Success Stories

You are NEVER too old to learn new things! Here is a success story on an 81-year-old who published her own iphone app.

This week is a present of one story about six successful women who created businesses, after the age of fifty. The full story, published in Mail Online, is a great article of inspiration and entrepreneurship. Read on..

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This week’s success story features Sara Reis, who started a pet sitting business. Her story is featured in this AARP Video. To learn more about starting your own pet sitting business, visit How to Start a Pet Sitting Business.

Based on the way startups are covered in the media today, it’s easy to feel like all founders are in their teens or 20s. Stories abound of young millionaires and entrepreneur teenagers, but that’s only part of the picture. There are plenty of entrepreneurs out there who found their “big ideas” later in life, founding companies that, in some instances, last well beyond their years.

Angie Higa’s success story exemplifies the concept of a third act in our lives. Her business idea evolved from a passion for design and sewing and the inspiration was an airplane trip where no blankets were on board the flight.

Charles Sleicher shows me one of his favorite photographs: an egret, snowy white against a dark, pre-dawn sky, tail fanned like a spraying fountain. It’s a picture that took him years to get: years of annual forays into the Florida darkness, searching patiently for just the right spot, the right light, the right moment in the egret’s ritual courtship performance. Sleicher points out the splash of lime green around the egret’s beak: a rare show of bling, visible only when the bird was courting.

Hiroshi Morihara launched HM3, Inc. in 2008 at age 70. The company became a huge success and is well-known for a version of the process called torrefaction. Now at a little over 80 years of age, he continues to write research and keep active.

Carol Gardner was 52, facing financial challenges and recently divorced. From these beginnings, she created the Zelda Wisdom empire. Here is her story.