Rebel Girls Awesome Entrepreneurs: 25 Tales of Women Building Business

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4 FOREWORD Hi Rebels Growing up I was constantly making things I would make handbags out of takeout containers and process black-and-white photos in my middle school darkroom I didn't know at the time that I would start my own business encouraging other kids to make things too everything from cardboard catapults and felt capes to wooden clocks and arcade games But I did and it's been a lot of fun It's also been a lot of creative hard work Have you ever thought about starting your own business If you are reading this book there's a good chance you have And that's really exciting The world can always use more curious energetic people who spot a problem and then create a product or a service to solve it That's how I got started When my kids were young I wanted them to have lots of hands-on experiences making building and tinkering with things like I did when I was little I couldn't find what I wanted in the market so I made it myself And that's how my company KiwiCo was born Now we've sent out more than 25 million crates filled with all the materials and inspiration kids need to experiment create and explore As you'll see in these stories successful entrepreneurs often build businesses around their own interests What do you love to do What problem do you want to solve Mikaila Ulmer's entrepreneurial journey started when she was four years old After being stung by a bee she learned all about them Then she turned her love for bees into a business making honey-sweetened lemonade Kathy Hannun turned her desire to protect the planet into a business using natural heat from under the Earth's surface to heat and cool homes