Two Weeks with a Teen Entrepreneur
By: Aryan Gandhi
Tags: Business, Entrepreneurship, Startup, Life, Finance

Two Weeks with a Teen Entrepreneur

The Lessons

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3/30/20 — The Start

1:00 A.M. — Normally I publish my articles on Sunday but I ran a little late yesterday because I’d been working on my drop shipping website all week. I debated doing it the next day, but decided to publish it at 1:00 A.M and finished around 1:30 A.M. I normally write my posts a day or two before, which just leaves publishing it when the time comes. I prefer it this way because then I am able to look over the post once more before I publish it.

8:00 A.M. — I woke up for my first class but was waiting for the stock market to open. I could already tell today wasn’t going to be a good day for me because I had put most of my money in Cannabis, and most of the Cannabis stocks were down pre-market.

8:30 A.M. — I was proven right, the stocks began dropping right off the bat. HEXO, one of the stocks that I owned dropped about 10 percent initially, but kept on spiraling lower.

** For most of the day today I did school work, I checked in a few times on my dropshipping site, one or two views, I plan to begin marketing it within the next day or two **

3:30 P.M. — For the day I booked around $300 losses and told my self that if I lose $150 more the next day I am going to sell all the stocks that I own in Cannabis

6:30 P.M. — I added more to my email marketing list, I am around 100+ emails currently. My goal is to be around 200 before I release, and add 25–50 per day. I believe the key to the success of the drop shipping is marketing, I may include a discount code for anyone who read my blog, www.ramenfreefinance.com, but the hope is to grow both of these platforms.

9:30 P.M. — I began looking for another way to make money online. This is how I arrived at blogging on Medium and drop shipping (investing was shown to me from my dad). Something that I am thinking about getting into is affiliate marketing, but I am not sure if that is worth the time that I will put into the marketing. Maybe if I tie it with the drop shipping that could help, but trying to sell too many things to a buyer is definitely going to reduce sales.

12:00 A.M. — Published this article.

Lesson of the Day: Don’t hold a stock before its earnings. It is definitely going to be volatile so make sure that if you do this, you know exactly what you are doing. Instead, I would wait until after the earnings and try to spot a trend.

3/31/30 — A Stock on Pause

9:00 A.M. — I wake up and log onto the stock market. I am making about $100, so even though I have not made back the $300 I had, it is something. There’s only one slight problem, of the stocks that I have $500 hasn’t changed at all. At first, I thought that maybe it’s just neutral today and not changing, so I don’t do anything about it. The company is CannTrust, ticker being CTST.

10:00 A.M. — I know something is up. The stock hasn’t changed in an hour and a half and so I dig around and there’s this article by PR Newswire that says “CannTrust Obtains Initial Order under Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (Canada).” I’m not going to pretend like I know what that means, but it sounded good for the company, so I really couldn’t understand why the stock was closed.

12:00 P.M. — My profits are beginning to decrease, from up $100, I’m now up $50. Still nothing on CannTrust. I really haven’t done anything for the blog yet, I’m going to write it later for my Wednesday post. I also want to try and finish my homework before tomorrow to focus on my dropshipping and blog email list, and create the email I want to send out.

2:00 P.M. — My profits continue to dwindle, I am at around $35, and it’s still dropping.

4:00 P.M. — An article comes out by Benzinga stating “CannTrust to be Delisted From NYSE and TSE.” That’s when I felt a bit panicked. Was I just going to lose the $500 that I had in it? I did some research and honestly really wasn’t any more satisfied with the answer I found. I’m going to wait until tomorrow and see what happens with the stock.

6:00 P.M. — Added a few more emails to my marketing list for launch tomorrow.

9:30 P.M. — Began writing my next article, “Dropshipping: A personal Guide” which you can check out at this link: http://ramenfreefinance.com/2020/04/dropshipping-a-personal-guide/

11:00 P.M. — Checked up on crude oil prices and the Dow Futures, which both were down 1 and 4 percent respectively but only tomorrow morning will tell the way the market is going to turn.

