Campground management company focusing on creating unique and upscale campgrounds. The goal is to create campgrounds that give guests the best camping experience they've had and campgrounds that help drive customers to small businesses through partnerships and events. Partnering with a close friend to build this.
An attempt to have AI agents fill out startup program forms for companies that give out free credits to use with AI. Customers can give us their details and then we apply them to relevant startup programs. If we don't get them at least $5k in credits within 15 days, they get their money back.
Brand & website design/dev firm. Aligned my skills in design, relationships in startups, and interest in travel to build a business that allowed for complete freedom of location and time. Served clients from the just started stage all the way up to US government entities.
Attempt at making a light weight keg that saved on logistics costs and reduced environmental effects for breweries. Killed via not getting highly detailed COGS soon enough and lack of a good answer to the question "why you?"
Got some other entrepreneurial friends in college to all be roommates together with the objective of having a house of people who would help one another in their entrepreneurial pursuits. Expanded this to other students at CU and put on events at the house such as pitch nights and meetups to help us all learn from one another's experiences and ideas.
A mini shared popup store concept. Attempted to rent out a larger commercial space and find small brands wanting to rent a piece of that space to create a space where small businesses can pollinate off of one another in an affordable way via shared foot traffic. Killed via lack of capital and time during this time in life.
Saw how much games on the app store were making and was determined to teach myself to program. Learned C# in Unity and published about 5 different games. Learned the art of finding free projects to work off of as a template to build quickly and aligning app names/titles with trending keywords in the app store to gain free eyes on the games to get downloads with no ad spend.
My first actual business. Took my passion for photography + connections/relationships and turned them into a business for senior photoshoots, mtb ad photography, and other paid shoots. First lesson in aligning a business with your interests, relationships, and skills.