Archive for Millennial Enrepreneuers – Page 30

Who is Amanda Owens?

Posted by Rachel Smith 
· Monday, September 26th, 2016 
· 1 Comment

Amanda Owens is a classic American entrepreneur with a 21st century idea. While still in college, Amanda founded Future Female Leaders (originally Future First Lady). She initially went to Twitter in 2012 to express her concerns and opinions about current events and the political climate of our nation as well as the whirlwind that is the life of the young, conservative woman.

In the past four years, Amanda’s social media presence has grown tremendously through her organization. Through social media she has built a an energetic community of hundreds of thousands of women ready to make a difference in their country. Once she found her niche, Amanda started designing conservative themed apparel and gifts. She then began to process and package orders for her merchandise out of her apartment.

Now, Future Female Leaders is America’s leading social movement for young, conservative women. Their website now boasts a FFL store where all of Amanda’s apparel and gifts are sold. The Future Female Leaders website also contains a blog (one of the best!) and links to some of Amanda’s favorite websites as well as books she recommends. The organization not only supports young women in their conservative beliefs, it offers them leadership positions through its cabinet and contributor programs. The key to Amanda’s success has been her and the organization’s presence on social media and the inspiration and support they offer to young, conservative women.

To visit the Future Female Leaders website, click here.

 

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Categories : Apparel/Accessories, Millennial Enrepreneuers, Websites, Women Entrepreneurs

He Must Increase, I Must Decrease: HE>i

Posted by Celeste Anderson 
· Monday, September 26th, 2016 
· 5 Comments

What started as a simple phrase became a successful clothing and decal shop. Kaimana Plemer, Kainoa Plemer and Chris Ballard live on the North Shore of Oahu in Hawaii. They are part owners of the brand HE>i. The idea for the brand was born in 2003 when Kaimana Plemer wanted to create a catchy design for his screen saver. He liked the “>” symbol, and then, he remembered John 3:30. “He must become greater and greater, and I must become lesser and lesser.” The brothers opened a smalls store in Waialua with their friend, Chris.

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The small store became a hit and the company now runs two store on Oahu. The stores carry clothing, decals and many other products with the “HE>i” logo. Many larger companies have contacted “HE>i”, asking to sell the products in their own stores, but Kaimana, Kainoa and Chris have refused. They prefer to focus on their current stores and the sales they make online. In these markets, “HE>i” has had immense success. The logo can be seen across the country and across the world.

I remember walking into the store and being amazed that the company made enough profit on t-shirts and decals to run two whole stores! The brand catches the eye and leads people to ask questions. What a great conversation starter about faith and God. I found this brand and its message to be inspiring. If you have not seen it already, check it out!

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Categories : Fashion, Millennial Enrepreneuers
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Caine’s Archade

Posted by Julia Voris 
· Sunday, September 25th, 2016 
· 1 Comment

When Caine Monroy was just 9 years old, he spent his summer vacation building a DIY cardboard arcade in his father’s used auto parts store. He created displays for his prizes, which were his own toy cars, hand labeled prize bags, and even designed an elaborate security system for his fun pass. Caine sold a $1 ticket that got you 2 turns or a $2 Fun Pass that got you 500 turns. Although his father’s auto parts store didn’t get much foot traffic, on the last day of summer Nirvan Mullick walked into the store. After he picked up his car part, Caine asked him if he wanted to play his arcade. Nirvan was Caine’s first customer. Nirvan is a filmmaker and asked if he could make a short film about Caine’s arcade.

The short film was posted on April 9th, 2012 and within the first 24 hours, it received over 1 million views. Nirvan started a scholarship fund for Caine and was hoping to raise $25,000. Within the first two days he raised $110,000. Since, they have raised $240,000 for Caine’s scholarship fund. But this project isn’t just benefiting Caine. Just 5 days after the film was posted, they launched the Imagination Foundation. As it says on the Imagination foundation’s website, “The mission of the Imagination Foundation is to find, foster and fund creativity and entrepreneurship in children around the world to raise a new generation of innovators and problem solvers who have the tools they need to build the world they imagine”. The Foundation has partnered with National Head Start Association to bring early STEM education to 30,000 Pre-K kids, primarily in under-served communities. They have also launched “Imagination Chapters” to help give kids time and space for Creative Play every week. This program has expanded to over 130 Imagination Chapters in 20 countries, providing over 3,000 kids with time and space for regular Creative Play for 9 months.

