagged Aiello’s account, and business boomed.

Aiello, now 27, continues to achieve great success, but she maintains her values, and the reason behind her business.

“It is so important to me to be a business owner, and have a brand that people know is designing for all women. I am not designing specific styles that only flatter specific body types. I design styles that all women of all shapes and sizes can wear and feel their most confident in.”

Aiello has received the Forbes 30 Under 30 class of 22, and was the youngest designer at Miami Swim Week, at just age 19. She know works with some big names such as Gigi Hadid, Hailee Seinfeld, and Sofia Richie.

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Categories : Clothing, Swim Wear

Raelynn Heath-Rae’s Materials

Posted by Sean8Mahoney

· Sunday, December 4th, 2022

· 1 Comment

Raelynn Heath is a young girl who started her own business making and designing jewelry. she started making jewelry when she was just 4 years old.

Young Raelynn started making her first jewelry with plastic beads and acrylic. as she got older, she continued to create new things like jewelry out of clay and recycled pieces of soda cans and chip bags, and even her old clothes she grew out of. With her mother’s assistance, she would give donate to members of her community to those specifically lost loved ones. she plans to expand into clothing design as well.

From Raelynn’s amazing product and mission, she made it onto the 1 Million Cups to spread awareness of her product and to explain her story. 1 Million Cups is a Weekly education program that gives experiential learning opportunities to entrepreneurs of today’s world.

I find young Raelynn’s so unique with her recycled jewelry and I’m behind impressed that she made such a popular project at such a young age. I think her story is motivation to us all to commit to our ideas and make them come true.

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Categories : Art, Business::Entrepreneurs, Charity, Clothing, Construction, Design

TALA — Grace Beverley

Posted by nuzumrk22

· Sunday, December 4th, 2022

· 3 Comments

Nobody likes wearing someone’s old athletic wear, especially if it’s leggings or undergarments. That’s just gross. Well, Grace Beverley thought the same thing. With a passion for sustainability, Beverley thrifted a lot and tried to buy from sustainable brands. She noticed that plenty of sustainable brands existed for most clothing. But not for athletic wear. And since nobody likes thrifting someone’s old, sweaty socks or leggings, Beverley decided to create a brand herself. Her company, TALA, creates styles made from plastic bottles and factory offcuts, making it sustainable and ethical, two things she feels very passionately about.

Originally, Beverley was a music major at Oxford University. But when she realized she had a passion for sustainable clothing, she took to a different side of the creativity spectrum: Entrepreneurship. She wanted people, specifically young people, to have a sustainable option for their athletic clothes that wouldn’t also drain their bank accounts. And so, TALA was born in 2019. Beverley stuck to her passion and through TALA, she managed to recycle seventy-thousand water bottles in her first year alone.

But TALA isn’t Beverley’s only business. She has also started a fitness app called SHREDDY which offers her activewear customers (and anyone else) a place to set goals and track their fitness progress. And if that’s not enough, she is also the Sunday Times bestselling author of “Working Hard, Hardly Working,” a book that seeks to teach young entrepreneurs how to accomplish more under less stress.

When asked about her “eureka” moment, Grace Beverley stated that she never had one, that it was more of a build-up of idea after idea. And I think this is the perfect example of the slow hunch, the idea that starts as a seed and grows. Grace Beverley and the invention of TALA started as a hunch and is now a multimillion dollar business that encourages people to stay fit and recycle.

https://balance.media/founder-focus-grace-beverley/#:~:text=Grace%20Beverley%20is%20the%20Founder,of%20just%2023%20years%20old.https://www.wearetala.com/en-us/pages/about-ushttps://thetab.com/uk/2022/02/09/grace-beverley-reveals-exactly-how-she-secured-her-5-7mil-recent-investment-in-tala-239535

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/442770/working-hard-hardly-working-by-beverley-grace/9781786332851

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Categories : Apparel/Accessories, athletic wear, Clothing, Fashion, Fitness, Health, Recycling, Sustainable, Uncategorized, Workout, Young Entrepreneur

Cooking in Style

Posted by howardwj22

· Wednesday, November 30th, 2022

· 2 Comments

Sara Robinson, the Co founder and CEO of the company “Sara Sews”, is a young entrepreneur. Sara and her mom one day were sewing an apron when they decided to make it into a business. “Sara Sews” makes aprons of all sorts of colors and styles. These aprons are made in many sizes and can be worn by children and adults. They make reusable sandwich bags and other things as well. Sara’s business started when she was only in the second grade. She made an apron for one of the kids in her class and her mom had posted it on Facebook. The post got lots of positive feedback and all of her friends and family were requesting her to make more. Her business really started to blow up in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, which was very challenging. Overcoming this obstacle was the hardest part of her journey in becoming a successful entrepreneur. In 2019 she was the winner of the girls mean business contest. This was a big accomplishment for Sara and was just the beginning of her career. Sara is only young and looks to do big things as the future of her career continues. Her Story Q&A: Sara Robinson, Teen Owner of Sara Sews

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Categories : Clothing, Cooking, Entrepreneurship

Nathan Mroz – The BFLO Store founder

Posted by abi.renee

· Monday, November 14th, 2022

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From a small photography business owner to the founder of the largest locally themed retailer in Western New York, Nathan Mroz has become quite the successful entrepreneur and was recently awarded the “2022 Buffalo District Young Entrepreneur of the Year U.S. Small Business Administration” award.