Lesson of the day — Another stock market lesson is to pay attention to warnings. I know this sounds obvious but there were a few rumors the CannTrust would be de-listed, and one of the requirements is that your share price needs to be above $1, and CannTrust was way below this, and I took arish because I thought I could win big. If any of you guys are investing just keep that in mind, don’t try to play poker with the market.

4/1/20 — The Fall Continues

12:00 A.M. — I posted my dropshipping article, to read it check out my profile. I then made two posts on LinkedIn, one with my blog article and the other with a link to my Shopify store, as a means to grow the audience.

4:00 A.M. — Finished my post for the Financial Journal publication and published it, and then went to bed

11:30 A.M. — I ended up going to bed quite late last night, so I woke up really late. I had an internship meeting from 1–2 to attend, so I checked stocks, ate breakfast, went for a shower and got ready for the meeting.

1:00 P.M. — I attended the internship meeting which talked about what our final project was to be. I had been doing this internship for the majority of the year, which was helping coursestars, a tutoring company with their marketing. Now it was time for the final project.

3:00 P.M. — I’d been so I checked the market and saw that I was losing $120 and there was no news on CannTrust. I considered selling but decided that I would wait one more day. If things are bad tomorrow I’m out of Cannabis. I took a risk and it obviously has not been paying off at all.

4:00 P.M. — I added some more people to my email list. I now have six lists with varying numbers, but my biggest has about 80 emails so there is really good progress being made there and hopefully it is enough for the launch tomorrow. I am trying to go to 300 emails for tomorrow, as an initial launch.

7:00 P.M. — Worked on the email for the launch. My thought process is this, the email needs to be simple but also convey a message that doesn’t make me look stupid. I’ve known most of these people as teachers, friends or students, which is why this is incredibly important, especially if I want them to continue checking out my website and buying things from my store. The email is not yet done, but it should be by tonight.

12:00 A.M. — I am going to have a Facetime for school at 8 A.M. tomorrow morning, so I posted the article and decided to go to sleep.

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4/2/20 — The Postponing

8:00 A.M. — I woke up because I had a math class. I looked through some of the news in the morning. The coronavirus cases were reaching 1,000,000 cases worldwide, and there were some 6.6 million people that filed for unemployment benefits. The world and the United States were not in a good shape.

12:00 P.M. — I had a couple more classes and the works but I started adding emails to my email list.

1:30 P.M. — I ended up adding 150 emails within this time frame, and was really excited to send out the email within the hour. This led to a problem, I remembered that I did not have my email done. At this point, I had two options. I could either rush and finish it and then hope that it had a good impact on my intended audience, or wait until Monday and have a better email to send. I’d been waiting all week to send out the email today. I was psyched that hopefully at least 50 people would check out my dropshipping website, and maybe even a few buy some things. But, I thought about it for a bit, and realized that if I did not make a good impression on these customers, there was no chance they would come back. Hence, I decided that I would finish the email over the weekend as you know the saying “quality over quantity.”

4:00 P.M. — I checked the market and I made $50 in Cannabis today. Compared to my losses of some $300+, it is not a lot, but at least it is a start. My cannabis investing lives to see another day.

7:00 P.M. — I did some more investigating into Covid-19. One of the kids from my old school made a post about how people need help with their businesses now more than ever. I thought about some things that I could do to help, but also actually start my first small business. This is something that I had thought about for a while, but I never really got around to it thinking it was too hard or that I did not have enough time. Sadly, we did not come up with any ideas today. To me, it seems that everything is already taken, so I’m going to need to do a lot more thinking, especially if I want to help people during Covid-19.

12:00 A.M. — I didn’t really do much in business and finance I realize, but I know that this weekend is going to be a grind because I want to make 6–7 different emails to target different groups of people in my email list. Right now, I’m probably going to watch a movie and then call it a night.

