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aptly named Non-Scents Flowers. Greenberg
has made 71 sales and invested about $20,000
in start-up costs. Like with any start-up, she
has experienced some roadblocks as plans fell
through, but didn't let that stop her. Origl rail);
Greenberg hoped to work with a group ho me
for at-risk kids, having them help create tl e
arrangements. Unfortunately the home clo5ed,
but Greenberg considers working with the kids
one of the highlights of her business so fa:
“Being able to help them and have that rela
tionship was just awesome,” she said.
Greenberg considers her positive busi
ness relationships to be one of her greates
successes so far. “We have great relationshi )s
with the people who purchase flowers anc the
hospitals,” she said.
As for one of her greatest challenges tt us
far, Greenberg can relate to Kevin Ridge in hat
finding the people to help has been difficult to
say the least.
“The hardest part has been finding the 1ght
people who are really committed to the co n-
pany and passionate about what we’re doii g,'
she said. Greenberg compares how she would
have done things differently had she startel
the venture later in her college career, going
back to the notion that Elon can be one of the
greatest resources a student entrepreneur has.
“I definitely would have used Elon and the stu
dents here and pulled them in to get ideas.”
Greenberg knows that she can utilize her
fellow students in helping with various asp acts
of her business such as communications. “ dgt
now I'm doing all of the social media, blogt ing
and website management," she said. “I can doit
to an extent, but I know there's someone el je
who can do it better than I can.”
When it comes down to her present mo it
vital tools for running a business as a colh ge
student, Greenberg's answer is simple. “Th(
internet, and my mom.”
Entrepreneurship from afar
Senior Chris Welch took a different ap
proach to entrepreneurship. Rather than
starting up a business locally or online, Welch
partnered with a small Mayan village in Mexia
called Tinum in the hopes of helping improve
their way of life through exporting the honey
they produced. Welch first came across the
village during a Business Fellows trip his
freshman year, and after learning about their
problems with getting the honey exported,
returned the following year with friend Kyle
Cassaday The pair hoped that by creating a
market for the honey in the United States, thei
could help with the village’s poor employment
situation.
“We wanted to help provide a new avenue
that they could pursue inside the village for
employment, while creating a market here for
this really high quality organic honey that we
thought would do well,” Welch said.
Welch described the steps he and Cassaday
took on the return trip to Tinum in order to
make their vision a reality
“We looked for shipping companies, export