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College Dropout to Millionaire-Ryan Trahan

Posted by bonaquistmr23

· Saturday, September 21st, 2024

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A Youtuber and Entrepreneur, Ryan Trahan started at 14 to become an entrepreneur. He started a simple water bottle business that would later help make him into a millionaire. Starting his YouTube channel in 2015, Ryan posted about his daily life at college as a student athlete. However, he quickly gained followers due to his creativity and humor within his videos. Having adopted just 30,000 YouTube followers and juggling his business, Ryan was pressured with his college or his business. His school had set a tight rule with him, as a student athlete, making it so he couldn’t brand himself properly while in college. Because of this, Ryan had to choose between a high-risk endeavor or the college route, and he chose the entrepreneurial side. Ryan had the same mindset Peter Thiel speaks of, saying, “I view creating as entrepreneurial. Creating something from nothing has always been ingrained in me.” Thus, his career rocketed. His small water business became a great part of his revenue. The business, known as Neptune, was built to create sustainable water bottles which would reduce plastic waste. With his social enterprise, Ryan also used his business to support several organizations centered around cancer.

While Ryan had Neptune blooming, he also opened up a clothing line called Hydra Collection, which became his personal merch on his social media accounts, as well as another clothing line, Howdy Howdy, and a candy company, Joyride. Creating innovative videos on YouTube and establishing his businesses across the world has made Ryan Trahan into a wealthy, young entrepreneur. From going on live television to creating television series of his own, Ryan meets every corner around the world to grow and engage with his audience.

Ryan is known for his penny-to-a-house series and simply racing people in airports. Through his creative and entertaining work, he has amassed 17 million followers on YouTube with over 3 billion views worldwide!

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Categories : Business, Business::Entrepreneurs, Celebrities, Content Entrepreneurs, entertainment, Entrepreneurship, Enviornmental, Influencer, Kid Entrepreneurs, Male Entrepreneurs, Social Entrepreneur, Social Media, YouTube

Sanil Chawla and Hack+

Posted by Bonaquistal22

· Sunday, October 8th, 2023

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Sanil Chawla was a sophomore in high school when he discovered the legal issues behind minors (those under the age of 18) starting their own businesses.

Chawla’s entrepreneurial undertaking, Hack+, was originally supposed to be a web development startup. However, he wasn’t able to carry it out because, in the process of starting this business, Chawla was faced with legal issues such as signing legal paperwork and starting his own bank account due to the fact that he was a minor at the time.

2 years later, when Chawla was 19 and a sophomore in college, he decided to start Hack+, which helps provide free fiscal sponsorship and guidance to students under legal age in order to help them start their own businesses with the help of Hack+.

In just one year, Hack+ had helped hundreds of students; and it helped launch over 50 student organizations. Today, Hack+’s website states that they’ve helped 732 students, and 65 organizations. To this day, Hack+ is still up and running, and helping students start their entrepreneurial ventures.

Some reasons I think Hack+ is a good idea:

It is something was an obvious need in the market, and not just something Chawla thought would be successful but wasn’t.
Chawla was able to create a solution to a problem that he had personally experienced while trying another entrepreneurial venture. It’s almost as if one idea led to another, which is how I feel like entrepreneurial thinking should be.
It takes something that Chawla is passionate about (development startups) and adds it to a pain in the area of something else he is passionate about (minors not being able to start businesses) to create something entirely new.

For more information check out the following sites:

Meet 16 Teen Founders Who Are Building Big Businesses — and Making Big Money | Entrepreneur

https://www.entrepreneur.com/leadership/meet-16-teen-founders-who-are-building-big-businesses/337852

Hack+ (hackplus.io)

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Categories : Millennial Enrepreneuers, Social Entrepreneur

Destiny Snow

Posted by joedeluca21

· Wednesday, October 26th, 2022

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Destiny Snow is a very successful young entrepreneur who owns the business called SnowGlam collection. This is an online company that sells beauty products to women. One thing that stood out to me was how she handled the COVID situation regarding her business. Constantly being stuck at home made her realize that she needed to focus on growing her company. She did this by the help of a social media influencer named Ari Fletcher. She tagged her on her Instagram story, and Destiny instantly saw how big of an impact that had on her business. She said her phone started blowing up with orders as soon as Ari posted on her story and that was the spark her business needed. I thought this was a very clever of way of getting exposure. It was pretty much genius as it immediately reached her target marker which are primarily teenage girls who love to shop. Another thing that I found really impressive was the number of sales she had for her online business. It was an astounding amount of over one million dollars over the course of two years. If Destiny keeps working the way she is and utilizing social media, I think she still has more room for growth and expansion. The most inspiring part of this story was how she used COVID to help strive her business to where she is at today. Instead of letting the pandemic hold her business back, she optimized this as an opportunity to really focus on social media as her main way of connecting to her customers.

