17-year-old Aaron Sacks got the inspiration for his business when his parents printed cards for his brother’s bar mitzvah party. He developed his idea for a customized card business during his National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship entrepreneurship class.
Today his business, You’re on Deck, prints custom images such as a company’s logo or a personal photo on the backs of playing cards, so that the decks can be used as a marketing tool or mementos at weddings and birthday parties.
While making samples for his class, a Xerox distributor asked to buy some cards. “When I made my first sale, I really knew I had a good product because he raised his original order from 5 decks to 75 decks once he saw the product.”
Photo by BusinessWeek.
Martin on October 11th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
Awesome 17 year old … Damn I got started late.. took me til 21 to become a regional manager in the J.O.B.. :(
This is a cool site, and I will be sure to blog about this on my (new by comparison) website soon..
Will be back to read your pages too, there is some cool stuff on this site.. love the technorati widget thing of whats your blog worth :)