Hart Main is currently a 17 year old recent graduate of New Philadelphia High school. While many of the young entrepreneurs that I have written about have created a thriving website or eCommerce site, Hart has a different story, a more hands on product that has granted him success beyond his wildest imagination. While planing to earn enough money to purchase a new bike, Mr. Main decided to try his luck at selling an original product called a “Man Can”. The product, which consists of hollowed out soup cans that have a “manly scented candle” placed inside, has taken off and is one of the hottest, no pun intended, candles on the market. A thirteen year old Hart thought of the idea while his sister was going around through the neighborhood selling candles as a fundraiser. As he smelt his sisters candles, he immediately realized that the candles were not appealing to men in any way shape of form due to the fact they were “to girly”. Therefore, as most entrepreneurs do, Hart set out to find or create a candle that appealed not just to females, but to both genders equally. Fast forward to a year later, and a grand total of 20,000 “Man Cans” had been made and sold just in 2010 alone, the first year of production. A common trait that I have realized the majority of young entrepreneurs have is the ability and drive to fix a problem themselves, rather then depending or expecting the problem to be fixed. We live in a world where if an immediate answer to our problems is not given or found, we simply give up and look elsewhere. As the world grows yet more complex and complicated, a breed of new entrepreneurs similar to Hart Main will be in control, this is something to look forward to.
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This is awesome! I actually know some people who have bought these, and they are really cool. It’s great the product already existed, but just needed to be slightly changed to fit a new market. Who knew that something as simple as a candle was perceived as girly, which hindered an entire market from fulfilling a need?