Alexandra McDaniel : Founder of Kid's Roar: A very amazing Kid

When she was just 9 years old Alexandra McDaniel became the founder and president of Kid’s Roar a company entirely run by kids. The reason Alexandra started the company was because she wanted a horse and her dad told her that if she really wanted one, she’d need to raise the money herself to get it. Kids Roar has five different clubs (Safari Club, Marine Club, Horse Club, Best Friends Club and the Dinosaur Club) with various products, which can be found on the site.

Creating your brand : Advice from the founders of Innocent Drinks

Innocent Drinks is a UK based company founded in 1999 whose primary business is producing smoothies and flavoured spring water, sold in supermarkets, coffee shops and various other outlets nationally as well as in Ireland, Netherlands, Germany, France, Austria, Belgium, Denmark and Switzerland. Innocent has a 71% share of the £169m UK smoothie market and the company sells two million smoothies per week.

Innocent was founded by three Cambridge graduates - Richard Reed, Adam Balon and Jon Wright; at the time they were working in consulting and advertising. The three were friends at St John's College, Cambridge. In 1998, after spending six months working on smoothie recipes and £500 on fruit, the trio sold their drinks from a stall at a music festival in London. People were asked to put their empty bottles in a 'yes' or 'no' bin depending on whether they thought the three should quit their jobs to make smoothies. At the end of the festival the 'YES' bin was full, with only three cups in the 'NO' bin, so they went to their work the next day and resigned. After quitting their jobs, the three had a lucky break when Maurice Pinto, a wealthy American businessman, decided to invest £250,000.

On April 6, 2009, Innocent drinks announced its agreement to sell a small stake of between 10-20% to The Coca-Cola Company for £30 million. Their website was bombarded with customers and several pages on social networking sites have emerged which encourage a boycott of the company. In April 2010 Coca-Cola increased its stake in the company to 58% from 18% for about £65 million.

Innocent credit the creation of their brand identity to David Streek (aka Gravy),the design director at Deepend which also developed their early label designs and website. Prior to the name "innocent", the product was going to be called Fast Tractor. The company's HQ, Fruit Towers, is based in Shepherds Bush. On 2 December 2007 Innocent Drinks appeared at number 40 in the Sunday Times Fast Track 100, a list of the fastest growing private companies in the UK. It was the only company to have appeared in this list for the last five years consecutively.[citation needed] Each of the last four years, Innocent has more than doubled its revenues.

The Big Idea Episode : QuickSeals.com

QuickSeals (www.quickseals.com), a revolutionary new food baggie storage system that converts nearly any packaged food item into a resealable storage container, keeping snacks and other perishables fresh and preventing costly food waste. Designed for versatility and ease-of-use, the QuickSeals product uses a zip slider top and adhesive strips to form a seal with consumers' favorite food bags or boxes, sealing in freshness and preventing spillage. These multi-use storage bags go easily from freezer to microwave or from pantry to plate, making QuickSeals the most versatile item in the kitchen.
"With food waste counted in billions of pounds annually1, and with costs in the hundreds of millions of dollars for wasted food and landfill expenses, the time was ripe (pun intended) for a simple and affordable solution," explains Denise Bein, chief executive officer at Neese Products and co-inventor of QuickSeals. "Now people can quickly and easily preserve their favorite foods longer than ever--just by adding our self-adhesive easy-lock baggie tops. And, as an added benefit, accidental spills and leaks become a thing of the past!"

Ideal for household pantries and freezers, withQuickSeals consumers can lock in freshness without disposing of (and losing) the original product packaging which often contains valuable cooking instructions or serving and nutritional information. QuickSeals forms an airtight barrier which helps to eliminate infestation and other food spoilage, making it a must-have for travelers, backpackers, RVs, or anyone on-the-go.

The Big Idea Episode: Daymond John Founder of Fubu

Born c. 1969, in Brooklyn, NY; son of Margot John (a flight attendant).

Career

Founded FUBU (For Us, by Us), apparel company, 1992--.

Life's Work

Daymond John's creative vision helped revolutionize the sportswear industry in the

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1990s. As founder, president and chief executive officer of FUBU--"For Us, By Us"--John created a distinctive line of jerseys, jeans, outerwear, and a host of other related gear and accessories with a decidedly urban style to them. FUBU's phenomenal success has made mainstream apparel companies realize the potential for fashionable sportswear that appeals not just to trendsetting urban youth, but to copycat mainstream teens as well.

The Big Idea Episode: Jordan Wirsz, Helping People Gain their Millions

The dream of flight gave wings to Jordan Wirsz’s dream of a better life. More often than not, you hear of young millionaires that are heiresses, trust-funders or children that come from privileged backgrounds with elite educational opportunities. What makes this story different is that Jordan Wirsz is none of these. In fact, he’s far from it.

The big Idea Episode: Ryan Allis: Co-founder of iContact

Ryan Allis is a technology and social entrepreneur from Chapel Hill, NC. Ryan has been an entrepreneur since he started Allis Computing at age 11. Today, Ryan is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of iContact, the leading global provider of email marketing services to small and mid-sized businesses.

Kevin Rose: Founder of Digg.com

It was June 26, 4:45 a.m., and Digg founder Kevin Rose was slugging back tea and trying to keep his eyes open as he drove his Volkswagen Golf to Digg's headquarters above the offices of the SF Bay Guardian in Potrero Hill. This was the day Rose would test everything. Two years earlier, Rose had gambled on his idea to change newsgathering, letting the masses "dig up" the most interesting stories on the Web and vote them