Lesson: I think a really big lesson I learned is don’t try to hurry something up. I get if you had deadlines that you have to meet then of course, but if you’re doing something as a personal project, the quality is just more important.

4/3/20 — Epiphany?

10:00 A.M. — I woke up and looked at the market. Cannabis started the day up, so that looked like a good sign, and then I began scrolling through Medium. I looked at this one article on success, and there was this thing that successful people usually wake up early. I thought about that, and I was like, I’m waking up at 10 every day, does that mean I’m not going to be successful? I thought it couldn’t be true, so I did some research, and it turns out that most successful people wake up early. But, here’s my take. Most people don’t want to have billions. They think they do, but honestly, what are you going to do with billions. The chances of you being able to use a billion dollars are quite slim, if you think of a 1, followed by NINE zeroes. Let me put that into perspective. A common house item that I think most people have is a TV, and the average cost of one is $500. That means you can buy 2 million TV’s for that 1 billion. Personally, I don’t know what I would do with 20 TV’s, let alone 2 million. So the rich of the rich might wake up very early, but there are a lot of millionaires out there. For example, the people who made millions of Bitcoin didn’t seem like the people to have the same work ethic as the rich of the rich, and they are still doing quite well for themselves. That might have been a bit difficult to follow, but I think that waking up early doesn’t define success. Thank you for listening to my Ted Talk.

12:00 P.M. — I added about 70 more emails to my list, I’m really excited about the launch on Monday. If you have any questions reach out at aryangandhi@ramenfreefinance.com.

2:00 P.M. — Added another 60 emails. It was a really good idea to add emails because even though it takes a long time, it’s a really good way to reach people and make what you’re saying heard.

8:00 P.M. — Finished the email, and have a picture linked below. I kept sending a test email to myself but I could not find it. I sent three more, and still was wondering why it wasn’t sending. Then I checked my spam mailbox, and they were all there. At first, I thought it would be an easy fix, but then realized that I would need to do a lot more digging, after seeing three was something called the CAN-SPAM Act, and some other rules. This is going to take longer than I thought.

Lesson of the day: Always expect some things can throw you of course. I know this sounds like another thing everyone should know, but I’ll give you some more. See sometimes the things that take you of course, are what you need to think about and potentially re-focus too, and then maybe you shall have the clarity you need.

4/4/20 — Re-Thinking

1:00 P.M. — I woke up just now. If you want to know why I wake up so late, check out my last article: https://medium.com/@aryandgandhi/4-3-20-epiphany-8612db76b8e. Anyway, the stock market wasn’t open so I just chilled in the morning and then went for a shower. During my shower, I thought about some business opportunities during this pandemic. About a year ago, I started my own blog, and then a few days ago my own store. At a time like this, the world does not need another blog or another store, hence the brainstorming. I am sad to report that today was not fruitful in thinking of anything, but I am going to continue. I also encourage you to think about what kind of businesses you could start to help the world during the Covid-19 outbreak.

4:00 P.M. — I wrote my blog post for tomorrow, No B.S. Kellogg, which analyzes the company Kellogg and talks about a few interesting facts about it. It will be up by the end of the day tomorrow.

6:00 P.M. — Added a few more emails to my list in anticipation of the release on Monday. If you want to be added to the list, just fill out the form below or comment your email. I thenbegan creating the email and finished, but ran into a small problem. When I was importing the people into the email it did not work, and so that is something that I am going to figure out. Another thing is that the email is being sent straight to spam so that is something that I need to work on.

10:00 P.M. — Tried figuring out the spam and the uploading the people, but it did not work, I am going to spend the next day figuring that out.

Lesson: Take the opportunities around you and make the best of them. This global pandemic is horrible for everyone, but there are always things you can do to help and opportunities to act on. Always keep that in mind.

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4/5/20 — Ready Set Go!

