Jessica Cervantes, Age 19, enrolled in business academy at John A. Ferguson High School in Florida. She entered a business plan in a National Business Plan Competition. She won $10,000 in order to continue her business. The business that she created is called Popsy Cakes. Popsy Cakes is basically a cupcake that is connected to a cookie stick. She created a new twist to cupcakes and improved her product in order to stand out from the competition.  Although Cervante original idea was to put the cupcake on a stick like one would see on a Popsicle, she later decided not to take that route. She believed that if the kids could eat the stick, it would create less mess for the parent.

The whole process (from thinking of the idea to winning the competition) took a year. After she won, she got advices from the judges who work for well-known companies ( eg. Merrill Lynch)

Cerventes’s future plan is to enroll in Honor College ( at Miami Dade College)  and in two years transfer to the University of Miami. She isn’t sure what she’ll major in, but she plans on studying corporate law—and intends to keep Popsy Cakes going, aided by the advice from her father, mother, and aunt.
 
 
 
 

Ever since second grade, Maddie Bradshaw wanted to start her own business. At the age of 10, after reading book from the library on doing so, she decided to take a bottle caps (from her uncle coke machine) and turn them into magnets. She put them in her locker and attached the bottle cap to a necklace cord. She hand made the bottle caps at the kicthen counter with her mother and younger sister. She gave some to her friends and the demand grew from there. Maddie decided to take her new invention to a local toy store and two hours later they had sold out of everything. Now, she manage the business, each necklace sells for $14-15 and you can buy the bottle caps separately. she has thirteen collections in all.

Website: http://www.m3girldesigns.com/





 
 

  On December 15, 1998, aged 16, Gurbaksh Chahal dropped out of high school and started his first venture, ClickAgents. ClickAgents was an advertising network focused on performance-based advertising. Two years later, on November 1, 2000, ValueClick announced it agreed to buy ClickAgents in a $40 million all-stock merger .Chahal had a three year non-compete agreement with ValueClick.

In January 12, 2004, Chahal formed BlueLithium another advertising network which was recognized as an innovator in the online advertising space in a Business 2.0 article. In 2006, under Chahal's leadership, BlueLithium was named Top Innovator by AlwaysOn.

On October 15, 2007, Yahoo! bought BlueLithium for $300 million in cash. He was 25 years old at the time. Chahal remained CEO of the company through the transition period. Chahal is now working on his next start-up, gWallet, a site intended to allow users to find deals on merchandise for which they are looking, via the Internet.


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Chapter 1: The IDEA: my own incredible story

Chapter 2:The birth of a business

Chapter 3: The business entity

Chapter 4: Launching, or traveling through the valley of shadow

Chapter 5: Entrepreneurs--And Millionaires-- Aren't born; they're made.

More chapters reveal to come!

 

 
 

In 1982 the founder( Jimmy John Liautaud) had two options after graduating second to last in his class from Elgin Academy, Join the army or start a business. He decided to start a business. His father lent him $25,000 to start his own hog dog business. If the business was a succeed, his father would own 48% while he was own 52%, if it failed, Jimmy John Liautaud would join the Army.

 Later on Jimmy John decided to open a sandwich shop instead of a hot dog business since starting a hot dog business cost almost twice the amount of the loan. A neighbor of Liautaud told him that the secret of a successful sandwich was in the bread. So in his mother's kitchen, he baked bread and bought the expensive meats and had family members vote on the best four sandwich(out of six) he created.

On January 13, 1983 in Charleston, Illinoise the first jimmy John's opened in a garage with used equipement and no menu or outdoor advertisement. he just sold four sandwiches and 25-cent cokes. Then He gave samples out around town and his business started to thrive. He focused on catering to Eastern lllinois university students. He ran the store himself( after two friends backed out as managers) for a few years, working seven days a week from open to close. He bought out his father's side of the business and became a sole owner on April 1985.  He opened a second store and hired a manager for that store but sadly the manager( william "billy" Burns) got killed in a car accident and Liautaud had to ran both stores on his own for a few months. It took more store opening before he began franchising in 1993.

Website: http://www.jimmyjohns.com/

 
 

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