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age:12 When E liana Carson and her friend R achel Maples were looking for a business to start, they wanted to do something original. “Originally, we were going to do a lemonade stand, but we thought that wasn’t original at all,” E liana said. “So we thought we should think of something more interesting, and we thought about her sea glass. This was at 1 a.m. at this point, and we were Googling up sea glass stuff, and we just found that that was pretty cool.” After a few hours’ sleep, they planned it out and got their parents to provide them with a $ 2 0 budget to buy supplies. After that, they went out to collect sea glass and begin making art and handcrafted jewelry. The Nansemond-Suffolk Academy seventh-graders took their business, Seaglass Co., to last February’s Young E ntrepreneur
Business E xpo at the Hilton Garden Inn Suffolk R iverfront and won $ 2 0 0 for having the Most Original Business idea. At the show, E liana, 12 , learned more about how to run her business, how businesses work, money-management and social skills — all things she hopes to apply to the upscale restaurant she hopes to run one day. “I’ve always wanted to be a business owner,” E liana said. “I was thinking about opening up a restaurant or something, and the skills we learned from this business could really help me when I have a restaurant.” Her own advice for young people like herself who have the ambition to strike out on their own was blunt: Do it. “You’re going to be in the business industry making a bunch of money,” she said. —Jimmy LaRoue
In a word or phrase, how would you describe yourself? Socially awkward What is your favorite TV show? “Riverdale”
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