It is clear that this family is having a great impact on the young generation of society. This is all due to a young man with a big dream.

http://cainesarcade.com/

http://imagination.is/

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Categories : Millennial Enrepreneuers, Uncategorized, YouTube

Man Can

Posted by Cole Zinn 
· Friday, December 18th, 2015 
· 2 Comments

The possibility of making money off little ideas seems so unlikely, however we hear the story time and time again about how here are children out there making thousands or millions a year just off of a little idea. Maybe it is because they aren’t as scared to fail, because they don’t need the money to provide for their families. Something about these stories is surprising, and also uplifting.

Fourteen year old Hart Main had an idea when he was teasing his sister about her fundraiser and selling “girly scented candles.” He wanted to make manly scented candles. With an initial investment of 300 dollars his dream started to become a reality. Soon he has scents such as Campfire, Grandpa’s Pipe, and Sawdust. These are now in at least 60 stores and have sold over 9000 units. He made this come true with just 300 dollars.

Kids who had lemonade stands when they were young had a mission, to make money. Adults who have a job, for the most part, have a mission, to make money. Sometimes all you need is to handle is the risk. Just like Hart, he just did it.

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Categories : Great Ideas, Millennial Enrepreneuers, Outdoors, Youngest Entrepreneurs

Daniel Fine

Posted by Cole Zinn 
· Friday, December 18th, 2015 
· 2 Comments

With many entrepreneurs arising it is getting harder to differentiate. Many of them seem to be pushing the technology side of things with social media and new apps. Some however want to take a different approach. Daniel Fine is a millennial entrepreneur who was named one of the World’s Top Five Entrepreneurs, and one of TIME Magazine’s Top 25 International Leaders of Tomorrow. This man has also done amazing things in the medical realm. He has also won two volunteer-service awards from George W. Bush and Barack Obama.

His little brother was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes and this influenced him to help all who are in need who have type 1 diabetes.  This led him to create an app that is to launch soon. The app is called Dosed. This app tracks your insulin dosage, and is all done very easily. The app has a “6th Grade Proficiency.”

He also brought Glass-U to the world. This is a folding sunglasses company that is licensed to hundreds of universities and to almost every fraternity and sorority in the United States.

Daniel Fine has brought some cool and helpful stuff to this world and will continue to do so.

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Categories : App, Great Ideas, Medical, Millennial Enrepreneuers

A New Generation of Coders

Posted by Cole Zinn 
· Friday, December 18th, 2015 
· 1 Comment

Being able to code is becoming very important. There are a lot of job opportunities, and a lot of fun to be had with coding. Adam Lipecz takes this to another level.  Since a very young age, Adam was obsessed with innovation. He would create and design things that he showed around the world, but perhaps his best invention happened when he was teaching Mechatronics at a university.

Adam had come up with an idea for a toy for children that involved play, and coding. The idea was to take a robot toy and make it move by an app. In this app to make it move you are coding. This teaches children valuable problem solving skills and also coding lessons, all while having fun.

Since this has been created it will be surprising to see how Adam has impacted many of today’s children.

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Categories : App, Great Ideas, Millennial Enrepreneuers, Toys

Clef: Brennen Byrne

Posted by Cole Zinn 
· Friday, December 18th, 2015 
· 1 Comment

While in going to college for English, Brennen Byrne took a computer science class just for fun, he didn’t realize how much that impacted his future. The first day of class his professor told him that he could create whole entire worlds, businesses, and products just by writing them down. This sparked Byrne’s interest. Later in college he and his freeing came up with an idea to use your phone as a way to identify you. This tuned into what is now called Clef.

Being as our world is so involved in technology, it must be guarded safely in the hands of someone who knows what they are doing. The people at Clef are doing just that. Clef is a two-factor authentication that is safer and easier to use then other password or authentication tools. Clef is based in Oakland, California. They are a very small business with few workers; however they are making a lot of people’s lives easier.

Their system is a two-factor authentication which means unlike a regular password there are two steps to get to your information, making it more secure. You just use your phone to swipe in front of the computer screen. Clef also differentiates itself because of its use of Apple Touch ID. The usability of this eliminates the need for having a lot of different passwords crowding your mind. According to Clef’s research their tool will make customers 45% more likely to return.

