Matthew Charles Mullenweg is an American entrepreneur and web developer. He is known for developing the free and open-source web software WordPress, which is now managed by the WordPress Foundation. Matthew, who attended the University of Houston, dropped out to work at CNET Networks, where he worked for about 2 years until he quit. He then founded Automattic, an internet company whose brands include WordPress, Akismet, Gravatar, Tumblr, and several other big-name brands. In April 2004, he launched Ping-O-Matic with fellow WordPress developer. This program was a hub for notifying blog search engines like Technorati about blog updates. The following month, WordPress competitor Movable type announced a price change, which is widely seen as the tipping point for WordPress. Over the years, he connected with big names and brought in more people to his company, amassing several successful business programs. In 2009, reports stated that WordPress sites were growing faster than Google’s and was compared to Facebook’s growing popularity over Myspace. A month later, WordPress seen a 10% growth, with approximately 15000 new blogs each day. In January 2014, his company was valued at over a billion dollars, and WordPress powered 22% of the world’s top 10 million websites. Mullenweg has received many awards for being a great entrepreneur and influencer, putting him on a prestigious list of talents throughout his workspace. His net worth is an estimated $400 million and is expected to rise even more as his years in business go on.
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Asia Newson was just 5 years old when she began her business career selling candles. She saw her dad, Michael, selling candles door to door in Detroit and wanted to learn and join. She was very successful and when asked what her sales pitch was she said “Hi, my name is Asia Newson, and I’m known as Detroit’s youngest entrepreneur.” She also showed great understanding of business concepts, explaining that it can sometimes come off scripted so she tries to incorporate her own personality and approach.
Now 13, Asia Newson has expanded her little candle business into something bigger then just a company. Super Business Girl is more then just a candle company profit, it is a training model made and designed to help and train other young kids aspiring to be entrepreneurs to go out and make their own money. The company is family run with Asia as a Co-Founder and CEO of the company and with her mother, LaTasha Thomas, as the president, her father as director of sales. Her signature candle is a three-layered pink, yellow and blue candle in customized company jar that she sells for $14.99. She has four other candles that she sells, white tea, southern apple, sweet mango and cotton candy. They sell for $9.99 on her website, however her store is not limited to just candles with things like T-shirts, bags, mugs, jewelry, and more!
Asia Newson is also passionate about giving back to her community, 5% of all of her profits go to charities that help other kids with food and school supplies needs. Super Business Girl also holds youth entrepreneurship workshops designed for middle- and high school students to help encourage entrepreneurship in their lives. Its purpose is to help teens by giving them tools to create their own opportunities, manage their finances and have funds for college while having fun! Asia Newson’s commitment and determination to help her communities by utilizing the skills she was given is inspiring.
Do you ever wonder how you can make your social media look appealing?
Antia D’Alisera is not merely a successful YouTuber. Born in Rome Italy, and now a freshman at Kings College in London, she was raised by her father who is a movie producer and her mother who is an interior designer in Rome. Her older sister recently graduated from Parsons School of Design for fashion. Anita is surrounded by excellent taste and a beautiful eye for aesthetics. While on vacation, Anita and her family frequently travel to their house on an island off of Greece called Patmos. From growing up surrounded by her parents and sister’s excellent taste in style, art, and design, Anita has found a passion and deep interest for graphic designs, film, beauty and exquisite aesthetics. She is gifted with ideaphoria and can easily put her ideas into practice, since she currently has her own YouTube channel and her own graphic design business.
Anita D’Alisera, known as AniDali on Youtube (and for all her social media platforms), is currently a content creator for more than 6 years reaching 26.4 thousand subscribers. She is a young entrepreneur since she gets paid by YouTube, and also started her own graphic design business in 2020. The purpose of her business is to help Youtubers create aesthetic intro, outro, and banner templates for their Youtube channel. She customizes people’s needs based on what their YouTube channel is about and her prices are very affordable. There is a demand for having YouTube channels be pleasing, since the more the effort in regards to how one’s presentation looks the more people will subscribe to it. This is understandable and what a person says in their videos matters as well.
On the Fiverr website, an online marketplace for freelancers, Anita mentions that in addition to helping YouTubers create graphic designs, she customizes beautiful templates for clients’ social media as well. Anita has an entrepreneurial mindset because she realizes that not everyone is a YouTuber so she has branched out to help people make their other social media platforms look attractive and beautiful. Anita’s talent for design at her young age promises a lifetime of inspiration to create beauty and make it known.
Here is additional information on Anita D’Alisera:
https://www.fiverr.com/anidali/create-graphics-for-your-social-medias
Noa Mintz is a fascinating and truly inspiring millennial entrepreneur, who is currently a senior at Brown University. She grew up in the Upper West Side in Manhattan; at the age of 12 she created her own business, “Nannies by Noa”, which is currently a member of the Association of Premier Nanny Agencies. Her business serves affluent NYC families seeking well-educated and well-trained nannies on a regular basis. There are many different positions for the nannies ranging from part-time after school babysitting, to full-time 40 hours per week, Monday through Fridays.
According to a CNN Business article, Mintz’s idea came to her after her mother told her to “find a better babysitter.” Since Mintz didn’t like her own babysitter, she started looking for another one and later helped her friends find nannies too. She designed a thorough application process and started interviewing people for nanny positions.
