Here is a great young entrepreneur success story that will inspire you to get your own business going! Meet Artin Afsharjavan.
When Artin was 13 years old he received $100 as a birthday gift and decided to put it towards starting his first business. He used the money to get into the soft drink vending machine industry. $20 was used for his first month’s lease payment and $80 was used to buy the drinks.
The business took off and six years later the serial entrepreneur owns an investment company, a fine dining Persian restaurant, a limousine company, apartment buildings in Virginia, and gas stations in Florida.
He graduated from high school when he was 16 and was one of the first advertisers on Google Adwords. He has also started other companies, some of which he has sold including an online marketing company that he sold to a private investor in 2004.
Not resting on his laurels, Artin still finds the time to improve his education and is taking his degree in corporate finance from John Hopkins university.
Not bad for a 19 year old entrepreneur!
His next step is trying to buy Moby Dick’s House of Kabob, a quick service chain with 13 locations. He has offered $8 million in cash for the chain and has plans to expand it across the eastern United States.
‘‘Moby Dick’s current owners have done a good job, establishing a fantastic brand and growing the chain to its present size. With our capital resources and their management, we can expand rapidly.”
Moby Dick’s, meanwhile, has no intention of selling. According to owner Mike Daryoush: ‘‘We are doing great and plan to open our 14th restaurant [this] week. That one will be in Virginia. We also have an expansion plan in this area beyond that.”
Who knows if this deal will work out but I wouldn’t rule Artin out!
Matthew Toren is an Award Winning Author, Serial Entrepreneur, and Investor. He Co-Founded YoungEntrepreneur.com along with his brother Adam. Matthew is co-author of the newly released book:Small Business, Big Vision: “Lessons on How to Dominate Your Market from Self-Made Entrepreneurs Who Did it Right” and also co-author of Kidpreneurs.
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[...] Business Wire has another story about him buying a retail granite chain last month and YoungEntrepreneur.com has a profile you can see. Congratulations to him if the terms are all straightforward as they were laid out in the main release [...]
He’s an all around great guy hand some good times with him, wish we still talked.
Thats Awesome..congrats to him!
I Think one must be inspired if we want to be aspired.I Liked the story it makes you believe that nothing is impossible if one thinks it as possible.There are so many things to do one must believe in himself and start it no matter what others say.Many a time the presser of others succumb us and we ourself become passive in taking the initiative.So one must not succumb and do the things thinkng ourself as if we are born to achieve the work.
Thank you inspiring me
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