Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship “Know yourself and know your product … be true to both.” I decided to look up each one of the entrepreneurs and see who was the most interesting to me. I decided that Lillian Vernon was an interesting lady. I was so impressed that this lady became an entrepreneur when women didn’t even work. I was impressed with her, because she had a vision and she ran with it. Lillian’s story was very inspiring to me. The fact that she was young, pregnant, an immigrant, and a newlywed was what caught my eye the most. She wanted to help her husband pay the bills. This is exactly the same reason I want to become an entrepreneur. Lillian Vernon was born Lilly Menasche in Leipzig, Germany, moved with her family to Amsterdam because of the dangerous climate for Jews, and finally fled to the United States in 1937 as the Nazi threat escalated. Her family was desperately trying to escape the perils of World War II. She came to this country as a young girl at the age of 10; she knew perhaps lillian, vernon, business, company, one, first, years, women, time, sales, order, new, million, mail, catalog, vision, two, products, personalized, know, family, entrepreneur, dollars, corporation, 1951, york, world, work, woman, story, specialty, over, orders, marketing, lillian’s, kitchen, items, impressed, household, help, feel, even, entrepreneurs, direct, didn’t, company’s, center, belt, become, awards