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Manly Man Candles

Posted by GedneyEM17

· Tuesday, October 17th, 2017

· 3 Comments

As a young, 14-year-old entrepreneur, Hart Main saw a need for more manly-smelling candles for manly men so he capitalized on it. Instead of the typically fresh laundry, flowery smelling candles, Hart created “ManCans”, candles made for men that are “more likely to smell like a fresh new baseball glove”.

Hart’s idea started as a joke when he was teasing his sisters’ “girly scented” candles that she was selling for a school fundraiser. His mom then suggested that he make a more masculine scented candle to solve this problem. With Hart’s $100 and his parents $200 investment his business took off from there.

“ManCans offers eight scents so far: New York Style Pizza, Grandpas Pipe, Sawdust, Campfire, New Mitt, Fresh Cut Grass, Coffee and, of course, Bacon.”

Not only has Hart’s business flourished economically in the for-profit industry, but he has also donated his time and money to various charities. The candles are made of empty soup cans that have been purchased by his family and the soup is donated to a local soup kitchen. Hart’s mom makes the candles in their kitchen with supplies from Ohio, but they are looking to rent out a space because their kitchen has become overwhelmed with candle products.

Hart presents himself as a very professional business man for only being 14 years old. He cares about his company and the way things are run. He had a simple idea to a problem that he was passionate about it and he created a very successful business out of it. ManCans are now sold in stores across the country and Hart is gaining a decent profit from it.

Let Hart Main be an example to us all that age is just a number and that you can do or change anything you are passionate about.

Hart Main and his “ManCans”.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/10/hart-main-mancans-13-year-old-entrepreneur_n_909300.html

http://www.investopedia.com/slide-show/young-entrepreneurs/

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

Willow Tufano: Entrepreneurial Foresight

Posted by hodilrh17

· Monday, October 16th, 2017

· 3 Comments

Willow Tufano is a fourteen year old girl living in Florida with her mother who works in real estate. When the recession hit a few years ago, Florida was hit very hard and houses that were initial being sold at $100,000 were now being sold for only $12,000. Because of the low price of homes, Willow got the idea to purchase a house of her own! She had saved up some money by clearing houses and selling the included possessions online. When her mother found out that she wanted to buy a house at 14, unlike most parents, she was in full support (also in support of the rest of the needed funds). Knowing that the housing market would pick up in the future, Willow and her mother rented out the purchased house and charged $700 a month. They have already earned back their initial investment on the house and have even made a profit. In the future, Willow plans to buy her mother out and own the house alone. When the housing market picks up in the future, Willow is likely to see an amazing increase in her already impressive amount of profits.

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Categories : Great Ideas, Millennial Enrepreneuers, Millennial Entrepreneurs, Real Estate, Women Entrepreneurs, Youngest Entrepreneurs

Mo’s Bows: Youngest Entrepreneur on Shark Tank

Posted by GedneyEM17

· Thursday, October 5th, 2017

· 2 Comments

Moziah Bridges: Mo’s Bows

“I’m living proof that you can be anything you want – at any age”, said Moziah Bridges, the youngest entrepreneur to ever appear on “Shark Tank” and the President and Creative Director of Mo’s Bows.

Moziah Bridges was just 13 years old when he appeared on the well known TV show, “Shark Tank” and became the youngest entrepreneur to do so. Moziah created this company in his grandmother’s kitchen table located in South Memphis, when he came to the conclusion that there just weren’t enough bow ties in the world to match is outgoing personality and style. He was dissatisfied with the lack of the selection of bow ties for kids his age. To solve this problem, he decided to make his own handmade bow ties, and thus started the internationally recognized Mo’s Bows company.

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“Mo’s Bows mission is to make you look and feel your best while catering to the sometimes conservative, fun-loving lady or gentleman.” Moziah has truly lived up to the mission of his company. Not only is he an inspiration for aspiring young entrepreneurs, but he is also a living example of what a dream and some hard work can get you. In three years Moziah created a $150,000 business that has quite the following and he is not done yet. Moziah has “donated $1,600 to send 10 children from his hometown of Memphis to Glenview Summer Camp”. He hopes to go to college for fashion and start a full clothing line by the time he is 20.

If this kid can do it all while still getting to bed at 8:30 every night, why shouldn’t we? Let Moziah’s creativity and drive inspire you to follow your entrepreneurial dreams.

https://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/27/8-young-entrepreneurs-making-serious.html?slide=5

https://mosbowsmemphis.com/pages/store-categories

https://www.inc.com/larry-kim/this-12-year-old-ceo-runs-a-150k-business.html

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Categories : Fashion, Great Ideas, Millennial Enrepreneuers, Shark Tank, Youngest Entrepreneurs

Monroy Arcade- One Successful 9 Year-Old

Posted by hodilrh17

· Wednesday, October 4th, 2017

· 2 Comments

Caine Monroy is a nine year-old entrepreneur that decided to set up his own arcade in his dad’s auto parts store. The arcade is in a makeshift state of cardboard currently but has been a relative success. Caine’s success is mostly due to a video featuring him and his idea that went viral on Vimeo and YouTube.

