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Philadelphia 19-year-old Justin Rink with autism overcoming obstacles to become an entrepreneur

Justin Rink, being an autistic started a business with help of his close ones. The 19-year-old teen is autistic and he found happiness in doing mowing and edging yards. He said that he has seen other people doing it and he thought that the number of people they got he thought he could make a lot of money doing this. When he was doing that in his garden, Justin Rink's neighbour Chris Bird found that Rink has an excellent skill in doing so. It all started with two or three lawns. Now it became into a business with good publicity, T-shirts, business cards and all other things. Chris Bird's son is also autistic. He said that he found his son in Justin and that's what made Chris encourage Justin. He posted the video of Justin mowing and edging which got a good response. These days your publicity and work distribution is in your hands when it comes to small startups.

Yes, social media platforms!! He got a good response. Two to three lawns were the beginning of his business and now it became JMR landscapes which are making Rink earn money. You can find it on the internet. Chris Bird said that he wanted to do for Justin to show a son his idol and make his son like Justin to achieve something and that's great. Rink says his business has grown so rapidly in one month he’s now up to 15 customers. Rink is making good number with his business.

The 16-year-old from Basford started his own garden maintenance business

Jacob a 16-year-old teen started his own garden maintenance business. His parents, bus driver Simon and optician Gillian, drop him off at some of his jobs but he cycles to others, transporting his lawnmower and other equipment in a specially purchased bike trailer.

What does he do? Jacob offers services like weeding, lawn mowing, fence and sheds painting and planting. He also does deliveries on his vehicle himself. Jacob said that his family is proud of him and help by taking him to some of his jobs when they're able to. He had customers who have been surprised when he had turned up and they've realised his age, but they've been happy to let him do the job. Jacob just finished his GCSE year at Chesterton Community Sports College. Like we know where the dream lives, you live there. Jacob loves gardening. He said he enjoys doing gardening at home, which made him think that he might be able to do it as a business. He also has plenty of time on my hands at the moment so decided to give it a go. He's applied to study horticulture and landscaping at Reaseheath College and also business studies, law and geography A levels at Newcastle College but says he hasn't decided which route to take yet.

The 16-year-old from Basford has started his own garden maintenance business and has clients across Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle. You will get to know more about Jacob's business and his entrepreneurship in social media through Facebook and other platforms.

Four teenpreneurs to open store in Farmington

In the spring of 2018, Lehigh pitched the idea to a group of teenagers in her entrepreneurial class, and they have been working with her ever since.

Hetika Shah's 4S SHIELD mask covers all four sensory organs to help workers treating COVID-19 patients

The Halol, Gujarat-based startup manufactures nanofiber-based masks called 4S SHIELD, and covers the four sensory organs of the body – eyes, nose, ears, and mouth. Hetika says, she launched the product immediately after seeing the increasing number of COVID-19 cases all around.

Leamington teenager running her own sweet business

“I suddenly found myself with so much time on my hands and was spending far too much money on sweets and junk food and decided to start a service selling sweets at a reasonable price straight to your door.”

Teenpreneur Max Melia designed and developed a wearable wristband to fight against coronavirus

He first came up with the brilliant idea two years ago as a means of reducing the spread of the cold and flu. After both of Max’s parents contracted COVID-19 four months ago, however, he threw all his efforts into developing a working prototype.

Utkarsh Piyush young digital marketing expert and entrepreneur from Bihar

At the age of 17 Utkarsh Piyush through his knowledge and experience astonishingly formed a company name the Guru media. The Guru media provides website creation Instagram management online press release Google knowledge graph YouTube marketing graphic designing IMDB and Wikipedia creation. Through his company he gave consultance to many b-town celebs renowned individuals companies in the field of marketing.

Megan’s business, ‘Eat Your Dinner Trivia’, aims to encourage young children to eat their fruit and vegetables

“I have three main aims for my business,” explained Megan: “One, to encourage kids to eat their fruit and vegetables in their lunch and dinner. Two, to build kids’ knowledge in school subjects such as the core subjects, maths and English. And three, to build kids’ general knowledge.

Third-year Carleton biology student Brenna Gagliardi helping students cope with stress and anxiety

Third-year Carleton biology student Brenna Gagliardi is helping students cope with stress and anxiety amid the COVID-19 pandemic through her craft kit company Bead N’ Stitch.

South Lincoln's Jack Funke, owner of The Can Cleaners, inverts a can for cleaning

Funke was on Facebook one day when something about trash can cleaning popped up in his feed. "I saw this video. I don't know how it even ended up on my Facebook page," he said. But it gave him a business idea.