After looking through some of the success stories on the Young Entrepreneurs Academy website, I came across a 14 year old girl who started the company Unstoppable. Unstoppable was started by Taylor Ryan, a 14 year old lacrosse player. The inspiration for this product came from Taylors personal experience on the lacrosse field. On her website she states ” I was getting tired of being slowed down by painful hits to the chest while playing lacrosse.” Before her product, there was not a protective cup sold for women to wear while playing contact sports.
Taylors product is essential to protecting the physical heath of female athletes. As she states in her website, impact to beast tissue can lead to non-cancerous lumps to form and appear as tumors. These lumps then lead to the formation of firm scar tissue. Taylor provides all of this information as to why her product is needed in women’s sports on her website.
In high school I played lacrosse, a product like this would have been incredible on the field. Playing contact sports with little protection was always a concern, especially when mens lacrosse has much higher standards for saftey. Taylor is completely innovating the realm of women’s sports with her product. She is raising the bar for women’s sports protective gear.
I like that Taylor took a market of underserved people and made a way for them to get what they needed. In selling her product like this, Taylor brings attention to the discrepancy of safety standards between men and women in her sport. Hopefully, her initiative will will cause these standards to change in the future.
It is truly awesome when someone decides to make something and sell when their isn’t much of a market for that said product. Women don’t get much protection when playing sports in this case, and expanding and creating a market for these items will help more and more people create products to make these things easier for women. Taylor has made incredible progress in her idea and has significantly protected woman while competing in sports.
Wow, this is great stuff! Taylor realized a prominent problem in today’s society that most people don’t tend to think about and I love how she tackled it! Women’s health is very important as they make the world go round! It is also really splendid that you can relate to her and this makes it from my viewpoint more of a significant item thus a great entrepreneurial mind in Taylor. You gave glamorous proof and information behind things, sweet job!