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Academics:
Interdisciplinary Business Major : Focus in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
2. Palmer College of Chiropractic
- Current Graduate Student
I was twelve years old when my parents sat me down and politely explained to me that I would be purchasing my first car on my own. This was the initial spark that ignited my entrepreneurial flame. It occurred in the summer of seventh grade. Yes, I started my entrepreneurial endeavors young. Why? you ask. Because a car is a lot of money, especially for a twelve-year-old. I wanted to make sure I had one for my seventeenth birthday.
In seventh grade, my friend and I started Garage Masters: Two middle school students spending their pre-high school summers epoxying garage floors. We marketed ourselves by posting neon orange flyers on mailboxes around our neighborhood and soliciting to potential customers.
After two years, we realized physical labor was not the route of entrepreneurship we wanted to pursue. This is when I transitioned into sales. I started selling Power Balance bracelets to my high school peers.
The Power Balance bracelet fad ended and I moved on. Applying our creative and sales skills, my cousin and I started a t-shirt company. Together we innovated a concept we call Flip Up Shirts. Flip Up Shirts, simply put, were t-shirts with what seemed like two lines of random letters printed on the chest. Complete gibberish to the naked eye, the letters we printed made absolutely no sense at first glance. However, once the user "Flips Up" the letters, or folded the middle of the bottom letters to match the middle of the top letters, the letters combined to reveal a hidden message. We marketed ourselves through word of mouth and used a basic website and Facebook page to add credibility. Through these endeavors, I finally saved up enough for my first car! (see car below)
As I entered college, I halted the expansion of Flip Up Shirts to focus on leadership and academics.
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