Lil’ entrepreneur
(newsday.com) Not many entrepreneurs are told to do their homework before they devote time to their business.
But that’s the rule laid down by the parents of Leanna Archer, who at the age of 11 owns Leanna’s Inc., a Central Islip mail-order and on-line business that sells hair-care products.
Leanna is the persistent entrepreneur, according to her dad, Gregory. Since the age of eight she had bugged her parents about selling a hair-care dressing her mother, Maritza, mixes up using such ingredients as almond and avocado oils. Leanna felt her long tresses had benefited from her great grandmother’s recipe for hair oil and conditioners, and that others might, too.
But her parents considered her interest a whim.
“We didn’t take her seriously,” Gregory Archer says. “She was only eight at the time.”
The answer was “no” for two years. But Leanna didn’t give up, he says. “She kept talking about it so much that we had to give it a try.”
So she began selling the products to classmates. And her mother started selling them at work. They say the products work on any kind of hair. (more…)
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