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Categories : Art, Celebrities, Clothing, Design, Influencer, Instagram, Social Entrepreneur, Women Entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneur

Kenan Pala – Kids4Community

Posted by petschkeRA22

· Monday, October 17th, 2022

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Kenan Pala is the child of two Turkish immigrants (as of 1998) and was only 11 when he got an idea for a business. On a run at the beach with his father, Kenan saw passerbys trying to help a stranded seal. When he was being driven home, Kenan saw a poverty-stricken person asking for help. No one stopped to help. Struck by the comparison, Kenan researched homelessness in his home city San Diego and found it was #4 in the nation for highest homelessness rates. Kenan wanted to do something.

His opportunity arose in 2016 when he and his friends broke the Guiness World Record for the largest cardboard mosaic to raise awareness for local homelessness. Empowered by his success, Kenan created his charity Kids4Community in 2017.

Kids4Community is a charity that seeks to aid the homeless. Volunteers do things such as make meals for shelters and create programs which educate people of all ages about homelessness and the dangers of substance abuse. Kids4Community also aided hurricane and natural disaster victims with hygiene kids, as well as sending 400 low-income elementary school kids backpacks with school supplies. The charity is also responsible for organizing the cleaning of Mission Bay and supplying a local homeless shelter with 2,000 stockings in December 2017.

Due to this, Kenan was named one of the top 10 youth volunteers in the country in 2017 by the Prudential Spirit of Community Awards. Additionally, in 2018, the mayor of San Diego named January 23rd “Kenan Pala day.”

On top of his charity and accolades, Kenan is a fantastic runner who is not easily fazed by success. In 2018, he ran in the San Diego Rock ’n’ Roll Half Marathon, winning the boys 15-17 age division with a mile average of 5:57. Kenan runs a shocking 40-70 miles a week, often waking up at 4:30 AM to get started. Since he loves running, it’s no surprise he would use it to fundraise for his charity. Kenan hosted a 5k event to raise money to a housing program. He hopes to raise money for Kids4Community by running in the future, as well as run for Stanford University. Kenan even hopes that one day he might run in the Olympics in the 5,000 meters.

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Categories : Athletics, Charity, Education, Health, Homelessness, Housing, Kids, Male Entrepreneurs, Running, Social Entrepreneur, Social Impact, Sports, Teen Entrepreneurs, Youngest Entrepreneurs

Manly Candles Made by a Kid

Posted by izakmh19

· Tuesday, October 4th, 2022

· 4 Comments

The main character in this venture is Hart Main. The kid is still only thirteen years old. That has not stopped him from creating a business that does over one million dollars in sales every year. It all started when his sister was selling candles at school. He was making fun of them for smelling so “girly.” He then came up with the idea for candles that appealed more to the male senses. Girls are not the only ones who like good, quality sents.

He started to make them and put the candles in reused cans. He and his parents started the business called ManCans. He originally did it to save up for a bike costing $1,500. Now he makes millions. His parents invested a lot in the company and play a big part of course. They clearly have taught Hart good Morales and values.

Not only do they do they recycle soup cans as the holder for the candles in order to help the earth. They also donate a portion of every sale to soup kitchens in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. This generation is very empathetic and also environmentally concerned. Hart Main has clearly taken that into account in his marketing strategies.

The product itself comes in many manly scents. Some ones I thought sounded good were campfire, bacon, sawdust, fresh cut grass, and grandfathers pipe. The product is a cool idea and it is cool to see someone so successful at such a young age. People in college can not use the excuse that they will get started on their dreams later when this kid is out here doing this. We can all use him as an inspiration. I hope he got the bike that he wanted.

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Categories : Candles, Enviornmental, Smells, Social Entrepreneur, Social Impact