CHAPTER 1: Announcing & Planning The Original Hundred Dollar Business/Kiosk Project

The Announcement: Thursday, December 1, 2006
The Hundred Dollar Business Experiment
For the month of December, I’m doing an experiment to test concepts I’ve been learning in my entrepreneurship class at BYU, as well as from our amazing local business community.
Limits of the Experiment
A budget of $100, 30 days, and I have to go to sleep by [...]

CHAPTER 2: DECEMBER 1- DECEMBER 5

Launch Day! December 1st, 2006
Most startups don’t launch on time. That would… include us.
But, a launch delayed by only one day… not too shabby. Today was an exercise in problem-solving, time management, schedule coordinating, details arranging– you name it.
The morning started off by getting the blog effort going. For principle 10– Think virally– [...]

CHAPTER 3: DECEMBER 6- DECEMBER 8

December 6: A Skinned Knee, The Marinara Fiasco & Monetizing the Model
A Skinned Knee
I don’t know if you’ve had the pleasure of skinning a knee lately, but I did today. I was rushing from my house when I fell face-forward, and yes, it still hurts, and the two band-aids aren’t doing a lot for me.
Why [...]

CHAPTER 4: December 9-13

December 9: A Stolen Treo, Record-Breaking Sales, + Chaos Galore
A Stolen Treo
Saturday, December 9th. The day my well-loved Treo was stolen while I was manning the kiosk. For those of you who know how dependent I am (was) on that phone… it’s depressing.
I’m the kind of girl who leaves her keys in the car, unlocked, [...]

Chapter 5: December 14-17

December 14: Becoming Stingy, Failing My Class, & Return of The Treo!!
I just realized I haven’t been writing as many anecdotes lately, which is definitely one of the highlights of being in the experiment– the random nature of it all. So here goes.
Becoming Stingy
Rachelle and I decided to beef up our display with a winter-ish [...]

CHAPTER 6: DECEMBER 18-27

December 18: Leave The Binder In The Car
The Update
Hey! So, things are going better… Rachelle was at the kiosk this afternoon, and I vegged a bit & took care of small fires that have been adding up into big blazes. And I even managed to get a short nap.
The Biggest Problem… The One [...]

CHAPTER 7: December 27-31

December 27: How Quickly The Market Changes!
Two days before Christmas, everything on our kiosk was flying off the shelves. Two days after Christmas… you have to almost give the merchandise away– at least, that’s what customers are expecting.
When I was making projections for this last week, I estimated that we would be back down to [...]

Ryan Jenkins, StarPointe Marketing

I believe in honesty and hard work. I’ve always been entrepreneurially-inclined but when I first got into this business, my purpose was not to make a lot of money.
I worked for a small web development shop and heard countless stories from small business owners who had gotten shafted by their original web developers. It [...]

Brady Flower, Kiosk Expert

I help people get started and succeed with a mall cart or kiosk business. I got started doing this in quite a round-about fashion. Almost by accident.
I was visiting my folks in Montana for Christmas. My dad gave a little hand held heat pack that he bought in the tiny mall in Kalispell, MT. [...]

Nathan Hale

A pioneer heritage stokes an entrepreneurial spirit that refuses to stand still…
In July 1856 two groups of Mormon pioneers who had ventured from England as part of 10 separate groups totaling almost 3,000 men, women and children, left Iowa City, Iowa, on a 1,200-mile trek across plains and mountains on their way to settle in [...]