Lemonade stand

If you have two businesses, one, which is making a lot of money, but has no capital expenditure and no interest expense.

All right, so we have Alessandro's Lemonade Stand.

You know, sells a lemonade for a dollar, costs him 10 cents.

It's got, you know, 90 cents profit.

And I say that because I have been fired from every single waitress job that I had, and I've always been building things and creating things.

My quote-unquote first business was a lemonade stand when I was eight years old, and I raided my dad's beer fridge to go sell beer on the side of the road to construction workers, and that's how I made my first $20.

And I share that story because to some extent, as an entrepreneur, you have to find the red tape and wiggle in it.

You also have to be ambitious, courageous, and wildly insane.

But, you know, that stuff takes years, folks.

You can't just stand up a refinery on the corner like a Lebanon stand.

I mean,

it's got to have trains and transportation, logistics behind it.

You know, that's funny.

I did have a lemonade stand when I was a little girl, but I wanted to take it to the next level.

So I actually had Chips Ahoy chocolate chip cookies with my lemonade stand.

Yes.

And then when I was in high school, I was a part of a few groups and they wanted to do some fundraising.

We've got a little entrepreneur right here in West Michigan proving you don't have to be a grown up to make a big difference.

And it all started with what else when you're a kid and you want to make some money, what do you do? Lemonade stand.

Absolutely, yeah.

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Meet Trip Tanner.

He is from Big Rapids.

Now, most kids set up a lemonade stand hoping to make enough money for like some candy, a new toy maybe.

What else? But Trip had a little something else in mind for his money.

And it takes creativity.

It takes like, it takes an idea and understanding that, um, Let's imagine that you're trying to sell, let's go back, kids selling lemonade at Lemonade Stand.

Business example is oldest time, right? Kids selling lemonade at Lemonade Stand.

Yep.

You know, how are you going to do that? Do you market the product? Do you bring in like gimmicky stuff? Do you try to touch on heartstrings? I mean, all of them could work, you know? All of them could work.

I have an idea.

What if we go to every single kid's lemonade stand and we make them stop? Make them stop how? Whatever it takes.

No, we win by making better lemonade at a fair price.

Then I'm going solo.