Being the talk of the town, Caine’s arcade business is visited constantly by both television crews and enthusiastic children who are eager to take a peak at his development. Caine has attracted a lot of business with his extremely low pricing of $1 and $2 for tickets. The cheaper of the two tickets allows for a customer to have 4 plays while the second ticket allows for up to 500 plays enabling the customer to decide just how much time they are willing to spend at the arcade (price matters little). On the side, Caine also makes money by selling shirts that say “Caine’s Arcade” for $15 a piece. As of now, it is not clear how much money Caine has earned total, but he has made up to $212,000 in donations alone.

Caine’s business is relatively small right now, but is growing rapidly in popularity. He is also getting the name of his business out by selling shirts that advertise his business when worn by his satisfied customers. It goes to show, you are never too young to become an entrepreneur. You just need a cool idea and a market segment to sell it to.

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Categories : Millennial Enrepreneuers, Youngest Entrepreneurs

David Karp – Millenial Entrepreneur & Founder of Tumblr

Posted by dundasbn1

· Wednesday, September 27th, 2017

· 7 Comments

David Karp is the young millennial who founded the popular microblogging and social networking website Tumblr in 2007. Growing up in New York City, he started learning HTML and designing websites for businesses at the young age of 11 years old. Karp never earned a high school diploma, and worried that this fact and his young age would hinder his career and people would not view him as legitimate. As August 2017 records report, Tumblr hosts over 360 million blogs, and has approximately 555 million visitors each month.

Karp began his career as an intern under Fred Seibert at his company, where he built its first blogging platform and was in charge of editing their internet video network. He later started working for a company called UrbanBaby, an online parenting forum up until 2006. Shortly after, Karp jumpstarted his very own software consulting company, Davidville. A year later, Karp and his partner Marco Arment began working on the microblogging website known as Tumblr. Right away Tumblr raised $750,000, and by 2011 had raised about $80 million. In 2011, Tumblr received about $125 million from investors and the money was used to begin advertising and promotion.

In 2009, Karp was named Best Young Tech Entrepreneur by BusinessWeek and in 2010 was reffered as, “one of the top 35 innovators in the world before the age of 35” by the MIT Technology Review TR35. Also in 2010, Tumblr was named as a finalist in Lead411’s New York City Hot 125. Tumblr is now used by several celebrities and was the first blogging post to host former President Obama’s blog.

There is so much we can learn from Karp’s story and success, one being that you should NEVER step down and let your young age discourage you!

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Categories : Millennial Enrepreneuers, Millennial Entrepreneurs, Online Companies, Social Media, Websites, Youngest Entrepreneurs

Nannies by Noa

Posted by cameronsuorsa

· Tuesday, September 26th, 2017

· 8 Comments

Noa Mintz like so many others grew up with a nanny. Her parents would hire nannies to watch her and her siblings but they all simply seemed uninterested in the children that they were being paid good money to care for. Realizing this and eager to have a better nanny, she took matters into her own hands. Her parents let her select the next babysitter and soon she began helping friends and family select their caregivers. She saw a demand for a New York nanny agency that would provide caregivers that were carefully selected and represented the personality vibe that families deserve. At age 15, three years after the founding of her business “Nannies by Noa,” she had over 75 employees on her staff.

Noa found a niche in the market that was very personal to her. She learned how to design a website, purchase insurance, preform background checks and meet demands of hundreds of parents. After rapidly rising demand she found herself extremely busy and with high school approaching, she hired a manager to oversee day to day operations. In three years time she was able to create a well known caregiving company in New York that now generates her a salary of over $300,000 a year with the 15% initial matched caregiver salaries.

It is incredible that a 12 year old girl could create such a successful multimillion dollar business by acting on her idea. So often are children told that they cant do something real and then this discourages them from taking initiative to innovate our society.

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Categories : Millennial Entrepreneurs, Women Entrepreneurs, Youngest Entrepreneurs

ARE YOU KIDDING: 7 Year old Raises Money for Cancer

Posted by howehk17

· Monday, September 25th, 2017

· 4 Comments

Many seven year olds stay parked in front of the television for hours watching cartoons. However, this is not the case for Sebastian Martinez. Sebastian is the CEO of his own company called Are you kidding, which raises money for organizations such as the American Cancer Society. It all started with his passion for unique and funky socks. This idea sparked a business that continues to grow, surpassing $15,000 in January of 2015. Since then, Socks by Sebastian has continued to grow and sell from their website. Sebastian and his brother use their creative socks to raise funds for local and national charities. Now at the young age of eight and ten, these two brothers use their creativity and hard earned money for others. They run their company and make significant incomes, money that any young kid would happily spend on themselves. Yet, they both forgo splurging on material goods and donate to kids with autism and cancer.

No matter the age, a simple idea can make a huge and lasting impact on the community. Anyone who is interested in these two young entrepreneurs can either purchase socks, get their school involved in the company, donate, or volunteer to one of Are You Kidding’s partner organizations.

