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This Very Young Entrepreneur Is Now in the Pink

By on August 17, 2006 in Ideas

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Jim Hopkins:

I haven’t met an entrepreneur yet who coasted through childhood and teen-age years without a job mowing lawns, shoveling snow or babysitting. The really entrepreneurial ones organize kids to take on big projects: A friend of mine ran three newspaper delivery routes by getting other teen-agers to work for him.

Sometimes, they use clever marketing. Look at Siena Jeakle in Seattle, who just won the top prize in small-business magazine Inc.’s “Best Lemonade Stand in America” contest. The editors say Siena, 9, gave her stand a pink theme and donated some of her proceeds to fight breast cancer in honor of her 75-year-old grandmother, a breast cancer survivor.

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Business Opportunities Weblog editor and publisher Dane Carlson lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, just 15 miles from Yosemite National Park. He accidentally became a professional blogger in 2001. He has added 12,203 posts to the site.

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  • http://www.howtostartyourlawncarebusiness.com/lawn-mowing/index.html Lawn Mowing

    This is a sweet article about the purity of entrepreneurialism in the US. Thanks for posting this article. Heres to your continued success Siena!

    - Devon

  • http://www.startahotdogstand.com steve

    Inspirational story. I’m sure that this young lady will go far. Already seeing the advantages of connecting your business to a charity!

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