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The thing I love about this blog is hearing other business owners’ “aha moments”. I think the most fascinating part of a business is the back story: Where did the inspiration come from? Why did the business get started? What were the hurdles along the way? I tell people all the time that you can’t force a business idea, but if you are open to it, you will start to notice At the age of 18, I was a carefree freshman at the University in Vilnius, Lithuania, like millions of others – studying, partying and playing chess, my sport of choice. 2 years later, at the age of 20, I was married, with 3-months old baby and $500 bucks in a pocket, landing in the city of Cleveland, USA on a one-way ticket from Moscow, in search of more opportunities and better live.
Yup, this is how excited we are about Glamtrepreneur! Photo credit: Zora Ellis. Where do I begin? I am just SO SO excited/nervous/terrified/overwhelmed/happy. It is a pretty incredible feeling when people like your idea, and are willing to work with you to make it happen. Like I mentioned before, we are doing business plan writing pop ups this summer, and we officially have 12 on the calendar!!!!! Yes, 12!!!! My original goal was
Full name?: Nicole Porter Position / Job title?: Owner/Designer at Nicole Porter 1. When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? I was really sure that I wanted to be Oprah. I don’t think that I understood that there was no application that you could fill out to get that job, but that didn’t stop me from practicing. I spent a lot of time hosting my pretend
Position / Job title?: Designer and CEO of Raya Hanon 1. When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? When I was a kid, I wanted more than anything to work for the US Department of Defense or the CIA. I spent about ten years preparing for the application process, which was actually what pushed me to live and work abroad in a few places and, in I have seriously been SO SO SO excited all week knowing this post was coming up! In conjuncture with Glamtrepreneur, we are launching a new column on NeonNotebook called, “Getting Glam with…” (GGW). With “3 Things” and Career Confidential, we have all the other generations covered. So, I thought it would only make sense to do a Q&A that features pint-size entrepreneurs. These ladies might be young, but that isn’t stopping them from starting their own businesses!! On our first GGW, classmates Kourvoisia Townsend & Mackenzie Lowman talk about opening up their own retail
Alexandra Buckley Voris and Maggie Jones Patton are the founders of the NY-based kids’ food company, Bitsy’s Brainfood. After many years of working in education and non-profit, they got to a point where they realized that they had to solve some of the problems that they kept seeing over and over. They decided to go into the business of making the world better for everybody! They wanted to create a food brand with Like I have mentioned before, I am not very creative when it comes to titling my blog posts. What you see is what you get. As you can imagine from the title, this post contains tons of pictures from my trip to Providence, Rhode Island for The Lady Project Summit. When I went to school in Boston, I always wanted to visit Providence, but I never made it. I was excited to have a few days before The Summit to explore the city. It is a cute little place with tons of interesting history, delicious food and fun
Position / Job title?: Owner and Founder of IgniteGirls® Fitness, an online program and active lifestyle brand for women. 1. When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? A veterinarian or artist, which eventually transitioned into a vision of being a graphic designer. 2. Fast-forward several years/decades. How did you land (or create) your current position? After
When Elke Govertsen was 25, she died. Flat lined in a hospital-the whole nine yards. But, let’s start from the beginning because Elke’s story isn’t typical. She grew up in poverty in Alaska, and her first job was as a welder. After that, she traveled the world helping at-risk groups, including starving families and prostitutes. During one of her journeys, she contracted typhoid fever, which is how she ended up fighting for |
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