Below is an example of some of the wild and unique shop options from the Are You Kidding sight. This pair can be purchased for only ten dollars, and it goes directly to their autism charity.

Buy a pair today and make a difference in the world, ten toes at a time.

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Categories : Socks, Youngest Entrepreneurs

Jessica Lee, Young Entrepreneur of Cerise Tea

Posted by plaggekj17

· Monday, September 25th, 2017

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Not only is Cerise Tea an amazing non-profit, fashion organization launched by a young entrepreneur, the name is fantastic as well. You may be wondering what even is “cerise.” Cerise is French for “cherry.” Now go back and take a look at the first picture on top of this post. And keep reading it (aloud) until you get it.

Jessica Lee, the founder of Cerise Tea, has many notable achievements as a current college student. Launching the company in 2014 as a high schooler, she has seen immense growth and excitement surrounding her start-up, non-profit organization. Cerise Tea sells clothes online geared towards teenage girls, which then donates its profits to the American Cancer Society. Realizing her love of fashion and her desire to give to those in need, Lee combined her two loves to be the driving passions behind a flourishing business. Cerise Tea’s mission to help others; the simple but trendy clothes; and the cheap prices amassed together were ultimately the factors in the success of the business.

https://www.instagram.com/ceriseteaclothing

While not much is known about Jessica Lee, her online resume lists that she attended high school from the years 2013-2017, and she first enrolled in college in 2017. Her resume doesn’t say it explicitly, but readers can inference that Lee is merely a college freshman.

A college freshman who owns a company…which has raised over $450K in sales.

Lee is truly an inspiring figure who not only developed a business derived from her passions, but also continuously works hard to learn more and more. She is presently studying business economics, and though her company keeps her busy, she has also been an intern, an ambassador/leader for various organizations, and created and pitched to Venture Capitalists at UPenn.

Sources:

https://jessicacarrielee.carbonmade.com/about

https://www.instagram.com/ceriseteaclothing/?hl=en

https://www.instagram.com/ceriseteaclothing

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Categories : Fashion, Millennial Enrepreneuers, Women Entrepreneurs, Youngest Entrepreneurs

The Spark Smart Watch (for sleep)

Posted by Katheryn Frazier

· Friday, September 22nd, 2017

· 1 Comment

Eddy Zhong had no prior experience in the field of entrepreneurship, but has shown that to create a successful tech-startup you do not need to. At age seventeen, Zhong started up a technology company called Blanc Inc that manufactured smart watches unlike any other kind. The Blanc Smartwatch, called Spark, is a motion censored watch that vibrates when it senses the user is falling asleep. The estimated revenue for the first year of the watch is projected to make $70,000. The target market for Spark is to students, medical professionals, and security guards who tend to have trouble staying awake. The price for the Spark is between $50 to $100.

Zhong got the idea from his brother, who had difficulty staying awake during a test after studying too much. To build his prototype without funding, Zhong used his connections through friends and school. His startup work force composes of other high school students like himself and first worked out of the Cambridge Innovation Center.

After establishing Blanc Inc., Eddy dropped out of high school. In addition to Eddy’s start up business, he has invested in a summer camp with a concentration of entrepreneurship. It will be called Leangap and is targeted for teenagers. Students that are looking to attend Leangap have come from across the world. The program will be the first of its kind and involve building and coding. Leangap will be held in Cambridge, MA, which is Eddy’s hometown.

Zhong will continue to enterprise. He also looks to attend Babson College, which has the most prestigious program in entrepreneurship.

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Categories : Technology, Youngest Entrepreneurs

Tags : Technology

Snap Caps – Maddie Bradshaw

Posted by Ryan Meyer

· Thursday, November 17th, 2016

· 4 Comments

Maddie Bradshaw was worth her first million at only 13 years old. At 16, she was selling over 60,000 of her unique necklaces a month and making over $1.6 million annually.

Her idea for these unique, interchangeable, bottle cap necklaces started out as simple school locker decorations. At 10 years old her uncle had given her 50 old bottle caps. She decorated them, attached magnets to them, and when her friends saw them they all wanted some. This inspired Maddie to create different designs with bottle caps.

She created Snap Caps. Snap Caps are necklaces with metal pendants on them to attract and magnetize bottle caps. Every bottle cap has some kind of symbol, letter, or design so that a person can swap different caps out depending on the style they want to wear for the day.

Maddie found immediate success with her necklaces. In nearly every store she launched them in they all sold out. As her business continued to grow and she made her first million at 13, she attracted the attention of the national media and ended up being interviewed on ABC and was able to pitch her project on Shark Tank. The Sharks loved her idea so much that THREE of them invested into her company!

Currently 19 years old, Maddie continues to grow and expand her business. She has said, “The great thing about our company is that it’s growing with me. As my tastes change, so will the products.” Maddie has also published a book called You Can Start a Business, Too. Her advise to other young entrepreneurs like her is to, “Follow your passion. If you come up with an idea and you love it, chances are other people will, too.”

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Categories : Art, Beauty, Fashion, Jewelry, Shark Tank, Uncategorized, Youngest Entrepreneurs