12:00 P.M. — I woke up and went through Medium and checked the live Covid-19 case count. I usually check this 4–5 times in a day to see what is happening around the world in terms of this pandemic. I would recommend this to everyone as well, as it keeps you aware of what is happening and can allow you to act accordingly.

1:00 P.M. — I really wanted to figure out the problem that I talked about in my last article, and so I worked on Mailchimp for a while. I sent the email to a few friends and it did not go in their spam, which was a good sign. I sent the email to myself 4–5 times, and 2 of those times it went into my spam mailbox. I also changed up the font and parts of the email. As it turns out, pictures are sometimes blocked when sending such emails, so I edited my content to make sure that none of the pictures were referenced.

3:00 P.M. — Finished the email and uploaded the contact in anticipation of sending out the email tomorrow. I will let everyone know the statistics that arise after I send out the email tomorrow.

5:00 P.M. — Published my article No B.S. Kellogg which looks at the company Kellogg during this pandemic, and talks about the stock price and the future of the company.

9:00 P.M. — Thought more about what business to start during the pandemic. I thought about two ideas. One was a type of toilet paper business, but that seemed unsustainable. People were very hyped up about it for a brief time, but the hype has or is in the process of dying around it. The other idea has something to do with a cure for Covid-19, which would be very lucrative, but I do not have close to enough experience in anything related to biology and diseases.

11:00 P.M. — I added a few more emails in preparation of tomorrow, and got ready for school as I had my 8.00 A.M. class.

Lesson: The lesson for today is persistence. To me, the Mailchimp email that I was going to send out really annoyed me. I was really close to deleting it, but decided against it because I had put in a lot of work. Turns out after one more hour spent I figured everything out and was ready to test. Sometimes if you are close to giving up, then just look at the problem from a different angle and chances are it will work out.

4/6/20 — The Calls

8:00 A.M. — I woke up to sign in to math and then after class I went to sleep.

10:30 A.M. — I woke up again for my Advanced Programming class which started at 11 and showered before.

12:30 P.M. — I started my college counseling meeting.

2:30 P.M. — I finished my college counseling meeting and sent out the emails to 120 people.

5:00 P.M. — A few days ago someone reached out to me on Linkedin and asked to set up a time to talk to me about the opportunity. I called him at five and we talked about who we both were, and he started off by giving me a homework assignment and a book to read. At the moment, part of me feels like this is not really a legit opportunity, but at the same time if it is, I don’t want to lose it. I am going to continue to work with this person and see where it leads me.

5:30 P.M. — As it turns out, I got 111 opens, which is quite impressive. Over 90% of the people that I sent out the email too opened it, which to me is quite impressive. On the other hand, only seven people clicked on the links that were in the email. This was not as high as I had hoped, but I shall learn more in terms of how to create better and more directed email campaigns.

7:00 P.M. — Similarly, another husband and wife pair reached out to me and we did something quite similar. We talked about each other, our backgrounds and then went into talking a bit about our personal lives. At the end of the call, the wife sent me a document by email that I should read which would explain to me different aspects of the business world. While it seems interesting, I am still a bit skeptical on where it is going to lead.

9:00 P.M. — Added more emails from another school to an email list. I am very excited about this emailing idea, it seems like a very good way to market.

Lesson: Never close a door (in terms of opportunity). Almost 60% of me feels like these two calls are fake and they have some ulterior motive. Don’t get me wrong, they are very nice people, but that is a gut feeling I have. At the same time, on the 40% chance that I am wrong, this could be an amazing opportunity for me. As long as you are not putting yourself in danger, always try to keep all your doors open.

