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27 Million and Counting: Nick Friedman, College Hunks Hauling Junk
Meet Nick Friedman, the president of College Hunks Hauling Junk, a Tampa, Fla.-based junk removal company.
Posted 7/ 20 10 at 5:15 PM | 27 Million and Counting, Franchises, Leadership, Starting a Business, Environmental Services, Logistics & Transportation
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A A AStarting your own business is a noble -- not to mention exciting, rewarding and often crazy -- undertaking. The experience is an adventure, to say the least, and no two entrepreneurial paths are exactly the same, whether they result in fame and fortune or just a few hard knocks.
There are an estimated 27 million small businesses in the United States. And 27 Million and Counting is our attempt to capture as many of these unique, only-in-America success stories as we can. The premise is simple -- we give entrepreneurs 60 seconds to share their stories, in their own words. We hope they will inspire, inform and maybe make you laugh. This is Nick's story.
Name: Nick Friedman
Company: College Hunks Hauling Junk
Location: Tampa, Fla.
Website: www.collegehunkshaulingjunk.com
There are an estimated 27 million small businesses in the United States. And 27 Million and Counting is our attempt to capture as many of these unique, only-in-America success stories as we can. The premise is simple -- we give entrepreneurs 60 seconds to share their stories, in their own words. We hope they will inspire, inform and maybe make you laugh. This is Nick's story.
Name: Nick Friedman
Company: College Hunks Hauling Junk
Location: Tampa, Fla.
Website: www.collegehunkshaulingjunk.com
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I would love to start a smallbusiness for my son and I which he could continue after my passing. I have yet to find a way to gain stimulous funds to begin this endeavor and being short of funds is not conducive to taking on the unknown. I would appreciate advise from anyone...Thank you!My boyfriend thinks the same with me. He is eight years older than me, lol. We met online at agelessma te .c o m a nice and free place for younger women and older men, or older women and younger men, to interact with each other. Maybe you wanna check out or tell your friends.
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I would love to start a smallbusiness for my son and I which he could continue after my passing. I have yet to find a way to gain stimulous funds to begin this endeavor and being short of funds is not conducive to taking on the unknown. I would appreciate advise from anyone...Thank you!
Sure Gleslie. If you are broke, rent a table at a flea market and sell some things you are not using. This will generate some cash for you. Look around, see what is selling. The two best flea market businesses I ever saw were a guy with a fudge stand & one with a carpet cleaner powder which he demonstrated by scrubbing mud out of a 200 dollar Persian rug. Use your cash to start one of these or similar. If it works, take it to the next level & open your own store....Al-
Gleslie I started a business a year and a half ago. We are now in the expanding stages. It's a turn-key business and costs 125 to get started and 25 a month for licensing. It's labor based like college hunks but we dont charge you tremendous fee's. Funny thing is I am in Tampa and I see the 2 college hunks trucks sitting in the same parking lots for weeks on end. one had a white door sticking up out of it and i know it wasnt moving. They put out small yard signs that the city normally throws away. not to mention they make you hire 4 people and the dump fee's and such.
he was on millionaire matchmaker!
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You guys are amazing. This site was put here so that entrepeneurs would have a chance to show how they have prospered off of very unique and intuitive ideas, and all you want to do is promote your bs work from home internet scams?
Thank-you AOL and all the businesses involved in this forum for putting up such a site, and congratulations to Nick Friedman for starting and investing in such a worthwhile company.
Would anyone who isn't promoting an online business care to comment?
Eh, they could have given the dude a little more time to explain his business in more detail. The article is also sorely lacking. So good-looking guys haul your junk away? Is that the deal? Oh, well, if scantily clad women can wash your windshield in the middle of traffic, why not?
As a founder of a small business, there is no overnight success... It has taken me 20 years to get to where I am financially and client wise. Motto, do a great job and be proud of every product or service you supply and stand behind it and you will succeed. Common sense many times win's over any college degree one may have... For you parents let your children start their own, your enabling them by doing the grunt work and then handing it over...No drive to start it on their own and succeed.
You are such a complete MORON, you talk like an idiot. You write like a dumb ass. You can't write. Are you black or what? Or are you a wanna be black? Either way, you sound stupid. You may think it is all cool to talk like that, but it isn't. Makes you look like the lowest form of human life on this planet, worthless and uneducated.
Jasmine, in her response to jake, has revealed herself to be so deeply steeped in her ignorance and stupidity that she is absolutely clueless as to what a fool she is. Imagine her bringing race into this, no doubt to prove her superiority while she is likely turning tricks with men of every color because she finds it exciting--while lying to friends and family about her fetish. She manages to pull her head out of her colon, and this is what she comes up with? What a sick sow.
da gubermint goin' giv mee duh munee i wan so i'z kin buy duh stufs i wan.
So this guy started his own business doing a job Americans won't do? There goes that theory.
What the story failed to say is that his rich Jewish daddy backed the business with nearly a million dollars.
God knows there is enough crap to haul out there. Starting with chinese crap. How many clothes does one need by the way? ........... Last, they can clear out my basement.
You better hope that they don't haul away "ugly" white trash. Just reading your off-subject rant is an indicator that you would be among the garbage that should be hauled away. "Gorgeous" blonde? Hardly. What good is your being goregous on the outside (although women who truly are don't really put it out there as you have done) if you have such an ugly inner core? The beauty that you perceive that you have could be taken away instantly by an illness or an accident or, if you're lucky, the passing of time. But you'll still be monstrously ugly on the inside if you don't affect a change.