Noa Mintz began her entrepreneurship journey in 2008. She began a summer art program where she offered classes for a small fee. After two years she kept growing in her journey and expanded her businesses. She started a party planning business and she even wrote an employee handbook for guidance. As she got older she said that she was not impressed with her work from her earlier years but she gave herself some leniency becasue she was under the age of 10. Now, a 16 year old, she has runs a full-service childcare agency in New York CIty. Her agency is called Nannies by Noa. The business matches a nanny and the family that is need of a caregiver. When she began highschool she did not have enough time in her life to balance her school and jobs so she hired a full-time CEO. This CEO had 25 years of experience and along with that, she hired two additional associates. She is proud of the fact that she is creating jobs and that she gets to employ people. She says that “It is rewarding and empowering.” She has been very successful and has found hundreds of nannies for families in New York.
It is cool to see that she not only started a very successful business, but knew she could not do it on her own, hiring a few other people including a very experienced CEO. This is a good example of entrepreneurship being a team enterprise, not just individual.
It is really amazing that a 10 year old can create ideas that can transfer into a full grown business after a few years. It is good to see a young girl starting something to help others and that actually being successful.
That is definitely a problem I have never thought about, but probably has a huge market. More than that it is a service that truly improves peoples lives and does an actual good in society. It is crazy the company was so successful that she could hire a CEO. That shows a lot of merit in her idea.
I think staying in school and hiring a CEO was a good move for Noa, because you really can’t be sure how successful your business is really going to be in the long run. By staying in school, she shows that she understands this, and doesn’t necessarily want to take any risks that aren’t needed.
It is so inspiring that she came up with this many business ideas by the age of sixteen! She definitely pivoted and redefined what she wanted to do and seems to have landed on a solid business. Nice post!
That amazes me that she was ONLY 10 when she started, and now is only 16 with such success. It is a motivating story for people who are younger and feel like they cannot do things yet.