All Entries Tagged With: "startup"
Go Green Fundraising Focuses on Earth Friendly Fundraising
What is the story behind your company?
The recession was just starting to get into full swing in 2008 and I realized that groups like sports leagues, churches, and schools would be feeling the effects of a downward economy and there would be a greater need for fundraising options. At the same time, the green movement [...]
How to Embrace Change and Make it Positive
It is not a question of IF major changes will occur in our lives, but rather a question of when and how often they will occur.
We will experience change in many areas of our lives – our homes, our beliefs, our careers, our health, our friendships, and our love lives. Change [...]
Little Duck Organics is Moving Forward with Organic Baby Foods
Year Founded:
2009
Founders and Ages?
Zak Normandin, 26
URL:
http://www.littleduckorganics.com
Tell us about your company:
When my wife and I went shopping for food and snacks to give to our two young daughters, we always talked about the lack of selection in the baby aisle. We always enjoyed purchasing organic or locally produced products for ourselves, but we really weren’t finding [...]
100 Hour Work Weeks, a Sorority and Dropping Out of College Leads to Thriving Startup
Derek Johnson is 25 and the founder of Tatango.com but he never even graduated college. He spent a brief period at the University of Washington but was denied from their business school so he left for the Universities of Houston’s entrepreneurship program. It was there he came up with Tatango with a little help from [...]
Two College Students Aim to Connect People Across the World with Zaang
Startup Profile: Zaang
Year Founded:
2007
URL:
http://www.zaang.com
Founders and Ages:
Michael Markarian, 23
Alex Kravets, 21
What is the story behind your company? ie. where did the idea come from, how was it founded etc..:
Michael Markarian and Alex Kravets founded Zaang in 2007 while students at Babson College. They saw tremendous opportunity in bringing people together who share something in common – [...]
22-24 Year Olds Running an International Import Company: FBC Worldwide
Startup Profile: FBC Worldwide
Year founded:
May 2008
Founders:
FBC was co-founded by Nathan Yap, Farid Aliji (friend from college), and Imtiaz Khanji (Farid’s cousin)
URL:
http://www.fbctrust.com, www.pinakuratusa.com
About the company:
We import a variety of food food products from Southeast Asia into the US. Additionally, we will all be leaving in April for the Philippines to work on a copper project, exporting [...]
Startup Profile – Puffing Cigars
When was the company founded?
PuffingCigars.com published its first article on the internet in May 2008.
Names of founders and ages?
Rob Villalobos 22
Wyatt Bostic 20
Anthony Cantelmo 26
Grant Blunt 28
URL:
http://PuffingCigars.com
Tell us about the company:
Puffingcigars.com is a website dedicated to the exploration, investigation, and promotion of all things cigar related. We try to focus [...]
Why You Should Be An Entrepreneur In College
If your profession could be given a risk factor, ‘entrepreneurs‘ would probably fall on the high end of the chart. Because of the ‘risk’ involved in starting your own business with little guarantee of success, entrepreneurs risk all to gain all. With that said, college is one of the best times to start pursuing your [...]
Entrepreneur Survival Tips
As an entrepreneur, if you want to ’survive’ and make it off the ‘island’, then you must succeed. Failure is not an option, yet it is the most common result. In what can be called odd, so many people choose to play this game of ‘entrepreneurship’ even though they are fully aware that odds are [...]
