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Monday, January 31, 2011

Get Silly and Get Wealthy

Welcome to the world where silly ones count and excel. Yeah! Silly people emerge everyday to drive the world economy and make the world we dwell in a better place.

What is he saying? I heard someone said exasperatedly …

Well you need to understand that silly creatures are the creators ( inventor, founder and Lord please add yours if you want ... thanks. good) of often silly but life's changing invention.

Show me an astonishing enterprise I will show you an opportunist and entrepreneur with irrational but live changing business.

Tell me now, is it not one of the silliest thing to become a blogger , sit with the computer for several hours pouring information from your fountain of knowledge to make or mar your audience ?

But someone created this anyway, both young and old are increasing their net worth and influence daily using the solution that gets them occupied putting, thoughts, ideas and other information across to the world while making money doing what was once considered SILLY.

More silly thing we all do:
My point is this, silly ones create businesses that were and would be named after them. Most times people around them call them lazy, sluggards and unproductive entity since they could not understand what we do ( if you are reading now you could tell that I am one also).

But what always stun opposition is how the average idle, sluggards who often look like one without a purpose mostly are the change agents in that they emerge with recession-friendly solutions that the world needs.

Get ready to meet exciting silly creatures who had, is and would always turn our world around with their so called silly- ventures which have increase their owners into immensurable wealth.

Focus
Now our spotlight will be on  two Sillypreneurs, they were listed among the finalists in Businessweek.com's sixth annual search for America's best young entrepreneurs. These Sillypreneurs , their persons and business will inspire you if are not one yet.

LiveProud
What it does: Sells apparel made from trash
Founders: Phil Tepfer, 24, and Charles Bogoian, 24
Website: liveproudgroup.com
Location: Boston

LiveProud  is a group of clothing brands for sailors, hikers, and yoga enthusiasts that two Babson College seniors started in 2007. Founders Phil Tepfer and Charles Bogoian, both 24, keep costs down by sewing their apparel at contract manufacturers in the U.S. and Canada as orders come in.

In their own words:

"We work on very low inventory numbers," Tepfer says. LiveProud, which gets its fabric from recycled landfill materials like plastic bottles and corn husks, became profitable within a year, and expects revenue of $375,000 this year, he says.

During their senior year at Babson College in 2007, suitemates and longtime sailors Phil Tepfer and Charles Bogoian borrowed $25,000 from friends and family to launch their SailProud clothing line of moisture-wicking T-shirts and rash guards to protect sailors from chafing. LiveProud, which contracts out its design and manufacturing to factories in Georgia, Illinois, and British Columbia, turned profitable in less than a year because it operates on low inventory, filling orders as they come in.

In November 2009, LiveProud started using fabric derived from recycled plastic bottles and other waste such as corn husks and coconut shells for the 25 styles of T-shirts, jackets, and polos. Tepfer says all the clothes are now made from materials reclaimed from landfills, with each shirt saving about 5.5 pounds of carbon emissions. In addition to SailProud, the pair sell outdoor gear for hikers under the brand TrekProud and a line of yoga clothes called BeProud.

Culled from: Business Week
 
It will only take a silly one to believe trash could generate so much revenue, Sillyprenuer is one who identify, process and transform ideas considered silly enough into wealth. A sillyprenuer will stop at nothing until the arbitrary and considered impossible idea is turned into a viable profit creating business.

Are you still there holding on to that limiting beliefs  that your imagination and ideas are silly ?

Are friends and others who could not understand the great creative ability you are entrusted still see you as one living in the illusion of life?

Are you already on the verge or crossroad of quitting the vision of becoming one of the world top business?

You are always desiring to start that so call silly business but you probably don’t know if it would work?

Sillyprenuer edition is created to encourage and show case young entrepreneurs whose businesses ordinarily would have been considered crazy and silly but with their strong will they have been able to build business empires offering economic and social solutions while transforming lean business into more viable global one.

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