4/7/20 — The Day of the Mindset

10:00 A.M. — I woke up and wrote my blog post for tomorrow, called The Mindset. If you want to read it check back in with my profile tomorrow, but here is a quick summary. I was recently reached out via LinkedIn and asked to read A Business in the 21st century, a book by Robert Kiyosaki. The book was recently interesting, but I want to talk about one thing that really stood out to me, called the Cashflow Quadrant. The Cashflow Quadrant is split into four parts, E, S, B and I, each which represents a different type of job that people hold. All jobs/ work titles can be put under one of these four parts of the quadrant. I wrote about this because I found it really informative, and wanted to share what I thought about it. I am nowhere close to an expert on it, so I also wanted to know people’s thoughts on the Cashflow Quadrant, and their experiences with it.

1:00 P.M. — I added another school with emails to the list.

3:30 P.M. — I sent out another mass email to 103 and recipients. About 25 of them were friends, and the rest were faculty at a high school. I will report the numbers soon. The stock market started up over 900 points, but by the end of the day ended down 26 points. The market is very volatile right now and what’s happening with Covid-19 does not show signs of slowing down, so investing is very risky in my opinion.

5:30 P.M. — I think I am going to make a book of all of these at one point. I think it can offer insights into mistakes and how I am growing the business that I want to. I am not sure how or when I am going to begin combining them, but it is just a thought at the time.

9:00 P.M. — Thought about some jobs that I could get over the summer. I was an intern at Caterpillar last year, but I don’t know how that will fare this year. One option I have is to work at Hy-Vee, but I’m not sure if my parents will let me apply due to Covid-19.

Lesson: Work smart, not hard. I read a little bit of the book and then had then watched a youtube summary on it. A book that would have taken me 7+ hours, I finished in under an hour, and I got the general meaning of. Don’t be afraid to take a shortcut at times, there is a reason they exist, and they aren’t all too bad.

4/8/20 — The Second Meeting

10:00 A.M. — I woke up and told my self I would put my business projects on hold until I finished studying for my math test. This was the one class that I had to worry about, so I put all my work into studying for the next few hours.

2:00 P.M. — I added the Dunlap Grade school to an email list, and I sent out another email to 100 teachers between two elementary schools. I am going to start sending out emails every three days as opposed to every day and add one school a day to an email list.

4:00 P.M. — I publish my post called The Mindset. Check it out here, it talks about what I learned from Robert Kiyosaki’s Business in the 21st Century.

5:00 P.M. — I had a few school meetings and hung out with the family.

9:30 P.M. — I had my second meeting with my “mentor,” and it was quite interesting. First, we only planned on going from 9:30 P.M. — 10 P.M. but went until 10:45 P.M. as I wanted to hear more about this opportunity. It was a multi-level marketing opportunity, where I would start a business and the team supporting me would make a profit through a company called Amway. This company seems legit, but I still have a few doubts. First, why me? I’m a high school student, and this man is spending 2–3 hours a week working with me, so why. Wouldn’t it be easier to work with an adult as opposed to me? Then, of course, is this team he keeps saying I am going to meet. He said in a week or two I would get to meet the team, so I am not going to make judgments yet, but if this opportunity is legit, I will be very excited.

4/9/20 — The Haircutter

8:00 A.M. — I wake up for my first class, as I have classes all morning.

12:00 P.M. — I took a shower, but here is the thing, I decided to cut my own hair. It was a spur of the moment decision, my dad had one of those hair clippers, and I took it and shaved everywhere but the top. The obvious reason? I was bored and wanted a change, but this got me thinking. Before I started cutting my own hair a few months ago, I would always go to this one Asian male at Great Clips. We would always have productive conversations because he was an art teacher who was also very interested in doing side hustles. I know one of the things he did was illustrate the images in a Chemistry textbook which netted him around 2–3 grand. While I was cutting my hair today, I realized that he really did have an influence on me. He was a married man with kids, but he still found time to cut hair, be an art teacher and illustrate a chemistry textbook. That’s how I know that at this age especially, the side hustles that I want to accomplish are possible.

3:00 P.M. — Added another email to the list, I am going to send out an email tomorrow marketing the blog to around one hundred more people. Take a look at this article: to know how my last email session went.

