Noha Waibsnaider, Peeled Snacks
Noha Waibsnaider knew that changing the cheap, unhealthy products offered by the consumer packaged goods industry needed to be an inside job…
“Just taking action and calling the people that are in charge; a lot of people might be nervous to do [that], but we’re all the same. I always try to think logically, ‘Okay, we all put our socks on the same way.’”
Sometimes a great cup of coffee just goes hand in hand with launching! Recently I traded my Starbucks standby for a fresher, more adventuresome alternative. Here’s what I discovered…
From Victoria Colligan, Founder, Ladies Who Launch
If Agnieszka Chwaleba had been told five years ago that she would soon be running an exterior lighting business with nine employees, seven service trucks and the ability to take on clients throughout the entire state of Florida, she wouldn’t have believed it…
Most of us don’t figure out what our life’s mission is until we’re older, if ever. Not Marilyn Tam, Co-Visioneer of Healthwalk. By age eleven Marilyn knew exactly what she wanted to do with her life – make a difference in the world.
In less than a year, Divya Gugnani took a casual idea, mixed it with her passion and financial savvy, added a dash of persistence and created a fully baked, thriving online culinary business.
Susan Miller may be a master at reading the stars, but it’s her spirit and drive that have guided her to achieve such extraordinary success. Her Web site www.astrologyzone.com, which she launched in 1995, attracts six million unique readers a month.
If the average 22-year-old college grad had $5000 in the bank, she might finance a European getaway or — let’s be honest — a Louis Vuitton bag. But Carissa Reiniger took that small sum, plus about $7000 in available credit, and launched Silver Lining Limited out of the condo she owned in downtown Toronto. Thirteen months later, she had opened a second office in Edmonton, and her revenues hit the $1 million dollar mark.
Eve Yen came to America with the notion that if she could make a product that was common in her native Taiwan indispensable to the many Asian restaurants here, she’d soon have a booming business. Her novel idea, along with her commitment to customer service and smart growth, have helped her company, Diamond Wipes International, expand to include 120 employees and $15 million in annual sales.
Having begun training in Bharatanatyam at the age of four-and-a-half and studied modern dance in New York City, Japan and London, Preeti exemplifies a new kind of artist and entrepreneur who mixes and matches a plethora of international ideas and experiences in all new ways.
