Meet Nic Bianchi; he is a 16 year old kid with quite a bit of ambition. At the age of 12 Nic created a candle using his passions of science and math. His family is from a small little town in Ita
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.
Everything Nic has created is 
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.
All of Nic’s products are priced around $20.00 for candles and $15.00 just for the wax replenishes. His products can be found in quite a few places in Nebraska. Besides being in 15 stores, the Bianchi Candle Company has a very nice and easy to navigate website. Nic is also very charitable as proceeds are donated in order to help clean up from flood efforts in Missouri and Nebraska. This young entrepreneur is a true inspiration and has worked very hard in order to get two where he is today.
Nic is the definition of homemade. His company started from his hometown and was inspired by resources that he could access in his hometown. I think that this story shows us that it is possible to create a successful company with the resources that are at your fingertips and you just need the determination and the passion for what you do.