LivingSocial’s Founder: A Multimillion Dollar Hit Is Not Enough
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#2Is it just me, or have I read several (seems like more) stories from successful business people who got their start by buying candy wholesale and then selling it one piece at-a-time to their classmates? Is there a "quaint child business story" generator that I'm aware of?
It seems if you're a parent and your young child is buying candy wholesale and selling it, your and their future may be pretty bright.
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#3Is it just me, or have I read several (seems like more) stories from successful business people who got their start by buying candy wholesale and then selling it one piece at-a-time to their classmates? Is there a "quaint child business story" generator that I'm aware of? It seems if you're a parent and your young child is buying candy wholesale and selling it, your and their future may be pretty bright.
What always interests me about stories like that is that wholesale candy is usually clearly marked, on each package, "Individual packages cannot be resold." If an adult sold me a piece of candy with that sort of label on it, I'd raise an eyebrow - but when a kid does it, I just chuckle it off and admire his entrepreneurial spirit.
I understand society enforces the law differently on kids than on adults - and I definitely did this when I was a kid myself - but isn't it a little strange that the first lesson kids seem to get in entrepreneurship is how to create markets in the intersection of things kids are allowed to do and parents aren't allowed to do?
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#4Is it just me, or have I read several (seems like more) stories from successful business people who got their start by buying candy wholesale and then selling it one piece at-a-time to their classmates? Is there a "quaint child business story" generator that I'm aware of? It seems if you're a parent and your young child is buying candy wholesale and selling it, your and their future may be pretty bright.
I actually did this - not the wholesale thing but selling off extra candy I had with my lunch. I then turned around and bought comic books with the money.
I also did door-to-door sales of custom imprinted holiday cards. I got into that game be sending in a flyer from a comic book. So basically for me, my method of getting into entrepreneurship revolved around comic books.
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#5Is it just me, or have I read several (seems like more) stories from successful business people who got their start by buying candy wholesale and then selling it one piece at-a-time to their classmates? Is there a "quaint child business story" generator that I'm aware of? It seems if you're a parent and your young child is buying candy wholesale and selling it, your and their future may be pretty bright.
It does seem quite funny, but it's totally plausible. Although, I highly doubt that it's a definite measure for future success. I myself used to do the same(buy from Sam's Club and resell in school) while in middle school(now a senior in college), but I'm no where near close to a million dollar success...yet :). What would suck though is that if and when I do have some kind of success, this story would be kinda overused, so I do understand where you're coming from. Guess we need to teach our kids something else to make money off of...
Re: LivingSocial’s Founder: A Multimillion Dollar Hit Is Not Enough
#6Is it just me, or have I read several (seems like more) stories from successful business people who got their start by buying candy wholesale and then selling it one piece at-a-time to their classmates? Is there a "quaint child business story" generator that I'm aware of? It seems if you're a parent and your young child is buying candy wholesale and selling it, your and their future may be pretty bright.
What always interests me about stories like that is that wholesale candy is usually clearly marked, on each package, "Individual packages cannot be resold." If an adult sold me a piece of candy with that sort of label on it, I'd raise an eyebrow - but when a kid does it, I just chuckle it off and admire his entrepreneurial spirit. I understand society enforces the law differently on kids than on adults - and I defini…
FYI: Those"Not for resale" messages have zero legal implications do to first sale doctrine.
Re: LivingSocial’s Founder: A Multimillion Dollar Hit Is Not Enough
#7Is it just me, or have I read several (seems like more) stories from successful business people who got their start by buying candy wholesale and then selling it one piece at-a-time to their classmates? Is there a "quaint child business story" generator that I'm aware of? It seems if you're a parent and your young child is buying candy wholesale and selling it, your and their future may be pretty bright.
Well...I'm another real case.
My father's friend had a wholesaler's license (or whatever it is you need). I got her to buy me snacks/candy/soda from some big wholesaler. I sold it at the local pool/lake out of a cooler for much lower prices than the snack bar.
I had a number of similar "businesses" like this over the years, culminating in a much more successful web design business when I was 14-15.
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#8What's so hard about a kid selling candy. I sold candy in my Middle School and High School even though it wasn't allowed. I was the candy man and everyone knew it. Most kids aren't trying to build a Candy Empire or even know what they are doing takes guts. Some kids just wanted a better option like myself. Eventually I stopped selling candy to go into programming artificial intelligence for video games, which I eventually stopped doing because I was not a great programmer and decided to run my own business which is doing great.
Was me selling candy the only reason I decided to run my own business eventually or was the fact that I had the mindset to sell the candy just who I was destined to be?
I can't answer that but I will say that when you look back on it at a later time you can say hey, I was business minded even as a child and didn't know it. I think that is where these stories come from.
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#9Is it just me, or have I read several (seems like more) stories from successful business people who got their start by buying candy wholesale and then selling it one piece at-a-time to their classmates? Is there a "quaint child business story" generator that I'm aware of? It seems if you're a parent and your young child is buying candy wholesale and selling it, your and their future may be pretty bright.
I didn't sell candy but I sold other stuff in middle school. (I'd burn custom CDs for a few bucks… those were the days!)
For extra quaintness, when I was 11 and change, I had a yard sale and sold a lot of my stuffed animals and all of my My Little Ponies (for $80) so I could buy a faster computer. :)
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#10Is it just me, or have I read several (seems like more) stories from successful business people who got their start by buying candy wholesale and then selling it one piece at-a-time to their classmates? Is there a "quaint child business story" generator that I'm aware of? It seems if you're a parent and your young child is buying candy wholesale and selling it, your and their future may be pretty bright.
I actually did this - not the wholesale thing but selling off extra candy I had with my lunch. I then turned around and bought comic books with the money. I also did door-to-door sales of custom imprinted holiday cards. I got into that game be sending in a flyer from a comic book. So basically for me, my method of getting into entrepreneurship revolved around comic books.
I know I'm replying to my own post but just remembered that after I started working after college - I set up a "candy store" in my cubicle at work. I sold candy that you couldn't get in the vending machine and all for cheaper - everything on the honor system. That led me to becoming good friends with the company lawyer who ended up being one of my co-founders of my startup (Digital Envoy). So another bump for using candy as a gateway to entrepreneurship.