Nannies by Noa’s application process is extensive. Understandably the application process requires multiple background checks, drug testing, but also includes three years in-home childcare experience requirement, two childcare employment references, a resume, an interview, and the requirement to be able to commit for at least one year. For example, there are a couple of active positions where some families have requested the nannies to speak French fluently. In many instances healthcare is also paid for by the families, which is unlike other major nanny services in the New York City area. Also, some families make arrangements for the nanny to have four weeks off for a vacation as well as the major federal holidays. Mintz has created a variety of different positions and services to best accommodate nannies as well as the families.
Nannies by Noa continues to thrive; even as Mintz is finishing up her last year studying Cognitive Neuroscience at Brown University, she continues to manage her childhood business.
To learn more please check out…
https://www.nanniesbynoa.com/about/
https://money.cnn.com/2015/02/06/smallbusiness/nannies-by-noa/index.html
The Grace of BeYOUtiful’s Founding
H. Mason Nichols
Described as having “the tenacity and strength that would cause her to strive, not just survive,” Hannah Grace, the founder of BeYOUtiful, is only 13 and is running a full-on positively messaged beauty product line. Focused centrally on hot commodities like bath bombs, Ms. Grace has donated $5000 to various charities and pledged to donate 20% of all profit to JDRF, the number one research foundation for Type-1 Diabetes. Ms. Grace’s story starts when she was just 11 months old. Her parents took her to the hospital over health concerns only to have their world rocked by a Type-1 Diabetes diagnosis for their young daughter. However, that did not hold her back in any regard. In 2016 she went into a store with her dad to buy bath bombs, noticing their simplicity, her father challenged her to make her own and sell them! Within weeks she had made her own and had begun selling them at local gift shops. Not long after, she expanded online and to retail stores. Ms.Grace even has a YouTube Channel on which she does different challenges and product tests. Ms. Grace is having remarkable success with no ceiling in sight for the young entrepreneur.
Beyond her monetary success, she hopes to help others find confidence in themselves. The company is named “BeYOUtiful”, a clever play on words that reminds its consumers to be their beautiful selves. A beautiful message from a young idol that entrepreneurs of all ages can learn from. Her generosity and care for the community are a bright spot in the pandemic and the struggling economy. Her commitment to supporting families and others with Type-1 Diabetes shows her compassion for others and using her success for good. Her positive attitude and message resonate with younger generations; her beautiful, unique designs for her bath bombs are a spark.
Palmetto State Armory was founded in 2010 by former military veteran Jamin McCallum. After returning home from service, Jamin noticed that there were many problems in the modern firearms industry in America.
As an avid business man and gun-enthusiast, Jamin decided to do something about this problem. The main problem that he recognized was that there was not a firearms company with good customer service for your average, everyday gun owner. In 2010, Jamin opened his first retail store and committed his business to revolutionizing the firearms market in America by providing a firearms company that was centered around excellent and even better customer service.
This business model provided a real shake up to the sleepy firearms market, which was in need of new ideas and new processes in order to make it more accessible and successful. People immediately gravitated towards Jamin’s company and he was able to grow his business over the next few years with the help of friends and other military veterans.
His company started out as an ammunition and magazine company and he quickly grew the company to manufacture his own line of firearms. Some of Jamin’s best products are his AR15 and AK47 product lines, which are affordable, quality products that are backed by the company’s excellent customer service and commitment to quality and excellence.
Jamin is an impressive entrepreneur because he was able to recognize a real need in the market, and was able to use the skills that he had learned in the military and in business to start a successful company. Palmetto State Armory is a great company and proves that companies can become successful if they focus on their customers and commit to making their products as good as they can be.
Moziah Bridges was only 12 years old when he become the CEO of his own bow tie company, Mo’s Bows. Inspired to start his company at the age of nine by his dad, who he would see dress very nice every day, Moziah asked his mom and grandmother for help on learning how to sew. This led Moziah to making his first ever hand-crafted bow tie. Believing that he had a good product, he started to sell his product online and in retail stores throughout Memphis. From there his business started to gain traction and the demand for his bow ties started to go beyond his local town, “I think the reason Mo’s Bows first caught on among consumers is the same reason it’s successful today. Every bow tie is hand crafted and made in America, and they’re all extremely colorful. There’s a lot of personality behind my line,” says Bridges. Throughout Mo’s Bows growth Moziah has stayed extremely involved in the entire process. He picks and approves all of the fabrics and patterns that go into making every bow tie. Of course everything is not solely run by him, his family helps out in every way that they can.
Mo’s Bows and Moziah Bridges become so popular that he started making TV appearances on a variety of different shows. Shows such as, the Steve Harvey Show, Today, and Good Morning America. He wanted to inform as many people as he could about the brand he was building. Things really started to explode after he made an appearance on an episode of Shark Tank in April of 2014. Moziah did not land a deal with one of the sharks but was offered mentorship by Daymond John. Moziah Bridges still is working with Daymond to help grow his business to this day, “Working with Daymond has really helped me take Mo’s Bows to the next level. He guides me through the practical aspects of running and growing a company”. Moziah’s goal is to grow into a full blown fashion line domestically and internationally. This growth has provided Mo’s Bows with amazing opportunities. These opportunities have involved being a fashion correspondent at the NBA draft and receiving an invitation to the White House where he was able to present Obama with his own blue tie.
The reach of Mo’s Bows company was growing, and Moziah wanted to do something good with it. This led him to start Go Mo which were bow ties where 100 percent of the proceeds went to send troubled Memphis children to summer camp in the summer. To date the charity has sent over 50 kids to summer camps in Memphis. Now Mo’s Bows has sold over $300,000 worth of bow ties and Moziah Bridges is still only in high school. Incredible!