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Categories : College, Millennial Enrepreneuers, Online Companies, Passwords, Technology

Creator of Summly

Posted by Shannon McDade 
· Saturday, December 12th, 2015 
· 2 Comments

Summly is a reading application launched in 2013. Instead of having to read full paragraphs of articles, books, any type of text, Summly summarizes paragraphs into a few succinct phrases that allows the reader to get the idea of the passage. One would imagine that the creator of such an ingenious application would be older, with resources, and part of a company that creates applications. However, the picture of the real creator of Summly is instead one of an 18 year old British teen names Nick D’Aloisio. Nick was driven by entrepreneurship and technology from a young age. At 12, with no coding knowledge, he started creating mobile applications. At first, his ideas were simple as he was still learning how to code. However, D’Aloisio was determined to make an impact in this field.

In 2011, at the age of 15, D’Aloisio got his first round of funding for Summly and after a year of development it was launched. It then gained 500,000 users in the first month after launch and became the number 1 news app in 28 countries. Then in 2013, D’Aloisio sold Summly to Yahoo for 30 million dollars. While it could be expected that he may be reckless and let the money get to his head, so far he hasn’t touched it. He says, “I’m too young to appreciate the value of it…I don’t have a mortgage, I’m 17. To me, a hundred pounds is a lot. Take that as a benchmark” (Stevenson 2013).

His comments and actions suggest a maturity beyond his years. He is famously known for saying, “time is the new currency” (Stevenson 2013). There is much to be learned from this now 20 year old entrepreneur.

Works Cited

 Stevenson, S. (2013, November 11). How Teen Nick D’Aloisio Has Changed the Way We Read. Retrieved December 12, 2015, from                http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303376904579137444043720218 

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Categories : Millennial Enrepreneuers, Technology, Uncategorized

Social Media Superstar

Posted by Shannon McDade 
· Saturday, December 12th, 2015 
· No Comments

Most people have heard of the social media platform called Tumblr. It is a place where people can reblog pictures and post small captions to their personal “walls”. In some ways it is like Pinterest, which is picture based and individuals have a picture profile (unlike Instagram in which you post pictures one at a time separately). However, Tumblr, unlike Pinterest, is more about art and less about DIY ideas. What most people don’t know about Tumblr is that it was created by a then 21 year old man named David Karp. He started Tumblr in 2007 in his mother’s basement. He did not truly know how much people would be interested in his product, but he thought he had a good idea. He was right. In the first 2 weeks, 75,000 individuals joined his social media website. Tumblr continued to take off until they were purchased by Yahoo in 2013 for 1.1 billion dollars. Karp, now 28, is worth around 200 million dollars.

Karp did not know the success that his idea would have. He thought that he had a good idea and jumped in. His dedication and belief in himself is something that we as young entrepreneurs should emulate as we go onto our own projects.

Works Cited

 Shandrow, K. (2015, March 19). 8 CEOs Who Amassed a Fortune Before Age 30 (Infographic). Retrieved December 10, 2015, from                    http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/244139 
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Categories : Millennial Enrepreneuers, Online Companies

Etsy Entrepreneur

Posted by Shannon McDade 
· Saturday, December 12th, 2015 
· 1 Comment

LeiLei Secor is a 19 year old from New York who attends the University of Virginia (therefore she is paying out of state tuition). The cost for LeiLei to attend University of Virginia a year is around 40,000 dollars a year. Because of such a high cost, LeiLei was driven to find a way to lessen the burden of tuition. So, she decided to start an Etsy account. In the last 3 years, she has raked in upwards of $100,000 selling dainty jewelry and accessories which she hand-makes. Some of her top selling items are layered necklaces, statement pendants, knuckle rings, and wire jewelry.  Because of her successes selling on Etsy, Secor is paying for her tuition. Furthermore, in 2014 she received the Nation Federation for Businesses’ Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

LeiLei’s story should show us as students that we are fully capable of having our own business and being successful at it, even while we are in school. LeiLei worked on her products in her spare time and was wildly successful. Maybe the real message in LeiLei’s story is to students who say “no I can’t” or “I don’t have time”. She would say, “yes you can”.

 

Works Cited

 Okyle, C. (2015, June 24). This Teen Paid for College by Selling on Etsy. Here Are 5 Ways She Did It. Retrieved December 9, 2015,                      from http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/247609 
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Categories : Apparel/Accessories, Millennial Enrepreneuers
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