We often think of a kid making a lemonade stand as a starting place for entrepreneurial ventures, but Mikaila Ulmer found a way to market her lemonade to a mass market at just the age of four.
According to Mikaila, when she was four years old, her parents encouraged her to make a product for a children’s business competition and Austin Lemonade Day. She says that while she was trying to come up with ideas, she got stung by a bee and later, Mikaila’s great-grandma sent her family her old cookbook with her recipe for flaxseed lemonade.
After this, she became fascinated with bees (though simultaneously a little scared of them) and learned all she could about them. She says that one day she thought what if she could make something that helped honeybees and used her great-grandma’s recipe.
Me and the Bees utilizes her great-grandma’s recipe and local honey as a sweetener. She says on her website that every year she sells out of her lemonade at youth entrepreneurial events. A portion of the profits always goes to organizations that help to protect honeybees – thus the origin of her slogan, “Buy a bottle, save a bee!”
In this video, Mikaila shares some of the things she’s learned about being an entrepreneur.
Mikaila is now 14 years old and is working hard in school, but Me and the Bees continues to grow and can be readily found in Whole Foods Market.
other taught her to cook when she was five years old. In 2008, her father was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Since then, she and her family became devoted to living a healthy life, in their eating and lifestyle choices. Since then, they have been able to reverse her father’s diagnosis of type 2 diabetes.
ky, buzzing, and can cause a pretty painful sting. Lemonade, it’s a tasty, cool, refreshing drink on a summer’s day. The two don’t have much in common but, Mikaila Ulmer decided to bring these ideas together with her business Me and the Bees Lemonade. Mikalia Ulmer was born in Austin, Texas to parents who inspired her to be innovative.
make her favorite products: bath bombs especially. Within weeks Hannah was selling her products in a local gift shop and online. Now Hannah sells her products in 8 retail outlets in two states. She is not only a good entrepreneur but a generous person. She has chosen to donate 20% of all online sales to JDRF. For her, that is over $5,000.
ly. The town of Grondola is tucked in a small hills of Tuscany region in Northern, Italy. This area is well known for its crafting famous craftsmanship– the ancient Pante Ai Chiosi bridge. Nic, with the support of his family, has put his heart and care into his candle making craft. He loves working hard to create his natural soy candle in which he puts scents and colors into.
from his area even down to the locally hand poured wax for his candles: Papillion, NE. However, all of his inspiration is comes from his heritage and roots. Nic prides his company on the fact that his candles are all natural soy wax, has some of the highest quality fragrances, and makes sure the candle burns longer and cleaner than other competing candles. Nic loves every part of what he does.