Mikaila Ulmer is a 15 year old entrepreneur who is running her own multi million dollar lemonade business. When you thinking about a teenager running a lemonade business you might not think anything of it because as a kid we all had lemonade stands outside our house. Mikalia showed everybody that her lemonade business is for real and was able to reach major markets and stores by being different. That difference is honey and the drive to protect the population of bees. Mikaila’s origin story is like no other, when she was four she got stung by two bees in a week and this forced her to have the entrepreneur curiosity of why bees existed. She realized that bees were really important to the environment and decided that by using honey in her grandma’s lemonade she could also save the bees.
Mikaila is showing everybody that is does not matter how young you are, you can still have the entrepreneur traits to run a business. For Mikaila she is really passionate about bees and saving them for the betterment of the environment. Her business is unlike any other because she is able to take such a simple idea and separating herself from the competition by using a good cause to sell her product. This inspires me personally because she used her personal experience to help a cause that is important to her with such a simple idea. I have learned that even from a young age people can have bright ideas and the qualities that an entrepreneur needs to be successful.
-Dylan Sim
I really like this article because I was doing research on Mikaila and she is a very accomplished entrepreneur. At a very young age, she had innovated a great idea and made a new approach that became a great success. I love how she also incorporated her grandmother’s recipe for adding honey into her lemonade. It’s a unique idea that I would personally try. Her ambition to create a business at such a young age has inspired me to also start young and try out my ideas. They may be a great success someday for the benefit of the people, and maybe even the bees!