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Over the course of a year, we have been bringing you stories of young entrepreneurs from all over India, who are honing their skills at the
Young Entrepreneurs Academy (YEA!).
Students as young as 13 or 14 years are finding business ideas in different domains, from media, baking, art and craft to sport.
This week, we feature
Avantika Kampani, a 14-year-old student from Dhirubhai Ambani International School, Mumbai, and her startup, Day One, which is focused on children’s growth and development. Her product, Seekh, is targeted at parents of infants and toddlers up to the age of three years.
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An incredible run
1 Million Cups was born out of the Kauffman Foundation, a Kansas City, Mo.-based nonprofit focused on entrepreneurship and education. In a 2014 Forum story, Taylor Brown, program coordinator, explained that Kauffman staff didn’t really know the entrepreneurs in their own backyard. And they found the entrepreneurs there weren’t talking about what they did, especially across industries.
In response, they organized a weekly networking event known as 1 Million Cups. The concept spread to cities like Chicago, Denver, Dallas, Miami and San Diego.
Since debuting here in 2014, 1 Million Cups Fargo has hosted hundreds of speakers. Some were people readers had likely heard of before, like Dot of Dot s Pretzels or Vikings wide receiver Adam Thielen. Others were less known at the time, such as Mukai Selekwa, winner of the Fargo Moorhead West Fargo Chamber of Commerce s YEA! (Young Entrepreneurs Academy) pitch contest.
After overcoming many challenges, 20-year-old launches wood-craft business
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Cristianna Cardinale, 20, was diagnosed with Guillain-Barré Syndrome, a rare neurological disorder, which left her paralyzed for the most frightening two weeks of her life in September 2019.
“There’s no known cause for this disease. But after this happened, I realized I was blessed. . A lot of people with this disease never walk again, but I recovered within two weeks,” she said. “Even the doctors in the hospital said it was a miracle.”
This experience made Cardinale realize she needed to seize moments in life.
These Mumbai teens developed a cleaning spray for sneakers, earning Rs 1.7 lakh in sales so far
Pari Naheta and Sanya Shah, students of Dhirubhai Ambani International School, Mumbai, have developed Sneakeasy, a spray for sneakers made of natural ingredients.
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Continuing our series on young entrepreneurs and their fun, quirky, and thoughtful forays into entrepreneurship, this week, we have for you two 15-year-olds from Mumbai.
Pari Naheta and Sanya Shah, class 10 students of Dhirubhai Ambani International School, started Sneakeasy in 2019.
“Both Pari and I are very passionate about sports and dance and use sneakers a lot. However, we realised that maintaining shoes while living in a polluted city like Mumbai was extremely hard,” Sanya tells