6:00 P.M. — I was supposed to have a meeting with another MLM person, but thanks to the advice of Prickly Pam and Kim McKinney, I was able to avoid what could have been a huge waste of my time. Thank you!

9:00 P.M. — I looked through my portfolio, and it was quite concentrated in Cannabis. I decided that sometime next week I would t my losses of some $400, and put it into Boeing or United Airlines. I see a strong rebound in airline stocks, so I am waiting to see if Covid-19 will become worse and invest based on that.

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4/10/20 — Pyramid Selling

12:00 P.M. — I woke up and fixed my hair and showered.

2:00 P.M. — I did more research on network marketing. In my other articles I talked about my personal experiences, but here is what I found. Multi-level marketing (can be called pyramid selling) is a marketing strategy in which you sell products, and receive a commission for every person whose products you sell that you recruit. To me, this sounded very much like a pyramid scheme, but as it turns out, there is a difference. A pyramid scheme is where more emphasis is placed on the recruitment of others, as this makes more and more money for the people at the top. Multi-Level Marketing is when more emphasis is placed on selling, and recruitment just happens along the way. Looking at it, they both seem to be very similar and so I believe that I made the right decision by staying away from such a scheme.

5:00 P.M. — I added another school to my email list, as I planned on sending the email out, but between cutting my hair and showering I decided that I would do it Monday.

7:00 P.M. — With AP tests coming up and also wanting to pick up juggling, I decided that I would take the weekend slow. I will still publish the next two days, but there won’t be much to report because I realized with all this time on my hands I want to pick up some new stuff. Dancing is also on my list, I suck at it, but I want to get much better. Let me know what you guys want to improve on below.

Lesson: This more advice than a lesson, pick up something to do. I don’t care what it is, magic, investing or cup stacking, pick something and learn it. I can guarantee that this will make you feel good and will also keep your brain on edge, as you keep learning.

4/11/20 — Mass Emailing

12:00 P.M. — I woke up.

4:00 P.M. — As I said, I was going to take it easy this weekend, so I decided to just add emails to my list. As I was adding them, I thought about how there had to be an easier way to do this. I mean, thinking about it, I could write a pretty basic program to scan a website and get the emails. I’m nowhere close to a good programmer, so I thought of just looking at the string with the @ symbol on the page and then printing that. While this would take a lot of time initially, by the end of the week or two it should be much easier to extract emails.

7:00 P.M. — Wrote my article for tomorrow, No B.S. Las Vegas Sands. In the article, I focus on three main topics: a brief description of the company, of the stock price and then a few interesting facts. If interested, it will be posted by 3:00 P.M. CST.

Lesson: Take breaks. This morning I fixed my lawnmower, and did some outdoor work and it felt really nice. Don’t always be on the grind, or you’re going to fail soon.

4/12/20 — Las Vegas Sands

10:00 A.M. — Woke up and lied in bed.

3:00 P.M. — Published No B.S. Las Vegas Sands, it was an interesting company to learn about.

5:00 P.M. — Worked a bit on my email program, but manually added 70 emails to my list.

Lesson: For today, it is more of a recommendation, but something I was watching on Netflix was called Dirty Money, which is a show about corruption and lying in money.

4/13/20 — Easter Monday

11:00 A.M. — I woke up, and was going to send out a mass email, but since schools are closed I decided to wait until tomorrow. Below is a screenshot of my email:

1:00 P.M. — As today is Easter Monday, I decided that for this article I would put together a list of my most interesting facts from my no B.S. section, which analyzes a company and gives investing recommendations.

Here I have compiled a list of facts of multiple companies and articles to them:

Aurora Cannabis:

The largest Cannabis acquisition in history occurred in mid-2018 when Aurora Cannabis purchased Canni-Med for $1.1 Billion.

They have a market valuation of $1.7 Billion.