This 28 year-old had humble beginnings. Born and raised in Buffalo, NY, Nathan made his first step towards being an entrepreneur through selling his award-winning photography in a kiosk at the Eastern Hills Mall in Western New York. In 2015 during Mroz’s senior year of college, the BFLO Store was launched in the same building where it all started – the Eastern Hills Mall. The following year he graduated from Buffalo State college with a bachelors in science.

The BFLO Store had humble beginnings, but very quickly sprouted. After a few years, the business added another location in a larger mall in the Buffalo area, which had more traffic. In 2019, Mroz expanded his Eastern Hills location with a $2 million investment, which created the “BFLO District” and added new life to the dying mall.

As of 2022, Mroz has 4 different locations in Buffalo, NY. These stores sell a host of different Buffalo themed items, such as apparel, home decor, gifts, and more. Despite the growing popularity, the business isn’t done growing. Mroz has more plans for the BFLO Store and will continue to invest in his business.

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Categories : Apparel/Accessories, Business, Business::Entrepreneurs, Clothing, Entrepreneurship

Shop412

Posted by stiererrv22

· Saturday, November 12th, 2022

· 3 Comments

The area code 412 is more than just a local area code. It represents the great city of Pittsburgh. Two brothers, Christian and Aaron Kinkela, had the brilliant idea to make this area code into a brand. The brand was created in 2007 and they wanted to “create a brand that celebrated Pittsburgh’s emerging generation of cultural creators and professional athletes – all inspired by the ‘Burgh’s proud blue-collar heritage.” They continued to work on the brand and decided that the slogan for their company should be “Hometown is hero.” In 2008, the brand opened their first store in the South Side of Pittsburgh. The company began to work to have collaborations with famous Pittsburgh athletes and actors to help promote the brand. They worked with “Kris Letang (Pittsburgh Penguins), Ike Taylor (formerly of the Pittsburgh Steelers), Lupe Fiasco (Grammy-winning recording artist), 13thWitness (one of Instagram’s most-followed photographers), Meghan Klingenberg (Women’s World Cup Champion), and Heinz (a Kraft company) as well as Ryan Shazier.” The company began to have partnerships. This included the Pittsburgh Pirates, Pittsburgh Penguins. Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy, and the Pittsburgh firefighters Local 1. These helped to get the brand name out and expose more People to the brand. The brand also partners with major companies such as Champion, North Face, and Sarris.

This brand has inspired me for multiple reasons. The first main reason is how they give back to the Pittsburgh community. I take pride in my city and love that they always help any way possible. The next main reason is that they were able to think of a simple concept and expand on it. The area code has been around since 1947 and they were able to innovate and make this into a business. Finally, they are constantly changing. The brand has their core collection of black and gray hoodies and shirts but they are always looking to add new release new clothes.

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Categories : Clothing, Pittsburgh

Tags : pittsburgh

Mo’s Bows

Posted by KunkelmannPL21

· Sunday, October 30th, 2022

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Moziah is the creator of Mo’s Bows. A company which has now sold over seven hundred thousand dollars of merchandise and even got invited to the white house to give a bow to President Barack Obama! Now how exactly did Moziah get there? Well at age nine Mo was struggling to find a tie that matched exactly how he wanted it to for an event he would be attending. Mos’s grandmother taught him to sew bow ties out of fabrics left over from her sewing projects. One day Mo decided to put this knowledge to work to make the perfect bow tie for the event he was going to. At the event he received a plethora of compliments on his tie which got him to thinking. If so, many people liked my tie I’m sure some would be willing to purchase one. Just like that the journey of Mo’s Bows began. After Moziah started his business, it began to quickly grow. He hired a tailor to work for him and managed the creative side of his company. Moziah was ready to take the next step with Mo’s Bows and decided to pitch his company on Shark Tank. At just twelve years old at the time Mo was able to get a deal with investor Daymond John. Since then, Moziah’s company has grown immensely. You are now able to find Mo’s Bows in retail stores all throughout the United States. Mo went on to be inducted into the Tennessee Museum, Costume and textile institute in 2014. He also was a fashion correspondent for the 2015 NBA Draft, in 2016 Moziah was on Fortune’s “18 under 18” list of most Innovative and ambitious teens throughout the country, as well as Time’s “30 most influential teens” winner. Arguably the most impressive accomplishment of them all, Moziah was invited to the White House to participate in the Inaugural What House Demo Day where he was able to meet President Barack Obama and gift him a special Mo’s Bow in the color “Obama Blue”. Moziah’s vision and passion for his business took him leaps and bounds. He serves as a great role model to young entrepreneurs everywhere

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Categories : Clothing, Young Entrepreneur