The company was founded in 2006 by Terry Booth, Steve Dobler, Dale Lesack and Chris Mayerson, of which Booth and Steve Dobler each invested $5 million+ of their own capital

AMD:

So far, AMD has had 5 C.E.O’s, of which three have been electrical engineers, the longest being Jerry Sanders, who was the founder from 1969–2002

The market capitalization of A.M.D is $54.3 Billion

There are 200 million+ gaming consoles that AMD powers, so chances are, one of your gaming consoles are AMD powered.

British Petroleum:

In 1967, BP spilled some 32 million gallons of crude oil into the Atlantic, and gaining the title of Britain’s largest oil spill.

BP has a market capitalization of $131.6 billion.

With a revenue of around 307 million and 75,000 employees, BP has a revenue of 4.1 million per employee.

Cheesecake Factory:

In 2010, it was rated the worst family restaurant in America by Men’s Health magazine because it served high caloric and high-fat foods.

The Cheesecake Factory has a market capitalization of 1.75B.

The company donates more than 500,000 pounds of food each year to the Harvest Food Donation program and works with Feeding America and the Salvation Army to provide an annual Thanksgiving Day Feast for those in need.

Delta Airlines:

It actually applied for bankruptcy on September 14th, 2005, because of the rising cost of fuel, but in April of 2007 managed to last for two years and was re-enlisted in the New York stock exchange.

The market capitalization is $38.98 Billion

As of December 5th, 2019, Delta was the leading airline in terms of revenue serving 200 million people and taking customers to 300+ locations in over 50 countries.

Eventbrite:

Eventbrite hosts events in 170+ countries, which means it’s in 87.1% of countries in the world

The market capitalization of Eventbrite is 1.9B

Eventbrite was founded by 3 people, two of whom were married, Julia Hartz and Kevin Hartz.

Fitbit:

The 10,000 step fit-bit goal isn’t random, if the goal is met, then the person did at least 30 minutes of physical activity that day, which adds up to the CDC’s recommended 150 minutes per week.

The market capitalization of Fitbit is 1.74B.

The founders of Fitbit were inspired by the ability of the motion sensor on the Nintendo Wii to track movements of people as they played in games such as Just Dance.

General Electric:

Two employees of GE, Irving Langmuir and Ivar Giaever, won the Nobel Prize in 1932 and 1973 respectively.

The market capitalization of GE is 106.99B.

In 2011, GE was ranked as the 14th most profitable company in the world out of the Fortune 500.

GrubHub:

In 2006, Maloney and Evans won first place in the University of Chicago Booth School of Business’s Edward L.

The market capitalization of GrubHub is $4.22 Billion.

GrubHub is in over 3,200 cities and growing.

Hexo:

With over 1,100 employees, Hexo is the fourth largest compared to other Cannabis companies.

Hexo has a market capitalization of $310.392 million.

Hexo hopes to bring its earnings to positive as Cannabis 2.0 becomes more and more widesprea

Harley Davidson:

They recently began construction of a new plant in Thailand in 2018, its fourth international plant.

They have a market capitalization of $3.23 billion.

For about two decades, from the 1960s to the 1980s, Harley Davidson actually produced three and four-wheel golf cars.

Intel:

Intel has its own museum that is located in its headquarters in Santa Clara California, with over 85,000 visitors per year.

They have a market capitalization of $196.015 billion.

Intel has a philanthropic branch called the Intel foundation that has donated $80 million to California schools and nonprofits.

JCPenney:

The founder of JCPenney actually started a butcher business before he founded JCPenney.

JCPenney has a market capitalization of $123.36 Million.

The founder of Walmart, Sam Walton once worked for JCPenney.

Kellogg:

Almost all of their cereal boxes are made from recycled paperboard, which is similar to cardboard, except with only one layer.

They have a market valuation of $21.78 Billion.

The mascot of Kellogg, Tony the Tiger, was actually created in 1951.

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